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The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $6m today. Last year, Donald Trump made at least $2.2bn; his single year of income is on the order of 200 to 300 times larger than the bribe that defined “presidential corruption” in the American imagination for a century.It’s taken for granted that Trump flogs items like Bibles and gold sneakers as a way to wring more money from his loyal base. But of…

Andy Burnham will promise a new path for Britain in a speech as he becomes the new Labour leader on Friday.The Makerfield MP will be confirmed in the role at a special party conference in central London, ahead of taking over from Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister on Monday.In his speech, Burnham will say that when he is in Downing Street, the government will be “unashamedly Labour in our priorities” and have the “courage to fix the big things that politics has neglected”.Burnham cemented his status as the sole leadership candidate after being backed by 379 Labour MPs and…

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The top stories and transfer rumours from Friday’s newspapers…ENGLANDThomas Tuchel was unhappy with what he saw from Kobbie Mainoo in training in the build-up to the Ghana group game. The Manchester United midfielder was set to feature amid Declan Rice’s fitness concerns. – Daily Mail Argentina were stunned by England’s response to taking the lead in their World Cup semi-final and were shocked by the defensive nature of Thomas Tuchel’s substitutions. – Independent Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports’ Rob Dorsett explains why Thomas Tuchel has defended his tactics, blaming England’s ‘DNA’ for the…

The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded.The government should also commit to a National Reading Guarantee that would ensure all children have regular opportunities to enjoy reading, the committee argues.The Reading for Pleasure inquiry was launched last November in response to a sharp decline in the number of children reading for pleasure.National Literary Trust CEO Jonathan Douglas told the committee that this year’s National Year of Reading should be “turned into a decade of reading to sustain the foundations that are being laid”,…

NewsFeedIranian social media accounts, and local sources allege that US strikes caused casualties and hit civilian infrastructure including an airport and a key bridge. The US says it is conducting strikes for the sixth day in a row to ‘further degrade Iranian military capabilities’.Published On 17 Jul 202617 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Recently, the Ecobank Pan African Centre in Lagos hosted Inside Africa Fashion 54 (IAF 54), a landmark exhibition bringing the fashion stories, textiles, and craftsmanship of all 54 African countries into one physical space. Founded by cultural archivist Tejumola Maurice-Diya of The Fashioned Museum, IAF 54 is the result of nearly two years of documenting Africa’s fashion heritage country by country. Her goal: preserve these stories from an African perspective before someone else tries to claim them. In this interview with MARY NNAH, Maurice-Diya shares discoveries from the field, like learning that Aso Oke began as a wound dressing material and later evolved into ceremonial cloth. She talks about why young Africans…

CANADA – 2025/08/07: In this photo illustration, the SoftBank Group (Soft Bank) logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAsian tech stocks tumbled on Friday as a fresh rout in U.S. semiconductor shares spread across Asia, underscoring growing worries about AI spending.Shares of SoftBank dropped 9.2%, while chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron lost 9% and Advantest slid 9.4%, tracking steep overnight losses on Wall Street. Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia plunged over 14% after a federal jury in Texas on Thursday ordered the firm to pay…

Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, is launching a paid service to give Wall Street firms high-speed access to its most influential posts.Launching on 1 August, instant updates will be delivered from key accounts, it said. US President Donald Trump currently has the most followers on the platform.The company behind the app hopes it will create a steady new source of money for the firm which is currently loss-making.It is likely to be aimed at financial traders who want to see market-moving news fast. Trump’s social media posts often cause sudden swings in global markets, especially when…

Ahmed had dual British-Pakistani citizenship before being stripped of his UK passport following his 2012 conviction for multiple counts of rape and sexual offences against girls.He was one of nine men from Rochdale and Oldham found guilty of exploiting girls as young as 13 at two takeaway restaurants.Andrabi said Ahmed’s “heinous crimes demand serious introspection rather than the quest to search for extraneous causes”.He said: “The matter in question is entirely an internal matter of the United Kingdom.”The individual concerned is a British national who spent his entire adult life in the UK and was duly convicted by a British…