12 Aug 2026, 10:44 am
The president boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit to evade an Iranian threat.
12 Aug 2026, 10:42 am
A new study finds your skin’s smell and microbiome could help determine whether you attract certain mosquitoes.
12 Aug 2026, 10:40 am
Prosecutors have presented disturbing forensic evidence in the D4vd murder case, alleging that the singer severed two tattooed fingers from Celeste Rivas Hernandez after killing her in Los Angeles. Related Articles D4vd Shows No Visible Emotion as Prosecutors Detail Celeste Rivas' Death, Parents Leave CourtroomCeleste Rivas Hernandez's Parents Divide Opinion After D4vd Relationship TestimonyCeleste Rivas Hernandez's Family 'Horrified' as D4vd's Lawyers 'Blame' the T…
12 Aug 2026, 10:40 am
The four had set off from a local campsite in a small 1.5-metre inflatable boat, intending to paddle along the coast, but contact was later lost, rescuers said.
12 Aug 2026, 10:40 am
Bob Iger and Josh Kushner are buying the Los Angeles Lakers, sources told ESPN and The New York Times. The deal values the NBA team at more than $12 billion, and it comes just 14 months after the Lakers sold to Mark Walter at a $10 billion valuation. More to come……
12 Aug 2026, 10:38 am
This new index looks at climate relief, accessibility, value and visitor experience to highlight the best overall coolcation destinations.
12 Aug 2026, 10:38 am
JCB’s hydrogen-powered Hydromax streamliner has reached 406.320 mph (653.2 km/h) at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, setting a provisional world land speed record for a hydrogen internal combustion vehicle. The run took place on August 11, with Wing Commander Andy Green OBE behind the wheel. The record still needs formal ratification by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). The 32-foot British-built car made two runs in opposite directions…
12 Aug 2026, 10:36 am
A small dog found trapped in a California storm drain was later found to have been missing from her family's home for over a month.
12 Aug 2026, 10:35 am
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci claims Donald Trump and Melania Trump behave as though they are in a 'contractual relationship', telling a podcast their marriage is highly transactional. Related Articles 'Strangest Marriage in History': Experts Highlight Risk as Melania Earns $17.2m and Allegedly VanishesHealth Experts Warn Donald Trump's 'Foolish' Daylight Saving Plan Threatens Sleep And HealthDonald Trump Signs Executive Order Overhau…
12 Aug 2026, 10:31 am
Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering is relocating its primary US office to East Tennessee. Working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the firm plans to build a specialized testing facility called UNITY-3. The project receives funding from the US Department of Energy along with support from Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund. The initial agreement behind this project began in January 2026. The main technical goal of UNITY-3 is to solve…
12 Aug 2026, 10:30 am
Kennedy is neither a doctor nor a medical researcher, and his personal practices should not guide federal policies.
12 Aug 2026, 10:26 am
The legislation will 'exceptionally' reduce certain prison terms, says Lebanon's parliament speaker.
12 Aug 2026, 10:26 am
"Animals," a new thriller film starring Ben Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson and Steven Yeun, will premiere on Netflix in October.
12 Aug 2026, 10:26 am
Eclipse to be witnessed by tens of millions across western Europe as enthusiasts gather along path of totalityin Land’s End, CornwallThe roads and car parks of west and north Cornwall are clogged as people gather to watch the solar eclipse. Continue reading...
12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am
Trump has repeatedly teased the idea of running for the presidency again, despite the 22nd Amendment blocking a president from serving more than two terms.
12 Aug 2026, 10:25 am
Simon Levy, from Tottenham, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of two women and rape of a third.
12 Aug 2026, 10:24 am
Hasan Piker, a left-wing commentator with a large following on the streaming platform Twitch, recently said he could’ve phrased the statement “America deserved 9/11” in a better way but held firm to his frequent use of “pejoratives” to describe ethno-racial supremacist groups. The comments regarding the terrorist attacks were made by Piker during a live Twitch……
12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am
England and Wales have seen a record breaking number of wildfires so far in 2026, matching the amount in the UK in the entirety of last year, it has been confirmed. Some 1,017 wildfires have been recorded in England and Wales so far in 2026, the same as the record-breaking total for the whole of last year, the National Fire Chiefs Council said.Between January 1 and August 12 last year, 869 wildfires had been recorded, in what was then the worst year on record.Over t…
12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am
A false claim that no Muslim countries accept refugees is being shared again on social media.
