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Following last night’s season opener, the NFL action continues with the first “Thursday Night Football” game of the 2026 season, featuring the San Francisco 49ers taking on the Los Angeles Rams. The game takes place at Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, and is the first NFL regular season game to take place in Oceania.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedLos Angeles enters the season as a heavy favorite to win this year’s championship following an off-season trade for the league’s top pass rusher, Myles Garrett, and the return of defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who had announced his retirement after the 2024 season. The…

Dame Esther Rantzen has said she is now “too physically fragile” to travel to Switzerland to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic.The veteran broadcaster, 86, said she would have to fly to the country, where the practice is legal, alone, which she could only have done before her life became “unbearable” and before she was ready to end her life.The Childline founder, who is terminally ill with cancer, first revealed in December 2023 that she had joined the Dignitas clinic.Dame Esther used her statement on Thursday to reiterate a plea for MPs to vote in favour of legalising…

For about 15 years, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, popularly known as “The Merchant of Hope,” has built a career in public service around policy, law, social welfare and social protection, with much of her work focused on protecting vulnerable people. As the pioneer Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), she leads a team of more than 100 professionals driving Lagos’ coordinated response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). Her work combines survivor support, advocacy, prevention and public education, including through books she has authored on domestic violence, sexual violence, self-love and body safety. As Lagos joins…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disowned a purported document claiming that Governor Yemi Cardoso approved a $46 billion developmental grant to an organisation. CBN, in a post on its official X account on Thursday, described the document as “fake” and urged members of the public to disregard it. The purported letter, dated 13 August 2026, was addressed to the “Atufeg Empowerment and Development Centre” and claimed to be an official endorsement and authorisation for the release of a developmental grant. It purportedly bore Mr Cardoso’s signature and stated that CBN had authorised the immediate transfer of $46 billion…

An ally of Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president.The departure injects instant tumult into an investigation targeting former government officials who have investigated Trump over the last decade, including in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.“I did in fact resign,” Joe diGenova told the Associated Press, calling it an “honor and a privilege” to serve Trump and the…

Stories by Chinedu Eze The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has held high-level engagements with major Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and aviation stakeholders from across the world at the second edition of the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt. The airshow was presided over by the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who was accompanied by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides. The event provided a significant platform for Nigeria to deepen strategic relationships with leading players in the global aviation industry and explore opportunities to accelerate the development…

Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early bets on Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen, and Olipop, among others, is taking a stake in the soccer club D.C. United and its stadium, Audi Field. It’s the latest — and smallest — firm to try something that Thrive Capital opened the door to just months ago: turning venture money into pro sports ownership. To recap, Joshua Kushner’s Thrive launched a new vehicle, Thrive Eternal, explicitly built to hold “iconic franchises and cultural institutions” for decades, funded by many of the same…

By Caleb Ayemere Social Democratic Party presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo said that if he were to appoint Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike to his government, he would put sellotape over the minister’s mouth to curb his public utterances. Adebayo made the remarks in an interview with Symfoni, where he discussed governance, the performance of the Tinubu administration and recent political developments, including the Osun State election. He praised Wike’s work ethic and contribution to infrastructure in the FCT while sharply criticising the minister’s style of public communication and what he described as the glorification of force and state power.…

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 10 September 2026 Drugs that imitate the effect of GABAergic neurons slow the growth of tumours called gliomas in mice.

Mike ReissSep 10, 2026, 08:06 PM ETCloseMike Reiss is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has covered the Patriots since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.Multiple AuthorsAn MRI confirmed that New England Patriots wide receiver A.J. Brown suffered a high ankle sprain in Wednesday’s season-opening loss to the Seattle Seahawks that is expected to sideline him for at least four weeks, a source told NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport on Thursday.The Patriots were bracing for not having Brown, who…