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Today's headlines, picked for young people.

Youth, education and bursaries, jobs and the economy, South Africa and Africa, and technology and AI. Each story has a short note on what it could mean for you, shows its own news picture and opens on the news site that reported it.

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How this works

Written with AI, once a day. Every morning our server asks an AI (Claude) to pick real stories from news sites and write a plain-English headline, a one-sentence summary and a "What this means for you" note. The AI can make mistakes, so the note is a starting point, not advice. Always open the story and read it on the news site. If the AI is unavailable, the page shows the plain news-site headlines instead.
What "Checked" means. Before a story appears, the AI is told to leave out anything unsuitable for a 13-year-old, and our server checks again: the link must be a real story the AI really found, the date must be recent, and stories with violent, sexual, gambling or death wording are dropped. "One source" means only one news site had reported it. These checks help, but they are not a guarantee.
Pictures belong to the news sites. Each picture is shown straight from the site that published the story, with a link back. ICG does not copy or store them.
Kept suitable for young people. Stories about violence, death, crime and adult topics are filtered out. A few may still slip through, so ask a parent or teacher if something worries you.
Think before you share. Check who published a story and when, and look for the same news on another site before you pass it on.