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The police in Rivers State have detained an officer and members of his team following the alleged shooting of a motorist, Anthony Obodo, during an altercation in the state. In a statement posted on its Facebook page on Friday, the police spokesperson in the state, Blessing Agabe, said the incident occurred on Thursday and resulted in the death of Mr Obodo and injuries to two passersby. Police give details According to the police, preliminary information indicated that an altercation occurred between Mr Obodo and one of the police officers before a fracas ensued, during which a gun was fired. The officer, identified as “Alfred…

The 2026 college football season officially begins today with an eight-game Week 0 slate, the perfect chance to claim the latest DraftKings promo code, which gives new users $200 in bonus bets after making a $5 bet, paid within 21 days. The Week 0 college football schedule continues with games like Hawaii vs. Stanford and Memphis vs. UNLV. According to the latest college football odds at DraftKings, the over/under for total points scored in UNLV vs. Memphis is 55.5, down three from the opening line. The SportsLine Projection Model and SportsLine team of experts have locked in top picks from the…

“Tonight’s show didn’t feel right without doing something like this,” singer says before her rendition of Dolly’s 1974 hit Ella Langley paid tribute to Dolly Parton at her Auburn, Alabama concert, delivering a rendition of the country legend’s “Jolene.” “Tonight’s show didn’t feel right without doing something like this,” Langley told the Neville Arena crowd before launching into the oft-covered 1974 classic that might take Number One on the singles chart for the first time next week. Langley, like all of country music and the world at large, previously honored Parton with a statement posted on social media following the…

One Nation has claimed victory in the Secret Harbour state byelection in Western AustraliaWith 74.5% of the vote counted, One Nation’s Luke Herdegen leads Labor’s Georgia Tree 57-42 after preferences.One Nation’s WA leader Rod Caddies claimed victory at 9:30pm local time saying the result showed there were “no safe Labor seats in this state or in this country anymore” and that it would send “shock waves across the entire country”.Voters in the safe Labor seat cast their ballots on Saturday after senior minister Paul Papalia’s mid-term retirement triggered the contest.Luke Herdegen has been buoyed by a sea of orange across…

A Palestinian woman and an NBC News team are reported to have been attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid worsening confrontations in the area.Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters”.The attack occurred when four members of the news team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus.Abdullah told the outlet that they had been driven out of their home by settlers, and the team was walking down a hill toward the house.A car with Israeli license plates…

OpenAI has notified SpaceX of its intention to terminate its contract to provide OpenAI models to Cursor, citing concerns over compliance with its terms of service. The AI company said in a statement on Friday that it intends to wind down the contract by 12 November, giving SpaceX the maximum notice period permitted under the agreement. The notice to end the contract followed Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s acquisition of Anysphere, the developer of AI coding platform Cursor, for about $60 billion, despite OpenAI having worked with Cursor for nearly four years. OpenAI said the decision followed concerns that SpaceX may not…

Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement, the Australian Federal Police said the two men were arrested and charged with 14 offenses. The statement said the men were members of TeamPCP, which by the authorities’ count, compromised more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. The statement didn’t identify the men, except to say they lived in the Western Australian towns of Cottesloe and Mandurah.…

By Adeola Akinremi If there were credible national opinion polls in Nigeria, four months and nineteen days before the presidential election, we would have a clearer picture of where President Bola Tinubu and the other contenders stand. We do not. And so we are left with something less precise but perhaps more revealing: the record. Without serious polling, it seems to me that Tinubu is driven more by mission than by ambition. That distinction matters. His aggressive economic policies may make him intelligible to those who understand the macroeconomic necessity, but unbearable to those bearing the microeconomic pain, although temporarily.…

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday.Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian whose lunar flyby for the US space agency Nasa set a new distance record for humanity.Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, and other dignitaries took part in the packed ceremony at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, home to mission control. The president used the occasion to announce the creation of a US space academy for the nation’s space force as well as Nasa and the commercial space community.“Space is…

Chantelle Cameron underlined her place among the greats of women’s boxing as she defeated Mikaela Mayer by unanimous decision in a thriller to become WBA, WBC and WBO super-welterweight world champion at MPW-06 in Birmingham.What had been billed as a fight of the year contender did not disappoint as the pound-for-pound superstars fought at a frenetic, unrelenting pace in a bruising main event.It would be Cameron who emerged victorious as she edged a tight-knit contest 97-93, 97-93, 96-94 on the judges’ scorecards, further glossing a stellar resume that already honours her as the only woman to ever defeat the great Katie…