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It starts on 4chan, in a May 2019 thread entitled “unsettling images”. The first post was a photo showing an empty room with the now iconic yellow wallpaper, no natural lighting and a kind of inexplicable jutting half-wall. Shortly afterwards, another user (there are no usernames on 4chan, just identifying numbers) responded with 78 words of text that would essentially lay out the blueprint for a future $262m A24 movie sensation.“If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms,” the post begins. For the uninitiated, “noclip” refers to a…

Nyazura, Zimbabwe – Bright fluorescent lights reflect off polished floors as Anymore Kadzunge returns for a routine check-up at a telehealth centre that helped diagnose the illness she had struggled with for months.The 38-year-old farmer sits quietly as a nurse wraps a blood pressure cuff around her arm. Moments later, the machine beeps with the reading.Only months earlier, Kadzunge had been struggling to work her fields or prepare meals for her family. She had spent three months experiencing chest pains and dizziness before walking 14km (8.7 miles) from her village of Chimbondi after a friend told her about the facility.A…

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First Test, Tarouba (day three of five)West Indies 311 (Hope 92; Ali 4-50) & 126-7 (Chanderpaul 35, Abbas 3-14)Pakistan 282 (Masood 109; Greaves 5-27)West Indies lead by 155 runsScorecardWest Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves took five wickets without conceding a run in an incredible spell of bowling on day three of the first Test against Pakistan.Greaves, who is playing in his 17th Test, claimed his maiden Test five-wicket haul to help dismiss Pakistan for 282 in response to West Indies’ first-innings total of 311.The 32-year-old Barbadian’s spell – five consecutive wicket maidens – was all the more remarkable given he had…

Fashion business owner Jasmine, 27, said she had been attracted to 21-year-old Kavan’s “aura” when speaking to Maya during the final.Viewers were surprised early in the series when Kavan, who was sent in as a bombshell, was revealed to be the brother of day-one contestant Aidan Murphy.Fans said it was reminiscent of popular Prime Video show The Summer I Turned Pretty, which focuses on a love triangle involving two siblings.During the final, Kavan said he “couldn’t be luckier” to have been in the villa with his brother and to have met Jasmine. Simba, who turned 25 in the villa, told…

Chiemelie Ezeobi In recognition of her humanitarian service and dedication to the welfare of police officers’ families across Nigeria, the National President of the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA), Chief Mrs. Mutiat Olufunmilola Disu, was weekend, conferred with the prestigious traditional title of Jauharar Minna Emirate (Precious Daughter of the Minna Emirate).  The honour was bestowed during a courtesy visit to the palace of the Emir of Minna on Saturday, July 25, 2026, where the traditional institution acknowledged her outstanding contributions to improving the lives of police families through various welfare initiatives championed under her leadership of POWA. While conferring…

NewsFeedFormer Acting Chief of Staff at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Deborah Fleischaker, says a rush to hire officers and a focus on detention numbers is causing fatal mistakes in the field. She was speaking two weeks after a 26-year-old Colombian national was shot dead in Maine.Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Toronto police said they were investigating the latest attack with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and international law enforcement partners.Supt Jonathan Ko with the RCMP called it “another troubling incident”, while the city’s mayor, Olivia Chow, called the attack “brazen”. “I want to say to the person or persons responsible: We will get you,” Chow added.The shooting occurred around 04:45 local time (09:45 BST). Officers said they recovered one shell casing at the scene and damage to the building’s facade. At least two individuals were inside the consulate at the time, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank…

Four members of phone stealing syndicate in Asaba, arrested by the  operatives of the Delta Police Command, have confessed to the crime even as nine brand new android phones were recovered from their hideouts. The suspects who were arrested when the operatives raided their criminal hideouts along St Brigid’s Road, Asaba, include three males namely Johna Omarocha, Kelvin Onogho Ufuoma Joshua and  Nkechi Nnaji, a female. Yemi Onyeniyi, Delta State Commissioner of Police who made the disclosure on Sunday in a statement by Bright Edafe, spokesman of the  Command. said the raid followed a series of reported stealing of mobile…

On Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on the shocking warning he issued earlier this month to businesses that use AI, taking it a step further this time. Companies that rely wholly on the proprietary AI labs for their AI needs ultimately won’t survive, he predicts. That’s what he said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” When Zakaria asked Nadella to explain what constitutes a company sharing too much with an AI model provider, Nadella said businesses need to be wary of everything they hand over, from their data to their prompts. Nadella called for a setup where “every time…