12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am
The killers of PC Andrew Harper had been set to partake in early release scheme as prison system on verge of collapse.
12 Aug 2026, 10:23 am
Regardless of its current hostile rhetoric, the Islamic Republic will likely reach a settlement with the US and Israel.
12 Aug 2026, 10:22 am
“President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order imposing sanctions on him and his lawyers for how they handled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service while he appeals that ruling,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump is challenging a Miami judge’s findings that he brought the IRS case in ‘bad faith’ and reached a deal with the Justice Department to end the litigation that had no ‘basis in law.’ She bar…
12 Aug 2026, 10:22 am
Anna Turley backs up Andy Burnham’s suggestion that affluent areas should house more asylum seekers in futureJust 20 staff are working on climate adaptation within the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the part of government tasked with protecting the environment and maintaining food security, a freedom of information request has revealed. Sandra Laville has the story.On his visit to Stevenage, Andy Burnham also said he would visit the town on Re…
12 Aug 2026, 10:20 am
PM to look at imposing restriction on devices in public spaces, though campaigners fear it does not go far enoughThe government will look at banning disposable barbecues as wildfires continue to rage across the country, prime minister Andy Burnham has said.Disposable barbecues have been the cause of a number of serious fires over the last few years, but campaigners were critical of the PM’s failure to link those fires more broadly to the climate crisis.Macclesfiel…
12 Aug 2026, 10:20 am
Elon Musk has suffered an early setback in his legal fight against California's new AI transparency rules, after a federal judge refused to halt enforcement of a state law that forces companies like his start-up xAI to reveal how their artificial intelligence models are trained. Related Articles Court Rejects Musk's xAI Bid To Block 'AI Child Porn' Ban Carrying $500K Penalties per Image'Enabling Predators to Target Children': Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Blast Elon M…
12 Aug 2026, 10:19 am
The International Energy Agency warned of sharp drop in oil stocks amid renewed disruption to exports from Gulf producers with "lower volumes" at sea.
12 Aug 2026, 10:17 am
The conflict in the Middle East has pushed up oil and fuel prices, and also disrupted supply chains.
12 Aug 2026, 10:17 am
Oil companies are making massive profits and stockpiling cash, and holding off on changing their investment plans.
12 Aug 2026, 10:17 am
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest used Monday's stock-market volatility to ramp up its exposure to two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, buying Nvidia and Broadcom stocks, while cutting its position in agricultural-equipment giant Deere by roughly $36.8 million. Related Articles Jensen Huang, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin Lose $27B Combined; Musk and Zuckerberg Grow RicherCitadel Acquires Bulk of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI Stock Portfolio Following Brutal Hedge…
12 Aug 2026, 10:16 am
Messi’s father, Jorge, died last week at age of 68Argentinian suggests he may not play on much longerLionel Messi said on Wednesday he is having doubts about continuing his career following the death of his father last week.Messi’s father, Jorge, died last week aged 68 at a medical clinic in the Argentinian city of Rosario after a long illness. Continue reading...
12 Aug 2026, 10:15 am
As social media shrinks and distorts the EU’s crises, the Venice film festival is delivering politically forthright epics from directors such as Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereEurope is in an economic crisis that, unlike the eurozone downturn at the beginning of the millennium, cannot be measured in ratings downgrades and borrowing costs. For metrics, try engagement depth and consumer trust instea…
12 Aug 2026, 10:15 am
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed...
