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Prime Minister Andy Burnham will give all mayors of city regions in England a share of income tax revenue for the first time, as part of his drive to transfer power from Westminster to local leaders.Burnham will also allow mayors of English strategic authorities to keep some cash from business rates collected in their areas, and gain greater control over services such as housing, transport, skills.The government has not yet decided the exact portion of taxes mayors will be given, with more details to be announced when Chancellor John Healey delivers his first budget in the autumn.Critics said the plans…

Large farms with more resources are investing in new technology.Ketan Yashwant Sodha, is the founder and CEO of Berry Fresh Agrotech. He started with traditional open-field farming, but was frustrated by losses caused by the weather.”For the past 10 years, it has consistently rained in India during our peak season – November, December, and the first week of January. When you are in an open field and your plantation is at its absolute peak, a single rain will ruin your entire crop,” he says.So in 2022, he started to experiment with hydroponics, a type of covered cultivation that does not…

Brazil’s Italian head coach Carlo Ancelotti speaks during a press conference at the Granja Comary training center in Teresopolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 30, 2026. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP) By Adegboyega Adeleye Brazil head coach Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that a tactical decision he made during the second-half hydration break in his side’s Round of 16 defeat to Norway proved decisive in the Selecao’s shock exit from the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Brazil were level at 0-0 when play was paused for the mandatory cooling break, but the five-time champions went on to concede twice to…

I’m beginning to suspect that the feminist movement is operating a covert psyops wing. I like to think that this is the motive force behind the slew of true-crime documentaries that show us, time and again, what bad men do and how they go about it. Perhaps the repeated stories of women – often unhappy with parts of their lives, or otherwise emotionally vulnerable – being love-bombed by apparent male saviours then finding themselves isolated, controlled, coerced, destabilised and battered into submission and sometimes killed that form the predominant subject of this popular modern genre are a way of teaching…

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Australia sends France 24 firefighters and two aircraft to tackle wildfiresAustralia is sending firefighting teams to support rescue efforts in France, amid raging wildfires in Europe.The government said a Chinook helicopter equipped with a 11,300-litre water tank and a support aircraft would be deployed, alongside 24 skilled aerial and ground crew from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.Officials said in a statement: double quotation markTogether, they will support around-the-clock firefighting operations, providing much-needed relief to emergency services responding on the ground. The wildfires in France are among the worst the country has experienced in decades, driven by multiple active…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, US president says Israel will withdraw from Gaza following the disarmament of Hamas.Published On 30 Jul 202630 Jul 2026United States President Donald Trump has said that his ‘Board of Peace’ has reached an agreement to disarm the Palestinian group Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.“This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website on Thursday. “At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with…

By Ediri Ejoh The Federal Government’s (FG) crude oil export earnings fell 14.41 percent to $31.54 billion in 2025 from $36.85 billion recorded in the corresponding period of 2024. The drop was attributed to lower international crude oil prices arising from a global supply glut in the review period. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, made this disclosure in its 2025 Annual report and statement of account released yesterday. The report stated: “Crude oil export earnings fell by 14.41 per cent to $31.54 billion, relative to $36.85 billion in 2024.” Europe remained the major source of the export earnings where Spain…

It is rare for video games to feature industrial action as a key theme, but it does happen. There’s the shady Dockworker’s Union in Disco Elysium and the Orbital Workers Union in space adventure Tacoma; then there is Lynx, the evil union-bashing corp in Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Soon we can add A Line Held Tight, a visual novel that puts workers’ rights – and workers’ lives – at the very centre of the narrative.In the distant future, a colony of miners digs far beneath the surface of an isolated planet, searching for veins of some exotic ore, protected from the poisonous…

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA — The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Thursday challenged the neutrality of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Nigeria Police Force ahead of the 2027 general elections, accusing both institutions of ‘blurring the line’ between the Nigerian state and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The party said reports that a faction of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, had been engaged by INEC for election logistics, alongside the appearance of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police at the launch of the pro-Tinubu…