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Highlights from day two of the Tour Championship held at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

The route from the classroom to the comedy stage is well travelled, and ex-maths teacher Tom Towelling makes it the thread of his show here, conducting his audience like so many recalcitrant pupils under his charge. In case that sounds triggering, never fear: this debut show is unlike any other schoolroom you’ve been in. Towelling is one of several oddball comics elevated to the best newcomer shortlist for this year’s Edinburgh comedy awards, and his show is a noodly, mellow collage of sketch, song and educational back-and-forth with the crowd.Let’s get the title – Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit…

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Thirty-six Nigerians have been deported from four European countries in a joint operation that saw 41 people flown to Nigeria and Ghana. According to Austrian news outlet, Heute.at, three Nigerians were deported from Austria, 29 from Germany, two from Luxembourg and one from Hungary. The deportees were flown on a charter flight between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with Lagos, Nigeria, and Accra, Ghana, listed as the destinations. Diaspora Tales learnt that Germany organised the joint deportation operation, which was supported by Austria, Luxembourg and Hungary. According to the report, 35 deportees were on board the flight from Germany, comprising…

Voters in Guinea-Bissau will decide on August 30 whether to approve a new constitution that would significantly strengthen the presidency and reshape the country’s electoral system.The vote comes nine months after the military seized power and installed General Horta Inta-A Na Man as transitional president, and just more than three months before presidential and legislative elections scheduled for December 6.Supporters of the reform say it would provide clearer lines of authority and help address years of political instability and disputes between state institutions. Critics argue that it would concentrate too much power in the presidency and have questioned the process…

As negotiations continue at the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the challenge of financing land restoration remains central to efforts to tackle desertification, drought and land degradation. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES on the sidelines of COP17 in Mongolia, Louise Baker, the Director of the UNCCD Global Mechanism, says African governments need to move beyond project-by-project funding and develop large, bankable landscape programmes capable of attracting public and private investment. At COP17, about $1.3 billion in new and pipeline finance has been announced for rangelands, underscoring growing interest in…

In the meantime, CHD and other anti-vaccine activists pounced on the tragedy, claiming that the MMR vaccine was to blame. CHD spent months highlighting the deaths in Facebook posts and questioning the safety of MMR vaccines. They never updated the posts to include information about the nurses’ fatal errors. It was in this context that Kennedy visited Samoa in May and June of 2019, bringing a CHD member and his wife, actor Cheryl Hines, along with him. During the visit he was pictured with local anti-vaccine activists and staff members of the US embassy. Samoa’s deadly measles outbreak began in…

HomeScienceVol. 393, No. 6814M.S. Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed IndiaBack To Vol. 393, No. 6814 Full accessBooks et al.Podcast Share on M.S. Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed IndiaScience27 Aug 2026Vol 393, Issue 6814p. 866DOI: 10.1126/science.ael0871 PREVIOUS ARTICLEThe history and future of sickle cell diseasePreviousNEXT ARTICLEDeep-sea mining outpaces both science and lawNext NotificationsBookmark…

Paris Saint-Germain defender Marquinhos scored deep into stoppage ⁠time to snatch a scarcely deserved 2-2 draw at Lille on Friday as the Ligue 1 champions ⁠continued to struggle ⁠after ​being held by Rennes on the opening weekend.After the poor 2-2 draw ‌against Rennes, things went from bad to worse for PSG when Lille took the lead in the 21st minute as Icelandic playmaker Hákon Haraldsson latched on to a brilliant reverse pass from Olivier Giroud and curled an unstoppable shot past ‌Matvei Safonov.Despite all their attacking riches, the Parisians struggled to get shots on target as Lille packed their ​defence…

By Benjamin Njoku Nollywood actress and producer Etta JoMaria has been named one of seven finalists for the British Council Film Lab Africa 2 Producers Lab. She was selected from a competitive pool of over 1,000 applications across the continent. Delivered in partnership with EbonyLife Creative Academy and Iconic Steps, the Producers Lab is a core part of Film Lab Africa 2, the British Council’s flagship film and television accelerator. The programme is designed to equip emerging African filmmakers with practical training, mentorship, and support to develop original screen projects. For Etta, the selection has been both validating and transformative.…