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South Africa’s sport, arts and culture minister, Gayton McKenzie, is under investigation by the country’s human rights commission for historical social media posts containing a highly offensive racial slur, reigniting a debate about racism, identity and the lingering effects of colonialism and apartheid.McKenzie, an anti-immigrant populist from the Coloured community with a history of stirring up controversies, was given a Wednesday evening deadline by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to issue an approved apology, undergo sensitivity training, donate to an agreed charity and delete the X posts, which were still online at the time of publication.The posts came…

The Ghanaian Times has decided to focus today’s editorial on the Ofankor-Nsawam road again, given its strategic importance to the socio-economic development of the country. This road, which forms part of the Accra-Kumasi highway (National Route 6), is the only major road linking Accra to the Northern parts of Ghana and further to our Sahelian neighbours, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. These landlocked countries depend heavily on the Tema Port to clear their goods, which makes the road an international trade route of immense economic significance. Currently, reconstruction work on the 33.4-kilometre stretch has stalled. As reported in this…

The resignation calls intensify Trump’s attempts to yield influence over the central bank.United States President Donald Trump has called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign, intensifying his effort to gain influence over the central bank on the basis of allegations made by one of his allies about mortgages Cook holds in Michigan and Georgia.US Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte alleged in a post on X earlier on Wednesday that Cook had designated a condo in Atlanta as her primary residence after taking a loan on her home in Michigan, which she also declared as a primary…

Google’s latest Gemini AI upgrades attempt to anticipate what useful information you made need from your life to address a potential issue, make you to better photographer or become your personalised health and sleep coach.Shipping on the just-announced Pixel 10 Android phones, the new Magic Cue feature enables the chatbot to comb through your digital life and pull up relevant information on your phone just when you need it.Placing a call to an airline will automatically display your booking information from Gmail in the phone app. Or when a friend texts about brunch on Sunday Gemini will suggest a suitable…

new video loaded: Mumbai Reels From Flooding After Heavy RainBy Monika Cvorak•August 20, 2025Torrential rains battered India’s financial capital, causing flooding that has waterlogged streets, disrupted public transport and canceled flights.Recent episodes in IndiaShow more videos from India

Israel’s military and prime minister deny starvation in Gaza, but mounting famine-related deaths contradict this.

Katy PrickettBBC News, CambridgeshireFamily handoutsAnne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospitalA hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply.Three patients died and two of these cases were as a result of complications connected to the outbreak at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, according to lawyers.Lung transplant patients Karen Starling, 54, of Ipswich, died in February 2020, and Anne Martinez, of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, died in December 2020.Eilish Midlane, the hospital’s chief executive, said:…

Aug 20, 2025, 07:52 AM ETKhamzat Chimaev has looked the part of a pound-for-pound great from the first time he stepped into the Octagon in 2020. In the opening round of his UFC debut, Chimaev landed 118 strikes, the second most by a middleweight in any round in the promotion’s history.Ten days after that dominant win, Chimaev was back at it, building a 68-0 edge in total strikes on his way to winning for the second time. Before two months had passed, he had finished three opponents. The Chimaev hype train was on a roll.Things did eventually slow down for…

The true measure of a society’s development lies in the strength of its foundational systems, at the heart of which is care work. This essential labour sustains both social well-being and economic productivity, yet it remains one of the most overused, undervalued, and least recognised sectors globally. While care work sustains households, fuels economic activity, and enables human development, it is often treated as invisible, absent from health policies, marginal in economic planning, and disproportionately shouldered by women and girls. For generations, women have carried the bulk of this work out of love, responsibility, and cultural expectation, often at the…

In early August, just days before a major Black Ops 7 preview event in Los Angeles, former Blizzard president and Microsoft executive Mike Ybarra called the Call of Duty franchise “lazy”. Posting on X, the veteran exec wrote that EA’s upcoming Battlefield 6 would “boot stomp” CoD this year and force the team to make “better FPS games”. And with Splitgate 2 head Ian Proulx mocking Call of Duty in his Summer Game Fest presentation just two months ago, it seems the blockbuster series has become the butt of an industry joke about endless franchises.It’s not the only flak the…