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Munchetty is among the best-paid presenters on the BBC’s star salaries list, earning about £360,000 a year, according to the latest accounts.She has interviewed major celebrities and politicians on the programme over the years ranging from Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama to Sir Keir Starmer, Sir David Attenborough and Sir Rod Stewart.In 2016, she appeared on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.She has also been at the centre of some controversies during her time on BBC Breakfast.In 2019, she was initially found to have breached the BBC’s guidelines over comments she made about a social media post from Donald Trump about…

TG ICET 2026 Counselling phase 1 and phase 2 counselling schedule has been issued. Registration for the counselling process is set to commence on July 31, 2026. TG ICET Counselling 2026: Telangana Council of Higher Education has issued the schedule for TS ICET 2026 counselling. Candidates who have cleared theur ICET 2026 entrance exams can submit their applications for the online counselling process through the link on the portal. According to the dates announced, the TS ICET 2026 counselling phase 1 application window opens on July 31, 2026. Eligible candidates can register for the counselling process through the link on the official…

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Japan time. The New York Times A strong, 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.The temblor happened at 4:27 p.m. Japan time about 3 miles east of Uto, Japan, data from the agency shows.As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the…

Morning opening: ‘Coming weeks will be tough,’ Macron warns, as France enters new heatwave amid firesJakub KrupaThe return of searing temperatures, from today in France and tomorrow in Spain, will complicate efforts to fight massive wildfires raging in the Bordeaux region and a number of sites in Spain.On a visit to a crisis centre in Bordeaux, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, warned: “The coming weeks will be tough and we have to hold out.” France’s President Emmanuel Macron and France’s interior minister Laurent Nuñez listen to SDIS 33 Fire and Rescue Service Departemental director Marc Vermeulen during a situation briefing…

…Eight million MSMEs shut down in 18 months as industrial policy faces reality check Nigeria’s ambition to raise manufacturing’s contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 15 percent by 2030 and 25% by 2035 could be undermined by weak implementation unless urgent steps are taken to address the challenges confronting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), according to a new report by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics (AERE) LTD/GTE. The report, authored by Dele Kelvin Oye, Chairman of the Alliance, warned that while the Nigeria Industrial Policy 2025 (NIP2025) presents a comprehensive blueprint for industrialisation, persistent constraints such…

Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic’s popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude were found to have been available to essentially anyone online.Links to the chats, some of which included personal and work information, would show up if a user of a search engine like Google used a site-specific search term.The searches showed Claude chats for which a user had decided to “share” a link had been saved by search engines like Google, leaving them accessible to the broader public.The search availability of the chat logs was removed over the weekend, but many were saved and shared widely online.A spokeswoman for…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Bridget Phillipson as Labour Party chair.A Labour spokesperson said Phillipson, who is also minister for women and equalities, will work closely with deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell to modernise the party ready for the next general election.Phillipson and Powell went head to head for the deputy leader position last year, after a race triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation, with Powell emerging victorious following 54% support from the party membership, external.Phillipson had been education secretary under Sir Keir Starmer but that job was also handed to Powell by Burnham when he appointed his cabinet last…

Grace* spent years protecting two things: her health and a secret she never wanted exposed. Every few months, a community health worker discreetly delivered her antiretroviral medicines to her home in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The arrangement allowed the bank worker to remain healthy without risking the questions that might follow if neighbours, customers, colleagues or fellow worshippers saw her entering an HIV treatment clinic. That routine ended in February 2025. Following international funding cuts that forced community drug delivery programmes to shut down, Grace had only one option: collect her medication herself from a treatment facility. Someone recognised her…

In the midst of the brazen, extra-judicial killings of Nigerians in South Africa, along with other Africans, on the grounds that these are illegal immigrants, the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has now sent South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, and a team, as envoys to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. They arrived in the country on Friday, 24 July, but the Nigerian President declined to meet with them. They were kept waiting through-out the weekend.  On Monday, that is yesterday, they were directed instead to meet with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye,…

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