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Dolly Parton may be known for her glamorous wigs and full face of make-up, but Alex Jones says, before she becomes Dolly on stage, she is “still absolutely striking”. The TV presenter first met the American country singer, who is said to be “tickled pink” about her Welsh roots, in a dressing room before an interview at the start of her long stint as The One Show host. “In front of me she transformed into Dolly and I thought how special that we all know her as this vivacious, very made-up beautiful woman,” she recalled in a chat about her…

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Dr. Adefunke Soyibo, Founder and CEO of HNK Interiors and HNK Designs Centre, recently commissioned the new HNK Interiors Manufactory and unveiled the HNK Design Centre in Lekki, Lagos.  The event was flagged off by Senior Pastor of Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, who cut the tape and prayed for both the space and its founder.  It was more than a launch. It was proof that Nigerian design can build, manufacture, and dream big – all under one roof.  After 19 years in business and five years in manufacturing, HNK is betting big on local production, faster delivery, and furniture Nigerians can actually afford. Writes Mary Nnah The…

Erling Haaland’s name and image turned up on hundreds of cocaine bricks seized by Ecuadorian police near the Colombian border. Officers found 469 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a truck and arrested a Colombian woman.Published On 13 Aug 202613 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

By Kafayat Kokumo Importers using the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports are facing mounting financial losses as difficulties in returning empty containers continue to attract avoidable demurrage and detention charges, the Africa Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics of Nigeria (APFFLON) has said. In a statement made available to Vanguard, APFFLON National President, Otunba Frank Ogunojemite, said many importers were unable to return empty containers within the stipulated period because shipping companies failed to provide adequate receiving facilities, forcing them to incur additional costs. He accused the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) of persistently failing to provide sufficient facilities for…

However, critics argue that at each of these businesses only a tiny proportion of staff are actually using the AI, and that those who do so are only using it to a very limited extent.Prof Yasushi Ogasawara, an expert on Japan’s social system and technology at Meiji University, says there aren’t enough tech-savvy people in the workforce.”Although the Japanese like playing with gadgets such as smartphones, digital literacy is low here,” he says.This is highlighted by one report earlier this year which said Japan faced a shortfall , externalof almost 800,000 IT professionals by 2030.Many companies are also said to…

Nurses are collapsing during shifts amid “inhumane and impossible” conditions caused by extreme heat, their union has warned, as Andy Burnham promised to grapple with “the bigger questions” of climate adaptation.Amid growing pressure from Labour backbenches to fully acknowledge the urgency of adaptation measures as the climate crisis bites, Burnham said he was for now focusing on the immediate crises caused by an ongoing summer of extreme heat.Speaking after a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee, Burnham refused to say if the summer had made the case against renewed drilling in the North Sea, which his government is considering.“It…

A new study led by a Charles Sturt University researcher and international colleagues is challenging a long-accepted idea about how scientists identify ancient disease. Evidence from the skeletal remains of children who lived in prehistoric Vietnam suggests that treponemal diseases could have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago. Congenital transmission has historically been viewed as a strong indicator of venereal syphilis, but the new findings suggest that other forms of treponemal disease may also have spread this way. The international team from Australia and Vietnam was led by Dr. Melandri Vlok (pictured top, at left), Lecturer…

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 18th (NB: this is not necessarily Ben Fisher’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)Last season’s position: 1st (Championship)Prospects“We are back”, as the banners proudly state. It is 25 years since, after relegation was confirmed, Match of the Day cameras lingered on a message held aloft by a Coventry City supporter named John Mullaney. “We’ll be back,” were the words he inked – in sky blue, of course – on a scrap of wallpaper. When Coventry celebrated returning to the top flight and lifted the Championship trophy in front of a capacity crowd, thousands of…

We know that people like to dress up for the theatre, but some of the crowd at Death Note: The Musical take it to a whole other level. Coiffured and corseted, bedecked in gauze or festooned with diamanté, it is a sight to behold, with an appreciable element going for full cosplay. This, for the uninitiated, is because the source material has emerged from the fan-cultivating world of Japanese manga, originating in 2003, and which has (in a characteristic manner) sold millions of copies in comic book and novel form, jumped to an animated TV series and feature film iterations,…