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Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez have revealed details of their intimate wedding, choosing to celebrate their marriage at home in Portugal with only their children in attendance. The football superstar and Rodriguez tied the knot on Tuesday, August 11, marking 10 years since they first met at a Gucci store in Madrid. Rather than holding a lavish ceremony, the couple opted for a private celebration at their home in Cascais, Portugal, with their five children as the only guests. Speaking in an interview with Vogue published on Sunday, Rodriguez revealed that her childhood dream of a grand wedding had changed…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 1 premiere of “Lanterns,” now streaming on HBO Max. What kind of superhero show has the guts to kill off its lead character in the first episode? Of course, just because Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) is found dead in the bleachers by John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and town sheriff Kerry (Kelly MacDonald) in the middle of a brutal 2026 winter doesn’t mean audiences won’t get to see Green Lantern in action in future episodes — the show sets up a non-linear structure that jumps among different storylines from the very opening scene,…

President Bola Tinubu’s administration has signed 26,272 Certificates of Occupancy (C-of-O) in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, since assuming power three years ago. The figure is 17,575 more than the number of signatures collected in 13 years in the federal capital. Lere Olayinka, media aide to the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said Mr Wike signed the certificates to ease doing business in the territory, in line with President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. “To aid the ease of doing business in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and in line with…

The controversy over the concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, KCOBA, by the Federal Government may be far from over, as parents and other stakeholders are mobilising for a mass protest against the move. Speaking with Vanguard’s correspondent, the Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association, PTA, Mr Peter Oluwaseye, said the protest had become necessary because of the opposition to the concession by virtually all stakeholders. “Parents are not in support of the move. Senior civil servants are also saying no to it. The community is also not in support. Old boys should not see…

Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics from the Ukraine war.The drills under Ulchi Freedom Shield, one of two major annual exercises held by South Korea and the US, start on Monday and run until 27 August.They were expected to involve about 18,000 South Korean troops, alongside US forces and personnel from 11 of the 18 member states of the United Nations Command (UNC), the multinational body that oversees the 1953…

So many things have never happened before. That’s what’s so amazing about this market. Everywhere we turn, we see changes made that aren’t believed and yet are totally true. Take, for example, the following unbelievable year-to-date performances: SanDisk up 496%, Seagate up 238%, Club name Micron up 208%, and Western Digital up 171%. All four of these storage and memory companies have been, for whole chunks of time, terrible and dangerous investments. There would be periods of spectacular growth followed by horrendous swoons that would wipe out all of the gains. The swoons were often brought on by their own…

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there’s a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as text or image, and then whoever is roleplaying as the AI gets 150 seconds to respond.Just like a real LLM, Your AI Slop Bores Me works on a sort of token system. Requests cost credits, and to earn credits you have to jump onto the…

A delegation from the African Union (AU) began a two-day field visit to Sudan on Sunday, seeking to push efforts towards a ceasefire, improve humanitarian access and revive a political process to end the war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions in the past three years.The AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) is engaging with Sudanese authorities and other parties in the conflict, addressing humanitarian aid access and prospects for a political settlement. The PSC decided earlier this year to undertake the mission to contribute to efforts towards lasting peace and stability.The delegation arrives at a difficult…

New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture of what gives protons one of their defining quantum properties. The results suggest that gluons, the particles that act as the glue holding quarks together, may play a key role in carrying and conserving baryon number. The evidence comes from high-energy particle collisions at RHIC, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research that operated at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2000 to early 2026. According to the new study, published in Science, baryon number…

Governor Ademola Adeleke has secured a second term as governor of Osun State after defeating the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, in the August 15, 2026 governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Adeleke, the candidate of the Accord Party, winner after the final collation of results from the state’s 30 local government areas. Adeleke polled 511,067 votes, while Oyebamiji secured 444,815 votes, giving the incumbent governor a winning margin of 66,252 votes. The result represents a major political victory for Adeleke, who will now continue in office for another four years. Adeleke Wins 19 LGAs…