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On 7 July, the USA beat the Netherlands 2-0 in Lyon, France, to win the 2019 Women’s World Cup. This is the second Women’s World Cup victory in a row for the USA, and their fourth overall – more than any other country in history. What happened in the final? The match was played at the Stade de Lyon in France, in front of a crowd of 57,900 people. It was a dramatic game; the Netherlands, who won the 2017 UEFA Women’s European Championships, prevented the USA from scoring in the first half. In the second half, the Dutch defence was broken when US player Megan Rapinoe scored a penalty that had been awarded by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR). The VAR is an official who watches the match on…

Schools across the country have been enjoying sports days over the past few weeks. For students, they are a chance to get out of the classroom and enjoy some exercise with their classmates. Many parents and guardians like to come along to watch their children, and they often take part in special adult races. However, sometimes parents get competitive and end up having arguments. To stop this, one school in Cardiff has decided to ban parents from future sports days. Some people think this is a good decision, as the event should be about young people. Others say that this is unfair on those well-behaved parents and guardians who want to support their child. What do you think? Should parents be banned from sports days? Yes – they’re a distraction…

Anew programme is being launched in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales to try to stop the decline of British wildlife. The Penpont Project, named after the area where it is based, is being organised by Action for Conservation, a charity that helps young people protect the natural environment. The charity says that the project, run by 20 people aged 12–17, is the largest youth-led scheme of its kind. Over the past 40 years, the populations of more than half of the UK’s wildlife species have fallen, and there has been a drop in the number of people volunteering to help. Action for Conservation hopes that projects like this can get young people interested in the environment, and that they will continue to protect it as they get older.…

Boyan Slat was 16 when he took a diving class on holiday in Greece. While underwater, he was amazed by the amount of plastic he saw. “There were more bags than fish down there,” the Dutch inventor told The Telegraph newspaper. When he returned home, he decided to do something about it. In 2013, at the age of 18, he founded The Ocean Cleanup – an organisation that develops technologies to remove plastics from the world’s oceans. The organisation has made headlines for its plan to clean up one of the largest areas of rubbish in the ocean. Found in the Pacific between Hawaii and California, the US Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is around three times the size of France, and contains around 80,000 tonnes of plastic. To tackle…

Most plays cover a specific subject, such as love, witches, lions, or a magical school. That’s not the case for a new play that begins this week. As the name suggests, Absolutely Everything explores everything from dinosaurs to robots, the Moon to the first dog. As Christopher Lloyd, the author of the book on which it is based, explains, it reveals the different connections between all sorts of things. The play is based on Lloyd’s book Absolutely Everything! A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention. It tells the story of Grace, a bored woman who meets Alex, who is ready to take her on a crazy adventure. Alex and Grace travel through history to understand the links between past events and how people…

Some schools offer school clubs – yours might be one of them. At these clubs you have the chance to do an activity, from Lego building to football, with your friends in the morning, at lunchtime or at the end of the day. However, your school might not offer the club you’d really like to go to. It might be that you have a strong interest in board games and would like to play against your friends. Or maybe your school has no clubs at all, and you’re desperate to learn how to code or grow plants. If this is the case, have you ever thought about starting your own school club? Norwich Lower School is one school in particular that regularly asks pupils what clubs they would like to…

What you need ● 1 can of chickpeas ● 1tsp oil ● 1tsp chilli powder ● 2tbsp lemon juice ● Lettuce (something firm like cos or little gem) ● Chopped red onion (optional) ● Sliced avocado (optional) ● Sour cream ● 1 colander ● Paper towel ● 1 pan ● Plate Instructions Drain the chickpeas in the colander and rinse them under running water. Pat them dry with a paper towel. Next, put the pan on a medium heat and add the oil. Add the chickpeas and fry them for around five minutes. Give the pan a shake every 30 seconds so the chickpeas don’t burn. Add the chilli powder and cook for another 30 seconds while stirring the chickpeas so they are coated in the spice. Take the pan…

Huge wasps’ nests have been appearing in the US state of Alabama. Built by yellow jackets, a type of wasp, the giant homes can be as big as a Volkswagen Beetle car. Charles Ray, an entomologist (someone who studies insects) said some of these nests are four times bigger than typical ones. This is probably because many of the wasps survived this year’s mild winter, and the bigger colonies have extended their nests more than ever during the warmer months.…

