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Aug 22, 2025, 05:26 PM ETThe US Open broke records in 2024 by offering the largest purse in tennis history. The final Grand Slam tournament of 2025 is upping the ante this year.The 2025 US Open will be the first tennis event to reach $90 million in total player compensation, topping the $75 million at stake last summer. The total marks a 20% increase. Reigning men’s and women’s singles champions Jannik Sinner and Aryna Sabalenka will look to defend their crowns in New York and take home a respective winning share of $5 million.ESPN will present exclusive coverage of the…

On a rainy August morning in Gunjur Sambuya, the green stretches freely. Maize stalks rise tall beside cassava plots, and vegetable beds lie open near the market, all unfenced yet untouched. In this Gambian village, crops grow in peace, without wire, without sticks, and without fear of goats or cattle devouring them. This rare sight is not a miracle of nature, but the result of a social pact that binds the community together. Here, the farmers plant anywhere they wish, confident that their neighbors’ animals will not trespass. Alkalo Edrissa Touray, the village head, explained the foundation of this trust.…

Interior designer Bobby Berk was one of the original five hosts of Netflix’s reality show “Queer Eye” — aka the Fab Five — but left after the Season 8 in 2023 and is now set to host his own HGTV show. There was some awkward timing earlier this summer with Berk’s HGTV announcement and the news that “Queer Eye” would be ending after the upcoming Season 10. Netflix announced on July 9 that “Queer Eye” will end after the 10th and final season, and the next day on July 10 HGTV revealed Berk would be hosting a new show, titled…

The joint operation carried out by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Sokoto State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), the Goronyo Local Government Authority, and local community divers has rescued 41 persons and recovered four bodies from the recent boat mishap in Goronyo, Sokoto State, saying the death toll increased after another body was retrieved on Friday. “A funeral prayer was conducted in accordance with Islamic rites before the victim was laid to rest,” the statement released by NEMA’s Head, Press Unit, Manzo Ezekiel, on Friday, said. “NEMA’s Director General, Mrs Zubaida Umar, commended…

Immigration officials in the United States say they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, according to a court filing, in what the man’s legal team describes as an act of “vindictiveness” by US President Donald Trump’s administration.The court filing on Saturday said the idea of sending Abrego Garcia to Uganda came after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges.He has pleaded not guilty and asked the judge to dismiss the case, claiming that it is an attempt to punish him for challenging…

Jack Draper believes he will not be held back by any physical pain as he faces the challenge of finding his form at the US Open after a seven-week injury hiatus.Draper, the fifth seed in New York, has not competed in singles since a difficult loss to Marin Cilic in the second round of Wimbledon after learning that he had been suffering from bone bruising in his left arm.“It was something I was playing through for a while,” said Draper, who plays qualifier Federico Agustin Gómez in the first round on Monday. “I first started feeling it probably towards the…

There are growing fears of an imminent stock market crash – one that will transform from a dip to a dive when euphoric headlines about the wonders of artificial intelligence begin to wane.Shares in US tech stocks have fallen in recent weeks and the prospect is that a flood of negative numbers will become the norm before the month is out.It could be 2000 all over again, and just like the bursting of the dotcom bubble it may be ugly, with investors junking businesses that once looked good on paper but now resemble a huge liability.Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve…

UN chief Antonio Guterres says famine in Gaza is ‘a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself’.Famine in Gaza from Israel’s deliberate starvation policy has pushed more than half a million people into immediate danger.Yet Israel is intensifying its war, backed by the United States and other Western allies.How can an engineered famine be allowed happen in the 21st century?Presenter:Adrian FinighanGuests:Dr Tarek Loubani – Emergency physician and medical director at the Glia ProjectTess Ingram – Spokesperson for the UN children’s agency, UNICEFMichael Fakhri – UN special rapporteur on the right to food

Who: Oviedo vs Real MadridWhat: Spanish La LigaWhere: Estadio Carlos Tartiere in Oviedo, SpainWhen: Sunday, August 24, at 9:30pm (19:30 GMT)How to follow: We’ll have all the updates on Al Jazeera Sport from 6:30pm (16:30 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream.The La Liga season reaches its second round of fixtures with a potentially early-season giant-killing in the offing.Newly promoted Oviedo will not be expected to take much from the record Spanish league winners, Real Madrid.Los Blancos limped over the line last weekend in their first match of the new season, Xabi Alonso’s first in charge.Al Jazeera Sport…

There is a moment in every actor’s career when they must confront their early dreams and their present reality. For Taylor Kitsch, that reckoning has been more painful than for most. “If you start marrying yourself to these phantom outcomes that don’t exist, man, you’re gonna go crazy,” he says.Kitsch is talking from New York, thousands of miles from his home in Montana, where he has carved out a different life from his Hollywood years. “I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals with my camera than going to clubs or bars or Hollywood parties,” he says.Today he’s at a…