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I wasn’t surprised when I got the call that my dad was dying, even though we’d been estranged for many years. He’d suffered addiction for decades and eventually ran out of time, which also meant he ran out of time to reconcile with me. About 15 years after we stopped talking, my aunt and uncle held the phone up to his ear — 1,400 miles away, between me in Connecticut and him in Nebraska — to help me say goodbye. I’ll never be sure if he understood my words, but, as I watched waves crash on the shore from the…

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has told the BBC she will be turning Kemi Badenoch’s attack on her at Prime Minister’s Questions into a T-shirt.The Conservative leader called Phillipson a “spiteful class warrior” for taxing private school fees, claiming this was to pay for more teachers in state schools “but the number of teachers has gone down”.The two women exchanged harsh words after PMQs and continued their row on social media, before both doubled down again on Thursday.Asked whether she would apologise to Phillipson, Badenoch said she had also called the education secretary incompetent in the Commons and it was “interesting”…

There is a new record for tiny, powerful computer chips. IBM’s prototype chip is the size of a fingernail, yet packs in almost 100 billion transistors – nearly twice as many as the previous state-of-the-art chip – thanks to a three-dimensional technique. The company says the 10 millimetre by 15 millimetre chip will offer 70 per cent higher energy efficiency and 50 per cent higher performance than current leading chips, and will be in commercial devices within 10 years. For decades, the name given to chip-manufacturing processes referred to the size of individual transistors in nanometres: 10 nanometres, 5 nanometres,…

Jun 25, 2026, 08:15 AM ETWe continue the final round of group stage matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as three groups were decided Tuesday and another three will be decided Wednesday.To kick things off in Group E, we have Curaçao taking on Ivory Coast, and Ecuador taking on Germany. Later, we go to Group F as Japan take on Sweden, and Tunisia take on Netherlands. Finally, we wrap the day up going to Group D as Türkiye face off against co-hosts United States, and Paraguay taking on Australia.Enjoy all the features, news, video analysis and color from around…

Another group of budding young thespians have joined Prime Video‘s YA adaptation of Chloe Walsh‘s BookTok sensation Boys of Tommen. After a widespread search, Prime Video has revealed Amelia May as Claire Biggs, John Hewson as Gerard Gibson, Indy Lewis as Lizzie Young, Alex Dunne as Hugh Biggs, Dixie Egerickx as Katie Wilmot, Daisy Jacob as Bella Wilkinson, Jonathan Heed as Cormac Ryan and Cathal Ó Síocháin as Ronan McGarry. The search for Patrick Feely is still underway.  The new cast join leads Brendan Canty, Nancy Surridge, Conor Sánchez, James O’Donoghue and Sophie McGibbon. The romantic drama from The Summer I Turned Pretty studio wiip and Off Campus maker Temple Hill follows the forbidden love story of Johnny Kavanagh, the star…

Venezuela has declared a state of emergency after powerful back-to-back earthquakes collapsed buildings in cities that included the capital, Caracas, killing at least 164 people and wounding close to 1,000.After the earthquakes on Wednesday, the United States said it was in touch with Venezuelan authorities and was mobilising assistance for the South American nation, which has historically languished under crippling sanctions imposed by Washington.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe economic chokehold was partially lifted after US forces abducted the country’s then-President Nicolas Maduro in a raid in January. The interim government led by Maduro ally Delcy Rodriguez has been…

Despite polls showing that most Britons regret leaving the European Union, many others believe the case for quitting the bloc still holds.“The arguments for Brexit now are largely the same as they were then: sovereignty, democracy and taking back control,” University of Cambridge professor and Brexit supporter Robert Tombs told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listControl was a central theme of the “Leave” camp.Brexiters called for more control over migration to protect borders from foreign supranational powers, as well as wresting sovereignty back from the bloc – which they portrayed as an out-of-touch middle-class group of elites…

Stories by Emma Okonji A new global research from the Project Management Institute (PMI) has revealed that project complexity is emerging as a prominent threat to successful project delivery across sub-Saharan Africa. According to PMI’s latest Pulse of the Profession report tagged: ‘Driving Success in Complex Projects: From Navigating Tasks to Navigating Systems’, the report findings showed that projects are increasingly facing missed deadlines, decision bottlenecks, and pressure on teams as organisations race to deliver transformation amid rapid change. The report, based on insights from project professionals and senior leaders across 35 countries, showed that 81 per cent of project…

Following the launch of the SL3 in 2024 and last year’s SL3-S that was optimized for speed and capturing fast moving subjects, Leica announced the new SL3-P today delivering some of the best features from both of its predecessors. Like Leica’s previous “P” variants, the new SL3-P lacks the brand’s iconic and recognizable red dot badge on the front but makes up for it with a larger 44-megapixel sensor than last year’s 24-megapixel SL3-S. That’s still less resolution than the 60-megapixel SL3, but Leica’s new camera matches the original’s 8K video capabilities while introducing a new hybrid autofocus system that…

Backsliding on climate action would drive the Labour party into political obscurity, Zack Polanski has warned, as trade union leaders said more drilling in the North Sea would not help UK workers.The Green party leader, speaking to the Guardian as searing heat swept the country for the second time this year, urged Andy Burnham – widely expected to be the UK’s next prime minister – to be bold on climate justice. He said any move to water down the party’s commitments would have dire consequences at the ballot box.“Half measures or backsliding on climate action would be a moral and…