Frank Sereno, a man in Kansas City, US, has thrown a birthday party for a three-month-old pothole on his street. He posted a photo on Facebook that showed a piece of birthday cake in the pothole with a candle on top. Sereno said he didn’t go as far as singing to it, though. He threw the party to draw attention to the city’s failure to fix the hole, along with many others. Within a few days of the photo’s appearing online, the pothole on his street had been filled in. WOW! In the UK it is estimated there are 24,496 miles of roads that need to be repaired.…

Authorities in China are said to be separating Chinese Muslim children from their parents in the Xinjiang region of north-western China. According to a BBC report, hundreds of parents are being sent to prison or special camps, and their children are sent to boarding schools. The Muslim people in the Xinjiang region are called Uighur (pronounced wee-gurr) and are the largest group of Muslims in China. They are closely watched by the Chinese government and it is thought that more than one million are being held in sites described as “training centres”. Mosques (places of worship) used by Uighur Muslims also appear to have been destroyed by officials. BBC journalists spoke to several Uighur families who have fled China and now live in Turkey. Many said they don’t know where…

Cressida Cowell, the bestselling author and illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once series, has been announced as the new Children’s Laureate. The Children’s Laureate is an award given to a children’s book writer or illustrator to honour their outstanding work. They hold the position for two years and spend the time promoting the benefits of reading and writing. On 9 July, Cowell was presented with a silver Laureate medal by the outgoing Children’s Laureate, Lauren Child, at a ceremony held at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in London. Cowell told The Week Junior, “I cannot tell you how proud I am. It was a lovely surprise.” Quentin Blake was announced as the first Children’s Laureate on 10 May 1999. Since then there have been 10…

Around 1.5 million people are said to have attended London’s Pride parade on 6 July, making it the biggest ever in the event’s 47-year history. Pride is a day of activism and celebration for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, as well as others who wish to support their rights. LGBT people include those who are attracted to others of the same gender, and people who were born male or female but now consider themselves to be another gender. Nearly 600 groups, organisations and businesses took part in the event, which celebrated 50 years of the gay rights movement – a political and social movement that campaigns for equal rights for LGBT people. Thousands of people joined a parade through central London, while the Red Arrows – a team…

Nadiya Hussain says that winning The Great British Bake Off in 2015 was a big moment in her life. “It was about more than just the cake,” she said in an interview with The Times newspaper. Before she entered the competition, she had low confidence and was bullied at school. She says that 98% of the pupils in her school were Muslim, like her, but she was picked on because most people had lighter skin than she did. Winning Bake Off gave Hussain new confidence. She said, “I am never going to say I can’t do it. I can. I will.” Since then she has released several cookbooks, hosted TV programmes and presented a cake to the Queen for her 90th birthday in 2016.…

The US space agency NASA has announced it is sending a drone to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. It is hoped that the flying robot, called Dragonfly, will not only reveal more about Titan, but also give more clues as to how life might have developed on Earth. Titan is especially fascinating to scientists because the conditions on its surface seem to be like those on Earth around four billion years ago, when life first appeared here. It has a thick crust made of ice, a dense atmosphere filled with orange haze, and weather that works in a similar way to Earth’s, but at much lower temperatures. A chemical called methane (which exists mostly as a gas on Earth) forms clouds and rain on Titan like water does on Earth. Methane…

An employee at the technology firm Amazon has built a smart catflap that locks his pet cat out of the house if it tries to bring in a dead animal. Ben Hamm used a process called machine learning to train a computer to work out if his pet cat Metric had a bird or rat in its mouth, and to lock the catflap for 15 minutes if it did. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) where a computer learns from experience to “think” for itself, and then acts without human instruction. In this case, the computer studied thousands of photos of Metric approaching the flap with and without prey, which were labelled to describe what they showed. After enough examples, the computer could apply labels to pictures…

