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Madeleine Finlay travels to the Rothbury estate in Northumberland, in north-east England. It’s a piece of land that has been in the same family for 700 years, but now it has been put up for sale and the UK’s Wildlife Trusts are trying to raise £30m to secure it intact. To find out what makes the area so special, Madeleine speaks to Katy Barke, the head of nature recovery for Northumberland Wildlife Trust. She also hears from Sam Turner, a professor of archaeology at Newcastle University, who is trying to work out how the land has been used across the…

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Team Nigeria on its outstanding performance at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, praising the athletes for their resilience, determination and commitment throughout the competition. In a statement issued on Tuesday by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the president said the team’s performance reflected the values that define the Nigerian spirit. Team Nigeria finished the Games as Africa’s highest-ranked nation and seventh overall on the medals table with 24 medals comprising 10 gold, seven silver and seven bronze. President Tinubu commended the athletes for representing the country with honour and…

The noise inside London’s Victoria Palace Theatre as Leslie Odom Jr. makes his entrance is deafening. Very few performers could produce a reaction like this — from the usually polite, etiquette-obeying British crowds — on the West End. His return as Aaron Burr, the slippery frenemy of our titular founding father, is history in the making: For the first time since Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical hit the city nearly a decade ago, a cast member from the original Broadway production is gracing the stage. From July 3 until Sep. 5 this year, Odom Jr. is showing fans a whole new side to him.…

The Anatomy of Supernatural Rest Supernatural rest is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the body of Christ. Too often, believers equate rest with passivity, viewing it as a state of complete inactivity where one folds their arms and waits for sovereign interventions. In the economy of the Kingdom, however, rest is not the absence of work; it is the absolute certainty of results. It is a state of spiritual equilibrium where your labor is perfectly aligned with divine systems, ensuring that every seed sown yields its corresponding harvest in the right season and in the right quantity. To…

When you make a firm decision, you often discover new energy and the discipline needed to pursue change. So if there are things you want to remove from your life, decide today. I want to encourage and challenge you to reflect on your life. Think deeply about the things in your life that you do not like. The areas you wish were different. The patterns you want to break. The situations you want to change. Now, take a sheet of paper and write them down. On the other side of the paper, write the exact opposite, the things you truly…

This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersHello and welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from London.Extreme heat is not only making life uncomfortable across Europe but is also beginning to hit the continent’s economy, with drought threatening Hungary’s power supply and disrupting trade along Germany’s Rhine river.Hungary is preparing for electricity rationing after record-low water levels on the Danube river forced the country’s only nuclear power plant, which supplies up…

Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico’s largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a “lockdown” browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June. It was a disaster. When exam results came in, they bore little resemblance to past results, especially at the top. Between 2021 and 2025, 3.5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. This year, 16.3 percent did so. The story was even worse at the highest of the high end. Between 2021…

The outbreak is concentrated in the province of Ituri, which accounts for nearly 90 percent of reported cases.Published On 4 Aug 20264 Aug 2026The death toll from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak has risen above 1,700, as the World Health Organization (WHO) says trials of experimental treatments, preventive medicines and vaccines are advancing at unprecedented speed.The outbreak, caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus, has killed 1,707 people out of 3,802 recorded cases since it was declared on May 15, according to the latest government figures. More than 17,000 contacts are being monitored,…

‘Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions,” Charles Darwin once wrote, and he wasn’t wrong. Though certain species of bird pinken up as a means of communication, and uakari monkeys have red faces when in good health, we seem to be the only animal that flushes as a sign of embarrassment.“It’s a very truthful signal,” says Prof Sophie Scott, the director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. “It’s not fakeable, and there aren’t many things that humans do that fall into that category. You can’t blush on command.”You might, of course, hate…

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said the decision to scrap FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s controversial plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup was “absolutely necessary and beyond question”. Wenger works as FIFA’s chief of global football development — he was appointed in 2019 — and the Frenchman became the latest high-profile figure to criticise Infantino’s scheme on Tuesday. Infantino wanted to sell a 20 per cent stake in the World Cup to private equity investors through his FIFA Forward Enterprise. The plan sparked a barrage of criticism for Infantino and has been rejected by three continental confederations, forcing…