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Tyrese Haliburton is having a productive and loving summer.Editor’s PicksOn Tuesday, the Indiana Pacers guard’s now-wife Jade Jones announced on Instagram that the couple is officially married. The two got married at an Indianapolis courthouse with family and friends as their witnesses.”It’s (courthouse) official,” Jones captioned the post. For the courthouse ceremony, Haliburton went with an all-black outfit complete with a pair of black Puma suede classic shoes, while Jones opted for a white dress, white heels and a bouquet of white flowers.Their courthouse marriage comes just a few days short of the anniversary of their engagement on July 28…

The body of a teenage girl found in the trunk of US singer D4vd’s car had been decomposed to the point it was “unrecognizable,” a police detective testified in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday. The 21-year-old D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, faces several charges including murder in the horrifying death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her body was discovered in Burke’s Tesla last September within days of what would have been her 15th birthday. Los Angeles Police Detective Joshua Byers testified during the preliminary hearing’s first day, saying that when law enforcement opened the trunk of Burke’s…

The atmosphere inside the international arrivals terminal at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina was one of celebration. Families stood behind security barriers waiting to embrace relatives returning from Saudi Arabia after completing the 2026 Hajj pilgrimage. Airport officials moved methodically through familiar administrative routines, and returning pilgrims wheeled their luggage toward the main arrival hall after presenting their travel documents for standard border clearance. Then, without warning to the waiting crowd, the routine changed. As passengers stepped forward one after another for immigration clearance, border control officers quietly isolated seven men from the rest of the arriving…

By Nkiruka Nnorom LAGOS—Vice President Kashim Shettima has said Nigeria cannot achieve its $1 trillion economy target on the shaky terrain of weak compliance, regulatory laxity and ethical ambivalence, declaring that only a bedrock of flawless corporate governance could sustain the nation’s economic ambition. Speaking at the 3rd National Corporate Governance Summit organised by the Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance, IODCCG, in Lagos yesterday, Shettima said the theme, “Implementing Good Governance for Economic Acceleration, Consolidating Public-Private Partnership,” aligned directly with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. The summit was organised in collaboration with the Financial Reporting Council, FRC;…

After a blistering dispute that spanned continents and years, Hollywood A-lister Rebel Wilson has been found not to have defamed her co-star in a series of social media posts.The Pitch Perfect star was sued by Australian actor Charlotte MacInnes, who played the lead role in Wilson’s directorial debut film The Deb.MacInnes claimed Wilson defamed her in a series of social media posts that implied she was a liar and a sellout who walked back a sexual harassment complaint to further her career.The posts alleged the young actor confided in Wilson – and later recanted – that she felt uncomfortable when…

Charles Leclerc of Ferrari leads at the start of the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit in Mogyorod near Budapest on August 3rd, 2025. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesFormula 1 heads to Hungary this weekend for the last race on the calendar before the annual three-week summer break.After three races without tasting victory, Andrea Kimi Antonelli returned to the top step of the podium last time out at Spa-Francorchamps, having beaten Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen to the checkered flag for a sixth win of the season.The Mercedes youngster now holds a…

AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study suggests, often recommending the wrong party, not mentioning the right one, or listing parties not even running.“The results raise serious concerns about the reliability of general-purpose AI systems in electoral contexts,” the study, published by the civil liberties group Liberties and based on research during this year’s Hungarian parliamentary elections, concluded.“They misclassified profiles, omitted relevant parties and included parties not running in the election,” said the report, shared with the Guardian. Outcomes were also highly volatile, with “materially different” answers given to…

Members of the public are asked if they think they should have being given a vote before Andy Burnham was appointed the new UK prime minister.

A single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms, may produce physical changes in the brain that remain detectable for as long as a month, according to researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London. The study, published in Nature Communications, involved healthy adults who had never previously used a psychedelic. Although none of the participants had a diagnosed mental health condition, the findings may offer clues about why psilocybin has shown therapeutic potential for depression, anxiety, and addiction. Researchers focused on temporary increases in brain “entropy,” a term describing the variety and unpredictability of neural activity.…

Morgan Rogers has joined Chelsea from Aston Villa for a fee of £117m, signing a seven-year deal to become the Blues’ record signing.A deal was agreed on Saturday for the 23-year-old to move to Stamford Bridge as the club stole in ahead of Arsenal, who had been in talks to sign the England international and had appeared to be favourites to secure his signature.It is understood that the chance to work with the new Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso was a key factor in persuading Rogers, who has just returned from helping England to a third-place finish at the World Cup,…