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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThomas Tuchel: “We should have scored more”I think the energy was right, the quality was there and we should have scored more,” the England head coach tells ITV. “After the first goal we had 10 or 15 minutes with too many ball losses and lost our focus and concentration but the second half, we found it again and should have scored more.”On Elliot Anderson’s debut: “Very good, very very good,” he says. “He was a bit nervous this week but then did good and we said let’s try it…

349 President John Dramani Mahama has officially commissioned 18 new envoys as part of efforts to reposition Ghana’s diplomatic corps in line with his administration’s Resetting Ghana Agenda. The commissioning ceremony took place at the Presidency in Accra, where President Mahama administered the oaths of office and secrecy to the new appointees. The group includes 12 Ambassadors, three High Commissioners, two Ambassadors in-situ, and one Ambassador-at-Large. Among the notable appointments are Mrs Sabah Zita Benson, who becomes High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; Mr Victor Emmanuel Smith, Ambassador to the United States; Madam Mavis Ama Frimpong, Ambassador to France; Mr…

Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025An Italian teenager called “God’s Influencer” is to become the first millennial Catholic saint at a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican.Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday’s canonisation in St Peter’s Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBorn in London, England, in 1991 to Italian parents, Carlo grew up in the northern Italian city of Milan, where he taught himself basic coding and used his computing talents to document miracles and other…

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement.The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.“As best as we can tell, it’s the largest copyright recovery ever,” said…

Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025In the mountains of southeast Afghanistan, whole villages have been reduced to piles of stone and mud.Nearly one week after a devastating earthquake struck Kunar province, residents are mourning their families and figuring out how they can possibly survive, having lost everything.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA magnitude 6.0 tremor struck the remote mountainous region last weekend, killing more than 2,200 people.“The victims face only two choices, to leave, or die,” Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reported from Kunar province, the epicentre of the quake.Following the earthquake, strong aftershocks were reported on Friday,…

Even before the wildfire has started to rage in fact-based docudrama The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass has us on edge. We’re inside a schoolbus for the morning drop-off and we’re reminded of the dangers already faced on the day-to-day, young children without seatbelts being driven around the precarious rolling roads of the California hills, the director cranking up every little sound of a vehicle we’re told is in delayed need of a maintenance check. The world is dangerous enough.That nervy tension soon gets considerably ramped up and then rarely lets up for the next two-plus hours, an exhausting, assaultive experience…

With the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that has anchored U.S-Africa relations since 2000 set to expire on September 30, prospects for extension or renewal grow increasingly slim. Among foundational principles that have anchored AGOA, the key one is the duty-free entry of specific African products into the American market. “AGOA has helped bolster economic growth, promoted economic and political reform, and improved U.S. economic relations in the region, according to the White House. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Office. In return, the United States gets leverage over African countries on matters such as respect for the rule of law and…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated more than 5,300 cartons of nutrition supplements to support 15,000 children in Jos and Bauchi State. UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, Wafaa Saeed, announced during her recent visit to the two states. In a statement signed by UNICEF’s Communication and Advocacy Specialist, Susan Akila, Saeed praised the commitment of Plateau and Bauchi governments to tackling malnutrition. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines “Plateau and Bauchi have shown what is possible when leadership, communities, and partners come together for children,” Saeed said. She urged authorities to release pledged funds for…

Downing Street confirms first batch of junior ministersDowning Street has now confirmed the first swathe of junior ministers appointed in the reshuffle.The list is as follows: Jason Stockwood has been appointed investment minister jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and the Treasury Dan Jarvis joins the Cabinet Office as a minister, while remaining security minister in the Home Office Lady Jacqui Smith has taken up the role of skills minister in the Department for Work and Pensions. She will remain as both the skills and women and equalities minister in the Department for Education Lord Patrick Vallance as…

“For my own safety I’ve become much more distrustful, I’ve shut myself off and try not to talk to certain people,” says Paul*, a young Burkinabé. “How will we go to health centres? Will doctors and nurses protect us? Or will they report us?”On 1 September, Burkina Faso’s minister of justice and human rights, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, announced an amendment to the Code of Persons and Family (CPF) which came into force in 1990, establishing for the first time a prison sentence of between two and five years and a fine for those who “promote homosexuality”.The amendment is “a historic…