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Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most unusual scientific studies. The organization Improbable Research has been hosting the event since 1991 with the aim of showing that science also has a humorous side in its quest to meaningfully answer questions about the world.This year the ceremony was held in Zurich, Switzerland, and recognized 10 research projects ranging from an attempt to scientifically define what a kiss is to an experiment that used buried underwear to assess…

Key eventsA quick mailbag check during the setbreak. Peter Oh, longtime friend of the MBM, checks in via email: double quotation markHi Bryan, I’ve been watching a bunch of movies from the 1970s so forgive me for asking. Is Mick Jagger in the house? Gimme Shelton. Clint Eastwood in attendance? Escape from Alcaraz. Keep them coming. Could a Carlos Encounters of the Third Kind be afoot?ShareAlcaraz wins first set, 7-6 (5)!First set tiebreak: Shelton 5-7 AlcarazAlcaraz appears to have rediscovered his forehand, ripping a pair of searing winners off that side for a set point. Shelton serves wide and another…

Big Brother Naija Season 11 housemate Gerard has been evicted from the reality TV show, bringing the latest round of exits in the ‘Show Ya Sef’ house to an end. Gerard’s eviction was announced during the live eviction show on Sunday as the competition enters another stage. He was among 15 housemates nominated for possible eviction in the sixth week of the competition. Gerard’s exit follows the evictions of Martins, Mercedes, Kamsy, Cassi, Sultex and Goddessa. Neche also left the competition voluntarily. The latest eviction leaves the remaining housemates to battle for the grand prize as the season progresses towards…

A suspected-Houthi roadside ambush of Yemeni government forces has been captured on camera. The convoy was driving through the Hodeidah governorate when gunmen opened fire, killing one person and wounding several others.Published On 9 Sep 20269 Sep 2026Share Cameraman catches the moment Yemeni government forces are ambushed on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

By Femi Babafemi Let me start with a confession that has become something of a running joke among those of us who work closely with Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), the man simply refuses to age like the rest of us. I witnessed this again, quite hilariously, in the last week of August, at an international conference at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he was one of the invited speakers before a distinguished gathering of global policy experts, academics, law enforcement chiefs, lawyers, and judges among others.…

Nume Ekeghe Cash outside Nigeria’s banking system fell for the second consecutive month in July to its lowest level in eight months, even as credit to the private sector continued to expand, pointing to a gradual shift in the composition of liquidity towards bank-intermediated activity.  This is according to the latest monetary statistics from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which showed that currency outside banks declined by N118.67 billion, or 2.41 per cent, to N4.80 trillion in July from N4.92 trillion in June. It followed a sharper 5.22 per cent month-on-month decline in June, when cash outside banks fell…

Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days by adding downloadable 3D models and printable, foldable high-res packaging scans for a handful of PC games on the platform. Thus far, the “Printable Big Box” collection on GOG is limited to just five games: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Players browsing those games on…

Prince Adewole Adebayo and President Bola Tinubu. By Adegboyega Adeleye Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Adewole Adebayo, has declared that President Bola Tinubu is beatable in the 2027 election, predicting that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will come last. Adebayo stated this on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, while responding to questions on his chances against Tinubu and whether the President’s re-election bid was difficult to defeat. He said those who consider Tinubu and the APC unbeatable were underestimating the power of Nigerian voters, insisting that the outcome would be determined by…

I have also had the privilege of seeing him through both triumph and adversity. His political journey has had its share of difficult seasons, some of them difficult enough to discourage almost anyone. But Chairman has an extraordinary capacity to return. He reflects, recalibrates and rises again. Not because the fall did not hurt, but because he has always believed that a difficult chapter does not have to be the end of the story. There is a particular privilege in knowing someone before the world decided who they were going to be; before the titles, the cameras, the offices and…