The Lost Tide Warriors by Catherine Doyle (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) In the thrilling sequel to the award-winning The Storm Keeper’s Island, readers return to the island of Arranmore, where Fionn Boyle is now the Storm Keeper. He’s barely had the chance to adjust to his new role when thousands of terrifying Soulstalkers arrive: empty-eyed followers of the dreaded sorceress Morrigan, who have come to raise their leader. When the Storm Keeper’s magic deserts him, and with his grandfather’s memories waning, Fionn looks to his friends Shelby and Sam to help him. As he tries to summon Dagda’s army of merrows, the islanders prepare themselves for the battle that lies ahead. This second instalment of Fionn’s adventures is just as captivating and spellbinding as the first – it’s funny, exciting and…

The Big Bang Most scientists think the universe began with the Big Bang, around 13.8 billion years ago. The theory says the universe was tiny before it exploded with incredible heat – about 5.5 billion degrees Celsius – making it expand and then gradually cool down. Alexander Graham Bell Perhaps one of the most famous inventors in history, Alexander Graham Bell is credited as inventing the telephone. His first call was to his assistant, Thomas Watson, during which he said, “Mr Watson, come here – I want to see you.” King John and the Magna Carta The Magna Carta (great charter) was a document created in 1215 to stop a war in England between King John and his barons (the most important lords). It covered many topics, giving people more…

Who can help teachers understand how to teach young people to stay safe online? Young people themselves, of course! That’s the idea behind a new project called Dot Com Digital. Pupils at Holy Cross Primary school in Essex helped a company called DataArt to design the software, which is designed to be used at school by young people aged nine to 11. It teaches them about the risks they could meet online – bullying, for example – while also getting them to keep a journal of their thoughts and feelings. The project will also help teachers spot children who might already have come across something online that they need help with. It will be tested by 2,000 young people from schools in Birmingham, London, Stoke and Wales before being launched…

A London restaurant has put a new twist on a classic dessert, serving fresh strawberries covered in salad cream. The Elys restaurant in Wimbledon, London, is selling the unusual dish to celebrate the famous tennis tournament nearby. Bernardo Garea, the restaurant’s head chef, created the special treat, which brings together sweet fruit with the mustard-and-vinegar flavour of Heinz Salad Cream. Is this true, or are we making it up?*…

Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire has been named as a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition of its scientific importance. It joins the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal in India, the Grand Canyon in the US and more than 1,000 other locations on the World Heritage list. World Heritage sites are areas that are considered to be of importance to all of humanity by the United Nations (UN), which is an organisation of 193 countries that work together for human rights and peace. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is part of the UN, and its experts decide which places should get the legal protections that come with being on the World Heritage list. Jodrell Bank Observatory has become the 32nd World Heritage site in the…

Washington DC, US Independence Day celebrated in the US On 4 July, the US celebrated Independence Day, which marks the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – a document signed in 1776 that proclaimed freedom from British rule. President Donald Trump attended the parade, but caused confusion when he said airports had been involved in the American War of Independence, which ended in 1783 (120 years before the first aeroplane). He said rain had made it difficult to read his speech on the electronic board. Gulf of Mexico Stinky seaweed spreads across ocean The largest ever mass of seaweed has been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. Described as smelling like boiled eggs and farts, it stretches from west Africa to the Gulf of Mexico and weighs around 20 million tonnes.…

As a young boy in Jamaica, Dwayne Fields loved to play outside, but after moving to London aged six he missed being outdoors. So, in May 2010, he embarked on a 22-day, 400-mile-long trek to the North Pole, becoming the first black person from the UK to do so. Fields, now 35, said, “As the sun hit the snow it started to sparkle like a fistful of diamonds.” Since then, he has walked across deserts in Egypt and kayaked through Jamaica. Now, he wants more people to explore the great outdoors. He says “many young people believe there are doors closed to them.” Ahead of a trip to the South Pole, Fields adds, “I want to see as much of the world as one person can see”.…

An Arctic fox has shocked scientists by trekking more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada in just 76 days. In July 2017, researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute fitted the female fox, which weighed 1.9 kilograms, with a special collar that sent data for three hours each day. Their report shows that she set off on 26 March 2018 and was in Canada by 10 June, trotting across sea ice and glaciers at an average rate of about 28 miles per day. Although Arctic foxes are known to travel great distances, this is the furthest and fastest one has ever been known to travel. Eva Fuglei, one of the researchers involved, said, “We couldn’t believe our eyes at first. This is, to our knowledge, the fastest movement rate ever…

