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Anna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be honoured in that way, and she is the subject of a page-turner of a biography, Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury. But what about the films? This month, BFI Southbank in London hosts a retrospective of this remarkable…

78 The conversation about Africa’s future took the spotlight as top leaders from business, finance, academia and government gathered in Kampala for the Investor Roundtable Summit organised by the Makerere University Alumna Association. The summit, which brought together alumni, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers and scholars, was held under the theme “Exploring Opportunities for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Value Creation for Accelerated Socio-Economic Integration and Development of Sub-Saharan Africa.” The event was attended by young professionals and prominent alumni of Makerere University, one of Africa’s oldest higher institutions. Participants explored the urgent question of how African countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, can tackle…

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Tory BarronSep 3, 2025, 04:25 PM ETCloseTory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports.Are you ready for it? If NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s comments during his appearance Wednesday on the “Today” show are any indication, there’s a real possibility of Taylor Swift headlining the Super Bowl LX halftime show.Editor’s Picks1 Related”We would always love to have Taylor play. She is a special, special talent, and obviously she would be welcome at any time,” Goodell said, when asked…

Atsu is no samurai. The lead character in Ghost of Yōtei is a wandering sellsword from a lowly family. Her sex and lack of status mean that, following the murders of her family, she has no fixed place in 17th-century Japanese society, and there is no permitted path for her to tread if she is to get revenge on the Yōtei Six, the men who killed her loved ones. As the game’s co-director Nate Fox puts it, “Atsu is not somebody who walks in to a room and people pay respect to.”Yōtei’s predecessor, Sucker Punch Productions’ 2020 sprawling open-world game…

Israeli forces have bulldozed a minaret under construction for a mosque in the town of Dura, in the occupied West Bank.

His brother struck a different tone. “You might have wondered what it would be like to sing this next song with 60,000, 70,000 of your fellow Oasis fans,” Noel Gallagher said, setting up “Don’t Look Back in Anger” as the night wound down.“Well, you’re about to find out what that feeling is like.”After the show wrapped with fireworks, the familiar refrains of the band’s hits continued to ring out in volleys, as one group of fans after another tried to keep the vibe alive while they reluctantly headed to the exits.

An aid worker supporting rescue efforts after the devastating Sudan landslide which reportedly killed hundreds of people has told the BBC that it had caused a “mountain to collapse”, leaving just one known survivor so far.”We have so far managed to recover nine bodies,” said Abdul Hafeez Ali, head of the Coordinating Council of the Tawila and Jebel Marra Emergency Room.Heavy rainfall led to Sunday’s disaster, which killed at least 370 people according to a UN estimate, and “destroy[ed] the village” of Tarseen in the western Darfur region, Mr Ali added.The armed group in control of the area has said…

-Over 4.2 bln Birr mobilized to enhance education quality Mayor Adanech Abiebie has reaffirmed Addis Ababa’s commitment to building a knowledge-driven generation, saying that the capital has registered notable progress in expanding access to quality education. Opening the 32nd Citywide Education Conference yesterday, the Mayor stressed that education is at the center of Ethiopia’s future growth. “We are taking concrete steps to produce a generation equipped with knowledge and skills,” she underscored, citing ongoing investment in school infrastructure, technology-assisted learning, and conducive school environments. The Mayor also pointed to flagship initiatives such as school renovation and construction, feeding programs for…

– Montserrado County Senator Saah Joseph, political leader of the newly minted People’s Action Party (PAP), says Liberia faces a looming health crisis that could prove catastrophic if leaders fail to act, and vowed his party will focus on solutions rather than “politics of insults.” Speaking Monday on OK FM, Joseph warned that Liberia’s fragile health sector is at breaking point. “Ten to twenty years from now, considering our health systems and situation, when nothing changes, in the next twenty years, we all will die,” he said. “If we don’t put in place a robust health care system, some of…