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Psychologist and gaming expert Nick Ballou has five ways how gaming can boost your mental health and wellbeing.

The world’s fourth-biggest company, Google owner Alphabet, has announced a £5bn ($6.8bn) investment in UK artificial intelligence (AI).The money will be used for infrastructure and scientific research over the next two years – the first of several massive US investments being unveiled ahead of US President Donald Trump’s state visit.Google’s president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat told BBC News in an exclusive interview there were “profound opportunities in the UK” for its “pioneering work in advanced science”.The company will officially open a $1bn (£735m) data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Tuesday.The investment will expand…

Jeremy BowenInternational editorAFP via Getty ImagesThe report is intended to be detailed and damning, presenting evidence it says shows that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It says that Israel has breached the Genocide Convention that was passed in 1948 by the newly established United Nations. The word genocide, and the convention that defined it as a crime, were directly inspired by the genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany.Israel denies all allegations that its conduct in Gaza has broken the treaties and conventions that make up the laws of war and international humanitarian law. It justifies its actions…

President/Chief Executive, Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Aliko Dangote, yesterday, alleged that oil mafias are all out to kill his $20billion refinery the same way they killed Nigeria’s textile industry. He spoke at the refinery on Monday on the first anniversary of gasoline production, saying the journey has been rough in the last one year. He said: “The past one year has been a very rough journey, I must confess. It wasn’t an easy journey because we came in to change the narratives. We came in to change the system of how things have been done in the downstream sector. We have…

Sep 15, 2025, 09:25 AM ETEverything that happens in the NFL has some additional context when viewed from a fantasy football perspective. From position battles to injuries and so much more, the news cycle will constantly affect player values in fantasy football.Our fantasy football buzz file, with contributions from our ESPN fantasy writers and our NFL Nation reporters, aims to provide fantasy managers with the intel they need as news breaks around the NFL.Key links: Fantasy depth charts | Cheat Sheet CentralRankings | Projections | Join a fantasy league todaySept. 15: Who got the ball on Sunday? Usage notes beyond…

Song-chun Zhu at Peking University, July 2025. Photograph: Sean Gallagher/The GuardianBy the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count. Or so it felt. This was the early 1970s, the waning years of the Cultural Revolution, and his father ran a village supply store in rural China. There was little to do beyond till the fields and study Mao Zedong at home, and so the shop became a refuge where people could rest, recharge and share tales. Zhu grew up in that shop, absorbing a lifetime’s worth of tragedies: a family…

  City Power Vows to Root Out Corruption City Power has reaffirmed its commitment to rooting out corruption, including its employees linked to stealing and tampering with infrastructure, reports EWN. This comes after three employees were arrested for allegedly cutting through core copper cables in Ruimsig earlier this year. City power spokesperson Isaac Mangane said such acts of sabotage, whether by syndicates or staff, undermine service delivery and leave paying customers in the dark. He said that areas like Roodepoort have suffered repeated cable thefts and vandalism, resulting in prolonged power outages that City Power is determined to prevent. Ramaphosa…

Klaus Meine, vocals/songwriterBeing a West German band made playing the Soviet Union in the late 1980s particularly special. We’d grown up in a divided country and had tried many times to play in East Germany, but they would never let us in. When we did our first gig in what was then Leningrad, the atmosphere was a bit grey, not very colourful or rock’n’roll – but hearts started opening up over the course of the 10 gigs we did in the city. It ended up a bit like Beatlemania, with fans circling our cars after every show.In Leningrad, we realised…

It’s just after 3pm on a Friday and 22-year-old Sinelethu Yaso is in her happy place. Her spotless cricket whites pop against the synthetic green turf, while the upbeat rhythms of kwaito music waft on the breeze as she ambles in to bowl.Beyond the boundary, in the Makhaza area of Khayelitsha township, in South Africa’s Cape Flats, laundry flutters on a wire fence and the September sun reflects off a corrugated-iron lean-to.The bowler, Sinelethu Yaso, takes a catch in a game against the Catch Trust’s U13 boys’ teamThe tall young woman has been told to go easy on her opponents…

A dire picture for HIV/Aids funding emerged at the 12th South African AIDS Conference, raising the call for resilience, adapting and also for government to raise its game. The what-next of South Africa’s HIV response will have to be centred on getting back to basics, leveraging on advances in treatment options and learning fast about adapting in a world without US aid for health services. These were among the key takeaways from speakers at a plenary session at the 12th Southern African Aids Conference held in Kempton Park last week. Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, executive officer of the Desmond Tutu Health…