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Saudi Arabia has said that a drone launched by the Houthi rebel group towards Mecca was intercepted on Tuesday, although the Houthis denied targeting Mecca. The country said the drone was intercepted and destroyed, preventing an escalation that could threaten the holy city. The Saudi-led coalition spokesperson, Turki al-Maliki, said the Royal Saudi Air Defence Forces successfully intercepted the drone before it entered restricted airspace. The Saudi-led coalition is a multinational military alliance formed in 2015 and led by Saudi Arabia to fight the Houthi movement in Yemen. Al Jazeera reports that Saudi Arabia issued a security alert on Tuesday…

Ben SolakSep 15, 2026, 06:30 AM ETCloseBen Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network.Multiple AuthorsWho’s ready to put their thinking caps on? Big-time offensive scoring was the story in Week 1 of the NFL season, but Week 2 is now right around the corner. What will it bring?Every Tuesday of the NFL season, I’ll turn the page from last week to this week with seven things I think. These aren’t full-scale predictions — those come later in the week. They aren’t concrete…

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Curtis is returning to the sitcom game, this time through audio. The Vicar of Dibley, Blackadder and Mr Bean writer-director is making Greatest Living Writer for BBC Radio 4 starring Bill Nighy, Nicola Walker, Nick Mohammed, Jim Broadbent, Meera Syal and Traitors star Madelyn Smedley. It is Curtis’ first sitcom in nearly 20 years and his first for audio. Launching on Boxing Day on Radio 4 and as a BBC Sounds box-set two weeks prior, the series centers on John Westlake (Nighy), a literary titan whose towering genius has earned him global reverence, lifelong indulgence, and absolutely no…

A year ago I got an email from Barclaycard stating that my “application was successful” for a credit card. I had made no such application. I immediately reported this to Barclaycard. More emails arrived and I made repeated phone calls to customer service.I was assured it was a simple typo rather than fraud, and that my email address would be removed. However, I’m now receiving notifications that the latest account payment is overdue.The customer who holds this account has the same name as me but with a slightly different spelling.Can you convince Barclaycard to delete my email address and give…

Key eventsMayors and other local leaders could be given powers to oversee water firmsMayors and other local politicians could be given powers to oversee water companies under plans being considered by the UK government to bring utilities under greater public control, Lauren Almeida reports.The plans were first revealed in a Telegraph splash by Tony Diver. He says they will be part of the 10-year plan being announced by Andy Burnham later this year.Telegraph splash Photograph: TelegraphSharePiddington, small Oxfordshire village, votes for independence in symbolic referendum in protest over migrant campAn Oxfordshire village which could house more than 1,000 asylum seekers…

Howard Webb says the referees’ body is disappointed with the decision to allow Haaland’s goal against Manchester United.Published On 16 Sep 202616 Sep 2026Pro Ref chief Howard Webb said “tunnel vision” led video assistant referee (VAR) officials to wrongly award Erling Haaland’s goal in Sunday’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford.Haaland’s second-half strike was initially ruled out for offside before being allowed to stand following a VAR review that concluded the Manchester City forward was onside.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPro Ref, the body responsible for refereeing in English professional football, later acknowledged the goal should not have been…

The Federal Government has raised approximately ₦728.9 billion through the Series 2 bond issuance under its ₦4 trillion Power Sector Multi-Instrument Issuance Programme, as part of efforts to resolve longstanding financial obligations in Nigeria’s electricity market. The latest issuance brings the total amount raised under the programme to more than ₦1.1 trillion, according to government officials who spoke at the signing ceremony at Transcorp in Abuja on Monday. The Series 2 transaction comprises ₦402 billion in cash bonds raised from the capital market and ₦326.979 billion in non-cash bonds allotted to participating electricity generation companies (GenCos). Speaking at the ceremony,…

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has described it. It’s just hardware and software, he says, built by humans. That means, in his view, it can be controlled by humans and existing laws. “Safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one,” he said. “We’re developing software after all. We’re developing computing systems after all. It’s a complicated computing system, but it’s ultimately a computing…

Prosecutors have requested a 45-year jail sentence for Thaci and three wartime commanders accused of war crimes.Published On 16 Sep 202616 Sep 2026The Kosovo war crimes tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its verdicts in the case of former President Hashim Thaci and several wartime commanders accused of murder and torture during the self-declared republic’s break from Serbia.Thaci, 58, is facing several counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and persecution, along with three former commanders from the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a separatist militia that fought Serbian troops.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of…

Tension has risen in parts of Kaduna State following reported clashes between supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC). The incidents reportedly involved the destruction of vehicles, party offices, campaign banners and other campaign materials. ADC supporters attacked at Dakande Manasseh Istifanus, the ADC candidate for Kaduna State House of Assembly in Zangon Kataf Constituency, said his party’s supporters were attacked at Dakande Toll Gate. In a statement issued in Kaduna on Tuesday, Mr Istifanus said the supporters had gathered peacefully to welcome the party’s governorship candidate, Isa Ashiru, following his return…