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Legal settlement ensures Lachlan Murdoch will take control of sprawling media portfolio after 94-year-old mogul’s death.Published On 9 Sep 20259 Sep 2025Rupert Murdoch’s family has reached a deal to end the years-long succession battle over the mogul’s media empire.The deal, announced by News Corp on Monday, will see eldest son Lachlan Murdoch take control of a sprawling media portfolio that includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and The Times.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe agreement helps ensure that Murdoch’s media properties will retain their conservative bent long after the 94-year-old patriarch’s death.Under the…

During the visit, special prayers were offered in gratitude for Governor Radda safety following the minor road accident he experienced last month while travelling from Katsina to Daura. The Governor of Katsina State, Dikko Umaru Radda, Saturday, received Mr Roosevelt Ogbonna, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc, on a courtesy visit to the Government House, Katsina. During the visit, special prayers were offered in gratitude for Governor Radda safety following the minor road accident he experienced last month while travelling from Katsina to Daura. Mr Ogbonna personally prayed for the Governor’s continued protection and commended him for his…

Itojo General Hospital and Itojo Trading Centre have now spent a month without electricity due to faulty transformers, sparking anger among residents who blocked the Ntungamo-Mbarara highway by burning tyres and dumping garbage on the road. Police were later called in to disperse the protesters. Hospital staff say the outage has disrupted treatment, forcing many patients to return home untreated. “The hospital uses electronic systems, so now that we don’t have electricity, patients wait too long to get services and others go back home without being attended to,” said Polly Katungi, a linkage facilitator at the hospital. Eva Kempoko, another…

Nottingham Forest have parted company with their head coach, Nuno Espírito Santo, after a year and eight months, with Ange Postecoglou strongly linked to the vacant position. Nuno’s departure just three games into the season comes after the emergence of tensions with the owner, Evangelos Marinakis, over the past fortnight.“Nottingham Forest Football Club confirms that, following recent circumstances, Nuno Espírito Santo has today been relieved of his duties as head coach,” said a club statement in the early hours of Tuesday morning.“The club thanks Nuno for his contribution during a very successful era at the City Ground, in particular his…

Victorian treaty bill hailed as ‘turning point in this nation’s history’Ngarra Murray, the co-chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, said the move today was historic and reflected decades of work.Murray said: Now we stand at the beginning of a new era, the treaty era. We are at a turning point in this nation’s history. Treaty offers us the chance to reshape the story of this country. So today is a historic day. Victoria has been on the journey to treaty for nearly a decade, but treaty is the culmination of many decades of activism and work. Treaty recognises…

India’s finance minister calls for greater collaboration in ‘cybersecurity’ and ‘defence’ between the two countries.Published On 8 Sep 20258 Sep 2025Israel and India have signed a bilateral investment agreement to expand mutual trade during far-right Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich’s trip to the South Asian country, which deepened its ties with Israel under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The agreement, signed in New Delhi by Smotrich and Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, aims to boost trade and investment flows between the two countries. Sitharaman stressed the need for greater collaboration in “cybersecurity, defence, innovation and high-technology”.Recommended Stories…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Nepal’s Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvi Subba Gurung said the ban was ‘withdrawn’.Published On 9 Sep 20259 Sep 2025Nepal has lifted a ban on social media platforms following mass protests and the killing of 19 people in clashes with security forces, a government minister said.Cabinet spokesman and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Prithvi Subba Gurung said early on Tuesday that the government had rolled back the social media ban imposed last week.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We have withdrawn the shutdown of the social media. They are working now,” Gurung told the Reuters news agency.At…

Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest psychedelics conference, and you’ll see exhibitors hawking everything from mushroom jewelry, to chewable gummies containing extracts of the psychoactive succulent plant kanna, to broad flat-brim baseball caps emblazoned with “MDMA” and “IBOGA.” Booths publicize organizations such as the Ketamine Taskforce and the Psychedelic Parenthood Community, and even The Faerie Rings, a live-action feature film looking to attract investors.It’s a motley, multifarious symposium where indigenous-plant-medicine healers mingle with lanyard-clad pharma-bros, legendary underground LSD chemists, and workaday stoners tottering around in massive red and…

US lawmakers have released copies of a “birthday book” given to the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, which includes a note allegedly signed by US President Donald Trump. Along with the book, lawmakers also released a trove of documents that include Epstein’s personal address book and his will. Lawyers for the estate sent documents to the House Oversight Committee after they were subpoenaed last month.The release came hours after Democrats published the alleged note by Trump featuring a drawing of a woman’s body. The White House on Monday denied its authenticity and said…

If the Nuremberg trials were political theatre, writer and director James Vanderbilt leans into the spectacle of it. His new movie Nuremberg, about the show put on for the rest of the world to indict Nazi war criminals, is packaged like old-fashioned entertainment. There are movie stars (chiefly Rami Malek and Russell Crowe) with slicked-back hair, trading snappy barbs and self-important monologues in smoky rooms, meanwhile the gravity of the moment tends to be kept at bay. All the bureaucratic and legal speak around fine-tuning an unprecedented process, where one country prosecutes the high command of another, goes down easy…