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The police in Abia State have arrested a 35-year-old woman, Nwoko Gift, after a disturbing video circulated on Facebook allegedly showed her assaulting her 12-year-old niece with a kitchen knife in Umuahia. The police said the suspect would be charged with attempted murder after investigations are concluded. Maureen Chinaka, the police spokeswoman, disclosed this in a statement posted on her Facebook page on Monday Police account According to the police, preliminary investigations revealed that Ms Gift, who hails from Ehimembano in Imo State but resides at IBB Housing Estate in Umuahia, allegedly attacked her niece, Ebo Chimamanda, on 5 July after the girl reportedly…

NASDAQ-listed IT services company Cognizant has secured another legal victory in its trademark dispute with Bengaluru-based Atyati Technologies after the Bombay High Court dismissed Atyati’s interim injunction application.The order marks the latest development in the long-running dispute over Cognizant’s use of a logo challenged by Atyati and comes months after the Supreme Court of India restored an earlier Bombay High Court order that had refused to continue an interim injunction against the IT services company.”We welcome the Honourable Bombay High Court’s favourable order, which reaffirms our position that our actions were lawful, appropriate, and in full compliance with applicable legal…

The Niger State government has imposed a curfew on some communities in Rafi Local Government Area following renewed communal clashes that claimed lives and property. Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger said this during a visit to the communities affected by the clash between the Kamuku and Fulani in Tashar Bako. He directed security agencies to deploy all available security assets to the communities as part of efforts to restore peace and prevent further breakdown of law and order. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the communal violence stemmed from a farming dispute and had claimed about 80 lives…

At least 11 people have died after severe thunderstorms swept cities in central China’s Hubei province, state media reported.Tornado videos have been circulating online, taken from the neighbouring cities of Ezhou and Huanggang.A student in Huanggang city told the BBC that he had thought it was “just an ordinary thunderstorm”, until he saw “things started flying through the air outside” the dormitory window.”A lot of students were cut by flying glass,” he said. “It wasn’t until everything had finally stopped that I realized I had just lived through a disaster.”This is a rare occurrence for the region, which last recorded…

Google released a newly proposed “AI Governance In America” framework that is worth digging into.gettyIn today’s column, I examine a newly released AI governance framework that is being floated by Google as a means of providing national guidance and oversight of frontier AI. Frontier AI is the type of AI that is customarily considered leading-edge, large-scale in size and scope, and is exemplified by the latest generative AI and large language models (LLMs) of the major AI makers such as OpenAI ChatGPT and GPT-5, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and others.Currently, there isn’t any overarching AI governance…

Bullshit is cheap but truth is expensive. Anyone with half a brain cell can post wild misinformation that goes mega viral, which wastes the time and expertise of highly trained people who feel an obligation to inform others of the truth. Today I want you to meet one of those highly-trained people, Dr. Zachary Rubin, who works on the front lines against scientific and medical misinformation.Rubin is a pediatric allergist and immunologist and author of the book All About Allergies. He likely came across my TikTok feed because I crave anti-misinformation content; one of my other favorite people doing this…

Consultant doctors in England have voted for strikes over the next 12 months in pursuit of higher pay and a shorter working week, prompting fears of renewed disruption in the NHS.Consultants, who earn an average of £152,000, want ministers to agree a multi-year pay deal to address what they say is the 25% fall in the value of their salaries since 2008-09.The decision comes a week after resident – formerly junior – doctors in England called off their long-running pay and jobs dispute after accepting the government’s most recent offer.However, consultants held off announcing dates for stoppages. That may offer…

Machine learning is giving scientists a powerful new way to search for superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance. An international team has demonstrated that AI can rapidly narrow an almost limitless number of possible material combinations to identify the most promising candidates. According to Aalto University Professor Päivi Törmä, who leads the SuperC consortium, the approach could dramatically speed the discovery of new superconductors. Superconductors allow electric current to flow without losing energy, but only when cooled to extremely low temperatures where quantum effects emerge. These remarkable materials are already used in technologies ranging from quantum computers and…

Roberto Martínez has confirmed his departure as Portugal head coach following the Seleção’s heartbreaking 1-0 defeat to Spain in the Round of 16 of the FIFA World Cup, insisting the tournament should not be viewed as a failure despite the early exit. Portugal’s World Cup journey came to an agonising end at AT&T Stadium in Dallas after substitute Mikel Merino struck a dramatic 91st-minute winner to send Spain into the quarter-finals in what also proved to be Cristiano Ronaldo’s final appearance at football’s biggest tournament. Martínez, who took charge of Portugal in 2023 after leaving Belgium, was already due to…

EXCLUSIVE: Jilly Cooper (Rivals) short story A Pressing Engagement is being adapted by Audible with a voice cast featuring Rhea Norwood (Heartstopper), Corey Mylchreest (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd), Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane) and Bessie Carter (Bridgerton). Set in London in 1978, the show “will chart the story of Hester – a secretary stuck in the monotony of administrative work, whilst her older boyfriend, Julian, refuses to commit. When Hester is offered a role assisting with an exciting film producer, she sees a chance for everything to change. But leaving means breaking her boss’s heart – until she hatches a plan: fake an engagement. The…