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Zack Polanski has confirmed he will pay any outstanding council tax he owes, saying he believed he was not liable for the charge while living on a houseboat in London.The Green Party leader told the BBC he could be liable for between £3,000 and £4,000 in unpaid council tax, owed to the London borough of Waltham Forest.However, Polanski said the council has yet to tell him whether he faces a bill for unpaid tax – and claimed he may not owe anything at all.Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Polanski said working out the tax bill for living on a boat was…

An increasing number of scientists think we have let the climate crisis fester for so long that our only hope to stave off ever-intensifying catastrophes is to use technological interventions. Cloud brightening, injecting sulphur into the atmosphere and the use of tiny mirrors in space – all of which might reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface – are among the concepts being promoted by entrepreneurs and governments alike. Geoengineering, they argue, is now inevitable.Ever since the God of the Old Testament granted our species dominion over the Earth, ideas of remaking the world to better suit us have…

Key eventsSafiullin 6-7 (6-8), 3-6, 6-3 Djokovic* (*denotes next server)All Safiullin needs to do is hold. He is yet to win a set against Djokovic across the four meetings the pair have had. He gets to 30-15 and a long shot from Djoko puts him within a point of pushing this to a fourth set. He does it, huge. What resilience.Roman Safiullin takes the third set. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty ImagesShareUpdated at 17.29 CESTSafiullin* 6-7 (6-8), 3-6, 5-3 Djokovic (*denotes next server)Safiullin was in this exact position in the first set but he did not capitalise and Djokovic battled back to win…

Marcellus Wiley was arrested Saturday on a charge of domestic battery, the latest in a series of legal issues against the former football player-turned-podcaster. An inmate search confirms that Wiley was booked into Orange County Corrections in Orlando, Florida on the Fourth of July on one count of domestic battery, where he remained at press time pending his court hearing. TMZ first reported news of Wiley’s arrest, the details of which have not been revealed. The arrest comes over two months after Wiley was accused of sexual assault by four accusers, including a former ESPN production assistant; following his retirement…

The 66th President of the Rotary Club of Lagos, Rotarian Toyin Odulate, was formally installed at the Metropolitan Club, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Friday, July 3, 2026. The colourful ceremony was chaired by His Imperial Majesty, Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, the Obi of Onitsha, and attracted an impressive gathering of distinguished personalities from the corporate, traditional, and Rotary communities. Present at the event was Rotarian Yinka Babalola, who was recently installed separately in Evanston, Illinois, USA, as the Rotary International President, becoming only the second Nigerian and African to attain that prestigious office. At the ceremony, Flobal Finance Company was honoured…

Again, tragedy struck the Birnin-Gwari Emirate of Kaduna State, Saturday afternoon, when armed bandits attacked local communities, killing at least nine farmers and abandoning an unspecified number of villagers. The attacks reportedly began around 3 p.m., when local peasants were tending to their crops. According to local sources, the bloodshed was triggered by a failed robbery attempt in which two armed bandits had attempted to snatch a farmer’s motorcycle. A resident, Ibrahim Garba, said the incident ended in the death of one of the bandits. “The other bandit fled and returned with a heavily armed gang that unleashed a ruthless…

NewsFeedMillions of people have attended funeral prayers in Tehran for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who was killed in a joint US-Israeli strike on February 28. Aerial video reveals the scale of the crowd.Published On 5 Jul 20265 Jul 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The Federal Government has dismissed claims that it spent more than ₦8 trillion outside the approved budget, insisting that it does not operate a “shadow budget” and that all public expenditures are carried out within the framework of the Constitution and relevant laws. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, described recent public commentary suggesting that about two per cent of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was spent outside legislative approval as inaccurate and misleading. The minister said the claims, reportedly linked to references made by the International Monetary…

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google’s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence.Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to check on the status of a draft, who takes a photo and uses AI to transcribe it into a Google Doc. Franklin and Adams hop in to make edits in suggestion mode, Gemini finds them a meeting time, takes notes during a Google Meet call, and…

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Comrade Ayodele Wisdom Olawande is the Minister of Youth Development. In this interview, he highlights President Bola Tinubu’s administration, focusing on economic reforms, infrastructure development and youth empowerment. He says that despite the hardship from the ongoing reforms, the administration aims to create a sustainable economy and provide jobs. On the 2027 elections, he says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has a brighter chance if it continues to deliver on its promises. Excerpts: President Tinubu is three years in office. What is your assessment of his administration? Thank you very much. That is a very good question. Priorities depend…