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DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026United States President Donald Trump has announced that, effective immediately, CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are banned from the White House.On Friday, Trump posted on social media his displeasure with the media outlets’ coverage of his administration.He wrote that the outlets were “‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and accused them of fabricating news on him, the administration, and the country. “Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow,” Trump added.“This will be challenged, probably before the end of the day,” Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reported from Washington. “The United States has the First Amendment…

French soccer phenom Kylian Mbappé signed his new endorsement deal with On after Nike chose not to renew its deal with the international superstar, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.Earlier Friday, the Swiss sportswear company On said it reached an agreement with Mbappé, marking the brand’s first signing in football. The company also announced it named retired French star Thierry Henry as director of football. As Mbappé’s contract ended in July, Nike felt it had benefitted from the prime years of his career and decided to use its endorsement money elsewhere, said the person, who asked not to…

Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China.The great debate over AI safety that has erupted in recent days threatens to make the choice moot. If the worst scenarios come to bear – and experts have differing views on this – then the technology will impact the continent regardless.Europe has largely been absent from the highest levels of that debate, a…

Zack Polanski requested that the Greens’ ruling executive committee postpone the party’s imminent annual conference so they could focus on the Holborn and St Pancras byelection but was refused.While party officials say the formal request came from staffers worried about diluting resources by staging a conference a week before Polanski tries to win Keir Starmer’s former Commons seat, the Guardian understands the party leader wanted this to happen.In the end, the executive committee of the Greens in England and Wales, which has about 25 voting members including Polanski, voted against the plan on Thursday.The party expects about 3,000 people to…

Tech billionaires attempting to live for ever are, quite literally, wasting their time, a leading physicist has said.While some normal people are turning to unregulated peptide injections, cold plunges and supplements in an effort to defy ageing, the ultra-rich are aiming for immortality with even more drastic interventions: the tech chief executive Bryan Johnson has even tried injecting plasma from his 17-year-old son – although he later said he saw no benefit from it.Bryan Johnson (and son Talmage) is the world’s most measured human. Photograph: Magdalena WosinskaProf Jim Al-Khalili, who will be giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures on…

Leno Adesanya, promoter of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, failed to provide documentary or witness evidence to support his explanation that a $500,000 payment he made to Douglas Abubakar, the then-wife of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, was a legitimate foreign-exchange transaction. This is according to the Final Award rendered by the ICC on Thursday, rejecting the claims in the arbitration instituted by Sunrise against Nigeria. The tribunal report showed that the payment was made on 30 January 2003, less than four months before the Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project contract was allegedly awarded to Sunrise by then Minister of Power…

The Alternative for Germany, the far-right party that won a recent election in a small eastern state, plans a cultural overhaul that has drawn explicit comparisons to actions taken during the country’s Nazi past.The arts community in the state, Saxony-Anhalt, is preparing to fight for its survival if the party, known as the AfD, is able to form a coalition government with rivals and take power. Artistic directors in institutions across the state, many of which depend on government funding, are mobilizing to defy the AfD’s plans for more “patriotic” arts programming.Both sides agree the stakes transcend the local stage.…

The Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) has identified possible solutions for leadership under pressure.  At the just- concluded 3rd Quarter Regional Executive Committee (REC) meeting in Orile-Igbon, Oyo, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) bloc said pressure is inevitable in leadership.  It however said pressure can be a catalyst for purposeful leadership, saying coping is a function of knowing what to do under such circumstance.  The meeting, which drew delegates from the six zones of the country, 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), was presided over by the Regional President, Baba Aladura Israel Akinadewo, who encouraged members…

…Year-to-date return rises to 60.53% Nigeria’s stock market is charging toward its highest annual return in nearly two decades, boasting a 60.53 percent year-to-date (YtD) surge that trails only the historic 2007 bull run. The market’s explosive performance coincides with FTSE Russell’s reclassification of Nigeria from ‘Unclassified’ back to ‘Frontier Market’ status, a major international vote of confidence following significant FX liquidity reforms and enhanced capital repatriation accessibility. The milestone is triggering a wave of inflows into blue-chip equities, driving the All-Share Index (ASI) growth toward levels not seen since the 2007 (+74.7 percent) pre-crisis bull run. Broad market gains…

Nikon’s annual Small World In Motion competition is open to anyone around the world with an interest in film or time-lapse photography through a microscope.This year’s winning video was magnified to 100 times in size, and featured tiny hair-like structures, called cilia, in the airways of a child with a rare genetic disease.It was submitted by Dr Ning Xu, a researcher at Tsinghua University in China, who used a series of complicated light waves to illuminate different parts of the sample in colour.Runners up in the competition included videos of a roundworm encountering a single-celled organism and microscopic jellyfish larvae…