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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureMatt Beard memorial fund has raised £50,000Tom GarryA crowdfunding page raising money for the family of the former Liverpool manager Matt Beard has surpassed £50,000 in donations, as women’s football players, coaches and fans rally around Beard’s loved ones following the shock news of his death last Saturday, at the age of 47.The fundraising page, setup by the broadcaster Jacqui Oatley, originally only targeted raising £5,000 but donations have been flooding in from across the women’s game to see the total climb to more than 10 times that target.Several…

Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. Sort of. About a quarter of ABC’s usual audience couldn’t see the talk show host this week after two major owners of ABC affiliates, Sinclair and Nexstar, refused to carry the show. Those right-leaning companies apparently felt that Kimmel’s joke—which included some disputed facts—was so unpardonable that they couldn’t expose their viewers to the comedian. They were also the first organizations to pull the plug on Kimmel, after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr seemed to threaten action. That means that even the stations that did carry the show—as well as Disney, which…

Dozens of people filed out of the room in protest at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

All boxing activities in Ghana have been suspended following the death of a super-middleweight 11 days after a bout in Accra.Ernest Akushey, popularly known as Bahubali, died aged 32 on Tuesday.While the exact cause of death is yet to be determined, preliminary indications suggest it may be linked to internal injuries sustained during his recent fight.Akushey faced Jacob Dickson at the Bukom Boxing Arena in the Ghanaian capital on 12 September.In a statement, the National Sports Authority described the nationwide suspension as a “necessary step” to “protect lives, uphold the integrity of the sport and ensure its future”.Authorities have also…

90 The Federal High Court in Abuja has directed the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to set up a special panel of medical experts within eight days to evaluate the health condition of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Justice James Omotosho, who gave the order on Friday, said the committee should submit its report within the same timeframe. The report would guide the court in deciding whether Kanu should be transferred to the National Hospital in Abuja for treatment. The judge also instructed that the panel should visit the Department of State Services (DSS)…

The constitutional amendment states that male and female will be the only recognised genders in the country.Slovakia has approved a constitutional amendment to limit the rights of same-sex couples.The country’s parliament on Friday approved the change, which states that male and female will be the only recognised genders, and that school curricula must respect the cultural and ethical positions set out in the constitution.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe amendment was approved with the minimum necessary 90 votes in the 150-seat lower house with the help of some conservative members of the opposition.The vote marks a sweeping change…

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The Israeli military has razed block after block of Gaza City as part of a new ground offensive in what was once the territory’s largest urban center.Israel’s war against Hamas, which began two years ago, has leveled wide swathes of the Gaza Strip, including the city of Rafah in the south and the town of Beit Hanoun in the north. But the military did not carry out such widespread demolitions in previous Gaza City operations.This time is different.Though much of the city is still standing, satellite images show Israeli forces are destroying whole areas as they sweep into Gaza City,…

From New YorkRecommended if you like Todd Rundgren, Congratulations-era MGMT, Connan MockasinUp next Songs and Music for Film released 30 September; forthcoming acting roles in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, out on Friday, and Marty Supreme (January 2026)New York’s Paul Grimstad has the kind of strange bio that befits his clowny, 70s-inspired avant-pop. Born in the midwest and based in New York since the 90s, Grimstad is a literature professor at Yale, has written essays on Jimi Hendrix and Alan Turing for the New Yorker, and has composed music for a number of films, including last year’s The…