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The moment is here: The Rock has arrived on the Lido.  At a 2025 Venice Film Festival packed with cross-generational star power — from George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jude Law to Jacob Elordi, Emma Stone and Ayo Edebiri — Dwayne Johnson‘s arrival Monday for the world premiere of The Smashing Machine nonetheless made for a show-stopping moment.  “This transformation was something I was really hungry to do,” Johnson said of his uncharacteristic starring turn in Bennie Safdie’s visceral drama. “I had been very fortunate to have the career that I’ve had over the years and to make the films…

“This is one of the most remote and also one of the most poor parts of Afghanistan.”Thamindri de Silva, the National Director for World Vision Afghanistan, explains why it’s difficult for response teams to reach the area affected by the earthquake in Afghanistan.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025

Erik ten Hag now holds the unwanted record of breaking the previous mark for a coach of five matches before dismissal.Published On 1 Sep 20251 Sep 2025Bayer Leverkusen have sacked manager Erik ten Hag after two league games in charge with the weekend draw at Werder Bremen not enough to save the Dutchman’s job.Leverkusen lost their opening Bundesliga game 2-1 at home to Hoffenheim to put ten Hag immediately under pressure, and Saturday’s 3-3 draw against 10-man Bremen brings an end to his short reign at the club.“This decision was not an easy one for us. Nobody wanted to take…

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Every seat in Copenhagen’s Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the vibe coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year’s TechBBQ conference. Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It’s one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications. It’s been an attractive proposition for users: In just eight months, the Swedish company said it surpassed $100 million in ARR and raised a $200 million Series A at a $1.8…

Dwayne Johnson takes on his most dramatic role yet in Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine,” playing UFC champion Mark Kerr. At the film’s Venice Film Festival press conference, the action star revealed that he’s been wanting to expand his repertoire for a while now. “I have, for a long time, wanted this,” Johnson said, sitting alongside director Safdie and co-star Emily Blunt, who plays Kerr’s girlfriend Dawn. “The three of us have talked for a very long time about, when you’re in Hollywood — as we all know, it had become about box office. And you chase the box office,…

A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria’s Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad, police have said.Police condemned the killing of the woman – identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye – as “jungle justice”, saying that an investigation was under way to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man jokingly proposed marriage to the vendor, and her response was considered blasphemous by some people in the area. “Unfortunately, it led to a mob attack, and [she] was set ablaze before a…

Given the clamour to watch games in Nairobi, Kenya eventually established fan parks where supporters without tickets could view matches.Former Tottenham midfielder Wanyama lauded the tournament’s “good social media” presence, but wants more viewing locations to be provided for ticketless fans.”In future fan zones should be in place from early in the tournament because, as you saw in Nairobi, fans really wanted to come into the stadium,” Wanyama told BBC Swahili.”Also, the zones shouldn’t be only in Nairobi but other areas in the country, because football fans aren’t only in Nairobi.”The Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar coped well after its late…

Shares in Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD slid by as much as 8% on Monday after it reported a drop in profit because of a price war in China’s car sector.The carmaker had on Friday reported that its net profit fell to 6.4bn yuan ($900m; £660m) between April and June, down 30% from a year earlier.BYD said in its filing that “increased price competition” among China’s EV brands had impacted the industry.The Shenzhen-based manufacturer is facing an increasingly crowded market, competing against local rivals Nio and XPeng and US carmaker Tesla, which have all slashed prices to draw buyers.The carmaker’s…

Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities.When Akmal’s* mosque was vandalised last week in Basildon, a town in the English county of Essex, he felt shaken.“I was so hurt,” said the 33-year-old electrical engineer, who requested Al Jazeera use a pseudonym. “It was so close to home. My local masjid [mosque]. It felt like a real kick in the teeth.”The South Essex Islamic Centre in Basildon was defaced shortly before midnight on Thursday. Red crosses were daubed across its walls alongside the words “Christ is King” and “This is England”.The timing, the night before Friday prayers,…