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CBSE Class 10 Second Board Exam Result 2026 Live Updates: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is expected to announce the Class 10 Second Board Exam Result 2026 soon. While the board has not officially confirmed the result date, anticipation is growing among lakhs of students awaiting their final scores after the first-ever implementation of the two-board examination system for Class 10.This year, around 6.68 lakh students appeared for the second board examinations, which were conducted from May 15 to May 21, 2026 across the country.Once declared, students will be able to access their scorecards on the official CBSE…

The United Nations Children’s Fund has confirmed that the widely circulated photographs showing football icon Lionel Messi bathing Spain youngster Lamine Yamal as a baby are authentic, ending days of speculation that the images had been digitally altered. UNICEF made the clarification in a post shared on its official X handle on Thursday after several social media users questioned the authenticity of the viral photographs, with some claiming they had been doctored. According to the organisation, the images were taken more than 18 years ago during a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot involving Messi, Yamal and the youngster’s mother, Sheila. “Yes, those…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday said its national election will be held on Saturday as scheduled. It said this in a statement announcing the release of the managing director of the association’s election service provider by the State Security Service (SSS). The NBA did not disclose the names of the service provider’s managing director and his company in the statement shared via its official X account on Thursday night. It only confirmed that the official had been detained and later released. The association said the decision to proceed with the election as scheduled followed an emergency virtual meeting…

By embracing digitalisation, decentralisation and indigenous innovation, Nigeria is showing how Africa can leapfrog traditional energy models and build power systems designed for the future. For decades, Africa’s electricity story has been framed around a single deficit: not enough generation capacity to keep the lights on. A gathering of government officials, regulators, investors and engineers in the Nigerian capital last week argued that framing is out of date — and that the more urgent question now is not how much power the continent produces, but how intelligently it uses what it already has. That was the throughline at the Smart…

Wildfire season is fully upon us—and with it, the smoke. The most spectacular threat of a wildfire is of course the possibility it might directly threaten lives and homes, like the wildfires last year that devastated Los Angeles.But it is the smoke and the stinging haze—and especially the invisible particulate matter borne aloft for hundreds of miles—that is most likely to pose grave health risks to millions across the country, as wildfires rage in Canada and across the American West during summer months. Cardiac deaths spike after wildfires. So do visits to lung doctors. Smoke is bad for you.The more…

Andy Burnham will undertake a summer tour across the UK during the early weeks of his premiership.Described as a “listening tour of the UK”, Burnham will travel across the country in August while Parliament is in recess.Among the areas understood to be on his itinerary is Port Talbot in south Wales, a town which saw the closure of its last steel-making blast furnace in September 2024.The former Greater Manchester mayor will become prime minister on Monday but will not face MPs until September when the Commons returns from its six-week recess, unless he decides to recall Parliament.Several Welsh Labour MPs…

The diarrhoea-causing parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis reproduces through egg-like structures called oocysts (stained orange in this microscope image).Credit: CDC/DPDx – Melanie MoserA microscopic parasite found in contaminated food products is ruining summer meals across the United States in the largest outbreak of its kind in the country’s history. And health officials have yet to identify the source, although the state of Michigan, which has reported the highest number of infections, has signalled that lettuce or salad greens might be the culprit.There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaksSince 1 May, 1,645 infections with the parasite Cyclospora…

Poland’s forward #09 Robert Lewandowski celebrates after the 2026 World Cup qualifiers Europe zone group G football match between Lithuania and Poland on October 12, 2025 in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Photo by Petras Malukas / AFP) Polish star Robert Lewandowski’s Major League Soccer debut was on hold Thursday after the match between the Chicago Fire and Vancouver Whitecaps was postponed due to air quality issues caused by wildfires. Smoke from the fires, which are ravaging the Canadian province of Ontario, spread Thursday through the United States with border states including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois particularly choked. Thursday’s scheduled clash at…

After four years of biannual viewership reports, Netflix is pulling back a bit on the transparency front. The streamer revealed Thursday that, beginning Q1 2027, it will only release one engagement report each year. In its earnings report, the company says this is part of its shift in focus to quality over quantity. In its memo to shareholders, Netflix leadership wrote that “engagement is not just the quantity of view hours, but also refers to the quality and variety of our offering. To make this clearer, we’re making a change to our view hours disclosure. After today’s What We Watched…

Father of methanol-poisoned backpacker ‘devastated’ as charges set to be laidThe father of an Australian woman who died from methanol poisoning while travelling in Laos has said the charges that will be laid against those allegedly responsible have left his family devastated.Melbourne travellers Bianca Jones and Holly Morton-Bowles, both 19, were backpacking through the south-east Asian nation in late 2024 when they were fatally poisoned with methanol while drinking at Nana Backpackers Hostel in Vang Vieng.Those allegedly responsible are set to be hit with charges, but the father of Morton-Bowles, Shaun Bowles, has told 2GB radio that they were not…