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Balkans wary of EU plan as migrant flood continues

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Scores of migrants are continuing to cross the Balkans on their way to Western Europe, one day after EU leaders reached an agreement aimed to slow the influx. Transit countries have reacted cautiously to the plan.

Videos: 11 People Arrested During “Rise Up October” Protest Against Police Brutality

Videos: 11 People Arrested During "Rise Up October" Protest Against Police Brutality Eleven people were arrested in Midtown during the #RiseUpOctober protest against police brutality yesterday. Quentin Tarantino, who flew in for the event from California, was one of the featured speakers, along with Cornel West: “When I see murders, I do not stand by,” Tarantino said. “I have to call a murder a murder and I have to call the murderers the murderers.” [ more › ]

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Malala Yousafzai: ‘I want to become prime minister of my country’

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On the eve of the release of a film about her life, Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin, relive her remarkable journey from schoolgirl to ‘modern-day folk hero’ and the guilt he still feels about her attempted murder by the Taliban

On an overcast, anonymous morning, journalists assemble outside Claridge’s hotel in London. The plan is not to linger: a coach is to drive us to an undisclosed destination where Malala Yousafzai will be waiting. The security arrangements add edge to the existing sense of expectation at the prospect of meeting Malala Yousafzai and, in my case, her father. Malala, celebrated for her refusal to be silenced by the Taliban in her championship of girls’ education, is about to experience limelight of a different sort as a documentary about her life, He Named Me Malala, is released here. It’s an intimate, inquiring, moving film, directed by the Oscar-winning documentary-maker Davis Guggenheim, who directed An Inconvenient Truth, and it has earned a chorus of celebrity approval across the pond, where it opened earlier this month. Ellen DeGeneres, on her TV show, called Malala “incomparable, impressive, inspiring”. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, sees her as “proof that one person can change the world”. And to Meryl Streep she is “a modern-day folk hero”. But the film reminds us that Malala is also an ordinary girl. Hollywood is a long way from Pakistan’s Swat valley, where she was born.

The coach stops outside a labyrinthine building in a rundown part of town. I feel as if I were in an unlikely dream and wonder if that’s how Malala feels every day. On the far side of a huge, echoing room, Malala and her father have been positioned on a sofa, like stowaways. A table of untouched drinks and snacks is in front of them. It’s 10am. As I walk in, they stand up – smiling. Malala is tiny – a surprise, because one thinks of her as larger than life. Her head is covered in a purple veil through which sunlight shines. With her sweet, wonky smile (bitter souvenir of the Taliban’s attack – her facial muscles are unable to rally on her left side), there is singularity mixed with what I am trying to resist describing as saintliness. I look down and notice elegant, salmon-pink sandals with little heels, scarlet varnish on every toe. At 18, a poised, uncowed figure, she has her own version of glamour. But what I notice most is the similarity between Malala and her father. They have the same twinkle, the same animation. Everything about 46-year-old Ziauddin Yousafzai is lively, down to his flourishing moustache. And in the film he does not hold back in describing the bond with his daughter as being like “one soul in two different bodies”. His story merges with hers.

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What type of teacher are you?

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A report has identified four kinds of teacher – idealists, practitioners, rationalists and moderates. Where do you fit?

Why did you become a teacher? Was it to a) improve society, b) help students, c) have a steady career or d) a bit of all three? If you wanted to improve society, you may be an idealist – one of the four teacher types outlined in a recent report. Researchers looked at teachers’ reasons for joining and leaving the profession, and identified four classifications from the results. The study notes, however, that teachers could have qualities from different categories over the course of their careers.

Related: Fact or fiction? The reasons teachers choose the job – and quit

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Feminism isn’t dead, despite all the assassination attempts | Laura Bates

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The proclaiming of the ‘end of feminism’ by the Spectator and others is merely an attempt to deflect blame for problems society has failed to tackle

Feminism is dead. Long live feminism. The front page of the Spectator and a spate of other articles would have us believe the battle is won and we can now “move on”.

I can’t be the only one who thinks this is wonderful news. We highly strung, hand-wringing, over-sensitive, perpetually offended wilting violets can hang up our suffragette-coloured hats, stop combing Twitter in desperate search of minor criticism to weep about and finally stop hating all the men for long enough to get boyfriends. Rejoice!

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