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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Retail investors are jostling for a slice of a leading Chinese humanoid robot company, in a sign of huge enthusiasm for tech stocks on the mainland. The retail segment of Unitree’s initial public offering was more than 5,500 times oversubscribed, according to a stock exchange filing published ahead of a listing in Shanghai this month, even as more shares were made available to smaller investors to meet the demand.In advance of the IPO, Unitree has allotted about 40.4mn shares, or about 10…

HR startup Rippling filed a lawsuit Monday accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents, according to the lawsuit seen by TechCrunch. The filing comes after Runlayer sued the HR startup last month, accusing it of breach of contract and stealing its product ideas. It’s the latest saga between the two companies after Rippling spent nearly a year testing the startup’s MCP product. The two companies never agreed on a price, and the trial never turned into a paid contract. Instead, Rippling built its own MCP server, and will soon offer it as a product that…

Two ministers admitted funding delays and fragmented oversight have weakened school security nationwide, pledging closer coordination as the Senate widens its Safe Schools Initiative probe to five more agencies, demanding accountability for billions in intervention funds. Sunday Aborisade reports. Twelve years after 276 schoolgirls were dragged from their dormitory in Chibok, and barely three weeks after the 39 abducted school children and six teachers in Oyo State have been successfully rescued after spending 56 days in captivity, the Federal Government moved penultimate Friday to answer a question that has trailed the Safe Schools Initiative since its birth: where did the…

Macamo then takes the soil samples back to the laboratory to process them: here, the samples are dried, weighed, burned and weighed again. Burning them releases CO2 from the organic matter, so Macamo can estimate the carbon content by measuring the difference in mass between the dried and the burnt samples. Macamo, who did her master’s degree in aquatic biology and limnology at Eduardo Mondlane University, always wanted to work with marine fauna. In 2008, one of her lecturers offered her a research position at the university and they agreed that her focus could be marine botany. Soon after starting,…

Even at the grand old age of 54, the evergreen Kelly Slater’s mastery of surfing appears to know no bounds. Having been handed a wildcard for the Tahiti Pro, the American delivered yet another masterclass as he tamed Teahupo’o, one of the world’s heaviest waves, to knock out Gabriel Medina with a near-perfect heat score.Slater, who is still regarded as one of the best barrel riders in the world, has won the notoriously treacherous event five times before. And in pumping conditions on Tuesday that produced eight-to-10ft swell, the veteran rolled back the years with an imperious display as two…

Don’t call Albert Serra’s new film, “Seize moments de ma vie” (“Sixteen Moments of My Life”), a concert film. Premiering out of competition at the Locarno Film Festival, the film documents a one-off performance by screen legend Ingrid Caven at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. “I will never shoot a concert unless I’m involved in the music,” Serra told Variety.  The band were Molforts, the Catalan musicians who provide Serra’s soundtracks and Caven has been friends with the Spanish director for over fifteen years. Famed for her performances in the sixties and seventies of many European film…

I booked a car hire at Heathrow through Holiday Autos on a visit to the UK and provided my flight number as requested.My flight was severely delayed, and when I reached the car hire desk, I was told I’d been marked down as a “no-show” and that my car had been rehired.Under duress, I was forced to hire a larger car for twice the price, and was told I would not be refunded the original £185 hire fee.Since then, the car hire company has told me to complain to Holiday Autos, and vice versa.BF, AustraliaThe terms and conditions of your…

Published On 11 Aug 202611 Aug 2026US President Donald Trump said on Monday it would be “a terrible mistake” to replace Gianni Infantino, the embattled FIFA president who tried and failed to sell off part of the World Cup to private investors.Infantino came under renewed fire in an open letter signed by three confederations – Europe’s UEFA, North and Central America’s CONCACAF and Asia’s AFC – accusing the world football boss of breaking trust “through deception”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBut Trump backed Infantino, who awarded the US president a “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw…

Super Falcons midfielder Christy Ucheibe has apologised to Nigerians and admitted that there can be no excuses for Nigeria’s failure to secure automatic qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup after their shock elimination from the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations. The defending champions were beaten 1-0 by Cameroon in their quarter-final clash at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Sunday, with Myriam Maeva Nyadjou’s thunderous 19th-minute strike enough to send the Indomitable Lionesses into the semi-finals. The defeat ended Nigeria’s hopes of retaining their continental crown and also denied the Super Falcons one of the four…

Intel announced on Tuesday it had upsized its previously announced common stock offering to $20 billion, with an offer price of $95 per share.The chipmaker announced a $15 billion common stock offering on Monday to support skyrocketing customer demand for artificial intelligence computing power. Shares of Intel fell 4% in response.Intel said the offering, set to close on August 12, is expected to raise net proceeds of $19.7 billion, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.Intel intends to use the proceeds “for general corporate purposes,” it said, including, but not limited to, capital expenditures and working capital.The…