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Ireland’s Kate O’Connor speaks after winning gold in the women’s heptathlon at the European Athletics Championships, just weeks after winning the same event at the Commonwealth Games.READ MORE: O’Connor secures European gold in heptathlonAvailable to UK users only.

Amid a torrent of fan-friendly news about Disney projects across the media spectrum, Disney leadership took time on the first day of the three-day D23 fan fest weekend in Anaheim for panels that offered a behind the scenes look at the Mouse House’s business strategies and vision for driving growth in the streaming era. One of the topics tackled was how to reach next-generation Disney fans with next-generation content formats to keep the company’s many franchises relevant to Gen Alpha and beyond. Disney’s push into the booming vertical media space — aka microdramas and other shortform clips designed to be…

The Accord Party governorship candidate and incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has secured the highest number of votes in his Local Government Area, Ede North, in Saturday’s governorship election. The Ede North Local Government Area Collation Officer, Jacob Opele, announced the aggregate results at the LGA collation centre, declaring Mr Adeleke the winner. Mr Adeleke, who is seeking re-election, polled 35,427 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who secured 10,283 votes. The Result from Ede-North LGA The results from the 30 local government areas of Osun State are being announced…

Following the conclusion of results collation at the respective levels of the 30 local government areas in Osun State, the final collation of results has commenced at the designated collation centre in Osogbo, the state capital. The designated INEC Returning Officers for the various LGAs are expected to present the results from their respective LGAs for verification and final approval by the Returning Officer for the election. The final collation will determine the overall result of the governorship election, following the conclusion of voting and the collation of results at polling units, wards and local government levels. Voter turnout in…

Iran has called for the release of three Iranian pilots it said were captured by Qatar after two fighter jets were hit by air defences during a military operation at the start of the US-Iran war.In a letter to the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Iran’s Brig Gen Mohammad Bagherzadeh said the pilots – Javad Salehi, Abdul Majid Dashtian, and Imran Behroshian – had been held captive for six months.He said the body of a fourth pilot, Majid Kazemi, was returned after he was killed in the same operation on 2 March 2026 – the…

MultiChoice Nigeria’s first female Chief Executive Officer, Kemi Omotosho, in this interview with THISDAY reflects on more than three decades in the country, the company’s economic and creative-industry footprint, changing consumer habits and its plans to reach more Nigerians through television, streaming and technology Belated congratulations on making history as the first female CEO of MultiChoice Nigeria. What does this appointment mean to you personally and what message do you think it sends to women aspiring to leadership positions? Thank you. It is a significant milestone, and I’m incredibly proud of it. Being the first female CEO of MultiChoice Nigeria means a…

As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer, one US Senator is turning up the heat on Health Secretary Robert F. Kenney Jr. over the government’s “calamitous response” to the record outbreak. In a letter sent Thursday, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the federal response to the Cyclospora outbreak “botched” and “marred by missteps.” She pointedly questioned whether corruption and incompetence within the Trump administration and its clear ties to Taylor Farms—the mammoth produce distributer that sold Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce linked to the outbreak—played…

Reform UK would cut about £50bn from the benefits bill and scrap the disability payments system, Pip, the party will announce next week.Robert Jenrick, the party’s treasury spokesperson, said the plans would be the most comprehensive overhaul to the welfare system in a generation and affect nearly three million people.In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, external he said the current system is “suicidal empathy” and “a strange perversion of compassion”.Labour said it was “fantasy economics, built on stripping support from disabled people”, while the Conservatives called it a “half-baked policy” and another “attempt to distract from” questions about the…

The Accord Party candidate and incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, is in an early lead in the ongoing governorship election after results from 15 of the state’s 30 Local Government Areas were collated. The results announced across the 15 LGAs reviewed showed that Mr Adeleke has so far secured 283,235 votes, ahead of his closest challenger, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who has polled 216,003 votes. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Najeem Salaam, is in third place with 11,196 votes. Based on these figures, the tally shows that Mr Adeleke had a lead of…