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A 17-year-old girl has been killed after a teenager brandishing a sword attacked students at a school in Sweden, police have confirmed.Three other people were wounded in the incident during classes in the central town of Fagersta on Friday afternoon, including two boys aged 12 and 17 who sustained minor injuries.The third person, who was also under 18, was also left with minor injuries and has been discharged from hospital, Swedish news agency TT reported.The parents of the 17-year-old girl told local newspaper Fagersta-Posten their daughter was killed in the attack.An 18-year-old man has been arrested over the incident at…

Deborah Moses, a graduate trainee at United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), has described her interaction with the UBA chairman Tony Elumelu as a long-cherished dream. Ms Moses attracted the attention of the bank’s Chairman, Tony Elumelu, after she shared observations and ideas on how the lender could address recurring problems faced by its customers. Ms Moses made the observations on Thursday during a question-and-answer session at UBA’s Graduate Management Accelerated Programme (GMAP), where she spoke about her experience during her on-the-job training (OJT). She told Mr Elumelu, who is finishing his tenure as the bank’s chairman in August, that…

President Donald Trump disclosed just over 1,000 financial transactions for the month of June in what appears to be broad reshuffling of his portfolio. The president rotated in and out of stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds throughout the month. The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million, according to Trump’s latest filing on Aug. 22, which shows a range for each sale or purchase rather than an exact figure. His securities purchases topped $49 million, while his sales totaled at least $28.5 million.While the filing gives a window into the investment moves made on behalf of Trump, it is…

Here in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford University friend greeted me. More prosaically, the imminent breakthrough is described as “recursive self-improvement” – the point at which AI itself trains each successive model of AI, resulting in an exponential development to something which, in many significant respects, is more intelligent than us humans.As Robert Wright puts it in his book The God Test: “Never before has the near-term future … held such a wide array of…

Daily peppermint oil may offer a simple way to reduce mildly elevated blood pressure, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Lancashire found that taking 100 microliters of peppermint oil twice a day for 20 days reduced systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) by an average of 8.5mmHg. The findings, published in PLOS One, suggest peppermint oil could provide a simple, inexpensive, and well-tolerated option for people with slightly elevated blood pressure. A Potential Low-Cost Approach to Blood Pressure Lead author Dr. Jonnie Sinclair, Reader in Sport and Health Sciences, said: “High blood…

Highlights from the Premier League match between Brentford and Tottenham Hotspur.

Though it was never an outright hit, St. Elsewhere punched way above its weight in terms of the careers it helped launch and a style that set the template for medical dramas that followed it. The show can also boast one of the more memorable series finales in TV history. Created by Joshua Brand and John Falsey, St. Elsewhere followed the staff and patients at a struggling Boston hospital over six seasons on NBC, from 1982 to 1988. Like its fellow NBC show Hill Street Blues (both were from MTM Enterprises), St. Elsewhere pioneered a new kind of storytelling. Hospital…

Former Gombe State Governor and Senator representing Gombe Central, Danjuma Goje, has denied defecting from the All Progressives Congress, despite the omission of his name from the Independent National Electoral Commission’s final list of candidates for the 2027 general elections. Goje, who has represented Gombe Central in the Senate since 2011, said he was consulting political stakeholders and would announce his next political move at the appropriate time. Speaking to his supporters on Saturday at his residence in Gombe, the former governor urged them to remain loyal to the party’s leaders and prepare for his eventual directive. “Do not listen…

︎ Digital literacy a necessity, not a luxury, says Gov AbdulRazaq Kwara State Government on Friday flagged off the distribution of about 2,000 computer devices for public senior secondary schools in the state to equip teachers and students with digital literacy skills. A statement by the Communications Officer, Kwara Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning said Employment (AGILE), Ayobami Ashaolu, said at least 70 public schools cutting across the 16 local governments of the state will receive 25 gadgets apiece in the first phase of the educational intervention. The project is being implemented by  the AGILE under the Ministry of Education and…

ToplineFormer Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called President Donald Trump a “neocon puppet for Israel… and his dear friends in the Epstein class” in a lengthy response to the latest attack from Trump in which he slammed her, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as “LOSERS.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene puts on a Make America Great Again hat on March 9, 2024. Getty ImagesKey FactsGreene, once one of Trump’s fiercest and most loyal protectors, said she wishes she’d “never supported him” and stood by both Massie and Carlson, propping up the latter as a possible…