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Director S.S. Rajamouli‘s Varanasi is getting a first look at Priyanka Chopra in her new role. Two new stills from the upcoming film have been released, featuring Chopra as Mandakini. The new images were dropped as a celebration of Chopra’s birthday on Saturday, July 18. Varanasi takes place over thousands of years and in locations around the world, from Antarctica to Africa to the titular city in India. The action-adventure film stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran and is the follow-up to Rajamouli’s last feature, RRR, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the acclaimed…

England and France will meet in the FIFA World Cup third-place play-off on Saturday, with pride, the Golden Boot race and the end of Didier Deschamps’ 14-year reign as France coach adding significance to a fixture neither side expected to contest. The match at the Miami Stadium will be the first meeting between the two countries since France’s 2-1 victory in the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals in Qatar. Both teams suffered semi-final heartbreak. France were beaten 2-0 by Spain despite entering the tournament as one of the favourites, while England surrendered a second-half lead to lose 2-1 to defending champions…

A London Underground worker who was unfairly sacked after whistleblowing about his concerns over exposure to asbestos and other toxic dust has said he wants all tube passengers to know about the potential hazards his case has revealed.Micky Steeds, a former professional boxer from Aveley in Essex, started working for London Underground in 2018 cleaning up decades of dust from vents, lift shafts and inverts – confined channels underneath station platforms for cabling.It was a filthy job that left him and his colleagues looking like chimney sweeps. He said the dust was sometimes so thick he could not see his…

By Juliet Umeh For years, Africa was seen mainly as a market for technology products developed elsewhere, with few believing globally successful technology companies could emerge from the continent. That perception is changing, and one of those leading that transformation is Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, who co-founded Andela and Flutterwave, two technology companies that have each achieved valuations of over $1 billion. Speaking in a recent interview on School of the Hard Knocks, Aboyeji shared the principles that shaped his entrepreneurial journey, offering lessons for young Nigerians seeking to build successful businesses. Inspired by a dream Aboyeji said his entrepreneurial journey began after watching The…

Creators who are part of TikTok’s test and want to use the tool will first have to verify their identity with a company called Jumio. You’ll have to do a real-time selfie scan and an ID check, but Kizer says that “TikTok does not retain ID documents, and facial information is used only for likeness matching and to help identify potential unauthorized uses of a creator’s likeness.”After verification, TikTok’s system scans for AI-generated content potentially using a creator’s likeness. From there, a creator can review what TikTok found and potentially report unauthorized posts and accounts.

“Us vs them”Kolkata football has, over the past century, come to revolve — much like in Madrid, Merseyside and Manchester —  around intense local derbies. In this case, the rivalry between Mohun Bagan and East Bengal draws crowds of more than 50,000 and dominates football conversation in the city.“There is a great passion for football in other parts of India too – Goa in the west, Kerala in the south and Sikkim and Manipur in the northeast,” said Kolkata-based football analyst Debanjan Banerjee.“But the longstanding rivalry between two great clubs in Kolkata has created not just a binary structure for…

Current trends suggest a chance of more changeable weather during the second half of summer.However, the signals from computer weather models are rather mixed meaning there is a lot of uncertainty.The latest sub-seasonal forecast from DTN – the BBC’s weather data supplier – suggests that areas of low pressure will feature more prominently over the next couple of weeks, especially for Scotland and Northern Ireland.This would mean an increase in wet weather.However the Azores high, a semi-permanent large area of high pressure over the North Atlantic which can block weather fronts from reaching the UK, is likely to be close…

Caitlin Clark’s slump is officially over. The Indiana Fever star reminded everyone what she’s capable of with a historic performance on Friday night to lead her team to a thrilling 110-107 win over the Seattle Storm. Clark finished with a career-high 45 points and 10 assists to set the Fever’s franchise scoring record and become the first player in WNBA history with a 40-point, 10-assist game. “I just thought I was aggressive from the start,” Clark said. “Missed a shot, came back and made the next. I knew my team needed me to step up with [Aliyah Boston] out. Just proud of…

The incident occurred when Rees was employed, as part of the BBC’s Top Gear programme to film a “power test” of the Morgan Super 3 versus the Toyota GR86 at the Dunsfold Airfield in Surrey between 13th and 15th December 2022. Rees is a racing driver and has experience as a stunt driver for TV shows, but the particulars of his claim said he had never driven a Morgan Super 3 before. The incident that injured Rees and Flintoff involved an attempt to drift the three-wheeled car around the airfield’s “Chicago” bend, the document states. “At no time no time…

As Nigeria moves closer to adopting state policing, the debate has shifted from whether the country needs a decentralised policing system to how it can establish one that is effective, adequately funded, accountable and insulated from political abuse, writes Linus Aleke For more than two decades, the debate over state policing has remained one of the most contentious issues in Nigeria’s constitutional and security discourse. Rising insecurity, ranging from terrorism and banditry to kidnapping and communal violence, secessionist agitation and cult related violent extremism has repeatedly exposed the limitations of a highly centralised policing system, prompting renewed calls for a…