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Having settled in California in the aftermath of their dramatic decoupling from the royal family in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced a partnership that appeared to set a clear destination for their new lives outside the House of Windsor.With every global media stable clamouring for their signature, the couple revealed a deal with Netflix reportedly worth $100m. The ambitions were lofty and broad, including scripted and unscripted projects, shows for all ages and documentaries.A $20m podcast deal with Spotify appeared to confirm their ambitions; the Sussexes were reinventing themselves in the competitive world of content creation, a…

A book about the life of Sir Keir Starmer has become the newest addition to the Downing Street library, after being donated by Sir Keir himself. Keir Starmer: The Biography, written by journalist and former Labour adviser Tom Baldwin, has now joined the collection of more than 400 books, some of which are kept in two bookcases in Downing Street’s Cabinet Room.The library was established in 1931 by the first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and since then prime ministers and ministers have been invited to make contributions. Seven ministers who served in Sir Keir’s government have also added books…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here.Credit: Jessie C. TannerFemale Cope’s gray treefrogs (Dryophytes chrysoscelis) struggle to pick the best mates when presented with too much choice. Typically, female treefrogs choose male suitors with the longest calls. When researchers played these longer ‘target’ calls alongside several shorter ‘distractor’ calls, the female frogs faced ‘choice overload’: they took longer to decide on a mate and picked the target call with less accuracy.Nautilus | 4 min readReference: iScience paperPeople who live to 110 years and older have large populations of…

Joao Pedro has signed a new contract with Chelsea, keeping him at the London club until 2032 with an option of two further years. The striker’s previous deal, signed when he joined from Brighton for £60 million ($82 million) a year ago, was set to run until 2032 with the option for an extra year. The contract extension follows Joao Pedro’s fine debut season for the Blues, when he scored 20 goals. “I am very happy to sign a new contract with Chelsea,” he told the club’s website. “I always dreamed of playing for a big club, and it means…

Janie Bradford, the onetime receptionist for Berry Gordy who co-wrote the R&B classic “Money (That’s What I Want),” the first big hit for the founder of Motown Records, has died. She was 87. Bradford died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after an extended illness, her family announced. Bradford also co-wrote “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby,” which Marvin Gaye took to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969, and songs for other artists including Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Martha & the Vandellas. She later served as head of writer…

Memorable Milestones Debbie Odutayo, a seasoned practitioner in the broadcast industry, reflects on her illustrious career spanning close to four decades. She recounts exciting moments, events, and highlights of her remarkable career and life journey. Ferdinand Ekechukwu brings the excerpts: 1.My series, Debbie’s Salon: Creating and Producing Debbie’s Salon was an opportunity to give back to the industry that has given me so much. It offered me a chance to reassess my legacy, reflect on my journey, and leave something meaningful behind. With this long-running series as my retirement project, I want the story of Debbie’s Salon to resonate with…

By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Air platforms of Joint Task Force North East, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have conducted a series of successful intelligence-led precision strikes against terrorist concentrations in different locations across Borno State. The operations, which started between the night of 21 and the early hours of 22 August 2026, led to the killing of scores of Boko Haram/ISWAP Terrorists. This was disclosed in a press statement signed by the Acting Media Information Officer, Headquarters Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI, Captain Mohammed Goni, on Saturday. He said: “The coordinated air operations followed credible intelligence and confirmatory…

The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday explained to Canadians why he walked away, calling the U.S. proposal “a bad deal.”“We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,” Mr. Carney said. “We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.”“We cannot accept what they offered and we will not give what they asked,” he added. “We were not prepared to compromise Canada’s sovereignty or undermine our key industries.”“You’re at war when you’re attacked, and we got attacked,” he later…

Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession”.Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule.With feelings ranging from fatalism to guilt, the creatives have signed up with some of the booming training agencies, which have contracts with the biggest AI companies including…

Follow updates as Jose Mourinho returns to lead Madrid – including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary.