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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…

Nigerian chef Hilda Baci has broken the world record for cooking the largest ever pot of jollof rice in Lagos last week.Guinness World Records (GWR) confirmed the achievement on social media, saying Ms Baci’s concoction of the popular West African dish weighed in at a staggering 8,780kg.After nine hours of cooking, the effort was almost thrown into jeopardy after the giant pot used to make the dish broke as it was being hoisted onto a crane to be weighed – thankfully, none of the rice was spilled.Ms Baci celebrated the triumph by thanking her team and supporters: “This moment isn’t…

The US president has cited the reputational damage caused by the newspaper’s coverage of his relationship with Epstein.Published On 16 Sep 202516 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States President Donald Trump has said he is bringing a $15bn “defamation and libel lawsuit” against The New York Times (NYT) over its coverage of his family and political movement, and cited reputational damage over the newspaper’s reporting regarding his relationship with disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.“The New York Times has been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!” Trump…

Malawians are voting to elect their next president amid a deepening economic crisis in one of Africa’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries.The small Southeast African nation has been hit with double-digit inflation that has caused food prices to skyrocket for several months now. It came after intense drought events last year. Earlier, in 2023, Cyclone Freddy, which struck the region, hit Malawi the hardest, killing more than 1,000 people and devastating livelihoods.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn Tuesday’s election, voters are also choosing parliamentarians and local councillors across 35 local governments.Malawi is most known for its tourist hotspots,…

Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global. With this round, the consumer electronics company is now valued at $1.3 billion. Other investors in the round included existing backers such as venture outfits GV, Highland Europe, EQT, Latitude, I2BF, and Tapestry. The company, founded by Carl Pei — who previously co-founded Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus, known for high-performance devices at competitive prices — also received new strategic backing from Nikhil Kamath and Qualcomm Ventures. The new funding takes Nothing’s total funding to over $450…

Starmer to chair cabinet as polling shows only 26% of Labour members approve of his leadershipGood morning. Keir Starmer chairs cabinet this morning having lost his deputy PM, his ambassador to Washington and his strategy chief all within less than a fortnight.The Commons starts a four-week recess this evening, which will provide some respite. (If MPs are out of Westminster, they are less likely to engage in dissident plotting.) But before they head off, MPs will spend three hours in a debate on Peter Mandelson, which is likely to focus on whether Starmer was right to appoint him in the…

Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation and libel, alleging the publication caused him reputational damage. According to Reuters, the president sued the New York Times, four of its reporters and publisher Penguin Random House in documents filed on Monday in a U.S. district court in Florida. Reuters reports that Trump cites a series of New York Times articles in the suit, including an editorial from before the 2024 election that said he was unfit for the presidency, as well as a book Penguin published last year with the title “Lucky Loser:…

272 Australia is facing serious threats from climate change as rising oceans, flooding, and extreme heat are expected to endanger homes, lives, and livelihoods across the country in the coming decades. A new national climate risk assessment released on Monday revealed that more than one million people living in coastal areas could be directly at risk by 2050. The report, which comes ahead of the federal government’s announcement of new emission reduction targets this week, painted a grim picture of Australia’s future. It said rising temperatures would bring “cascading, compounding, concurrent” impacts, touching almost every part of life for the…