12 Aug 2026, 10:13 am
Cambridge University has hired an academic who once attacked Western education as a threat to Muslims, called democracy a "corrupt tradition" and English one of the "most damaging subjects" schools teach. The post Academic with Historic Links to Banned Terror Group Hired at Cambridge’s Faculty of Education appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
12 Aug 2026, 10:12 am
The Ospreys have criticised the WRU's plan but say they are prepared to fight and win the battle of survival with the Scarlets…
12 Aug 2026, 10:11 am
China’s homegrown C919 passenger jet has finally ventured beyond the country’s borders, making its first scheduled international flight from Beijing to Mongolia.
12 Aug 2026, 10:11 am
Duo are notable omissions from England’s 25-man listAlex Coles and Asher Opoku-Fordjour both includedOllie Lawrence and Elliot Daly have both lost their central contracts with Steve Borthwick omitting the pair from his 25-man squad a year before England’s World Cup campaign begins.Neither Lawrence nor Daly - who was nursing an arm injury - featured in this summer’s three Nations Championship matches but both were prominent during the Six Nations and are the st…
12 Aug 2026, 10:10 am
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has a 10-point lead over Republican Bruce Blakeman in her bid for a second full term leading the Empire State, according to a new survey. The poll, which Siena College conducted from Aug. 3-6, found that 49 percent of 811 likely voters backed the incumbent governor. Thirty-nine percent of……
12 Aug 2026, 10:10 am
Three Pakistanis were killed in a Tuesday attack on a ship by the Houthi militant group, multiple officials said, an event that points to the threat of a widening regional war sparked by the fight between the U.S. and Israel and Iran. Tahir Andrabi, a spokesperson for the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs said during……
12 Aug 2026, 10:10 am
New Test captain Joe Root abolishes the midnight curfew imposed on the England team under predecessor Ben Stokes.
12 Aug 2026, 10:09 am
An Arkansas high school football player noticed something moving in his helmet and it turned out to be a venomous snake hiding under the pads.
12 Aug 2026, 10:09 am
France generates around 70% of its electricity from nuclear power. This year output was disrupted by multiple heatwaves and droughts.
12 Aug 2026, 10:08 am
Chances to hear Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral masterpiece in concert are rare. Ahead of its belated Edinburgh festival premiere with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, we look at the epic work - and its epic baggageThe Song of Hiawatha, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s setting of Henry Longfellow’s poem, comes to the Edinburgh international festival next week. It’s the first time the work will be performed there, a very belated premiere for the three-part c…
12 Aug 2026, 10:06 am
Marco Rubio has insisted there is no secret US government cover‑up of alien technology, telling a podcast on Tuesday that while 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' are appearing over American military sites, officials still do not know what they are or who is behind them. Related Articles 'We're Potentially the Klingons': Robert Bigelow Tells Donald Trump Why Aliens Have Not Contacted Us'Little Punk With a Man Bun': US Congressman Claims Bureaucrat Blocked Pre…
12 Aug 2026, 10:04 am
Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greensName: Badgers.Age: European badgers live for five to eight years in the wild. They have been in the UK, where this story is set, for half to three-quarters of a million years. Continue reading...
12 Aug 2026, 10:02 am
Mel Gibson gave an update on the long-gestating “Lethal Weapon 5” this week, saying the sequel is “tied up in some kind of industrial film hell that you can’t extract it from to make it.” Gibson says that he and the film’s writer, Richard Wenk, finished the script following the death of “Lethal Weapon” franchise […]…
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just how resin printing in 2026 compares to way back in 2020. Surely SLA printing had to be easier and less fussy than it was in 2020? During these weeks of printing, setting up printers and taking a gander at the various workflows that certain printers and their manufacturers try to push you into I have both produced a series of not to…
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
The Portuguese Air Force will boost maritime surveillance using AR5 drones from Portuguese tech firm Tekever, which supplies autonomous systems to Ukraine. Delivery is due in early September.
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
As millennials return to the games of their youth, remakes of Star Fox and Halo suggest there is still plenty to learn from the past• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAs much as some people more or less cease to listen to new music in their 30s, I have noticed a retreat to safe, familiar gaming territory among some of my fellow millennial gamers.Retro collections are started, or resumed; jewel-cases of PS1 classics or cardboard boxe…
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
The total solar eclipse will cross Spain this Wednesday at sunset, peaking around 8.30 pm. See when it will be visible in each city, where it is total, and its peak in Madrid and Barcelona.
