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Guardian writers’ predicted position: 7th (NB: this is not necessarily Suzanne Wrack’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)Last season’s position: 1st in the ChampionshipProspectsTo assess the prospects of a team you would usually think about prior performances, new signings, prior consistency, ambition and so many more variables. Doing so for the WSL newbies London City Lionesses is nigh-on impossible because they have undergone a complete squad overhaul. A staggering 15 players have come in (with two then going out on loan) and 11 have exited. Change isn’t limited to the pitch either, with the training ground in flux,…

BuffyPeeking at some percale sheet sales? WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell really liked the long-staple Supima cotton sheets from Buffy, which are a good contender if you’re looking to stay cool at night. I also love my Buffy Breeze comforter, which is perfect for when the nights start to get a bit cooler and the fall temperatures roll around. The Lyocell material doesn’t make me feel like I’m roasting, yet it maintains a weightier feel than your average blanket. As part of Buffy’s Labor Day sales, you can take 20 percent off the entire site and 30 percent off of bedding…

District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency order follows a legal complaint brought on behalf of 10 children.Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025A United States judge has blocked the administration of US President Donald Trump from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children for at least the next two weeks, in the government’s ongoing hardline anti-immigration push.The order, which was issued on Sunday in response to a complaint filed by a pro-immigrant advocacy group, came as some Guatemalan children were reportedly already put onto planes at a Texas airport and huddled inside.District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s emergency decree followed a petition from the National Immigration…

Mr Ojulari said the NNPC Ltd will continue its reforms to ensure development in the energy sector. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Group Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Ojulari, on Thursday, said the company requires a minimum of $60 billion to have additional refining capacity of 500,000 barrels per day by 2030. Mr Ojulari disclosed this while speaking during a courtesy visit of the leadership of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) to the NNPC Towers on Thursday. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines He explained that the company was mandated to grow…

Israel has stepped up its destruction of Gaza City as it plans to seize Gaza’s largest urban centre and forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south, as it killed at least 78 people across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 32 desperately seeking food.On Sunday, in Gaza City, the Palestinian Civil Defence reported a fire in tents near al-Quds Hospital after Israeli shelling. At least five people were killed and three wounded when a residential apartment was hit near the Remal neighbourhood.Ismail al-Thawabta, director of Gaza’s Government Media Office, said the Israeli army is also…

392 The Imo State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has inaugurated a new State Executive Committee (SEC) to steer the party’s affairs as it prepares for the upcoming general elections. According to the party, the inauguration of the SEC members marks the beginning of a new era of transformative leadership focused on securing electoral success. In his address to party members following the inauguration, the newly elected chairman of the committee, Prof. James Okoroma, assured the people of Imo State that the ADC would be a political force built on integrity and inclusiveness. Okoroma emphasized that the party…

The Ministry of Health has directed all health facilities across Uganda to ensure they maintain adequate stocks of essential medicines such as oxytocin, which are critical in preventing maternal deaths caused by excessive bleeding after childbirth. Permanent Secretary Diana Atwine, in a message shared on the Ministry’s official X account on Wednesday, stressed that no health facility should run out of these lifesaving drugs, which help contract the uterus and reduce the risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). “We must ensure that at any one time, we do not run out of medicines that help to contract the uterus like oxytocin.…

The weekend crash follows some rocky years for the one-time Republican presidential candidate.Published On 31 Aug 202531 Aug 2025Former New York City mayor and United States President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been hospitalised after a car crash near Manchester, New Hampshire, a spokesman said.Late Saturday evening, Giuliani suffered a fractured vertebra as well as other cuts, the spokesman, Michael Ragusa, said in a post on X. He said that Giuliani’s rental car was hit from behind at high speed, adding that it was not a targeted attack.Giuliani, 81, was taken to a nearby trauma centre and was…

The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To study the law’s effect, the Post says it examined the top 90 porn sites based on U.K. visitor data from Similarweb, finding 14 sites…

Queen Camilla was a victim of an attempted sexual assault as a teenager and used the heel of her shoe to fight off her attacker, a new book about the monarchy has claimed.According to Power and the Palace, serialised in the Sunday Times, the queen told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London.Valentine Low, the book’s author and a former royal correspondent for the Times, spoke to Johnson’s former communications director Guto Harri, who recalled the future prime minister telling him about the meeting that took place at Clarence House in about 2008.In an extract from…