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Cape Town, South Africa — A high-level delegation from the Federal Government of Somalia, led by the country’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid Haji Abdi, is currently in Cape Town to attend the Africa Water Investment Summit. The summit brings together African leaders, policymakers, and development partners with the goal of accelerating investment in water infrastructure and ensuring water security across the continent. Somalia views water investment as a strategic priority, essential for building resilience against worsening climate impacts, adapting to and mitigating climate change, fostering sustainable economic growth, and promoting long-term stability. During the summit, the Somali delegation…

Kris HollandBBC News, East of EnglandGetty ImagesWomen across the East of England are now able to self-refer to their local maternity servicesThousands of expectant mothers in the East of England have taken up a new NHS service and more are being encouraged to take part.Women across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and elsewhere have been using the service, where they can refer themselves directly to their local maternity services – without the need to first see a GP – by completing an online form.Wendy Matthews, NHS England’s chief midwife for the region, said the referral system was a “leap forward in…

Aug 14, 2025, 03:32 AM ETManchester United will make a real concerted effort to sign either Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Carlos Baleba or Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton, while Ibrahima Konaté could leave Liverpool before the window closes. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe.Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Sources: City eye Donnarumma, want Ederson stay- Rashford: ‘Reactionary’ Man Utd in ‘no man’s land’- Sources: Højlund wants Utd stay; future uncertainManchester United want Carlos Baleba to anchor their midfield. Mike Hewitt/Getty ImagesTRENDING RUMORS- Manchester United will push…

For its 30th edition last year, the Sarajevo Film Festival unveiled a bold revamp, shifting the nucleus of its activities from its traditional home in the heart of the city’s old town to its modern quarters, a move that festival topper Jovan Marjanović described as “setting the course” for the next 30 years of the celebrated Balkan event. One year later, Marjanović insists that the work is only just beginning, as the organizers both incorporate and expand on the raft of changes introduced last year. On the eve of this year’s event, Marjanović tells Variety that his team is in the process of “fine-tun[ing] the festival to…

Perhaps you’re a template kind of guy. Perhaps, by contrast, you’re spurning the triple Liverpool consensus and stacking your team with handy differentials like Jarrod Bowen and Donyell Malen. Perhaps even Erling Haaland could be considered a differential given his historically low current ownership stats. Perhaps you’re feeling a cheeky BB GW1, followed by a FH GW2. Perhaps, by contrast, you’re furiously stabbing at the “close tab” button on your browser in the hope of purging these words from your eyes as expeditiously as possible.In which case, relax. This is actually a column about sport: what it is, what it…

Ever since artist James Sanborn unveiled Kryptos, an outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters, amateur and professional cryptanalysts have been feverishly attempting to crack the code hidden in its nearly 1800-character message. While they have decoded 3 of the 4 panels of ciphertext in the S-shaped copper artwork, the final panel, known as K4, still defies solution. Only one human being on Earth knows the message of K4: Sanborn. But soon someone else will join the club. Sanborn is putting the answer up for sale.“I’m auctioning off the 97-character plaintext of K4, which is the secret of Kryptos,” Sanborn…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived on Wednesday in Berlin for a virtual summit with European officials and United States President Donald Trump, convened by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.The call was meant to bring European leaders together with Trump before the planned August 15 Alaska meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.Those on the call included Merz and the US president, as well as US Vice President JD Vance, Zelenskyy, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, among others.Here are the key takeaways:What happened on Wednesday?The prospect…

Good morning. The slogan “black is beautiful” rang out from civil rights marches in the US and UK during the 1960s and echoed through liberation struggles across the global south. It became a rallying cry against racist beauty standards that had long cast Black skin, facial features and hair as undesirable.These movements urged pride in what had been denigrated for centuries, and their message was not limited to people of African or Caribbean heritage. Calls to embrace natural beauty resonated across Asia and much of the global south, directly challenging the colonial belief that lighter skin conferred greater worth.Yet decades…

Travel abroad is much more than just a vacation or a break from daily routine. It constitutes a profound inner journey that can completely change personality, thinking patterns, and a person’s perception of the world and themselves. When we leave our comfort zone and encounter new cultures, people, and landscapes, we experience complex psychological processes that lead to fundamental changes in personal identity. Why Does Exposure to Different Cultures Broaden Horizons? Exposure to different cultures is one of the most powerful mechanisms for personality change. When we encounter ways of life different from our own, we begin to understand that…

The United States has announced it is revoking the visas of Brazilian, African and Caribbean officials over their ties to Cuba’s programme that sends doctors abroad, which Washington has described as “forced labour”.The US named two Brazilian Ministry of Health officials, Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales and Alberto Kleiman, who have had their visas revoked for working on Brazil’s Mais Medicos, or “More Doctors” programme, which was created in 2013.In a statement on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said sanctions were imposed on officials “involved in abetting the Cuban regime’s coercive labour export scheme”, which he claimed “enriches the…