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A cross-party committee of MPs has urged the government to reject a £10bn takeover proposal from Thames Water’s creditors.The UK’s biggest water company owes roughly £20bn and has been working with creditors and government officials.A report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee has now said the government should consider placing it into special administration, a form of temporary nationalisation.A Thames Water spokesperson said it needed to be “recapitalised and put on a firm financial footing”.Fears that the firm, which serves 16 million customers, could collapse first emerged three years ago.The committee said a takeover plan by a…

Chaotic vortices the wake of an aeroplane can contribute to aerodynamic drag.Credit: Photo12/UIG/GettyLast week, OpenAI stunned the world by claiming that its most advanced artificial-intelligence model had solved a Millennium Prize Problem: one of just a handful of notoriously tricky mathematical conundrums that each come with a US$1-million prize. The AI solution proved mathematically that there are instances in which the Navier–Stokes equations — famous, nineteenth-century formulae that model how fluids flow — produce a ‘singularity’, predicting physically impossible infinite speeds for gases or liquids.The news has opened up discussions about the blossoming mathematical abilities of AI, whether AI models…

In Ayn Rand’s mystery story, the Atlas Shrugged, there is something Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, can absorb: reason. Rand’s 1957 book remains valuable and useful outside the world of her fiction. She argues that reason is helpful for everyone. It is not only needed by a theoretical scientist in his laboratory, but by all of us, at all times. The heroes of Atlas Shrugged are thinkers. They demonstrate an ongoing commitment to understanding their work, themselves and the world around them. They choose their goals and values through thought, never putting their desires above the facts. That is a useful standard…

He smiled, extended his hand and clasped mine firmly. “My name is Kweku,” he said, with the quiet assurance of a man entirely at ease in his own skin. The name struck me as familiar. I was certain I had heard it before, yet I could neither place the location nor summon the circumstances of our supposed acquaintance. I mentally ran through the catalogue of my Ghanaian friends and acquaintances and none was Kweku. For a fleeting moment, I wondered whether I was experiencing some peculiar déjà vu. It took several hours for the memory to return. And when it…

Protestors gathered outside Washington’s Kennedy Center after President Trump’s plans to close the arts venue for renovations. Trump called the centre a ‘dump’ and said it could be ‘ripped down’ if a judge doesn’t allow him to add his name to the building.Published On 19 Sep 202619 Sep 2026Share Trump’s threats to demolish Kennedy Center sparks protest on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Companies and governments are increasingly waking up to the fact that the future of warfare isn’t just in the skies, but also on the ocean floor. Nations and corporations alike are devoting attention as well as piles of cash to new technologies designed for underwater use, as concerns grow about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like connectivity cables and energy pipelines traversing the seabed.It comes amid growing concerns of so-called hybrid warfare, a broad term which can include cyberattacks, energy sabotage, disinformation, and economic pressure, with or without being accompanied by conventional military methods. “It’s the changing threat environment that’s…

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time.Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Charles Pulliam-MooreDisneyCloseDisneyPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All DisneyEntertainmentCloseEntertainmentPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All EntertainmentNewsCloseNewsPosts from this topic will be added to your daily…

More than 1.1 million low-income families in rented homes face a “cost of housing” crunch without action from John Healey in next month’s budget, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned.Local housing allowance (LHA) has been frozen in cash terms since autumn 2024.In a new report, Saving Private Renters, the thinktank found that rising rents since then have led to a widening gap between what families claiming LHA can afford, and the realities of the market.It said a low-income family renting a typical two-bedroom flat now faces an average shortfall of £158 a week. That rises to more than £300 a…

Blood vessels (artificially coloured) snake through a a mouse’s brain.Credit: Simon Walker-Samuel, UCL CABI/Science Photo LibraryFor decades, many scientists have thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes not one but two flavours of progenitor cell to make the complex organ1.Mini-colon and brain ‘organoids’ shed light on cancer and other diseasesThe research suggests that one type of precursor cell forms the segment called the hindbrain, which is crucial for basic functions such as heartbeat and breathing. A second type of precursor cell,…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council asked urged African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar to withdraw from the 2027 presidential race over ICC arbitration revelations. The ​‌‌‍​‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠​⁠​‍⁠⁠‌‌​council alleged that proceedings before an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal in Paris had raised serious questions about the former vice president’s role in the Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project controversy. Dele Alake, spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, made the call in a statement on Friday in Abuja. The arbitration involved Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd., its promoter, Leno Adesanya, and the Federal Government over the stalled…