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The company’s Chief Executive Andrew Billingsley said finding a way to take blade waste beyond the end of its useful life is an essential part of creating a green, circular economy.”The issue today is, I could say, colossal.”The blades are big – they have been going to landfill and they’ve been disappearing into quarries and so forth.”At present, there’s somewhere in the region of 125,000 tonnes of blades across the world getting disposed of by one means or another, but very rarely is it done in a sustainable way.”The company turns the blades into a long-lasting reusable material that can…

Poland’s Iga Swiatek reacts as shde plays against Philippines’ Alexandra Eala during their women’s singles third round tennis match on the sixth day of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 4, 2026. (Photo by Henry Nicholls / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Reigning champion Iga Swiatek was dumped out of Wimbledon in the third round on Saturday as an inspired Alexandra Eala created more history for the Philippines with a straight-sets victory on Centre Court. Eala edged a dramatic 84-minute first set before powering to a…

Your English teacher and your gym teacher wore Dior: Jonathan Anderson, the Northern Irish creative director of Dior, has been revealed as the designer of haute couture wedding looks for Taylor Swift and her new husband, Travis Kelce.Photographs have not yet been released, with Swift’s team in charge of timing, but a Dior statement confirmed that Swift is the first bride for whom Anderson, who joined Dior last year, has created an haute couture gown.A French fashion house was a surprise choice at the most all-American of weddings on Friday. The union of America’s pop sweetheart and her NFL superstar…

I attended Government Secondary School, Fadan Kaje (GSSFK) from 1975 to 1978. Formerly owned by Catholic missionaries, and called St. Joseph, the school had Reverend Father John Haverty as the Principal. Catholic priests largely managed the school. One of our Nigerian teachers was the current Emir of Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, Alhaji (Dr) Zubair Jibril Maigwari II. Another was an NYSC teacher, late Dr Sule Bello, who we nicknamed “Weazacap” – from “With the cap.” But no teacher so influenced me in GSSFK like a British teacher, whom we fondly called “Titomthy.” In Form Two, he passionately read to us…

Tens of thousands of people marched through central London for the annual LGBT+ Pride parade.Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, joined the crowd as they proceeded through the capital on Saturday afternoon.The event’s organisers said that more than 35,000 marchers from about 600 groups made their way from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall via Piccadilly, many carrying rainbow flags.The activist Julian Hows, 70, who was at the front of the parade, told journalists: “Pride is important because it needs to have an underlying level of protest, and you can see the freedoms that we have can so easily be taken…

A leading vendor of the US delicacy that is the pickle has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington DC after North Carolina’s booth displayed a video containing a Confederate flag.The Mt Olive Pickle Company, which is located in eastern North Carolina and bills itself as the “#1 bestselling brand of pickles, peppers and relishes in the US”, told local news station WNCT it had been unaware that an image of the flag would be included in a video as part of the state’s exhibit.“Mt Olive Pickle Company was invited to participate in the North Carolina exhibit for…

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said patriotism should unite rather than divide Americans, arguing that service and sacrifice—not politics—define love of country and remain essential to fulfilling the nation’s founding promise. While speaking with Bloomberg This Weekend hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini Moore also urged leaders to focus on delivering tangible results on affordability, education and economic opportunity, saying voters are looking for action over ideology. (Source: Bloomberg)

China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports.  Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The company has reportedly been working to close loopholes that allow Chinese users to access Claude. According to a recent Reddit post, some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar said in a post on X that this was “an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account…

NewsFeedGerman police scuffled with protesters as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) held its national convention in Erfurt. The event drew added controversy by coinciding with the 100th anniversary of a Nazi Party meeting nearby, a link the AfD rejects.Published On 4 Jul 20264 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Modern weight loss medications have transformed obesity treatment, helping many people lose significant amounts of weight. But these drugs often come with an important drawback: They can also reduce muscle mass. Now, researchers have uncovered a biological mechanism that may one day help address that challenge while also boosting the body’s ability to burn fat. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a protein called MTCH2, nicknamed “Mitch,” that appears to play a major role in how cells manage energy and store fat. In a recent study published in the EMBO Journal, the team found that disabling this…