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Aug 7, 2026 - World

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March.

Aug 7, 2026 - World

Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on quest to learnPrimary schools in England should be required to identify children at risk of leaving education at 16 without finding a job, a government review is to recommend.Alan Milburn, who is leading a review into Britain’s crisis in youth worklessness, said he would call for sweeping changes in education policy alongside a shake-up of the benefits system to address the problem. Continue reading...

Aug 7, 2026 - World

With the debate over prison overcrowding and what to do about it raging, one initiative offers an alternative solutionAs the prison overcrowding crisis shows no sign of abating and the debate rages over early releases, an initiative in the West Midlands offers an alternative to custodial sentences.The Guardian was offered rare access to the project, under which, instead of being sent to prison, convicted offenders work on the improvement of waterways and green spaces around Smethwick. It is a small part of the community payback scheme, which in total clocked up an estimated 5m hours across England and Wales in the last year. Continue reading...

Aug 7, 2026 - World

Follow today’s news liveFederal parliament is returning from winter break next week.Do you have a question you’d like to ask Guardian Australia’s team of political reporters in Canberra? Our political editor, Tom McIlroy, and the team will be answering readers’ questions on the Australian Politics podcast. Continue reading...

Aug 7, 2026 - World

US President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted, hours after Republican Senator Rand Paulo said that he would ask the Justice Department to do so.