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Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsDaniel Garzon Herazo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Miguel Uribe has died of injuries he sustained during a shooting on 7 JuneColombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe has died two months after being shot in the head in a targeted attack which shocked the South American nation. The 39-year-old was hit by three bullets – two of them in the head and one in the leg – at a campaign rally on 7 June in the capital, Bogotá.His wife confirmed his death on social media, paying tribute to “the love of my life”.A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of…

Apple TV+ will premiere its Martin Scorsese documentary series, “Mr. Scorsese,” on Oct. 17. The five-part documentary event about the legendary filmmaker comes from acclaimed director Rebecca Miller (“She Came to Me,” “Personal Velocity”). The “Mr. Scorsese” team was given exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives and conducted extensive interviews with the filmmaker. It is anchored by conversations with Scorsese, his friends, family and creative collaborators including Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with…

36 Concerns have been raised on social media over the lack of drainage infrastructure along sections of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road currently under construction. An X user, @omoelerinjare, posted a video highlighting the issue near Charterhouse School on Ogombo Road, Ajah, urging the Minister of Works to address the problem. Other users echoed his worries, noting that proper drainage is essential given Nigeria’s weather patterns and the swampy terrain along the route. Architect and infrastructure consultant Ola Olaniyan described the absence of drainage as a “cosmetic approach” to public works, stressing that stormwater channels should be built before completing the…

Public Health Surveillance Officers across Liberia, including county, district and zonal surveillance officers, have threatened to halt all surveillance reporting starting Monday, August 11, 2025. These men and women have vowed to stop sending reports if their longstanding concerns are not addressed by authorities at NPHIL. Before reaching this point, these surveillance officers, who addressed a press conference on Friday, August 8, in the park, which is a stone’s throw down the road from the NPHIL offices, said they were tired of chasing their bosses at NPHIL to address these concerns from October 2024 until now. They listed their grievances…

Ski jumping faces more controversy with six months to go until the Winter Olympics after the first high-level competition of the new season was marred by numerous athletes being disqualified over ill-fitting suits. The governing body says it’s “perfectly normal”.The ski jumping world was rocked in March by the discovery of illegally altered suits on the Norwegian team at the world championships. The International Ski Federation investigated officials and athletes over those changes which could help the wearer soar through the air for longer with the suit’s larger surface area.In Saturday’s first event of the 2025-26 season – a summer…

new video loaded: Fire Breaks Out on Landmark Arthur’s Seat in ScotlandBy Monika Cvorak•August 11, 2025The fire spread through “a large area of gorse,” a yellow flowering shrub that covers the hillside, officials said. It follows months of unusually warm weather.Recent episodes in WildfiresShow more videos from Wildfires

The phrase “necessity is the mother of invention” could not be more aptly applied to what is currently taking place in Sudan. Over half of Sudan’s population–25 million people–is experiencing acute hunger. Malnutrition, especially among children in Sudan’s conflict areas, is desperately high. Over 40,000 children were admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition in North Darfur State within the first five months of 2025, the UN reported, double the number for the same period last year. The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has been unable to deliver aid for over a year to the besieged city of El…

Manila says a Chinese navy vessel collides with one from its own coastguard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat.China’s coastguard says it has expelled Philippine vessels from waters around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea while Manila reports a collision in the confrontation.The Philippine boats were intercepted on Monday after they ignored warnings in an operation China’s coastguard said was “professional, standardised, legitimate and legal”.The incident is the latest in a series of confrontations between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest maritime routes, which Beijing claims almost entirely despite…

Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died following fights on the same card in Tokyo last week.Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of two fighters in separate bouts at the same event.Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought on the same card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on August 2 and died days later following brain surgery.The Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), gym owners and other boxing officials are under pressure to act and will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday.They are…

It’s all part of the ongoing tussle between the cheat developers and games companies, which spend money on developing anti-cheat software and trying to limit nefarious behavior in their games—sometimes including lawsuits around perceived copyright issues. “It’s a legal gray area. It’s not illegal to sell cheats” in most countries, Chothia says, noting that China and South Korea are among the few countries that have made it a crime to use cheat software.Andrew Hogan, a cofounder of games threat intelligence company Intorqa, which provides data to gaming companies about the cheat ecosystem, says developers are always evolving their cheats, becoming…