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Coventry City have reached an agreement with Nottingham Forest to sign Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi on a permanent transfer. The Championship club have agreed a deal with Forest, with Awoniyi now undergoing his medical ahead of completing the move. The transfer will see the experienced forward join Frank Lampard’s Coventry City squad as the club seek to bolster their attacking options. Awoniyi brings significant Premier League experience to Coventry, having spent the past few seasons with Nottingham Forest. The Nigeria international joined Forest from Union Berlin in 2022 and has featured prominently for the club during his time at the…

She’s back, back, back again! MTV has renewed RuPaul’s Drag Race for its upcoming 19th season, while Paramount+ has additionally greenlit new seasons of the All Stars spinoff. The renewals come after the mainstay series celebrated its 18th season, where Myki Meeks was crowned America’s Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul’s Drag Race also recently received 11 Emmy nominations this awards season, with RuPaul earning his 11th consecutive nomination for outstanding reality or reality competition program host. Season 18 notably delivered double-digit growth over the previous season and set a new franchise premiere viewership record. RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars wrapped its…

We can no longer use ‘rising star’ for my Oga again o. At 62, he cannot be rising o. This star is set. The man celebrated his birthday during the week, and I took my time to read all the many accolades poured on him. The most powerful one out of the over 300 pieces that I read was the one written by me. I wrote it so well that even I did not believe that I wrote such a beautiful work of satire. If not that I was the one who wrote it, I would have accused myself of…

One Nation senator Tyron Whitten has claimed parents supporting their children who identify as transgender are engaging in “child abuse”, telling a fringe YouTube show: “there’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness”.Guardian Australia has unearthed several incendiary comments from Whitten and fellow One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and her longtime lieutenant Malcolm Roberts, about transgender Australians.“They’re saying you can cut your dick off and become a woman … That’s a complete distortion of science,” Roberts told a podcast in June.Sign up for the Breaking News Australia emailWhitten filmed an interview at Parliament House in August 2025 with a…

Australia’s most populous state will launch a gun buyback scheme later this year, becoming the first to offer cash in exchange for firearms in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.Gun owners in New South Wales (NSW) will be offered up to AUS$1,000 (£523) to hand over eligible handguns, shotguns and rifles from 2 November.Australian authorities had pledged sweeping firearm law reforms after 15 people were shot dead at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which is located in NSW, last December.The state’s premier Chris Minns said on Saturday: “We want those guns handed in, compensated for and…

AEW CollisionAll Elite WrestlingAfter a busy episode of Dynamite, the action continued on Saturday, Aug. 15, with another edition of AEW Collision from Las Vegas.This show placed more emphasis on the Continental Challenge Cup, as three more matches took place, including the main event between Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong for a spot in the next round.Additionally, Adam Page, Bandido and Brody King defended their AEW World Trios Championship against Jay Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson of the Lethal Twist. Would this makeshift trio solidify their reign with a successful defense?All this, and more, went down on this episode…

A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old to create more than 7,000 explicit images of her. The woman also said that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid. “Limitless access to these tools…

What can Clacton possibly have done to deserve this? Is this some cosmic karma for a past existence in which the town executed hundreds of innocent women and children? Surely, even then, enough is enough. For the past few years Clacton seems to have been the centre of some abusive psychological experiment. The sort the Americans used to run in the 1950s and 60s, that have long since been banned. One run by Nigel Farage and designed merely to fuel his narcissistic dreams, with the voters mere cannon fodder.Clacton’s relationship with Nige is and always has been entirely one-sided. The…

The Nigerian government has strengthened its partnership with China to expand cancer care through technology transfer, professional training, research and expansion of radiotherapy capacity. The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, disclosed this while delivering the opening address at the LINK Global Summit on Innovation and Practice in Oncology at the China National Convention Centre in Beijing, China. This is according to a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Ado Bako, Assistant Director, Information and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The statement added that Nigeria also signed a strategic cooperation agreement…

Incidents of sharks biting humans are incredibly rare, but at least three influencers have been bitten by the animals in less than a year. Scientists say they’re increasingly concerned about the rise in social media videos showing people swimming too close to sharks, touching or even riding them.”I’m seeing these videos every single week now and it’s way more than it ever used to be,” says shark scientist Kristian Parton, who also hosts the ‘Shark Bytes’ YouTube channel. “We’re going to see people ending up in really serious incidents with sharks.”In July, a fishing influencer almost lost his leg after…