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi called for Postmaster General David Steiner's removal or resignation due to his refusal to ensure the U.S. Postal Service complies with federal court orders regarding the Trump administration's challenged mail-in voting rules.
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
James Franco is headlining a microdrama. The actor stars in “Love, Lies & Frank,” now streaming exclusively on Shortical and counted among the first series produced under SAG-AFTRA’s Verticals Agreement. Franco, known for “127 Hours” and “The Disaster Artist,” shares the screen with established vertical stars Eric Guilmette (“CEO’s Kansas Sweetheart”) and Neela Jolene (“Cheerleader […]…
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
Show creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw explain how they kept the faith for a long-awaited season two renewal and what this season has in common with 'Challengers.'…
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
The coming-of-age drama is the latest sports romance to hit television.
12 Aug 2026, 10:00 am
Shelved as a tax writeoff by Warner Bros. Discovery, the ambitious Looney Tunes courtroom comedy was brought back to life — and director Dave Green is having the last laugh.
12 Aug 2026, 9:59 am
Former Barcelona and PSG star Lionel Messi, who won the 2022 World Cup, hints at retirement from football.
12 Aug 2026, 9:59 am
Most of the now-recalled cars were sold in the U.S.
12 Aug 2026, 9:58 am
Racist settler graffiti on West Bank homes and schools reveals a brazen ideological drive for Palestinian displacement.
12 Aug 2026, 9:57 am
A Piddington Parish Councillor has hit out at Andy Burnham's response to the migrant crisis after calling on "wealthier areas" to house more asylum seekers.Discussing Piddington's campaign on the People's Channel, Joe Marshall made clear that the concerns of villagers is not a matter of wealth, but a "matter of scale".Speaking to GB News for the first time since becoming Prime Minister, Andy Burnham said he is willing to hear concerns from the people of Piddington,…
12 Aug 2026, 9:57 am
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware...
12 Aug 2026, 9:56 am
Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice in a letter to staff says she shares concerns raised about Jason Arday's appointment as professor.
12 Aug 2026, 9:56 am
Paramount’s chief legal officer is telegraphing a willingness by the company’s chief executive to leave California as the media company faces growing antitrust scrutiny from the state government there. “His intent is to be committed to California,” Makan Delrahim, Paramount’s top legal official, said at Politico’s The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit. Delrahim added, however, that “there is a……
12 Aug 2026, 9:55 am
“Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict,” Bloomberg reports.
12 Aug 2026, 9:55 am
Police in Mercer County, New Jersey, are seeking answers after a dead dog was found abandoned on the side of the road. According to the Hamilton Police Division, just after noon on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, Lawrence Township Animal Control contacted Hamilton Police to report that a dead dog was found in the area of Second Ave. When officers arrived at the scene near Assunpink Creek, they found a large brown male dog, believed to be a pit bull, on the side of…
12 Aug 2026, 9:51 am
Scientists in the US have found a hidden atomic disorder inside silicon quantum devices that could help answer the long-standing question of why some qubits fail or perform inconsistently. The project was carried out by a team at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). The researchers studied an industrially manufactured 12-qubit-class silicon quantum dot processor from Intel. For the study, they used highly sensitive measurements to map variations in the material…
12 Aug 2026, 9:49 am
Just a month after China shocked every nation with a long-range ballistic missile test in the Pacific, the U.S. and other countries have called for a warning before any such planned launch. The U.S. Department of State issued the ‘Joint Statement on Notifications of Ballistic Missile Launches’, which has also been signed by 40 other countries. The countries include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Turkiye, Great Britain, among others. The call fo…
12 Aug 2026, 9:48 am
Lionel Messi says he is unsure how much longer he will continue playing football in an emotional tribute after his father's death.
12 Aug 2026, 9:47 am
Estonia's justice minister rules out a deal with the UK after Reform and the Conservatives suggested renting prison space abroad.
