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Nigel Farage has told the BBC he discussed the “potential liabilities” of returning to politics before the 2024 general election.It comes after The Sunday Times, external reported Farage had negotiated a deal in March and April 2024 with then-Reform leader Richard Tice to return to lead the party.Farage confirmed he spoke with Tice in spring 2024 to scope out what would happen to Reform’s finances if he returned but said it “wasn’t a deal, it wasn’t an agreement”, adding that talks came “quite some time after” he received a £5m gift from a billionaire donor.Labour said Farage’s remarks had “blown…

David SchoenfieldAug 3, 2026, 08:30 PM ETCloseCovers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995Multiple AuthorsThis year’s MLB trade deadline is over, and, as is usually the case, the final hours before the 6 p.m. ET cutoff went down with a flurry of activity.The biggest trade of this year’s deadline came Saturday night, when the Detroit Tigers dealt star ace Tarik Skubal to the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Things heated up after that, with a few more big deals Sunday — Freddy Peralta to the Tampa Bay Rays and Kevin Gausman to the…

Nineteen housemates are on the eviction list for the second week of BBNaija Season 11 after Monday’s nomination session. The nomination process saw each contestant enter the Diary Room to save three fellow housemates. At the end of the voting, the four contestants with the highest number of saves were initially declared safe from eviction. However, the final list changed after Head of House, Sheba, exercised her veto power. She removed Chimsom Chuka from the eviction list and replaced him with Cassi, who had originally secured enough votes to be safe. As a result, Tram, Barry, Goddessa and Chimsom Chuka…

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Africa has had good leaders throughout its history who have been empire builders, thinkers, traders, kings, diplomats, and freedom fighters, who have established civilisations and made their impact on World history. Certainly, before the rise of the modern nation-state, Africans already had elaborated political, trading, and intellectual networks, extending from Timbuktu to Great Zimbabwe, from Benin to Axum. But even if the continent has such a rich history, there is one issue that haunts the discussions about the future of Africa: why has a continent blessed like this not managed to create institutions of prosperity and good governance? The usual…

Complainant says Jones ‘groped’ him on the bum and ‘it was aggressive’Warning: this post contains graphic content.Complainant J is now giving evidence about a second alleged indecent assault that allegedly occurred at Alan Jones’s Fitzroy Falls farm.J told the court this morning that after the first alleged indecent assault on the same evening, he and Jones watched TV for a while and discussed sport.J “mentioned I was getting tired and I was going to bed”.After J, who was 17 at the time, went to his room, he alleged that he heard a “tap, tap, tap” and Jones came into the…

Santino Ferrucci in the Homes For Our Troops Chevrolet Indy car for AJ Foyt Racing. IndyCar PhotoIndyCar and Penske Entertainment are extending the celebration of the 250th Birthday of the United States by making the August 23 Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, DC a 250-mile street race.It has extended the race distance to 147 laps, a very long event by street race standards, so that the miles covered will be 250 to honor America’s 250th birthday.The celebration of America’s 250th birthday will come with even more racing and strategy, as the race is extended from 125 laps to 147…

Will Venters, Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems at the London School of Economics, said companies can be caught out as they experiment with or implement AI internally, as staff burn through tokens.”People are finding it really hard to manage that cost… it’s a non-deterministic output, so it’s a non-deterministic value,” he said.Companies are finding ways to work around this.Oliver King-Smith, founder of engineering software firm smartR AI, says smaller organizations can “can fly under the radar and use [flat fee] personal accounts which I am sure the big vendors don’t like.”But, he says, “This has to end…

Veteran journalist and publisher Anietie Akpan is dead. Mr Akpan, a former deputy bureau chief of The Guardian in Nigeria’s South-south region, died on Sunday night, according to the Cross River State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He spent more than three decades in journalism, earning a reputation for his coverage of public affairs and child rights issues before leaving The Guardian to establish his own newspaper, Pillartoday.com.ng. In a statement on Monday, the NUJ Cross River State Council described his death as “a monumental loss” to the journalism profession and the state. “The passing is a…

The road to the 2026/27 UEFA Champions League group stage is nearing its conclusion after UEFA confirmed the playoff draw for the final qualifying round. Fourteen clubs will compete in two-legged playoff ties for the remaining places in the league phase, with several participants still to be determined after the ongoing third qualifying round. The draw, conducted on Monday at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, split the teams into two routes – the champions path for domestic league winners and the league pat h for clubs that qualified through their league positions in countries with multiple Champions League slots. Among…