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Britain’s Arthur Fery says he will use the crowd to “my advantage” against Germany’s Alexander Zverev in their Wimbledon semi-final on Friday.Wild card Fery is on a remarkable run after winning back-to-back five-set matches to reach the quarter-finals then beating French Open runner-up Flavio Cobolli in the last eight in straight sets on Wednesday. But French Open champion Zverev will be another step up in quality as Fery looks to become just the second Briton after Andy Murray to reach the men’s singles Wimbledon final in tennis’ Open era, which began in 1968. “I have the crowd behind me here,…

‘Do you mind if I’m smoking while we’re talking?” enquires Andreas Angelidakis as we both recline on a bean bag in the form of a fallen classical column. “Do you mind if it’s narcotics? If it’s cannabis?” He extracts an elegantly constructed spliff wrapped in pink cigarette paper from his black Nike windcheater and lights it up. “It’s my medicine for anxiety,” he says, before reconsidering. “No, I’m just addicted.”The artist likes to see the world in a slightly altered state – which you can tell as soon as you set foot in the Escape Room, the name of his…

Uche Akporota The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ETGSL Education, Dr. Wisdom John Okoye, has spent his career working at the intersection of higher education, government and international diplomacy. Increasingly, that work is taking him and the institutions he partners with beyond the traditional boundaries of student recruitment, into lecture theatres, research centres and university boardrooms where governments, academics and industry leaders are forging partnerships capable of shaping economies and influencing public policy. That vision was on full display earlier this month at the University of Northampton’s Centre for the Advancement of Racial Equality (CARE) Race Action Summer Conference…

‘Secondary issue’ affecting Telstra triple zero calls following outageJosh TaylorLate last night, Telstra confirmed a secondary issue flowing on from yesterday’s widespread national mobile outage. They say the new issue is “impacting some calls including Triple Zero”.Telstra said when some customers were calling triple zero, they would receive an error message and the phone will try to connect to an alternative network.The company said customers should wait for the phone to connect to another network, or use a different phone to make the call.We’re working urgently to resolve this issue.The company made over 300 welfare checks to people who attempted…

Haroon JanjuaSahar, a 34-year-old teacher in Tehran who uses only one name to protect her identity, said the latest attacks have left families worried about new strikes on the residential areas. “Every night we remain alert, in fear, and charge our phones, keep our packed bags near the doors, and sleep lightly because we do not know when we will have to rush and leave the house,” she said. “People here are tired and fed up; we want peace, dignity, and a normal life, not another unending war decided over our heads.”Meena, a 29-year-old graphic designer, said the fresh strikes…

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From the comfort of his bed, Jonathan Rinaldi, a political candidate for a city council seat in Queens, New York, tinkered away on his iPhone, prompting an artificial intelligence chatbot to mock up fake news hits and endorsements he had never received.During the campaign last October, Rinaldi shared one of those stories, made to appear real with a CNN logo, on his Facebook and Instagram. It stated that Lynn Schulman, his opponent and an incumbent Democrat, had been “forced to drop out of the race due to a series of critical mistakes”. But Schulman had not quit her campaign, and…

Chuks Okocha in Abuja The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has accused the Bola Tinubu administration of creating a humanitarian crisis, following reports by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) that more than 17 million Nigerians were facing acute hunger across nine conflict-affected northern states. In a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC described the worsening food insecurity as “a government-created humanitarian disaster” caused by insecurity, poor economic policies and what it termed the federal government’s misplaced priorities. According to the opposition party, the WFP findings showed that over 17 million Nigerians were experiencing…

Parts of the south and east officially entered a heatwave on Monday, after three days at or above their threshold temperatures.Heatwave criteria were met more widely on Tuesday as temperatures peaked at 32.4C in both Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, and also in Frittenden, Kent.On Wednesday the top temperature was 33.7C at Heathrow.More locations could reach 34C or 35C in the coming days, with the hot spot likely to be in southern England.Heat will continue to build and extend north and west into Northern Ireland and Scotland until Friday. Here the peak is expected in the high 20s Celsius.As high pressure…

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