Canada school boards accuse social media firms of ‘rewiring’ how kids think

In recent years, educators have spend a growing share of their time in the classroom attempting to get students to focus, the boards said. Photograph: Monkey Business Images/Rex/Shutterstock

District education authorities launch multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Four of Canada’s largest school boards have launched a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the social media companies Meta, Snap Inc and ByteDance, accusing them of acting in a “high-handed, reckless, malicious, and reprehensible manner” with products the boards claim harm student learning and “rewire” how children think.… Read the rest

A street food tour of Genoa

Genoa is a brilliant city to visit for cuisine – whether it’s at a beautiful restaurant or a street food outlet. Photograph: imagebroker/Alamy

Laura Coffey

From fluffy focaccia to creamy pànera, local Michelin-starred chef Ivano Ricchebono introduces our writer to a taste of the Italian port city

enoa-born chef Ivano Ricchebono looks like a Hollywood actor playing a chef in a movie. His restaurant The Cook is in a 14th-century palazzo in the old town, and as I step into the dining room I stop and stare – the entire place is covered with frescoes.

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Boxing great Roberto Durán receiving medical care for heart problem

US president Donald Trump hugs Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran as he arrives to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship card at Madison Square Garden in 2019. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
  • Four-weight champion suffering from ‘health complication’
  • Durán, 72, being treated in a hospital in native Panama

Agencies

Boxing great Roberto Durán was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday.

Durán, who was a champion in four different weight classes, “has suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade”, his family said in a statement on Durán’s Instagram account.… Read the rest

Imminent famine in northern Gaza is ‘entirely man-made disaster’: Guterres

© UNICEF/Abed Zagout A mother prepares a meal for her children outside their makeshift home in a refugee camp in Khan Younis, Gaza. (file)

Amid reports that the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Monday in search of Hamas fighters, UN humanitarians warned that new food insecurity data indicates that famine could happen “anytime”.


“Famine is projected to occur anytime between now and May 2024 in the northern governorates,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said, upon publication of a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report on Gaza.

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