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The 2025 Global Citizen Festival is coming together. After the previously announced news that Hugh Jackman will host the Sept. 27 NYC event — with The Weeknd and Shakira as headliners and Tyla, Ayra Starr and Mariah the Scientist as additional performers — Global Citizen announced Thursday that Bill Nye, Adam Lambert, Danai Gurira and Liza Koshy would serve as cohosts of the festival. Kristen Bell, Tony Goldwyn, Laurie Hernandez, Nate Burleson and Vladimir Duthiers will also take part as speakers, along with Lydia Kekeli Amenyaglo, Fy Rajaonarivelo, Esther Kimani, Omowumi Ogunrotimi, Valeriia Rachynska, and Taily Terena. And Colombian singer-songwriter Camilo will join the music…

Security camera video captured the moment an Israeli air attack hit the town of Ansariyeh, southern Lebanon.

ELECTION season is here! The air is thick with chants, slogans and unfortunately a few too many drivers, who might not realise that extra caution is again required this time. So, let’s get one thing straight: there is no glory in speeding through a crowd, no heroism in a crash caused by drink-driving and absolutely no dignity in turning a government vehicle into a demolition derby prop. To our esteemed public service drivers especially those tasked with the critical job of ferrying campaign officials, this message is for you. Yes, the rally energy is infectious and the party mood is…

As more digital mental health tools emerge, can ethics keep up with evolving tech?

Francesco Cacciatore is a self-proclaimed skeptic. Yet after spending two decades in the European aerospace industry and hitting, as he put it, a “crisis,” he made an undeniably optimistic bet: he started a space company. “You ask yourself, ‘What am I doing?’” he said in a recent interview. “I got offered some interesting opportunities, but then I kind of collapsed and realized I wanted to try and build something myself.” That something turned out to be one of the most challenging problems in aerospace: reentry. Along with his cofounder Víctor Gómez García, Cacciatore founded Orbital Paradigm, a Madrid-based startup building…

Coalition of the Willing meets to ‘finalise robust security guarantees for Ukraine,’ Macron saysLooks like that’s full house, with more leaders joining online, too.Opening the meeting, Macron says the leaders meet to “finalise robust security guarantees for Ukraine, and all the work that has been done in recent weeks.”And after his very brief remarks, the media are asked to leave.The leaders are expected to speak with Trump early afternoon, and will brief the press once all is done.ShareKey events16m agoCoalition of the Willing meets in Paris – in pictures29m agoSweden reports ‘sharp increase’ in GPS interference affecting civil aviation55m agoGoogle…

MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy’s Berlusconi family, has raised its stake in German broadcaster ProSiebensat.1 to 75.61%, and will become the majority shareholder. More to follow.

At least 32 people have died in Nigeria’s northern Niger state after a boat sank in a river, an official has told the BBC.The reportedly overloaded boat, said to have been carrying about 100 passengers including women and children, capsized when it struck a submerged tree stump on the River Niger in the Borgu area on Wednesday morning.Abdullahi Baba Ara, the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) in the state, told BBC Hausa on Thursday that more than 50 other people had been rescued, with eight still missing.Search operations are continuing. Mr Ara said the government had set…

Matt BowenSep 3, 2025, 10:37 AM ETCloseMatt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and Buffalo over seven seasons.Week 1 of the fantasy football season is more about player usage than schemes or game plans. Sure, the coaching matters, and so do the individual matchups. But when we set our lineups for this week, we want to base it on the volume…

The world’s biggest destination for illegal streams of live sports events has been shut down, according to a leading anti-piracy group.The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) said on Wednesday it had teamed up with police in Egypt to close down Streameast, which had been visited more than 1.6 billion times in the past year.It allowed millions to access pirated streams of sports such as Premier League football matches, Formula One races and Major League Baseball games.ACE chairman Charles Rivkin said it was a “resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy”.”With this…