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Australian students spend more time learning to write on paper than computers – does this need to change?

Canberra, Nov 28 (The Conversation) Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing. This is a huge change for schools when it comes to teaching writing. For students, learning how to write on a computer is crucial. National literacy tests are now administered online in many countries, including Australia’s NAPLAN. The rise of AI tools such as ChatGPT still require students to become expert writers so they can prompt the technology and judge the quality of its products. However, despite its importance, our new research shows typing and word processing skills are

Sri Lanka closes offices and schools as death toll from landslides and floods rises to 56

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, November 28, 2025 (AP) — Sri Lanka closed government offices and schools Friday as the death toll from floods and landslides across the country rose to 56 while more than 600 houses were damaged, officials said. Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather last week and the conditions worsened Thursday with heavy downpours that flooded homes, fields and roads, and triggered landslides across the country. More than 25 people were killed Thursday in landslides in the central mountainous tea-growing regions of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, which is about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of the capital, Colombo.

Drinking 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day can slow biological aging

Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day can slow biological aging, a study suggests. Coffee drinkers could live five years longer than those who abstain from the hot beverage, the study has revealed. Drinking a maximum of four cups of coffee a day could slow biological ageing by lengthening telomeres – structures that protect the ends of chromosomes. Shorter telomere length in these cells is associated with a higher risk of certain age-related diseases and is considered a marker for cellular ageing. But beyond this quota of four cups a day – the equivalent of 400 mg/day of

Trump says he’s barring South Africa from participating in next year’s G20 summit near Miami

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, November 27, 2025 (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s global meeting. Trump chose not to have an American government delegation attend last weekend’s summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so because its white Afrikaners were being violently persecuted. It is a claim that South Africa, which was mired for decades in racial

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