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“Please, can my son swap jerseys with you? He speaks so highly of you, and it would be his dream.”Number eight Aseza Hele received the message on social media before South Africa played their final pool game at the Women’s Rugby World Cup against France. The 30-year-old struggled to comprehend why a young boy from England wanted the shirt of someone from the Eastern Cape of South Africa.A hat-trick of tries against Brazil, followed by another score in a win over Italy that sent South Africa’s women into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time, was why.And Hele, a…

Rainmaker Technology’s bid to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones is being met by resistance from the airline pilots union, which has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to consider denying the startup’s request unless it meets stricter safety guidelines. The FAA’s decision will signal how the regulator views weather modification by unmanned aerial systems going forward. Rainmaker’s bet on small drones hangs in the balance. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) told the FAA that Rainmaker’s petition “fails to demonstrate an equivalent level of safety” and poses “an extreme safety risk.” Rainmaker is seeking an exemption from rules that bar…

Colombia’s highest court has ruled that Meta violated a pornstar’s right to freedom of expression when it deleted her Instagram account.The South American nation’s Constitutional Court said on Friday that the tech firm had removed Esperanza Gómez’s account “without a clear and transparent justification” and without offering similar treatment to other, similar accounts.The 45-year-old, whose account had more than five million followers, is one of Colombia’s best known adult content actresses.Meta argued in the case that she had violated its rules on nudity. The company, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, did not immediately react to the ruling.Ms Gómez had…

China’s plan to build a nature reserve in the Scarborough Shoal brings strong responses from the Philippines and US.Published On 13 Sep 202513 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareUnited States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has expressed support for Manila’s opposition to Beijing’s plan to designate the contested Scarborough Shoal as a “nature reserve”, characterising the move as part of a broader Chinese strategy of coercion in the South China Sea.“The US stands with our Philippine ally in rejecting China’s destabilising plans to establish a ‘national nature reserve’ at Scarborough Reef,” Rubio wrote on the X social media…

new video loaded: ‘This Is Our Nepal’: A Wounded Gen Z Protester’s Fight for a Better FutureBy Shanta Nepali, Ang Li and Meg Felling•September 12, 2025Deepraj Rai, 23, was shot in the thigh during antigovernment demonstrations in Nepal. As he recovered at the hospital, he shared his hopes for the youth-led movement.

In late July this year, a few days before his 50th birthday, the exiled Russian film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky was landed with a 50,000 rouble (£450) fine by the Presnensky District Court of Moscow. This punishment was ostensibly for a Kafkaesque administrative offence relating to “procedures for the activities of foreign agents”. Khrzhanovsky himself thinks it was a symbolic birthday warning from the Russian authorities that he is still on their radar.“It’s clear it is absolute nonsense,” Khrzhanovsky says. “I will not pay it. I am not a Russian citizen and I don’t want to pay any money to the Russian…

The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has pledged to carry on her husband’s work, after authorities in the United States announced his alleged assassin had finally been captured.Investigators had appeared to be making slow progress in the hunt for whoever killed Donald Trump’s close ally, until they released security camera images of a young man on Friday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We got him,” Utah Governor Spencer Cox told a news conference, identifying the suspect as Tyler Robinson, 22, who had reportedly been confronted by his father over the pictures and then turned in.The 31-year-old Kirk…

Neve Gordon-Farleigh andRobby WestEast of EnglandRobby West/BBCEmma Simmonds went to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to seek help from the gynaecology department for fertility struggles A woman says she has lost “complete faith” and will never go back to a hospital that left her feeling “dismissed” after she had a miscarriage.Emma Simmonds, 41, went to the early pregnancy unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, in 2023 after bleeding at almost 11 weeks pregnant.She was told to return the next day and found out she had a miscarriage.Chris Bown, interim managing director at the QEH, said: “Our…

Bill ConnellySep 12, 2025, 07:25 AM ETCloseBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Week 1 had headliners for the casuals. Week 2 had rivalry games and loads of thrillers for the hardcores. In Week 3, we attempt to split the difference. This week gives us high-stakes helmet games (Texas A&M-Notre Dame, Georgia-Tennessee, Florida-LSU) and rivalry games both bitter (Pitt-West Virginia) and, sometimes, silly (Ole Miss-Arkansas). But most of all, it gives us PANIC.All of ESPN. All in one place.Watch the US Open and much more in the…

The trial of three officers was postponed due to a funeral The trial of three Brighton Beach police officers accused of attempting to cover up a rape was postponed in the Durban Magistrate’s court on Friday. The case concerns Q (a name we assigned to the victim who is in witness protection), who had reported that she was raped in March 2023. Her rapist, Zwelakhe Mashaba, was released when officer Gugulethu Buthelezi issued a notice claiming insufficient evidence. Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp | LinkedIn According to the state, Q was later detained, intimidated by officers Phila…