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66 Mr Kwame Ntow Amoah, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has pledged to strengthen cooperation among Africa’s oil-producing nations after assuming the role of Chairman of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (APPO). His appointment was formalised during a handover ceremony at the seventh APPO National Oil Companies CEOs Meeting held in Accra, where the outgoing Chairman, Mr Bienvenido Nguema Envo of Equatorial Guinea’s national oil company, GEPetrol, officially transferred leadership to him. Speaking after his confirmation, Mr Amoah described the new role as a call to action, stressing that Africa’s oil and gas industry must…

Wearing an adhesive bandage covering a gash on her leg, Jess Hull became the first Australian woman to qualify for a world championship 800m final after powering through her semi-final in Tokyo and setting a new national record.Her time on Friday was only good enough for third place, but given the speed of the race she progressed into Sunday’s final as one of the two fastest qualifiers. And it lowered the national mark set only last month by her team-mate Claudia Hollingsworth, who finished fourth in her semi.Hull said she felt she had been given a “second chance” after her…

Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative to social networks like Threads and X, has a new plan to make money. Instead of relying entirely on donations and grants as before, the company announced this morning it will now offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations that want to join the open social web. That network, also called the fediverse, offers a way for individuals and organizations to set up their own servers that interconnect with others that run the same protocol, ActivityPub. ActivityPub powers a number of different software applications, including Mastodon,…

Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has begun principal photography on the €4.5 million ($5.3 million) dystopian drama “Aqui,” directed by Tiago Guedes ad shooting in Spain and Portugal. Acclaimed South African and Australian novelist, J.M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, sold the rights to his “Jesus” trilogy to Branco, on condition that the film is shot entirely in Spanish. The “Jesus” trilogy, published in the 2010s, explores how the English language is taking over the world and reflects Coetzee’s interest in the Global South and in particular Argentine literature. In the film, child refugee David (played…

A South African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in eastern Mpumalanga province, police say. Rose Mnisi was allegedly seeking potential buyers for the human body tissue when she was picked up by security officers following a tip-off. “Upon being approached by police, the woman was caught with human tissues. The woman confirmed that she is a cleaner in the maternity ward,” police said in a statement. The 39-year-old woman appeared in court on Thursday, facing charges of illegal possession of human tissues. The body parts were seized and sent…

United States television host Jimmy Kimmel’s live show was pulled off the air by Disney-owned ABC after he made comments about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot last week in what has been deemed by right-wingers in the US a political assassination.But critics claim Kimmel’s removal is a violation of his free speech rights, which are enshrined under the US Constitution’s First Amendment.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listOn Thursday, hundreds of Kimmel fans gathered on the streets in Burbank, New York and Hollywood, protesting the removal of his show.Here is a closer look at what happened…

NewsFeedDutch MP Esther Ouwehand was told to change her outfit after wearing the colours of the Palestinian flag during a debate in parliament, she later returned in a watermelon print.Published On 19 Sep 202519 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

One of the world’s most popular streamers, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, says trolls “berate” him every day because his number of viewers has fallen.Ninja was propelled to stardom in 2018 after he played Fortnite on streaming site Twitch alongside rappers Drake and Travis Scott, and NFL player Juju Smith-Schuster.He now has fewer viewers than at the height of his fame – but still has 67m followers across all platforms, and is the world’s third most popular Twitch streamer.He told the BBC “haters” seem obsessed with the fact he was not quite as popular as he once was. “I think I’m the…

Report says ethnic violence has risen as the civil war passed two-year anniversary in the first half of 2025.Civilians are bearing the brunt as Sudan‘s vicious civil war extends and intensifies, the United Nations has warned.The UN’s Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said in a report released on Friday that civilian deaths and ethnic violence rose significantly as the war passed its two-year anniversary during the first half of 2025. The same day, reports said that dozens were killed by paramilitaries in an attack on a mosque in Darfur.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe rate of civilian deaths across Sudan…

Maisie OlahShropshire andClare AshfordBBC Radio ShropshireLeanne Abeyance says her septum – the cartilage and bone that separates the nostrils – has now collapsedA woman has said she is living in constant pain and is unable to breathe through her nose after having dental work in Turkey.Leanne Abeyance, 41, from Telford, said she had been left with a painful, infected face and the implants could not be removed due to the infections.Her dental work also caused a collapsed septum which she said the NHS would not fix as it was deemed a cosmetic procedure.She spent £3,000 on the initial treatment, she…