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Liverpool club record signing Denise O’Sullivan has left the club only six months after joining.The 32-year-old has signed for New York-based side Gotham FC, who play in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), on an initial one-year loan with an obligation to buy.The Republic of Ireland midfielder joined Liverpool in January for £300,000 and has been a standout performer since her arrival.Her departure is a huge disappointment to the Reds, who are looking to rebuild following a disappointing campaign in 2025-26.”I’m incredibly excited to join Gotham FC and return to the NWSL,” said O’Sullivan.”This club has established itself as one…

The Writers Guild of America has officially entered the ring in the fight to block Paramount Skydance’s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The lawsuit, filed jointly by the WGA East and West in the Northern District of California on Tuesday, seeks to stop the merger on the grounds that it violates federal antitrust law and would cause specific harm to writers. The complaint lays out how the merger would reduce opportunities for writers as well as lead to lower pay and worse working conditions. “With fewer competitors, the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. entity would have both the incentive and…

There are individuals who command attention by the volume of their voices and there are those who earn enduring respect through the strength of their character. Niyi Adenubi belongs unmistakably to the latter. As he marks his 46th birthday on 14th July 2026, the occasion offers more than a celebration of age; it is an opportunity to reflect on a life defined by excellence, integrity, resilience, and purposeful leadership. At 46, experience and vision converge. It is a season where accomplishments become foundations for greater impact, and where legacy begins to take shape. For Niyi Adenubi, this milestone reflects not…

Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St Clair county criminal court, the county prosecutor’s office said.Five people were killed and two more were wounded, primarily on Sunday, in a “targeted mass shooting” in East St Louis, an Illinois city across the Mississippi river from St Louis, police said. Troopers stopped a vehicle and arrested the teens…

The Lagos State Police Command says it has dismantled an alleged criminal syndicate that defrauded vehicle dealers by obtaining vehicles with dud and post-dated cheques before reselling them for personal gain. The operation was carried out by detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti, on the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Tijani Fatai. In a statement shared on Tuesday on X, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Adebisi, stated that the breakthrough followed investigations into three separate cases that uncovered what investigators described as a coordinated criminal network. According to the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.For companies, being acquired is bittersweet. Shareholders get a premium price, but top executives tend to lose their jobs, and there’s a slight whiff of having failed to make it alone. That explains the timeless, face-saving appeal of the so-called merger of equals. The trouble is that such arrangements often feel like a booby prize for investors.Consider the drama unfolding at AkzoNobel. Since the Dutch maker of Dulux paint announced a merger with the US’s Axalta last November, it has received a…

Nigerian Bitcoin researchers Heritage Falodun and others have proposed Tage_Root, a trust-minimized Bitcoin Layer 2 framework aimed at exploring challenges related to Bitcoin bridging and the pricing of Bitcoin-denominated yield. Bitcoin’s base layer was deliberately designed for settlement finality, not programmable finance. Its UTXO model and constrained scripting language make native staking and yield generation architecturally impossible without protocol extensions. Today, most Bitcoin yield products introduce trust assumptions, centralized custodians like wBTC, threshold-signature committees like tBTC, or opaque CeFi lending books. With Tage_Root, Heritage Falodun and Samson Ojo are exploring a different approach: a trust-minimized Layer 2 execution stack where…

Stories by Steve Aya Leading members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) have expressed divergent views over the directives issued by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, concerning the forthcoming NBA national elections, with several senior Lawyers rejecting the intervention, while others defended the Attorney-General’s mediation efforts. Among those who faulted the directives were former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof Chidi Odinkalu; the Eastern Bar Forum (EBF); the Midwest Bar Forum; General Council of the Bar member, Kunle Edun, SAN; and former NBA First Vice-President, John Aikpokpo-Martins. They argued that…

Brighton & Hove Albion‘s summer signing, Zadok Yohanna, has been included in the latest 2026 Golden Boy rankings, securing a place among the top 100 young footballers in the world. The 19-year-old forward completed a high-profile move to the Premier League club this summer, signing a five-year contract that will keep him at the Amex Stadium until June 30, 2031. Yohanna joined the Seagulls following an impressive spell with Swedish Allsvenskan side AIK Stockholm, where he established himself as one of the brightest emerging talents in European football through a series of standout performances. Before sealing his transfer to Brighton,…

Lexi Crosbie was five days old when she went to her first ever banger race. “I grew up around the track,” the 14-year-old says. At nine, her racer dad gave her a chance at the Micro F2s, the junior league, and Crosbie has been racing ever since. “You’re so filled with adrenaline,” she says of the motorsport. “It’s the best feeling ever.”This month, Crosbie went to her local Cornish track, United Downs Raceway (also known as St Day), for a different kind of event. The Kneebone Cadillac, Carl Grose’s raucous play about a banger racer and her family, is set…