12 Aug 2026, 9:46 am
Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, remains missing in Tucson more than six months after she vanished from her home, and now a retired FBI agent is openly questioning how the crime scene was handled on day one. Related Articles Did a Four-Day Police Delay Cost the Nancy Guthrie Search Crucial Video Evidence?Why the FBI Has Taken 5 Months to Arrest Nancy Guthrie's 'Porch Guy' SuspectWhy Are They Hiding His Face? Ex-FBI Agent Demands 'Porch Guy'…
12 Aug 2026, 9:46 am
The quake overwhelmed parts of the health system, turning the rescue effort into one of Colombia's largest disaster responses in years.
12 Aug 2026, 9:43 am
A tourist has been severely injured after being thrown to the ground by the force of a plane engine.A 52-year-old Italian woman sustained severe injuries at Greece's Skiathos International Airport after being hurled to the ground by the powerful blast from a departing aircraft's engines.The tourist had been standing behind a passenger plane as it prepared for takeoff when the force of the jet engines sent her crashing to the tarmac near the airport's perimeter fence…
12 Aug 2026, 9:41 am
Donald Trump's decision to order a sweeping overhaul of US childhood vaccine recommendations has been branded a 'real danger' by veteran Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who also claimed the president's physical and mental decline is becoming impossible to ignore. Related Articles Trump Appears to Nod Off During Bizarre White House Science Briefing as Critics Cry 'Junk Science'Critics Claim Donald Trump's Brain Is Mashed Potatoes After Unsteady Fox News Intervie…
12 Aug 2026, 9:40 am
Vic Fangio spoke to the media on Tuesday morning and had this to say about the Eagles quarterback: “Yeah, I think Jalen’s having a good camp. You know he – I think he’s – looks faster. You know, we’ve – Obviously we can’t touch him during practice, and, you know, so there’s always that debate whether you had him or not. And I think there’s been a few times where our guys think they had him and they really didn’t. I think he’s moving goo…
12 Aug 2026, 9:40 am
The UK's criminal records office, ACRO, has escaped a fine and received a regulatory reprimand after security failings potentially exposed highly sensitive data belonging to nearly 11,000 people. ACRO disclosed the "cybersecurity incident" in April 2023, and said at the time that it had no evidence to suggest that any data was compromised. However, it has now emerged that attackers maintained persistent access to ACRO's website and content management system for more…
12 Aug 2026, 9:40 am
Money can buy a lot in a Democratic primary. But it can’t necessarily buy credibility with Democratic voters. Minnesota’s Senate primary offered the latest example. Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more. If you’re already a member, sign in to your account.
12 Aug 2026, 9:39 am
We would like to hear from women who participate in the ‘looksmaxxing’ communityWhile “looksmaxxing” was once a predominantly male space, in recent years it has increasingly taken hold among women, with dedicated forums and apps where users have their individual features analysed and scored, with the aim of identifying areas for physical improvement.If you’re a young woman who participates in the “looksmaxxing” community, and have been thinking about w…
12 Aug 2026, 9:39 am
Volodymyr TVERDOKHLIB/Shutterstock“Have another drink.” It can become a familiar refrain for parents during a heatwave, particularly when a child is busy playing and has little interest in stopping for a glass of water. Keeping up fluid intake becomes more important as temperatures rise because heat increases water loss, particularly through sweating. But a child’s fluid intake does not have to come solely from a cup or water bottle – the water in food also…
12 Aug 2026, 9:39 am
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12 Aug 2026, 9:39 am
Travel in style with the new Disney and BÉIS Mickey luggage collab debuts…
12 Aug 2026, 9:39 am
Milwaukee County Executive Director David Crowley is projected has won the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor in an upset over Francesca Hong.
