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Jay Leno, the legendary comedy writer, standup comedian and late night TV host, will be honored at the upcoming Burbank International Film Festival with BIFF’s Vanguard Award, the fest’s organizers announced on Monday. The celebration will take place during the fest’s awards gala at the Marriott Burbank on Saturday, Aug. 8. It will kick off with the mayor of the city of Burbank, Tamala Takahashi, issuing a special proclamation recognizing Leno’s impact on the city — which is home to NBC Studios, where Leno recorded The Tonight Show for over 20 years, and to Leno’s beloved car garage — and declaring…

Kayode Akinyemi It was yet another auspicious moment of performance-driven reward for exceptional partners by Nigeria’s foremost indigenous telecommunications company, Globacom Nigeria Limited, when it recently rolled out the red carpet for its outstanding and top performing business partners in Lagos. The occasion was the 2026 half year “Glo Partners’ Reward Gala’, one of the many appreciation and recognition avenues of Globacom to honour distinguished and outstanding trade partners who break the performance glass ceiling. The soiree, by organization, composition, programme, entertainment, and edibles, were of the gold standard that Globacom is known for. Glo’s Reward philosophy is anchored on…

By Chioma Obinna Family, friends and well-wishers have appealed to Nigerians for financial support to enable Mr Bobby Dennar undergo an urgent kidney transplant after he was diagnosed with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Dennar, who has been battling Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) since January 2025, is currently dependent on dialysis twice weekly to stay alive as his condition continues to deteriorate. Narrating his ordeal, he said medical specialists have advised that an urgent kidney transplant remains his best chance of survival and recovery. The family said the cost of the transplant, post-operative care and other associated medical expenses is estimated…

Tuesday is a big day in Washington DC, even by White House standards. Long-time Republican Senator Lindsay Graham’s funeral is bringing the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to town. They will separately meet with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss two different wars: the war in Ukraine and the war in Iran.The BBC’s North America editor Sarah Smith previews the visit and explains the late senator’s remarkable influence on the two conflicts.

Soji Maurice-Diya, chief executive officer of Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd. (ntel) Nigerian telecom operator ntel is positioning itself for a new round of investment after years of restructuring, as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) begins the search for strategic investors following what it describes as a successful recovery of value from the company. The move signals more than a possible change in ownership. It reflects a broader shift in Nigeria’s telecommunications industry, where operators are increasingly transforming themselves into digital infrastructure companies as demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data centres, fibre connectivity and enterprise technology accelerates across…

It starts on 4chan, in a May 2019 thread entitled “unsettling images”. The first post was a photo showing an empty room with the now iconic yellow wallpaper, no natural lighting and a kind of inexplicable jutting half-wall. Shortly afterwards, another user (there are no usernames on 4chan, just identifying numbers) responded with 78 words of text that would essentially lay out the blueprint for a future $262m A24 movie sensation.“If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms,” the post begins. For the uninitiated, “noclip” refers to a…

Nyazura, Zimbabwe – Bright fluorescent lights reflect off polished floors as Anymore Kadzunge returns for a routine check-up at a telehealth centre that helped diagnose the illness she had struggled with for months.The 38-year-old farmer sits quietly as a nurse wraps a blood pressure cuff around her arm. Moments later, the machine beeps with the reading.Only months earlier, Kadzunge had been struggling to work her fields or prepare meals for her family. She had spent three months experiencing chest pains and dizziness before walking 14km (8.7 miles) from her village of Chimbondi after a friend told her about the facility.A…

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First Test, Tarouba (day three of five)West Indies 311 (Hope 92; Ali 4-50) & 126-7 (Chanderpaul 35, Abbas 3-14)Pakistan 282 (Masood 109; Greaves 5-27)West Indies lead by 155 runsScorecardWest Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves took five wickets without conceding a run in an incredible spell of bowling on day three of the first Test against Pakistan.Greaves, who is playing in his 17th Test, claimed his maiden Test five-wicket haul to help dismiss Pakistan for 282 in response to West Indies’ first-innings total of 311.The 32-year-old Barbadian’s spell – five consecutive wicket maidens – was all the more remarkable given he had…

Fashion business owner Jasmine, 27, said she had been attracted to 21-year-old Kavan’s “aura” when speaking to Maya during the final.Viewers were surprised early in the series when Kavan, who was sent in as a bombshell, was revealed to be the brother of day-one contestant Aidan Murphy.Fans said it was reminiscent of popular Prime Video show The Summer I Turned Pretty, which focuses on a love triangle involving two siblings.During the final, Kavan said he “couldn’t be luckier” to have been in the villa with his brother and to have met Jasmine. Simba, who turned 25 in the villa, told…