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With his nape-prickling vocal-fried whispers switching up to heartfelt roars, Chino Moreno has one of the most distinctive voices in rock history, and he has led Deftones for more than 30 years of cerebral yet mosh-ready alt-metal. As the band release their 10th studio album Private Music, he’ll join us to answer your questions.Moreno has been there from the very start of Deftones in the late 1980s, playing with two high school friends, guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham, in a Sacramento, California, garage. The lineup settled in 1993 and they were signed by Madonna’s label Maverick just as…

EPAThe Martian meteorite found in Niger went on display in New York before it was auctioned”Brazen! It is brazen!” Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago.He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars discovered two years ago in the West African nation of Niger ended up being auctioned off in New York last month to an unnamed buyer.The palaeontologist, who has close connections with the country, believes it should be back in Niger.This millions-of-years-old piece of the Red Planet, the largest ever found on Earth, fetched $4.3m (£3.2m) at Sotheby’s. Like…

109 Former Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, has officially withdrawn from the race for the association’s presidency after being disqualified by the electoral committee earlier this week. The decision ends weeks of speculation over the leadership contest, which is now set to return the current president, Vitumbiko Gubuduza, unopposed. Bapu, a well-known figure in Malawian netball administration, was one of two aspirants for the top position. Her disqualification came after the NAM Independent and Impartial Elections Committee ruled that she had already served the maximum two terms as general secretary and was therefore ineligible to run…

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal grantmaking while ending offensive waste of tax dollars, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  Every tax dollar the Government spends should improve American lives or advance American interests.  This often does not happen.  Federal grants have funded drag shows in Ecuador, trained doctoral candidates in critical race theory, and developed transgender-sexual-education programs.  In 2024, one study claimed that more than one-quarter of new National Science Foundation (NSF) grants went to diversity, equity, and…

A significant step forward but not a leap over the finish line. That was how Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, described the latest upgrade to ChatGPT this week.The race Altman was referring to was artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical state of AI where, by OpenAI’s definition, a highly autonomous system is able to do a human’s job.Describing the new GPT-5 model, which will power ChatGPT, as a “significant step on the path to AGI”, he nonetheless added a hefty caveat.“[It is] missing something quite important, many things quite important,” said Altman, such as the model’s inability to “continuously…

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, might be preparing his young daughter, Kim Ju-ae, to become his successor. Choe Sang-Hun, the ​Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times, analyzed North Korean state propaganda to find out.

Monrovia — The Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), Clarence Massaquoi, has dismissed as false and misleading widespread claims that commissioners at the institution earn US$10,000 monthly and receive a staggering US$3,600 worth of fuel for generators. Appearing on state radio ELBC Thursday, Massaquoi clarified that the actual net salary of an LTA commissioner stands at approximately US$4,800 after taxes and statutory deductions. “There is no commissioner at the LTA who makes US$10,000,” he stated emphatically. “That figure being circulated is inaccurate, and we welcome anyone who wants to fact-check these numbers to do so.” On the issue of…

As Israel’s war on Gaza rages, chances of normalising ties with its neighbours are fading.Nearly every state in the Middle East has condemned Israel’s war on Gaza.Saudi Arabia says normalising relations with Israel hinges on a Palestinian state.Jordan, Egypt and some Gulf nations have diplomatic ties with Israel, but have criticised it publicly.In Europe, a growing number of countries are recognising Palestine and the EU is reviewing economic relations with Israel.But are words enough to make Israel stop killing and starving Palestinians?And what would it take for countries to cut ties with Israel?Presenter: James BaysGuests:Daniel Levy – President of the…

Iran has said it will block a corridor planned in the Caucasus under a United States-brokered peace accord between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which has been hailed by other countries in the region as beneficial for achieving lasting peace.Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Saturday that Tehran would block the initiative “with or without Russia”, with which Iran has a strategic alliance alongside Armenia.US President Donald Trump “thinks the Caucasus is a piece of real estate he can lease for 99 years”, Velayati told state-affiliated Tasnim News, referring to the transport corridor included in the…

The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, says fighting corruption in Nigeria is not as difficult as it is generally perceived. Obi stated this at a talk show session on youth and leadership opportunities with students of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, on Friday. “We are talking about corruption, but let me tell you, fighting corruption is not as difficult as people make it look. “If you, your wife and children are not stealing, you have reduced corruption by 60 per cent. “I’ve served as chairman of a bank at a time when most people who were…