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The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Hussain Yusuf-Datti, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the by-election for Dawakin Kudu constituency of Kano State. Ibrahim Tajo-Suraj, the returning officer for the election, declared Mr Yusuf-Datti the winner of the election on Saturday in Dawakin Kudu. Mr Ibrahim said that Mr Yusuf-Datti polled 22,890 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Habib Hamisu, of the Peoples Redemption Party, who scored 270 votes. Mr Ibrahim further disclosed that Abdullahi Adamu of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 108 votes, while Bala Mohammed-Sani of the Action Democratic Party secured…

Cabaña Verónica, SpainA good mountain hut, I reckon, should be small and only accessible on foot after considerable effort. Throw in a bit of historical interest and I’m bound to be happy. In which case, Cabaña Verónica in the Picos de Europa is a fine start to this list. It sleeps six, and at 2,325 metres requires a two-hour trek from the nearest cable car station, never mind road. It has incredible views and a friendly custodian who keeps things in good order. Yet the real attraction is that this place was formerly a gun turret of a US navy battleship…

Australian households will shrink but more people can expect to live well into their 90s, according to the latest update to forecasts of the country’s long-term future.Treasury’s latest intergenerational report, to be published in full on Monday, will project the impact of government policies 40 years into the future.An extract released on Sunday showed life expectancy at birth was forecast to reach almost 90 for women by 2065/66, up from about 86 years at present.The report will also reveal that artificial intelligence (AI) will become the “defining influence” on the economy over the next four decades, as the treasurer, Jim…

Joshua Van earned a unanimous decision (49-46, 49-47, 50-45) win over his Brazilian opponent to cement his reign.Published On 20 Sep 202620 Sep 2026Joshua Van put on a striking masterclass to secure a unanimous-decision win over Alexandre Pantoja and retain his flyweight title in UFC 331 in Los Angeles, as the 24-year-old from Myanmar settled the score with the former champion after their first fight ended with a freak injury.Undisputed flyweight champion Van cemented his reign atop the 125-pound (56.7kg) division, defeating the Brazilian via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-47, 50-45) in the main event on Saturday night.Pantoja had suffered an…

Angela France, one of the directors at Daisybank CIC, which helped to saved the field in Cheltenham from development last year, said she was “delighted” to hear about the new fund. “Local green spaces are so important to us now,” she said.”I see more and more local communities getting together to protect them.”She said since buying the land, the group had organised litter picking, butterfly counts and an ecological survey in order to plan how best to maintain the field so that local wildlife could thrive. A community event is also organised for 24 October to gather views on the…

Hundreds of drones targeting Moscow and its surrounding region killed at least two people and damaged a major refinery on the final day of the country’s parliamentary elections, authorities said on Sunday.The capital’s mayor said that more than 1,600 drones had been intercepted and shot down, 450 of which were aimed at Moscow.Sergei Sobyanin accused Ukraine of attempting to interfere with a tightly controlled three-day election that is set to tighten president Vladimir Putin’s 26-year grip on power.“The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed,” he said on Telegram.Moscow’s regional…

Justin Fanelli, the Department of Navy’s chief technology officer, has spent the last three and a half years trying to make the U.S. Navy easier to do business with. When we first talked to him last year, he described a shift away from what he called “your granddaddy’s government” — a “spaghetti chart” of entry points for startups — into something closer to a funnel, where companies that show strong results get pulled into the Navy’s technology base as enterprise services. This week, we caught up with him again on a video call, and this time, he wasn’t just looking…

Chiltern Railways has become the latest train operator to enter public ownership as the government closes in on its ambition to renationalise all major passenger rail services.The operator, which runs commuter rail services on the Chiltern mainline between London Marylebone and Birmingham, on Sunday became the sixth to be nationalised under Labour, with the remaining four to follow by the end of 2027.The Department for Transport (DfT) said the move would bring more reliable services, with plans to end what it termed the “daily frustration” of overcrowding.It has promised a package of improvements for Chiltern passengers, including more services and…

Melbourne finishes second-last at world tram driving championshipsDespite having one of the largest tram networks in the world, Melbourne tram drivers finished second last, just ahead of London, at the 12th European TramDriver Championship held in Warsaw yesterday.A team from Prague finished first out of 26 teams, at the highly demanding course, which included: smooth stop and go, speed control at 25 km/h, target braking, tram bowling, lateral distance, basketball, a perfect stop with the second door, and a reverse ride guided by whistle commands.Melbourne will host the next event in 2027. In 2022, Australia was the first ever non-European…

President Donald Trump has responded in characteristic fashion to the recent debate around AI safety — by declaring that these concerns are part of a long line of hoaxes “generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country.” On Saturday, Trump began his musings on AI by writing on his social network Truth Social that “many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence.” So he posted a poll where followers could vote on a new name for the technology — Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme…