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“It’s a celebration,” said Dave Grohl, chugging from a bottle of champagne toward the end of Foo Fighters’ sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, Aug. 22 — somehow, the first time the 32-year-old band has played the iconic venue in the heart of Hollywood. He wasn’t just referring to the band’s gig there, though. He was referencing the enormity of the whole night, which found the band digging through both deep back catalog songs and hits, backed by the dozens-strong Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by beloved longtime music director Gustavo Dudamel, on his penultimate night with the LA…

Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke Water can run uphill if there’s adequate propulsion; let no one see impossibility where potentialities are hiding in plain sight. Yes, a rose by any other name will still smell as sweet, but we all know that its timeless symmetry, vibrant colours, and cultural symbolism are contributory factors that make it the flower of choice. Apply that to politics and you will begin to understand how an immensely underrated Nurudeen Jackson Ademola Adeleke danced his way back into power in the 2026 Osun State gubernatorial elections. What was supposed to signal the end of…

  •I won’t support anyone against APC, says gov Fidelis David in Akure  Fresh political realignments in Ondo State have stirred controversy within the All Progressives Congress (APC), following allegations that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has shifted his support from the party’s Ondo South senatorial candidate, Isaac Kekemeke, to Mathew Oyerinmade, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Kekemeke, a former South-West Vice Chairman of the APC and known ally of the governor, was backed by Aiyedatiwa in the run-up to the party’s National Assembly primary, where he emerged as the APC candidate for Ondo South. The governor had insisted on Kekemeke…

Instant noodles. Hot chapatis. Sliced bread.Wheat is at the heart of the modern diet, and this year, it is facing an accumulation of modern dangers. The breadbaskets of the world are getting pummeled by drone strikes and devilish weather, nudging prices higher amid already soaring food costs in the wake of the Iran war.Heat and drought have diminished harvests in some of the biggest wheat-producing countries, including the United States, which is expected to have its worst wheat harvest in a half-century, spiking prices. Poor countries that agreed to buy American wheat under the threat of Trump tariffs could be…

Rob Higgins at a USF athletics press conference in Tampa on August 17, 2026. Tom LaybergerRob Higgins stood at the podium in front of a media gathering on the morning of August 17 and expressed how he “gets chills” thinking about projects that continue to literally transform the landscape outside the office from which he oversees the University of South Florida’s athletic interests. Though getting chills, as opposed to a saturating sweat, might seem rather remarkable given the excruciating and unrelenting heat that has hovered over the Tampa Bay region this summer, Higgins has sufficient reason to be excited over…

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the internet. Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right? The reality isn’t that simple.  “I think one of the issues with this entire area of law and this entire area of technology is there’s a lot going…

Osun State has delivered its verdict twice now, and both times the answer has favoured Ademola Adeleke over Gboyega Oyetola. In the August 2026 governorship election, Adeleke secured a second term, polling 511,067 votes under the Accord Party platform. His closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress, scored 444,815 votes despite carrying the full weight of federal backing and Oyetola’s political machinery behind his campaign. The rivalry between the two men stretches back to 2018, when Oyetola first defeated Adeleke in a controversial rerun election, a result the Supreme Court later upheld after Adeleke’s legal challenge failed. That…

“I have not seen an event like this developing in our forecasts before”, said Professor Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasts at the Met Office.He says the scale of the growing El Niño is unprecedented in modern climate records.As it approaches its peak by the end of 2026, its influence around the world will grow with effects spreading across the globe.Professor Scaife says forecasters “already see signals for increased rainfall and storminess in autumn here in the UK”, especially into November and December.After a summer that looks set to be the UK’s hottest on record and with the drought conditions…

Match of the Day’s Danny Murphy, Gabby Logan and Joe Hart analyse Aston Villa’s “woeful” performance against Brighton, which saw them lose 4-0.

Harrison said about 25 guests were invited but “the same [number] again” turned up to see the unveiling. A number of those were “people who remembered the family” living there, including Jankel.”Quite a few friends were reunited today,” Harrison said.Also among the attendees were the owners before the Stephensons, who Harrison said had travelled all the way from Exeter in Devon.Speaking earlier this week, Steph Stephenson said the pair had suspicions but only learned of their home’s history after the Haslemere Society wrote to them. The chairman said the success of the day had sparked conversations about the possibility of…