12 Aug 2026, 9:37 am
Nearly 100 million Americans use TikTok, a popular app for sharing short-form videos, every day, but Pennsylvania joined a growing number of states questioning the platform’s protections for young users. “Today is an action rooted, very simply, in protecting children,” said state Attorney General Dave Sunday in a Tuesday press conference. “Social media allows us to be closer than ever to celebrities, athletes and musicians that we like. However, as easy…
12 Aug 2026, 9:37 am
"We had an unexpected hotel guest check in recently... and this one had a serious sweet tooth,"…
12 Aug 2026, 9:36 am
From rejecting drilling licences to preparing communities for heat, drought and wildfires, here’s how Burnham can ready the UK for a hotter, drier climateFrom record-smashing temperatures, wildfires, hosepipe bans and thousands of premature deaths, the climate crisis has left its mark across the summer of 2026.Tackling the root cause – the burning of fossil fuels – and ending the crisis will take years. So will fixing the UK government’s calamitous failure t…
12 Aug 2026, 9:36 am
Donald Trump's behaviour during a White House event on Monday has renewed questions about his fitness for office, after a clinical and forensic psychologist said the president's apparent confusion, slurred speech and repeated episodes of nodding off point to potential 'neurological' problems rather than the ordinary effects of ageing. Related Articles 'His Hippocampus Is Deteriorating': Neuroscientist Re-Frames Donald Trump's Behavioural Outbursts'With Hegseth Talki…
12 Aug 2026, 9:35 am
Saudi Arabia has redirected oil exports away from the Strait of Hormuz, but most Gulf producers still lack a reliable backup option to the world's most important energy choke point.
12 Aug 2026, 9:34 am
(MedPage Today) -- President Donald Trump's administration said that Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors and the state Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) won't pay for the...
12 Aug 2026, 9:34 am
Multiple and often overlapping crises such as floods or drought due to climate change, violent conflict and economic instability are creating new forms of vulnerability. Collectively they’re known as a polycrisis. These have severe effects on countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high poverty levels where weak institutions and limited public resources make it harder to respond effectively. Vidya Diwakar is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Development S…
12 Aug 2026, 9:33 am
Cristiano Ronaldo and his longtime partner Georgina Rodríguez are officially married - but the real mystery remains on her finger.
12 Aug 2026, 9:33 am
Every day, millions of litres of polluted water flow through many South African rivers and disappear into the sea. In South Africa, the small Stiebeuel River in Franschhoek, about 75 kilometres east of Cape Town, is badly polluted. Sewage and polluted rainwater run into the river because of inadequate sanitation and drainage systems serving the nearby informal settlement of Langrug. About 26,000 people there live in densely populated housing, where ageing and over…
12 Aug 2026, 9:32 am
In 2024, 25.1 million Africans were living in other countries on the continent. Labour migration has long been a defining feature of Africa’s economic landscape. Migrant workers on the continent are concentrated in certain sectors: agricultural and manufacturing together absorb roughly a fifth of migrant labour. Most migrants hold medium-skilled jobs alongside high and low skilled occupations. This sectoral concentration matters for the global skill partnershi…
12 Aug 2026, 9:32 am
“The Office” and “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” actor Lucy Davis is receiving an outpouring of love and support from the industry after revealing she is battling an “incurable” form of Stage 4 breast cancer. Many of Davis’ collaborators, from her “Shaun of the Dead” director Edgar Wright to her “Sabrina” co-stars Kiernan Shipka and […]…
12 Aug 2026, 9:32 am
Border closures don’t always produce the intended objectives. The idea is usually to control illegal movements and prohibited goods, lessen informal trade, reinforce customs operations, and regain control of national borders. But history shows that in cases as diverse as England, the Asante Kingdom, the US and colonial Nigeria/Benin, stiffer border regulations can instead bring about smuggling and multiply criminal networks. Where people share ethnic, language a…
12 Aug 2026, 9:32 am
President Trump’s approval rating dipped again this week, following a downward trend in support for the president amid the ongoing Iran war and mounting affordability concerns ahead of November’s midterms. The latest survey from The Economist/YouGov, published Monday, found 33 percent of respondents said they approved of how Trump has handled his job as president. Another……
12 Aug 2026, 9:31 am
The PM wants the public to avoid using single-use grills during the current spell of extremely dry weather.