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137 Former Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, has officially withdrawn from the race for the association’s presidency after being disqualified by the electoral committee earlier this week. The decision ends weeks of speculation over the leadership contest, which is now set to return the current president, Vitumbiko Gubuduza, unopposed. Bapu, a well-known figure in Malawian netball administration, was one of two aspirants for the top position. Her disqualification came after the NAM Independent and Impartial Elections Committee ruled that she had already served the maximum two terms as general secretary and was therefore ineligible to run…

A new exhibition highlights three Illinois photographers whose work captures the after-dark life of midwest cities and towns. Robin Bailey, Jim Hill and Dave Jordano capture unusually compelling contrasts and independent businesses that have survived decades of change, from Michigan to Ohio. Midwestern Nights is on display at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, until 8 September

Monrovia — The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) on Thursday hosted a one-day intensive training on monetary policy communication for journalists, aimed at enhancing the accuracy and quality of economic reporting in the country. Held at the Bank’s headquarters in Monrovia, the training brought together journalists from both print and electronic media, members of the Press Union of Liberia, and senior CBL officials. The initiative seeks to strengthen the media’s role in promoting informed public discourse on key economic issues. Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Musa Dukuly, Deputy Governor for Economic Policy, emphasized the critical role of journalists in Liberia’s…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal grantmaking while ending offensive waste of tax dollars, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  Every tax dollar the Government spends should improve American lives or advance American interests.  This often does not happen.  Federal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in critical race theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs.  In 2024, one study claimed that more than one-quarter of new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants went to diversity, equity, and…

David HaleAug 8, 2025, 08:00 AM ETCloseCollege football reporter.Joined ESPN in 2012.Graduate of the University of Delaware.BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Resting against the wall in Eddie George’s still sparsely furnished office at Bowling Green is a framed poster of the Heisman Trophy, signed by every winner of the award from its inaugural season in 1935 (Jay Berwanger) through 1990 (Ty Detmer).The unique bit of college football memorabilia belongs to tight ends coach Dewayne Alexander, who procured it from a fan years ago, but he figured it would look better in the head coach’s office. After all, if the poster’s history…

A significant step forward but not a leap over the finish line. That was how Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, described the latest upgrade to ChatGPT this week.The race Altman was referring to was artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical state of AI where, by OpenAI’s definition, a highly autonomous system is able to do a human’s job.Describing the new GPT-5 model, which will power ChatGPT, as a “significant step on the path to AGI”, he nonetheless added a hefty caveat.“[It is] missing something quite important, many things quite important,” said Altman, such as the model’s inability to “continuously…

South Korea’s military has said North Korea has started dismantling some propaganda loudspeakers aimed at the South in parts of the border area, following similar moves by Seoul made in a bid to ease tensions.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t disclose the sites where the North Koreans were removing speakers and said further confirmation was needed as to whether the dismantling was taking place across all areas, adding it would continue monitoring related activities.“Activities by the North Korean military removing loudspeakers against South Korea have been detected in parts of the front-line area since Saturday morning,” the military said…

Netflix will keep sailing the high seas. The streamer has given an early season three renewal to its live-action adaptation of One Piece, announcing the pickup at an annual celebration of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga in Tokyo. The renewal comes several months ahead of the season two premiere, which is slated for 2026. That, incidentally, is much sooner than the season two renewal for One Piece, which came a couple weeks after the series premiere in 2023. Additionally, Netflix announced that Ian Stokes will join Joe Tracz as co-showrunner on season three, which is set to begin filming later this…

Varsen Aghabekian Shahin says international community must take concrete steps to end Israeli impunity for abuses.The international community must “shoulder its responsibility” and take action against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian foreign affairs minister has told Al Jazeera before an emergency United Nations Security Council session.In an interview on Saturday, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said the 15-member council must uphold international law when it convenes at UN headquarters in New York on Sunday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip.The meeting was organised in response to Israel’s newly announced plan to seize Gaza City, which has drawn widespread condemnation…

Here are the key events on day 1,263 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 10:Fighting Russian forces launched a drone attack on a bus in Ukraine’s Kherson region, killing at least two people and wounding 16 others, according to Ukrainian officials. Another drone hit the bus as the police were responding to the attack, injuring three officers, the police added. Russian forces also launched 36 other attacks on settlements across the Kherson region through Friday and Saturday, killing at least one more person and injuring three, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin. Russian attacks on…