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17 Safaricom’s M-PESA service has partnered with PayPal to allow Kenyans to move money easily between their mobile money wallets and PayPal accounts. The new partnership is expected to benefit over 35 million M-PESA users and more than two million businesses and small traders across Kenya. This development means users can now link their M-PESA wallets directly with PayPal accounts. Once linked, they can move money in both directions — from M-PESA to PayPal and from PayPal to M-PESA — without the long delays or manual steps that were required before. According to Safaricom, this is part of efforts to…

Dave McMenaminAug 4, 2025, 05:01 PM ETCloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.LOS ANGELES — As the ink was still drying on the three-year, $165 million contract extension Luka Doncic signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Doncic’s phone started buzzing with the player who has been the face of the franchise the past seven seasons: LeBron James.James congratulated Doncic on the deal with a video call, sources familiar with the exchange confirmed to ESPN, after the contract…

Stairways have turned into waterfalls as torrential rain has battered the island for more than a week.

The skyline looks gorgeous at dawn, but things aren’t quite as romantic as they may seem at first. After all, … well, you have to find out by watching an exclusive first look at Don’t Let the Sun! The fiction feature directorial debut by documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Zünd (Where We Belong, Almost There, Goodnight Nobody) from Switzerland will have its world premiere on Aug. 9 at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, where it will screen in the Filmmakers of the Present lineup. Levan Gelbakhiani (And Then We Danced) stars as Jonah, who provides comfort for strangers amid…

Members of Nigeria’s national female basketball team are to receive a cash reward of $100,000 (£75,000) each following their victory at the Fiba Women’s AfroBasket Championship over the weekend in Ivory Coast.At a special reception held in honour of the team, known as D’Tigress, Vice-President Kashim Shettima also promised each player a three-bedroom flat.Nigeria defeated Mali 78-64 on Sunday to win their seventh AfroBasket title, which also secured them a spot at next year’s Fiba Women’s World Cup.A similar bonus was promised to the national female football team, the Super Falcons, last month after they won the recent Women’s Africa…

A thick haze of smoke and sorrow hung over Suuq Bacaad this morning as traders and residents flocked back to assess the aftermath of a massive fire that tore through one of Mogadishu’s largest markets. The fire, which broke out around 5:00 PM yesterday in the heart of Yaqshid District, raged for several hours before being brought under control late into the night. Despite the valiant efforts of firefighters and local volunteers, the flames claimed the life of a young girl and destroyed large sections of the market, including its entire household goods section. Although an exact estimate of financial…

Straightening up Israel’s current mindset; going back to the mindset of Gush Katif, the 17 Israeli communities that thrived in the southern Gaza Strip until 2005. A victory mindset. While in its war with Hamas Israel has achieved many significant accomplishments, though painful ones, and while these accomplishments could be seen as historic by comparison to the many operations Israel conducted in Gaza since 2007, something is seriously amiss in this war. As they say, Israel got itself into a pickle situation in Gaza. Right now, when the world is playing the “got you” game with Israel, much of the…

With less than a month remaining in the summer transfer window, deals that have been bubbling away for weeks will suddenly hit a boiling point as clubs, players and agents scramble to get moves finalised.Newcastle, for one, are getting impatient. They are reportedly expecting a high-stakes bidding war for RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko, upping their offer to an eye-watering £69.7m plus add-ons, which is closer to matching Leipzig’s valuation of the Slovenian. Manchester United are lurking in the shadows with sources suggesting they do not need to sell anyone to make a move despite their intentions to offload Jadon Sancho,…

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very primitive. With a digital computer, we think of doing a computation and getting an answer. The quantum computer is instead going to give us a probability distribution of where the answer is, and you’re going to make a number of, we’ll call it runs on the quantum computer, and it’ll give you a number of potential solutions to the problem, but it’s not…

The ocean comprises 70% of the planet and has a profound impact on all life on Earth. It regulates the global climate, produces most of the oxygen we breathe, absorbs carbon dioxide, and supports a vast network of life that sustains ecosystems and our planet’s life support. It also acts as the largest ‘carbon sink’, a vital buffer against climate change. But a threat is coming. Deep-sea mining risks destroying fragile marine ecosystems, precious habitats, and undiscovered species. Deep-sea mining involves the extraction of minerals from the ocean floor at depths. It poses a severe threat because it has the potential to…