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Donald Trump has said the United States’ position on the Falkland Islands is “one of many” under review, as he pressed the UK to increase military spending.The US president said the UK has “got some problems, but they’ll get solved” when asked about defence funding as a follow-up question to his response on the Falklands.It comes after The Daily Telegraph reported, external US defence officials were drawing up proposals to incentivise Nato allies to meet their spending pledges, with a threat to oppose UK sovereignty over the Falklands among the possible options.The UK government responded by saying Falkland islanders “are…

Banks’ borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Standing Lending Facility, SLF, declined by 89 percent to N126 billion in August 2026 from N1.19 trillion in July 2026, reflecting higher liquidity in the banking system. The CBN has two short term lending windows for banks: the Standing Lending Facility (SLF) and Repo lending. The apex bank lends money to banks through the SLF at interest rate of 500 bases points (bps) above the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR), and it also lends money to banks through Repurchase (Repo) arrangement, which involves the purchase of banks’ securities with the…

Smart homes have gotten really good at making things really complicated. Turning on a light can involve multiple steps, compared to just flipping a switch. Homey, the Dutch-based smart home platform owned by LG, thinks it has a solution.This week it launched the Homey Portal, a touchscreen smart home controller that looks very promising, if very expensive. Preorders open today at an introductory price of $249/€249, with units shipping in December.A 2.8-inch round touchscreen device with a stainless steel dial, the Homey Portal can sit on a desk or mount to the wall and is powered by a USB-C cable.…

An image captured with the Hubble Space Telescope shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/IAA, University of Basque Country/JHUIt is a single data point, but enough to send a shiver down physicists’ spines. Some time in 2023 or 2024, a detector containing 10 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid xenon registered an unusual energetic flash. It was the type of signal that could be caused by a collision between an atom’s nucleus and a massive dark-matter particle as it passes through our Galaxy.If the finding can be backed up with more data, it could…

It’s full steam ahead for the NFL as it rockets towards the start of the 2026 regular season. Right now, the league is in a bit of purgatory, sitting between the end of the preseason and roster cuts, while still a little more than a week out from the results counting for real. This gives us a chance to catch our breath before the regular season and look in the rearview mirror to assess what transpired over the preseason. Coming into these exhibitions, there were plenty of storylines to follow, including quarterback battles, veterans adjusting to new environments, and first-year coaches…

Range Studios, the production arm of Range Media Partners, has inked a two-year first-look deal with Paramount Pictures, Deadline can confirm. Range’s focus will be producing commercially elevated theatrical releases for Paramount. Already, the companies have a handful of features in development including Bald Eagles, an R-rated high concept workplace comedy from rising scribe Brandon Cohen preempted by Paramount in a competitive deal, and Osgood Perkins’ follow-up to Longlegs with Nicolas Cage, slated for release in January 2028. Range Studios’ Film & Production division, led by two-time Academy Award nominee Fred Berger, has produced nearly 20 movies in just the last 3 years,…

Nobody has handed me a timetable in decades, but I still love that new-term energy, and this edit leans right into it. A blazer that is properly tailored, rather than assembled from buttons and hope. Closed-toe shoes to ensure a proper soft landing after months of sandals. A T-shirt from a brand I was fully prepared to be sniffy about, until it made me eat my words. And a packing solution, because the only sane way to deal with the end of summer is to plan a holiday, obviously.There’s also a genius lip colour for lip balm addicts like me,…

‘Start being serious’: Canada’s Carney hits back at US officials as tariff talks stallCanada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney hit back at US officials who have blamed their northern counterparts for the trade war, saying tariff talks can proceed when “Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough, and start being serious about having those discussions…”When Americans start being serious, “we can have those discussions,” Carney said in an interview posted on X. Seemingly opining on the general chaos of the stalemate, Carney also said: “It’s not constructive, but that’s their democracy.”Carney’s comments surfaced hours after Politico…

Germany has said Russia was responsible for last month’s drone attack at Leipzig’s airport. A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany, close to Ukrainian cargo planes, on 4 August.It failed to explode as the detonator was apparently faulty, and investigators suspect a second drone collided with a cargo aircraft nearby. A third drone was reportedly found near the airport 10 days later.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the Leipzig airport attack followed the “well-established pattern of Russian hybrid operations in Europe” and the assumption was that Germany would be targeted again.He said the that…

Joe Rohde, former Walt Disney Imagineer and author of the upcoming book, Floating Mountains: The Art of Imagining the Impossible.Melody MalmbergWhen guests walk into Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, they likely don’t think about the teams that designed the park and its ethos. They are concerned with getting on the best rides in the park, seeing animals up close in hyper-realistic environments, and probably snapping a picture with Mickey Mouse. But behind all the smoke and mirrors that make a theme park like Animal Kingdom operate is a team of people whose creative minds come together to solve problems…