Two lesser kudu calves have been born at Marwell Zoo, Hampshire, in a boost for this declining species. It is the first time the animals have bred at the zoo. Female Shaka is named after Shaka Zulu, a famous leader of the Zulu tribe; male Kojo’s name means born on Monday. ● LIFESPAN IN THE WILD: 10–15 years. ● HABITAT: Lesser kudus live in woods and bushy scrubland in east Africa. They avoid open spaces and long grass. ● DIET: Grasses, herbs, leaves, roots, shrubs and twigs. ● FUN FACT: Lesser kudus rarely need to drink water because they get enough moisture from their food. HIDE AND SEEK Lesser kudus hide from predators in the day by staying still, making them almost impossible to spot.…

More than 1,000 years ago, the ancient Nazca people drew vast patterns in the deserts of southern Peru. Messages to aliens, prayers to the gods, or something else? The new Science+Nature investigates. Also, we take a trip to the Moon on Apollo 11, meet some of evolution’s strangest (and cutest!) success stories, and tell you how to bake space cookies. Find all this and much more in this month’s issue, available now. VISIT sciencenature.theweekjunior.cco.uk THE WEEK JUNIORSUBSCRIBERS GET AN EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT. CALL 0330 333 9494 TO CLAIM!…

Singer Halle Bailey will take on the role of Ariel in a remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, it has been announced. Bailey, best known for performing with her sister in the group Chloe x Halle, will star in a new version of the classic film that is due to begin filming next year. She described the role as a dream come true, and the film’s director, Rob Marshall, said Bailey had a brilliant singing voice and would bring “heart, youth, innocence and substance” to the role. It is not yet known who will join Bailey in the cast, but US singer Lizzo wants to take the role of the villainous sea witch Ursula. The new Little Mermaid, which will feature songs from Mary Poppins Returns star Lin-Manuel Miranda, is…

Four teenagers have been named the winners of 2019’s BAFTA Young Game Designers competition, which aims to find the next generation of talented game-makers. The annual contest is run by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), who invites 10 to 18-year-olds from across the UK to enter games that they have developed, or ideas for games that they have come up with. More than 50 young people were chosen as finalists, judged by a panel of professional games developers and journalists. Jesse Waymont, 13, Max Robinson, 14, Elizabeth Orji-Smith, 17, and Adam Pace, 18, were the final winners, and Matthew Applegate, who founded the Suffolk coding-club network Creative Computing Club, won Young Game Designers Mentor. Waymont, who won the Game Concept award for 10 to 14-year-olds, said,…

In 2019, there’s more and more talk about the world’s climate emergency, with young people like Swedish activist Greta Thunberg playing a key role. However, we are not the first humans to be faced with the challenge of climate change. Nowadays this means the long-term changes in weather patterns mostly caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, farming and cutting down forests. In the past, the changes weren’t caused by humans. A new research project has been using a game to explore how humans experienced and adapted to climate change in prehistoric times. Run by a team at the University of Bournemouth, the project asked volunteers to spot red deer in a game world with both grassland and woodland, with more grassland as…

Name: Rosie and Joseph “Lewes FC Women are the first and only women’s football team in the world to be paid the same amount of money as the men’s team. Most women’s teams are paid unfairly just because they aren’t seen as ‘important enough’. Lewes have been the first to show us that women deserve the same pay as men! We went to see Lewes FC Women play Sheffield United. It was an exciting match! They’re just as good as the men’s team and setting a great example to other football clubs. You can go and see the men play, but make an effort to watch the women too. You can become Lewes FC owners at lewesfc.com/owners ” What’s going on at your school? Have you taken part in a sporting…

“What to say – I made the tomato and mozzarella salad and it was lush, but I may have added a bit too much olive oil!” Ned “I won this year’s Explore Learning Writers’ Award, presented by Alesha Dixon in my school assembly, which was a total surprise! I heard about the competition in The Week Junior.” Farrah “Time flew by when I was catching up on all the news in my favourite magazine while waiting for my holiday flight.” Emiliana…