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After Victoria withdrew in 2023, Glasgow answered the SOS call – and organisers say the past 11 days in the Scottish city have “exceeded all expectations”.Yes, there have been grumbles – including from those who have seen parking spaces outside their houses taken – and taxi drivers and shop owners the Games have passed by.On the ground, though, this felt like a meaningful event.Ticket sales of 434,000 were well down from 1.5 million for Birmingham 2022, but they were always going to be given the smaller venues for this scaled-back edition. It has been rare to enter a venue and…

If anyone happened to pass by Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield on Saturday night, it was clear there wasn’t just any event going on. Thousands of fans flooded the area, brimming with excitement as they counted down to see Trueno, Milo J, and J Noa take on Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage. This show had been one of the most anticipated of the summer series: Argentine rappers Trueno is one of the most exciting rising stars in Latin America, selling out massive stadiums across the globe. Milo J, one of Trueno’s peers and collaborators also from Argentina, has won over…

The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, has extended an olive branch to Nigel Farage, saying the two should put “personalities and our past disagreements aside for the good of the country”.Lowe told the Reform UK leader that if he was “prepared to work together around serious policies, serious reform and serious government, then so are we”.In a video posted on X, Lowe said: “I truly believe there could be sufficient common ground for our two movements to cooperate collectively, destroy the looming leftwing alliance that will finish off what hope remains for this country.“In my view, failing to even…

The Executive Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines (UNA), Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has been conferred with a gold medal award by the Institute of Nigerian Aeronautical Engineers (INAE), in recognition of the airline’s safety culture, capacity building and rapid growth despite a turbulent economic climate. The award, presented by the national president of INAE, Dr. Ebitei Charles, at the International Conference Fellowship Conferment which held in Lagos on Wednesday, is reserved for individuals whose work has significantly advanced the field of aeronautical engineering. The Institute said Okonkwo was honoured for steering UNA’s rapid expansion in the five years since its inception,…

The solution Tang’s team arrived at starts with the way infrared light is registered in the first place. Selective quantum dots Bulk semiconductors routinely used in IR detectors have continuous energy bands, which means they absorb a broad, undifferentiated swath of the infrared spectrum. This doesn’t preserve much information about which specific wavelength arrived. The mercury telluride colloidal quantum dots the Chinese team picked for their device behave differently. Due to their tiny size, roughly 4 nanometers across, quantum confinement breaks their energy levels into discrete steps rather than a continuous chunk. Photons of different infrared wavelengths and intensities excite…

Jon Beresford, one of BAR’s founders, said finding a peregrine on the ground was unusual.”Unlike the vast majority of birds, when they fledge they don’t land on the ground, they have short flights from the nest and they go back to the nest.”So somehow she was found grounded and injured. “So I suspect during her first trips from the nest flying, she’s come a cropper, she’s hit something,” he said.It was found the bird was the offspring of a male peregrine successfully treated by BAR last year.But the shelter did not have the facilities for a young bird to continue…

Key eventsSome rain bantz as Dr Ronald basically calls the Glasgow rain soft, challenging anyone who fancies to head to his native Uganda.There you’ll see some proper rain – he more or less says.ShareMel Woods wins David Dixon AwardThe outstanding athlete at these Games won two gold medals.She claimed the Women’s 1500m T54, in a Commonwealth Games record of 3min 32.20sec. She actually had to win it twice after the original final was voided and rerun following appeals over a first-lap crash.And just to put the icing on top, she won the Women’s 400m T54, completing the double.ShareWe’re well into…

Ariana Grande is planning to take a step back from the public eye after the Eternal Sunshine Tour wraps, including dropping out of Sunday in the Park with George. This decision comes after the Grammy-winning singer has faced a wave of online commentary surrounding her health and body over the last year. Most recently, discussions intensified after the release of her new music video for her song “Petal,” with many fans pointing out her noticeably thinner appearance in the footage. “Ariana will be taking a step back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour,” her rep shared in…

We had heard there was an incredible waterfall somewhere deep in the Thai rainforest. Seeking it out almost killed me.In 2003 I was travelling solo through south-east Asia when I met Paul, an American with an easygoing, natural warmth. We were the only two people bunking at a youth hostel somewhere in southern Thailand and got chatting one morning. When the staff told us about a beautiful waterfall not far from where we were staying, we made plans to hike there together.It was only meant to be an hour’s walk away. Thinking we would be back in time for lunch,…

By Efe Onodjae The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, Adewale Adebayo, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is responsible for publishing the names of candidates submitted by political parties, not determining their eligibility. Speaking on Sunday Politics, Adebayo described INEC as a public institution whose duty is to receive and make candidates’ information available to Nigerians, stressing that the commission is not responsible for verifying the accuracy of credentials submitted by aspirants. “INEC is our servant. It’s working for the public. INEC is just like the post office. Its role is to collect the information submitted by…