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After starving and strangling local councils through prolonged funding delays in the previous financial year, the Malawi Government now appears determined to finish them off altogether in the 2025/2026 fiscal year. This is the chilling warning from a new fiscal space analysis released by the Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA), the umbrella body for all local authorities in the country. According to the analysis, between April and June–the first quarter of the current fiscal year–government released just MK41.4 billion out of the expected MK58.9 billion, leaving a yawning deficit of MK14.9 billion. Even worse, councils received their June funding a…

The proposed settlement is the highest yet, as Trump continues pressure universities to submit to wide-ranging demands.The administration of United States President Donald Trump has requested that the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), submit to a $1bn settlement to resolve accusations stemming from the school’s handling of pro-Palestine protests.A White House official and the University of California system both confirmed the proposed settlement to news agencies on Friday.The settlement proposal is notable for the massive sum requested, as the Trump administration seeks to pressure top schools into compliance with its policies.The $1bn price tag would far exceed the payouts inked…

Brentford forward Yoane Wissa has returned to first-team training following constructive talks with head coach Keith Andrews but is still seeking a move away from the club.Wissa and Andrews spoke at the team’s training ground on Wednesday morning following a fortnight of strained relations between player and club.The talks have resulted in Wissa resuming senior training for the first time since he decided to leave Brentford’s pre-season base in Portugal on 21 July.However, the 28-year-old still wants to secure a transfer to Newcastle during the current transfer window – a move that would provide him with an opportunity to play…

US President Donald Trump is pushing to make it easier for Americans to use retirement savings to invest in cryptocurrencies, private equity, property, gold and other kinds of non-traditional assets. On Thursday, he ordered regulators to look for ways to change rules that might discourage employers from including such offerings in workplace retirement accounts, known in the US as 401ks. The move is intended to eventually give everyday workers new access to investments formerly reserved for wealthy individuals and institutions, while opening up previously untouched pools of funding for firms in those fields. But critics say it could increase risks…

It was the crossover that no one in the entertainment industry, or the sports world, saw coming: the stars of Deadpool and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia aligning in February 2021 to purchase a beleaguered professional football club in the north of Wales. Four years on from that blockbuster deal, which looked all but doomed to end in disaster, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac (legally changed from McElhenney, a tongue-twisting trip wire apparently) have not only proven to be eminently noble stewards of 160-year-old Wrexham FC; in hindsight, they look even cannier for deciding to make a great show of…

My father, Sam Ayer, who has died aged 81, dedicated his life to the care and support of vulnerable children and adults. His research made a significant contribution to a shift in services from institutional to community care. His doctoral thesis, Community Care and the Mentally Handicapped (1984), highlighted the key role mothers play in providing care for children with learning disabilities, and he played a key role in the English National Board for Nursing and Midwifery’s research programme into the development of nursing for people with learning disabilities.Born in Akropong, Ghana, Sam lived for most of his life in…

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Hanin Al-Batsh estimates she has signed up for more than 80 Bluesky accounts in the last six months.Like hundreds of other Palestinians struggling to buy or even find food in Gaza, Al-Batsh uses Bluesky to promote her crowdfunding campaigns, hoping to raise enough money for flour and milk for her children in a given week.Her posts on the text-based social network have grown increasingly desperate as Israel tightens its grip of the Gaza Strip, forcing millions into starvation.“Hello friends, my children have become weak, have lost weight, are malnourished, and have very low iron levels,” Al-Batsh’s latest post reads.Images the…

Goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen took to social media on Friday to defend himself after Barcelona started disciplinary proceedings that could allow them to terminate his contract.“In recent weeks, many things have been said about me – some of them entirely unfounded,” he wrote on Instagram. “Therefore, I feel it is necessary to express my version of events respectfully, yet clearly.”The club started disciplinary action on Tuesday and stripped the German of the club captaincy on Thursday.The dispute centres on the German’s fitness after he underwent back surgery at the end of July.Local media reported earlier in the week that the…

NewsFeedProtesters from the Israeli activist group, Brothers and Sisters in Arms, etched an anti-war message in the sand near a US embassy building in Tel Aviv. It demanded President Donald Trump intervene to stop the war in Gaza.Published On 8 Aug 20258 Aug 2025