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Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities.When Akmal’s* mosque was vandalised last week in Basildon, a town in the English county of Essex, he felt shaken.“I was so hurt,” said the 33-year-old electrical engineer, who requested Al Jazeera use a pseudonym. “It was so close to home. My local masjid [mosque]. It felt like a real kick in the teeth.”The South Essex Islamic Centre in Basildon was defaced shortly before midnight on Thursday. Red crosses were daubed across its walls alongside the words “Christ is King” and “This is England”.The timing, the night before Friday prayers,…

Every seat in Copenhagen’s Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the vibe coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year’s TechBBQ conference. Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It’s one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications. It’s been an attractive proposition for users: In just eight months, the Swedish company said it surpassed $100 million in ARR and raised a $200 million Series A at a $1.8…

At AmfAR Venezia, filmmaker Julian Schnabel accepted a tribute award from Jude Law before auctioning off a one-of-a-kind experience: The director and artist, at the Venice Film Festival to premiere his new drama “In the Hand of Dante,” offered to paint one of his signature portraits for the highest bidder in the room. As the offers flew from auctioneer Simon du Pury, suddenly a woman in a black dress with a very short bob raised her hand to place a bid of €475,000 ($556,730). As the auctioning continued — she was caught in a heated bidding war with an art…

Wedaeli ChibelushiBBC News andPeter JegwaBBC News in LilongweAFP/Getty ImagesMalawi’s 2019 election sparked significant controversy – and its impact looms large over this year’s voteThe people of Malawi are set to vote for their next leader, following a turbulent five years involving economic turmoil, natural disasters and the shock death of the nation’s vice-president. Current President Lazarus Chakwera is vying for a second term, his main rival being Peter Mutharika, an octogenarian who has also held office in the southern African nation once before.Transparency and fairness are key talking points ahead of the vote, given that the result of Malawi’s 2019…

The Ministry of Health has unveiled a sweeping policy shift that prioritises self-care and disease prevention over hospital-centered treatment, aiming to ease pressure on facilities and build healthier communities across the country. For decades, Uganda’s health system has largely focused on curative care, emphasizing hospital treatment and medicine availability once illness strikes. But with nearly 33 million cases treated in health facilities last year alone, in a country of about 46 million people, authorities concluded that many of these conditions could have been avoided through prevention at community level. “Seventy-six percent of the diseases presented in hospitals are preventable,” said…

Newcastle are closing in on an agreement for Brentford forward Yoane Wissa worth more than £50m, a day after he urged the Bees to “keep their word” and let him leave.Brentford have already rejected two offers for the the DR Congo international this summer – with the latest being £35m guaranteed plus £5m in add-ons.It comes after Liverpool agreed a British transfer record fee of £125m to sign Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.Magpies boss Eddie Howe is desperate to strengthen his forward line, despite completing the club record signing of striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart on a six-year contract last week.Wissa,…

Shares in Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD slid by as much as 8% on Monday after it reported a drop in profit because of a price war in China’s car sector.The carmaker had on Friday reported that its net profit fell to 6.4bn yuan ($900m; £660m) between April and June, down 30% from a year earlier.BYD said in its filing that “increased price competition” among China’s EV brands had impacted the industry.The Shenzhen-based manufacturer is facing an increasingly crowded market, competing against local rivals Nio and XPeng and US carmaker Tesla, which have all slashed prices to draw buyers.The carmaker’s…

The Premier League champions’ signing of the Swedish international closes the summer’s most drawn-out transfer saga.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025English Premier League champions Liverpool have agreed to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle United for a record British transfer fee, according to multiple media reports.The Swedish forward is set to join the Reds in a deal worth about 130 million pounds ($176m), according to reports on Monday by The Athletic and The Telegraph, among other outlets.The Athletic reported that Isak will undergo a medical on Monday before completing a six-year deal with the Merseyside club.The 25-year-old striker scored 23…

These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023.