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\"Asteroid_1\"<\/a>The Web turned 25 yesterday<\/a>, and its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, took the opportunity to call for a bill of online rights<\/a> to defend users against surveillance. Meanwhile as Iran considers scaling down its censorship, Turkey\u2019s Erdo\u011fan is\u00a0considering banning <\/a>Facebook and Twitter to cut channels of online opposition. And in the Andaman Sea, the search for the missing jet MH370 has been crowdsourced<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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In this week\u2019s Around the World: yet more remarkable ways technology is changing lives in India and the UK \u2013 and some places where education and conflict have come uncomfortably close\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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WALES<\/b>: for the first time, doctors have carried out facial reconstruction surgery using 3D printing at every stage of the operation. Custom-printed models, guides and implants were used to \u201cremove the guesswork\u201d from the procedure of restoring the symmetry of the patient\u2019s face (BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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MIDDLE EAST<\/b>: there\u2019s reportedly only one Arabic MOOC out there \u2013 and it was made by an Arab working at an Israeli university. \u201cMy message is that we can disseminate science without politics\u201d says Professor Hossam Haick \u2013 yet the birth of his MOOC has not been without conflict (FOREIGNPOLICY<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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UK<\/b>: a study by the National Literacy Trust has found that poor children are more likely to use technology in learning. While rich households have more access to tablets, smartphones etc. it is in the less well-off ones that they are put to best effect (BELFAST TELEGRAPH<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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INDIA<\/b>: Start at Calcutta. Travel by boat and rickshaw to the heart of a mangrove swamp in the Sunderbans of West Bengal. Here, in the village of Korakati, you will find the remotest branch of Sugata Mitra\u2019s school in the cloud (INDIA EDUCATION DIARY<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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ARGENTINA<\/b>: the complexities faced by a generation of students learning English in the shadow of the Falklands War (GUARDIAN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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and in other news\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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OUTER SPACE<\/b>: NASA is looking for coders to save the world from the threat of asteroid collision (BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Web turned 25 yesterday, and its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, took the opportunity to call for a bill of online rights to defend users against surveillance. Meanwhile as Iran considers scaling down its censorship, Turkey\u2019s Erdo\u011fan is\u00a0considering banning Facebook and Twitter to cut channels of online opposition. And in the Andaman Sea, the search for […]<\/p>\n

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