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Inquiry finds parents were kept in the dark as hospital hid Lucy Letby suspicions during secret reviews.Published On 15 Sep 202615 Sep 2026A statutory public inquiry has blamed an English hospital for a “complete failure at all levels” to protect newborns, after former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies under its care.The Countess of Chester Hospital could have prevented the deaths of several infants, as well as the attempted murders of six others, between June 2015 and June 2016, Lady Justice Kathryn Thirlwall said on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Errors were made by…

The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) has honoured former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede, describing his decade-long leadership of the examination body as an example of integrity and accountable public service. The society hosted a civic reception for Mr Oloyede on Tuesday under the theme, “The Oloyede Blueprint: Integrity, Innovation, and Accountability in Public Service.” The event brought together students, friends, associates and well-wishers of the professor emeritus, who praised his contributions to JAMB and the wider Nigerian public service. The guests said Mr Oloyede’s tenure at JAMB helped strengthen transparency, accountability and…

If you use MonieWorld to send money from the UK to Nigeria, you’ll need another option soon. Moniepoint announced in August that it was winding down MonieWorld, roughly 16 months after launching the remittance service. The company said it wanted to redirect resources from the UK operation towards its core African businesses. That does not necessarily mean there was no demand for the product. Moniepoint said monthly transaction volume among MonieWorld’s UK diaspora users had grown by 70%, although it did not disclose the starting point, customer numbers, revenue or profitability. So there is not enough public information to say…

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year.  Inequalities are still common, the climate is worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But running beneath all of it is a digital current that touches everything: Wars are fought on digital fronts as well as physical ones, governments are weaponizing citizens’ own data against them, botnets are quietly undermining democratic institutions, nation-state hackers are targeting civilian infrastructure from power…

China’s diplomatic calendar this year reflects its growing international weight. A succession of prominent leaders has travelled to Beijing, including those from the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, South Korea, Pakistan and Jordan.The recent visit by Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani to China, as well as visits by high-level officials from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia earlier this year, confirm Beijing’s expanding role in the Gulf.The region, which has traditionally aligned with the US, is seeing growing competition between the two powers. But this rivalry does not mean that…

When Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted beneath the South Pacific in January 2022, the explosion ranked among the most powerful volcanic events of the modern era. But researchers have now uncovered an unexpected consequence of that eruption: the enormous volcanic cloud appears to have helped destroy some of the methane pollution produced by the volcano itself. The finding could have implications far beyond a single eruption. Scientists are increasingly interested in ways to reduce methane in the atmosphere because the gas is a major contributor to global warming and disappears much faster than carbon dioxide. Understanding how nature can accelerate that…

A healthy list of NFL teams disappointed in the first week of the 2026 season. The New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers lost to backup quarterbacks, the Denver Broncos couldn’t make a tackle, and the Tennessee Titans couldn’t do anything right. Then, there are the Cleveland Browns.The Browns fell to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Todd Monken’s coaching debut, 34-10, and the game went the way many thought it would, with Cleveland a two-score underdog. The defense struggled to contain Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who completed 18 of 23 passes for 245 yards and four touchdowns, while Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson threw…

Ian Schrager has spent nearly half a century inventing places people remember more vividly than the things they did inside them. With his late partner Steve Rubell, the Brooklyn-bred impresario compressed a cultural epoch into Studio 54’s 33-month original run — and then, improbably, did it again in a second industry. Morgans, which he opened in 1984 in New York, is generally credited with inventing the boutique hotel; the Royalton, the Paramount, the Delano and the Mondrian followed, and with them the ideas every design-conscious hotel on earth now takes for granted: the lobby as a social ecosystem rather than…

The threat of catastrophic danger as artificial intelligence develops at high speed has sparked a global debate on how it should be regulated. AFP spoke to people in different countries about their fears and hopes for the AI future, as leading US labs call for a coordinated slowdown of their cutting-edge work on the technology. – Italy: ‘Privately, it scares me’ – Beside ancient buildings in central Rome, 43-year-old architect Frida Awrohum said she tries to use AI tools in her professional life because they offer fresh ideas. “But privately it still scares me,” she confided, adding she prioritises the…

Police in Malawi are investigating the kidnapping of a British national who was abducted in the southern African nation’s main city, Blantyre.Nusrat Osman, 47, was seized at around 12:30 local time on Friday by four men who had been travelling in a grey Nissan Dualis, according to a police statement.The authorities have offered a reward of more than $17,000 (£12,600) for “credible information” that could lead to the rescue of the mother of two young children and the prosecution of the perpetrators.Osman was reported to have been working for a local auditing firm.A Malawi news outlet reported that Osman’s husband…