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By Enitan Abdultawab American streaming star Kai Cenat has revealed that he personally tried to help Nigerian content creator Carter Efe obtain a United States visa ahead of the highly anticipated Streamer University event. During a livestream on July 15, Kai Cenat disclosed that he had been working with Carter Efe throughout the visa process, but the application was ultimately unsuccessful. “Oh, also, I was trying to help Carter Efe get his visa. I was working with him, but it wasn’t able to happen,” Kai Cenat said. Although he did not explain why the visa application was denied, his comments…

Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.To see the completed puzzle, buy the next issue of the Guardian (for puzzles published Monday to Thursday). Solutions to Friday and Saturday puzzles are given in either Saturday’s or Monday’s edition.

In the name of Allah, Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and Lord of all creation — may the salutations of Allah, His peace and blessings be upon the noblest of all of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, upon his family, his Companions and all those who follow them precisely until the establishment of the Hour. Dear brothers and sisters! Know that, among the most destructive diseases of the heart is hasad-envy. It is not simply disliking that someone has a blessing; it is a deep spiritual sickness that…

Police on Friday discovered the wreckage of a boat that sank this week in the San Francisco Bay after recovering the body of a missing person the day before.The body was identified as Tondra Madruga, 58, also known as Tondra Miller, the San Francisco medical examiner said. She was one of three people missing after the Volare, a 49ft (15m) cabin cruiser, sank on Wednesday afternoon with 20 people onboard after being hit by a wave and capsizing. The group was on the boat to scatter the ashes of a loved one.The San Francisco police department’s marine unit located the…

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks.Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested models. The model beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 — models that sit just behind Anthropic and OpenAI’s leading-edge systems — on benchmarks including coding and general agents, according to Moonshot. It’s China’s largest AI model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the…

Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it’s “voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the US market.” Reuters reports that, according to a source, Taylor Farms told customers like Yum Brands owner Taco Bell and the food distributor Sysco on Thursday to pull shredded lettuce that had been produced initially as 5-pound bags at a facility in Guanajuato, Mexico, from distribution.Taco Bell said on Thursday that “The affected ingredient from our supplier is being indefinitely removed from our supply chain nationwide and will be replaced within 24 hours in…

NewsFeedPolitical analyst Eric Ham argues President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on election security and his push for the SAVE Act are attempts to expand federal authority over US elections ahead of November’s midterms.Published On 18 Jul 202618 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Many plastic items are used for only a few minutes or hours, but the material can remain in the environment for decades or even centuries. Researchers are now exploring a different approach: plastics designed to break themselves down when activated. Known as living plastics, these materials contain dormant microbes capable of degrading the surrounding polymer. In a study published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, scientists developed a version that fully decomposed in six days without producing microplastics. Zhuojun Dai, a corresponding author on the paper, explains that “the realization that traditional plastics persist for centuries, while many applications, like packaging,…

By Douglas Baye-Osagie   If the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, could have written the script of the 2026 World Cup before a ball was kicked, this would possibly be it. The European Champions against the World Champions. The past meeting the present.   And in the middle, at 39, is Lionel Messi. One more final. One more chance to cement what is already immortal. This is not just a game. This is history asking for a signature. And if it happens? A second straight World Cup for Argentina — the very first in the modern era to defend the crown.…

IShowSpeed, the backflipping, barking and half-and-half shirt-wearing internet personality, will perform his song (World Cup) Champions at the closing ceremony before Sunday’s final.Revealing the news on Tuesday, he said it would be “one of my most craziest achievements”.The influencer and online streamer has been one of the real winners at this year’s World Cup, hosting online watch parties, external from inside stadiums during games.And while his style of commentary may be a little bit different to Lee Dixon or Alan Shearer, his 52 million followers have been able to see official feeds of certain matches via his YouTube channel, thanks…