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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer identifies as Nigerian and has not renewed her passport since the early 2000s.Badenoch, who was born in the UK, grew up in both Nigeria and the US. She returned to England aged 16 because of Nigeria’s worsening political and economic climate, as well as to continue her education.Speaking on former MP and television presenter Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast, she said she was “Nigerian through ancestry” but “by identity, I’m not really”.Last year, Badenoch faced criticism from Nigeria’s vice-president, who said she had “denigrated” the West African country.Badenoch, who previously lived…

A former prime minister of Mali, which is now under military rule, has been charged with undermining the credibility of the state over comments on social media.After a prison visit to see detained opposition figures in July, Moussa Mara declared on X his “unwavering solidarity with prisoners of conscience”.Mara, who served as prime minister for nine months a decade ago, has been a recent outspoken critic of the military government.The junta, in power since coups in 2020 and 2021, dissolved all political parties in May following rare anti-government protests.On Thursday, Mara was detained and questioned for a second time by…

Lindsay Lohan is opening up about her feelings of being pigeonholed by roles she’s played in the past as a longstanding actress in the entertainment industry.  After starring in 1998’s The Parent Trap when she was 12, Lohan’s career skyrocketed. She went on to appear in many more beloved projects, including Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, and she is next up set to reprise her role in the former film with the 2025 followup Freakier Friday.  In a Saturday profile with The Times U.K., Lohan admitted that she “wanted to take a minute” to herself, which saw her shy away…

Smithsonian Institution says it will update exhibit to reflect all impeachments of US presidents following backlash.The parent organisation of a top-visited history museum in the United States has denied that political pressure played a role in the removal of a display about the impeachments of US President Donald Trump.The Smithsonian Institution, which runs the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, said on Saturday that it removed the “temporary” placard for failing to meet the museum’s standards in “appearance, location, timeline, and overall presentation”.“It was not consistent with other sections in the exhibit and moreover blocked the view of the…

393 Burkina Faso and Russia have taken a major step to strengthen their strategic partnership by establishing a new joint intergovernmental commission. The announcement was made on July 30, 2025, in Ouagadougou, following a high-level meeting between President Ibrahim Traoré and Russian Energy Minister Serguei Tsivile. The new commission will be responsible for monitoring and implementing key bilateral projects agreed upon during President Traoré’s official visit to Moscow in May 2025, where he met with President Vladimir Putin. The focus will be on energy, education, and security, all areas that both countries have identified as priority sectors. Speaking at the…

Clare LissamanBBC News, West MidlandsNuePeople who attend a wellbeing and cancer support centre made a mural for its walls after working with two artists Two artists have worked with children and users of a wellbeing and cancer support centre to create new murals in a Staffordshire town. Local artists Kate O and Wingy worked with pupils from Two Rivers School, which provides special education, and Tamworth Wellbeing and Cancer Support Centre. New Urban Era (Nue), which organised the projects as part of its outreach programme, said the initiatives had fostered “creativity, connection, and a sense of accomplishment among participants”. The…

Lindsay Lohan is sharing her frustrations about how growing up in the public eye pigeonholed her from playing more sophisticated roles. “Yeah, I do [think I was pigeonholed],” she said in an interview with The Times U.K.. “I was so thrilled to work on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ and yet even today I have to fight for stuff that is like that, which is frustrating. Because, well, you know me as this — but you also know I can do that. So let me! Give me the chance. I have to break that cycle and open doors to something else,…

Around ‘90,000 people’ attended pro-Palestine rally, NSW Police sayNSW Police are holding a press conference in Sydney after a march across Sydney Harbour Bridge was stopped due to safety concerns.Acting Deputy Commissioner Peter McKenna said police estimate 90,000 people took part in the protest.“At points today we were really concerned about a crowd crush,” McKenna said, noting the number of attended was larger than the 50,000 that organisers estimated would be in attendance in yesterday’s successful NSW supreme court bid.“We could not get those people, the number, the significant size of that crowd off that northern egress route without risking…

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Per the authors, it’s the first example of a biolaser cavity within the animal kingdom.As previously reported, the bright iridescent colors in things like peacock feathers and butterfly wings don’t come from any pigment molecules but from how they are structured. The scales of chitin (a polysaccharide common to insects) in butterfly wings, for example, are arranged like roof tiles. Essentially, they form a diffraction grating,…

This isn’t new for Bulan, who grew up with a father who practiced the indigenous religion of Sunda Wiwitan, which was forbidden by Indonesia’s authoritarian government. Soon after he died, she says, she began to explore her own spiritual journey, eventually renaming herself Hai Rembulan (“Hello, Moon”). She believes the moon plays a crucial role in her significant life events. Bulan and some friends opened Kongsi 8 in 2022 to create a gathering space for women and gender minority artists to create and sell art. But the art didn’t generate enough income, so they expanded to include a canteen and…