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The widow of actor and singer Malcolm-Jamal Warner has announced the launch of two philanthropic organizations in his honor, paying tribute to her late husband in social media posts that identified her for the first time.On Friday, the day before the eighth anniversary of their wedding, Tenisha Warner published a photo on Instagram of her and her Grammy-winning husband holding hands and laughing together on the day they got married. Some accompanying text explained that the doctor of psychology and her daughter had started the Warner Family Foundation as a young artists’ scholarship program as well as River & Ember,…

Tears stream down Francine’s* face as she pulls her glove off. Her right hand is covered by a pale, mottled burn scar. Her fingers are stiff and unnaturally bent. Francine turned to sex work to survive soon after she arrived alone at Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp in 2015, having travelled there from Burundi.On Christmas Eve in 2022, a client refused to pay. When she blocked the doorway, he grabbed a boiling-hot saucepan of beans and threw it at her, scalding her hand and chest.Life for refugees in Malawi has become much more difficult, with funding cuts by international donors resulting…

The naira sustained its rally last week, closing at N1,500/$1 at the official Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. The naira rebound is being driven by a combination of stronger demand for the naira, reduced speculative trading, and rising foreign reserves now at $41.66 billion on September 11. Analysts insist that the Forex reforms instituted by the Olayemi Cardoso-led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are stabilizing the exchange rates and improving overall health of the economy. The naira rally in recent weeks, has been attributed to fallout from reforms instituted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to entrench transparency, accountability and…

Only three weeks into the season, Notre Dame and Clemson have dropped out of the playoff picture with two losses each. According to the Allstate Playoff Predictor, Notre Dame (0-2) now has a 6% chance of reaching the College Football Playoff. Clemson (1-2) has a 4% chance.That makes room for somebody else.Below you’ll find one team in the spotlight for each of the Power 4 leagues and another identified as an enigma. We’ve also tiered schools into three groups. Teams with “Would be in” status are featured in this week’s top 12 projection, a snapshot of what the selection committee’s…

For years, Tylenol has generally been considered safe for treating pain and fever – even during pregnancy, when doctors discourage patients from using many medications.Doctors might even recommend taking Tylenol for pain or fever during pregnancy, because, left untreated, they can pose their own health risks.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBut recent news reports about the federal government connecting Tylenol to autism have drawn new questions and concerns about the drug.A few things are clear.After years of research, no study has shown that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, causes autism. There’s no known single cause of autism, a neurological…

Since President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the NHI Act into law last year in May, eight different groups have challenged it in court. One common argument is that it is irrational and unreasonable to restructure the health system when there’s no money to do so. In this feature, Spotlight dissects how the argument is being applied, and whether it has any chance of success. Earlier this month, the Western Cape Government filed papers with the Constitutional Court challenging the validity of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act. In doing so, it became the eighth group to litigate against the Act, which…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureTomorrow is the men’s long jump final. I’m not on then, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to post this today, from the 1991 edition of this meet: the greatest field event competition of all time.ShareShareMondo isn’t just great at pole vaulting – he’s also a neologian, saying that after breaking the world record again, he was “super-overwhelmed”. File above “over-exaggerate”.ShareNow it’s on to Faith, perhaps the greatest all-round athlete on the planet – she’s hoping to do the 1500m and 5000m double here, and her own world…

As dawn spread over San Antonio on September 9, 2021, almond-colored smoke began to fill the sky above the city’s Far West Side. The plumes were whorling off the top of a 132-foot-tall cell tower that overshadows an office park just north of SeaWorld. At a hotel a mile away, a paramedic snapped a photo of the spectacle and posted it to the r/sanantonio subreddit. “Cell tower on fire around 1604 and Culebra,” he wrote.In typical Reddit fashion, the comments section piled up with corny jokes. “Blazing 5G speeds,” quipped one user.“I hope no one inhales those fumes, the Covid…

NewsFeedAl Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili saw the aftermath of an Israeli attack on one of the tallest residential towers in Gaza City. The Israeli military has levelled at least 50 multi-storey buildings in recent weeks.Published On 16 Sep 202516 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing HBO Max to fresh corners of Asia. The company said Tuesday that its flagship streaming platform will launch direct-to-consumer on Oct. 15 in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and six other smaller regional markets. The expansion continues the service’s gradual push across the region following earlier rollouts in East Asia, Australia and Europe. Subscribers in the new markets will have access to HBO’s signature programming — including House of the Dragon, The Last of Us and The Penguin — alongside Max Originals and Hollywood features like Superman, Sinners and Final…