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The coach who guided Laura Muir to Olympic and world championship medals has been banned for three years for serious misconduct, which included driving at speed with an athlete in his car following a disagreement before abandoning them at the roadside.Andy Young, who also coached Jemma Reekie to fourth place in the 800m at the Tokyo Games, was found by two independent panels to have placed performance above athlete welfare, ignored medical advice and used manipulative and coercive behaviour towards those he coached.The 48-year-old, who was UK Athletics’ performance coach of the year in 2016, was also found to have…

Browser maker Opera launched its AI-centric browser Neon Tuesday, with the ability to create apps through AI prompts and create repeatable prompts through a feature it calls cards. With this Opera joins a growing number of companies like Perplexity and The Browser Company that are trying to make agentic browsers happen. The company first announced that it was working on Neon in May, but the browser was in closed preview. It will now start sending invites to select people, who can use the browser for a fee of $19.99 per month. “We built Opera Neon for ourselves – and for…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, More than 30 people injured in a huge explosion outside a security installation in the capital of southwestern province of Balochistan.Published On 30 Sep 202530 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIslamabad, Pakistan – A powerful car bomb blast outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps in the southwestern city of Quetta has killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 30 others, authorities said.The explosion, swiftly followed by heavy gunfire, tore through the vicinity of Zarghoon Road in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“Two law…

John Oliver targeted Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in a fiery episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight.The host joked that Netanyahu was the “original source material for Mr Potato Head” as well as being the leader of the country on and off since 1996, making him their longest serving prime minister.He has repeatedly claimed he is “the only person capable of keeping Israel safe” and has tried to market himself as “a big strong guy who won’t let Israel get pushed around”.But Oliver said he has also been in charge of the “longest and deadliest war in Israel’s…

UNMUTEFormer US vaccine chief Demetre Daskalakis says the country’s health department is being led by a ‘chaos agent’ who is putting vulnerable people in harm’s way. Dr Daskalakis was one of three directors to resign in August, following a decision to fire the head of the Centres for Disease Control, Susan Monarez, after her months-long dispute with health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Since then, Dr Daskalakis has publicly criticised Kennedy, saying he is knowingly dismantling the country’s vaccine programme by sidelining experts and pushing his own ideology.Published On 30 Sep 202530 Sep 2025Click here to share on…

288 The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria has, for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, reduced the benchmark interest rate, signalling a cautious shift from its long-standing hawkish stance. At its September 2025 meeting, the MPC cut the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 50 basis points to 27 per cent. It also adjusted the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) for deposit money banks to 45 per cent from 50 per cent and narrowed the asymmetric corridor to +250/-250 basis points around the MPR. However, it retained the Liquidity Ratio at 30 per cent…

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has ruled out the UK government imposing VAT on private healthcare in the upcoming autumn Budget.Streeting told the BBC “it’s not happening” and repeated that answer when asked if he could guarantee VAT would not be levied on private healthcare.In the UK, most private healthcare services are exempt from VAT, meaning patients don’t usually pay the tax on treatments.But Chancellor Rachel Reeves has faced repeated questions about the prospect of tax rises, including VAT, when she delivers her budget in November.Economists have said taxes will have to go up in the autumn Budget if the chancellor…

NewsFeedA school building collapsed during prayer time in Indonesia killing several students and injuring dozens. Rescue efforts are ongoing to find those still trapped as parents wait for news of their loved ones.Published On 30 Sep 202530 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5m (£18.6m) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, filed after the video platform suspended his account in the wake of the 6 January attack on US Capitol.The settlement from the video streaming giant’s parent company Alphabet – which also owns Google – comes after social media sites X/Twitter and Facebook also agreed to pay Trump for suspending his accounts. Trump had accused YouTube and other tech companies of political bias, claiming they had unfairly censored conservative voices after the Capitol riot in 2021.At the time of his suspension, social media companies said that…

Benjamin Netanyahu says the IDF ‘will remain in most of the territory’In a video statement published on his Telegram channel discussing his visit to the US, Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF “will remain in most of the territory” as part of the plan drawn up with Trump, and that Israel did “absolutely not” agree to a Palestinian state. Netanyahu said: It was a historic visit. Instead of Hamas leading to our isolation, we turned the tables and isolated Hamas. Now the entire world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the conditions we set together with…