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How time flies. I first reviewed the original Urban Arrow in 2020, when my kids were 3 and 5. Back then, nothing delighted a couple of preschoolers more than strapping into a big, motorized cargo bike and scooting around town, shrieking, with the wind blowing in their tiny faces. Alas, they are now 8 and 10. When I picked up my 8-year-old two days ago, he crouched down in the box while sitting on the padded seats (with seat belts!) so that none of his friends would see him.All this to say: My Tern GSD and I are great friends,…

Coalition to support Labor’s plans to strip legal rights from NZYQ cohortThe House is debating the government’s legislation to strip natural justice of non-citizens after the Albanese government signed a deal last week to send hundreds of former immigration detainees in the NZYQ cohort to Nauru.The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, visited Nauru last week before quietly announcing a $400m deal late on Friday to send up to 280 former detainees to the Pacific nation.Burke has said the bill would mean that actions taken by government in order to resettle someone in a third country “are not conditioned on an…

“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how,” writes Helen Macdonald in “H Is for Hawk,” a book I picked up by accident and which proved to be the greatest tool I had when one of my own parents passed away. When someone around you loses a loved one, it’s all but impossible to know what to say. I recommend reading “H Is for Hawk.” For Macdonald, that most eloquent of memoirs emerged from the death of her father, photographer Alisdair MacDonald. But what Helen really…

More than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivor, said the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army.The landslide took place on 31 August after heavy rains, said the group, led by Abdelwahid Nour.“Initial information indicates the death of all village residents, estimated to be more than one thousand individuals, with only one survivor,” its statement said.The movement, which controls the area located in Darfur region, appealed to the UN and international aid…

Giuliani played a key role in attempt to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election by promoting false claims of fraud.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025United States President Donald Trump says he will award Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and close ally who participated in efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Trump said on Monday that he would grant the country’s highest civilian honour to Giuliani, calling him a “great patriot” in a post on his social media website, Truth Social.“As President of the United States of America,…

BREAKINGBREAKING, FM Maxime Prevot says his country will recognise Palestine this month and impose 12 ‘firm sanctions’ on Israel.Published On 2 Sep 20252 Sep 2025Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this month, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot has announced.“Palestine will be recognised by Belgium at the UN session! And firm sanctions will be imposed against the Israeli government,” Prevot, who is also the deputy prime minister, wrote on the social media platform X early on Tuesday.Prevot said Belgium would also impose 12 “firm sanctions” on Israel, including a ban…

Lithium has become the default choice for battery-powered systems, but its limitations — from volatile supply chains to short lifespans — are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Offgrid Energy Labs, a deep-tech startup based in India, wants to make lithium less central, especially when it comes to battery storage. The seven-year-old startup, incubated at IIT Kanpur, has developed a proprietary zinc-bromine-based battery system as an alternative to lithium-ion technology. Called ZincGel, it delivers 80–90% of the energy efficiency of conventional lithium batteries, but at a significantly lower levelized cost of storage, the startup said. As power demand grows worldwide, countries…

Moe ShreifBBC Eye InvestigationsBBCMusa al-Sadr has been missing since 1978Warning: Contains images some may find upsettingA computer scientist at a university in the north of England is studying an image of a corpse – attempting to solve a mystery that has gripped the Middle East for nearly 50 years.”This is what he looks like now?” asks Bradford University’s Prof Hassan Ugail doubtfully.The digitised photo is of a decomposed face and it is about to be run through a special algorithm for our BBC investigation.The original photo was taken by a journalist who saw the body in a secret mortuary in…

Here are the key events on day 1,286 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 2 Sep 20252 Sep 2025Here is how things stand on Tuesday, September 2:Fighting Russian forces shelled Bilozerka in Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing a 73-year-old man, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a post on Telegram on Monday. A Russian drone attack on the city of Horodnia injured two people, including a 14-year-old girl, the governor of the Chernihiv region, Viacheslav Chaus, said. Russian forces “intensively attacked” Ukraine’s Sumy region, injuring seven people and damaging dozens of homes, Sumy Governor Oleh Hryhorov said. The attacks on Sumy also…

Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif has lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport over a ruling which prevents the athlete fighting in the female category without a genetic sex test.The Algerian has filed an appeal which is attempting to overturn a decision made by World Boxing in May to introduce mandatory testing for its competitions.Khelif’s appeal also requested Cas declares the 26-year-old eligible for the 2025 World Boxing Championships from 4-14 September without a test.However, Cas dismissed a request to suspend the execution of the decision by World Boxing until the case is heard.In May, World Boxing…