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Venus Williams insists she is not a good doubles player. The 14 major championships she and Serena won together tell a different story.Without her younger sister by her side, Williams showed Thursday she’s still got it. Williams won a women’s doubles match at the US Open for the first time in more than a decade, teaming with Leylah Fernandez to defeat the sixth-seeded pair of Lyudmyla Kichenok and Ellen Perez 7-6 (4), 6-3.When it was over, the 45-year-old Williams did her signature twirl-and-wave and called Fernandez “the best partner I ever played with – outside of Serena.” The 22-year-old Canadian…

Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter, Querétaro, MexicoArterra/Getty ImagesQuerétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueductLocated in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct.But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason – as Mexico’s data centre capital.Across the state companies including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and ODATA own these warehouse-like buildings, full of computer servers. No one could supply an exact number, but there are scores of them, with more being built. Ascenty, which claims to be the largest data centre company in…

Kyla Herrmannsen / BBCVusi Tshabalala narrowly escaped injury from the fire after fleeing the blaze covered by a blanket soaked in water Blackened by soot, the gutted and derelict remains of South Africa’s infamous Usindiso building in central Johannesburg are an unintentional memorial to the 76 people who died here in a devastating fire two years ago.At one time an office block, the 1950s building in the Marshalltown area was abandoned and then taken over by several hundred people desperately needing a home.One of those was Vusi Tshabalala, who shakes his head in disbelief as he recalls how he survived…

Addis Abeba — Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH), the government’s strategic investment arm, and Dangote Group have signed a landmark shareholders’ agreement to develop and operate a $2.5 billion urea fertilizer production complex in Gode, Somali Regional State. According to a statement released today, EIH will hold a 40% equity stake, while Dangote Group will retain 60% ownership. The facility, with a planned capacity of three million metric tons of urea annually, will be among the top five largest urea production complexes globally and the single largest in Ethiopia’s history. The project includes construction of fertilizer plants and associated infrastructure, including…

Here are the key events on day 1,282 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025Here is how things stand on Friday, August 29:Fighting Russian missiles and drones ripped through apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least 23 people, including four children, authorities said, in an attack the United States warned undermines peace efforts. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow fired at least 629 drones and missiles, making it the second-largest overnight barrage of the entire war, according to Kyiv’s data. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that aside from residential buildings, the deadly…

Tesla sales slumped 40% across Europe in July compared with a year earlier as Elon Musk’s electric car company faces increasingly tough competition from its Chinese rival BYD.There were 8,837 sales of Tesla cars last month across the EU, the European Free Trade Association and the UK, according to figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That compared with 14,769 at the same point last year.New car registrations for BYD across Europe rose to 13,503 last month, compared with 4,151 a year earlier. BYD now has 1.2% market share, the ACEA found. Tesla’s share remains at 0.8%.Chinese car brands,…

The UK, France and Germany have begun the process of restoring major UN sanctions on Iran – lifted under a 2015 deal – as tensions once again escalate over Tehran’s nuclear programme.The move will trigger a so-called snapback mechanism, which could result in the return of sanctions in 30 days.In a letter to the European Union’s policy chief, Iran’s foreign minister said the three countries had “no legal jurisdiction” to reactivate the sanctions and that both Russia and China supported Iran’s position. The minister wrote that Iran was ready to resume “fair and balanced” negotiations on the disputed programme if…

Everybody loves George Clooney, and rightly so. His performances in films such as Michael Clayton, Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven have been a joy, and as an elegant public figure he has more or less single-handedly underwritten the continuing currency of Hollywood classiness. But in this dire, sentimental and self-indulgent film, he has the look of a man who has found strychnine in his Nespresso pod and can’t remember which of the cupboards in his luxury hotel suite contains the antidote.It is directed by Noah Baumbach, whose 2022 film White Noise, based on the Don DeLillo novel, was a…

In the latest chapter of a long-running legal battle over the Gauteng Department of Health’s obligation to provide people in the province with radiation oncology services, the department has suffered another loss in the courts. Spotlight assesses the legal situation and asks what it means for people still waiting for the life-saving treatment. With another court loss suffered this August, the Gauteng Department of Health has once again been ordered to urgently provide treatment for cancer patients who have been left in the lurch. This ruling, handed down on August 5 by Judge Evette Dippenaar, follows urgent legal action brought…

new video loaded: Egypt Recovers Ancient Artifacts From Underwater CityBy Amogh Vaz and Jamie Leventhal•August 28, 2025As part of a major archaeological operation, Egyptian officials uncovered underwater remnants from a 2,000-year-old “party town” known as Canopus. Archaeologists believe that the city may be larger than previously thought.Recent episodes in News Clips: Middle EastShow more videos from News Clips: Middle East