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Ian Poulter hasn’t made up his mind on whether he will continue to play on LIV Golf next season, but hopes the league can continue to operate next year, amid concerns over its funding.Alongside his Majesticks GC team-mate Lee Westwood, Poulter was among one of the first players to join the rebel league back in 2022. But after LIV Golf concluded its 2026 season in Indianapolis last weekend, Poulter took to Instagram to explain he was undecided if he would play on the tour into next year, adding that he was ‘proud’ of what LIV has achieved. Instagram This content…

Taylor Swift has revealed more about the origin of her hit song “I Knew You Were Trouble” and why she wants to honor her country roots as her career continues. In a new interview with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. as part of the Icon Sessions, Swift opened up that she originally wrote “I Knew You Were Trouble” as a “really sad piano ballad.” “It can either be compelling to make a song sound exactly how it feels or to flip it, which the people that really taught me the most about that are Max Martin and Shellback,” Swift…

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Netanyahu’s claim comes after US and Israel killed Iran’s supreme leader and four of his family members in a strike on Tehran.Published On 25 Aug 202625 Aug 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Iran tried to kill one of his sons, but gave no details on when or where the alleged plot took place or which of his sons was targeted.Netanyahu’s allegation on Monday came as his coalition trailed in opinion polls ahead of the general election in October, in the wake of the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe…

The Kaduna State Government has constituted a nine-member negotiation committee to engage with the Kaduna State University (KASU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other staff unions over their outstanding demands. The government also approved a one-off payment of ₦300 million as Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) for academic staff of the university. The decisions were contained in a statement issued by the Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Dr AbdulKadir Mu’azu Meyere, on Monday. According to the statement, the interventions are part of the administration’s efforts to resolve long-standing staff welfare and funding issues at KASU…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed some of the largest Wall Street banks that helped fund trading bets at Situational Awareness before the hedge fund was nearly toppled in the recent tech sell-off.The US financial markets regulator requested detailed information about Situational Awareness’s trades and its communication with the lenders that provided it with leverage, according to two people familiar with the probe. The hedge fund was a client of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to regulatory…

“It’s kind of this one magic box that eliminates a lot of the infrastructure and also provides one control location that eliminates a lot of the interoperability challenges that you may see in a traditional data center, where various components within the data center are trying to regulate the same thing,” said Srdjan Lukic, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. “Now you have one conversion stage outside the data hall and then you just go straight to the rack.” From “killer application” to mass adoption Data centers have become the “killer application for solid-state…

AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv.Private companies will also be given access to the vast trove of data from Ukraine’s Avengers AI lab to help build new systems, the first agreement of its kind in the UK.The scheme will be piloted at a UK defence site, building a model to identify protesters or a hostile-state attack. It uses AI-optimised sensors in buried fibre-optic cables to detect different kinds of movement.The government has suggested the…

Nigeria’s U20 women’s national team, the Falconets, will depart for Poland on Monday night ahead of the 2026 FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup. The two-time finalists have completed their final phase of preparations in Abuja and are set to begin their campaign at the global tournament. Nigeria secured qualification after overcoming Rwanda, Senegal and Malawi during the African qualifying series. The Falconets defeated Rwanda 5-0 on aggregate, beat Senegal 3-1 on aggregate and edged Malawi 3-2 on aggregate to book their place at the tournament. Following the qualification, the team embarked on an intensive training camp in Abuja, where preparations…

After a weekend on which pretty much every potential challenger to Arsenal had demonstrated their flaws, there was a sense, perhaps even a need, for Chelsea to emerge as a serious contender – if only to prevent the title race becoming a procession. And while they were far from flawless, there were at least some indications that they could mount some kind of challenge.They looked extremely dangerous in the final third, and Cole Palmer was involved in all three Chelsea goals, perhaps benefiting from a first summer off in three years. But they were rather less impressive through midfield or…