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Even though she’s not as active on it now, Mary Neely has Twitter (now known as X) to thank for launching her career. The actor went viral in the early days of COVID-19 for uploading videos of her re-enacting famous musical numbers to the platform – playing all the roles with whatever homemade props, costumes and wigs she had lying around. Why Twitter/X? Neely is blunt: “Purely because of music copyright issues,” she says. “Every time I tried to upload them to Instagram or TikTok, they would immediately get flagged or taken down. I figured it didn’t matter because no…

– The Say No to Drugs campaign, launched as a grassroots movement to combat substance abuse, is now embroiled in an internal power struggle after one of its initiators formally registered the initiative as a non-governmental organization and assumed sole ownership. A business registration certificate issued Aug. 12, 2025, by the Liberia Business Registry lists the organization as a nonprofit under the name Say No to Drugs. The entity is registered at ELWA Junction, Paynesville, with Liberian national Roseline Amah Giddings named as both the registered agent and the sole board member, effectively placing her in full control of the…

Aug 21, 2025, 01:04 PM ETNEW YORK — An Ohio man has been arrested for throwing a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday.It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances in which similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests.Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of assault for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings vs. New York Liberty game on Aug. 5, hitting a 12-year-old girl.Burgess pleaded not guilty after driving from Ohio and voluntarily…

The demo of All Will Rise begins with a win for lawyer Kuyili. She has just successfully argued in front of a court that a river running through the fictional version of the Indian city of Muziris should have the same rights as a person. According to Kuyili, this has precedent – after all, companies can argue in court similarly to individual people.The excitement over this historic win doesn’t last long as, soon after, the river is polluted by a large oil spill, which catches fire, the toxic smoke enveloping several neighbourhoods. Pollution on this scale has devastating effects, so…

Israel’s ground push into Gaza City comes as Hamas accepts a ceasefire deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar. Palestinians are being forced south in the Gaza Strip, where tent camps are rising and aid remains scarce. What does this move reveal about Israel’s broader plan?

The Mercator projection is not a product of European chauvinism (African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size, 15 August). All map projections are compromises geared to a particular use, as a direct transference of a sphere on to a flat surface is mathematically impossible. The Mercator projection was a brilliant solution to a critical need of 16th-century pilots: a map on which they could plot a straight line that would be a “straight” line on the Earth.A mathematical marvel first put to paper by Gerard Mercator in 1569, it was not until 30…

8 The National Energy Services Reunited Corp. (NESR), a leading international provider of integrated energy services across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced the award of several major Production Services contracts in Algeria and Libya. The combined value of the contracts is estimated to exceed US$100 million, signaling a strong boost for oil and gas activities in North Africa. NESR disclosed the development in early August but did not provide a detailed breakdown of the contract values to show the exact worth of the Libya deals. However, the company emphasized that the multiple agreements cover essential services…

PM’s office says the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign.Lebanon has launched a plan to disarm Palestinian groups in its refugee camps, beginning with the handover of weapons from Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut.The prime minister’s office announced on Thursday that the weapons transfer to the Lebanese army marks the start of a wider disarmament campaign. More handovers are expected in the coming weeks across Burj al-Barajneh and other camps nationwide.A Fatah official told the Reuters news agency the arms handed over so far were only illegal weapons that had entered the…

The Queen, no less, wanted to be in the post-race photographs with Minnie Hauk after her win in the Group One Yorkshire Oaks here on Thursday, and while the race itself was effectively over as soon as the odds-on favourite hit the front two furlongs out, there was abundant evidence of the qualities that will make her a major player in the autumn’s global championship events.Aidan O’Brien’s filly was an unknown quantity, unraced in anything but maiden company at two, when she lined up for the Cheshire Oaks in May, but her win on the Roodeye has now been followed…

A New York appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump, ruling on Thursday in the state’s lawsuit accusing him of exaggerating his wealth.The decision, which was not unanimous, came seven months after the Republican returned to the White House. A panel of five judges in New York’s mid-level appellate division said the verdict, which stood to cost Trump more than $515m and rock his real estate empire, was “excessive”.After finding that Trump engaged in fraud by flagrantly padding financial statements that went to lenders and insurers, judge Arthur Engoron ordered him last year to…