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Nigeria marked a major economic milestone on September 14, 2026, with the opening of the initial public offering (IPO) of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, the largest IPO in African history. Located in the Lekki Free Zone in Lagos, the refinery now has a crude-processing capacity of 700,000 barrels per day, up from 650,000, and cost approximately $20bn to build. It was commissioned in May 2023, while production of diesel and jet fuel began in January 2024, followed by the start of petrol supplies to the local market in September that year.At the opening of the IPO, Dangote Group president Aliko Dangote…

Lithuania’s prime minister has told the BBC his country has made evacuation plans in the face of threats from Russia, but added they “will not surrender” if attacked.Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius told Newsnight that Lithuanians feel “constantly threatened” by Russia, in part because of drones entering the nation’s airspace.He told Newsnight if his country was attacked, “we will fight back… we will engage”. But he said there were plans for a “variety of scenarios” and used an example of getting elderly citizens out of cities “smoothly” and avoiding traffic jams.Lithuania, a Nato member, shares a land border with the Russian…

World leaders, including Donald Trump, will head to Manchester next year for the G20 leaders’ summit.Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is the former mayor of Greater Manchester, said he was “really pleased” he would be welcoming the US president to the city.The G20 summit, an annual gathering of the world’s biggest economies, will take place on 27 and 28 November 2027 at the Manchester Central Convention Centre. It will be the largest summit ever held in the city.Manchester was chosen earlier this year, prior to Burnham becoming prime minister. Downing Street said preparations will now step up, with hundreds of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.On the face of it, Germany’s beleaguered chancellor Friedrich Merz has a lot in common with ousted UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer. Both had to contend with a sluggish economy, high energy costs and crumbling infrastructure — as well as the implosion of their personal brand. But Merz, who has vowed to fight on after a “disaster” election result in the election in the — admittedly small — state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, does have one rather sizeable advantage Starmer never had: money…

Since 2014, Womanizer has been satisfying people with vulvas all over the world. Thanks to its revolutionary Pleasure Air Technology, which mimics the feeling of oral sex, Womanizer not only discovered a way to stimulate the 10,000+ nerve endings in the clitoris in a way no sex toy had before—yes, they were the first—but the brand can even boast a 100% orgasm rate among users.As a company that puts sexual pleasure front and center, Womanizer has continued to expand its very impressive lineup of orgasm-inducing toys. They’ve even branched out by creating products like the Womanizer Duo and Womanizer Duo 2, both of…

The Rust project warned last week that an ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting Rust-lang team members and the owners of popular crates to hijack developer credentials and deploy malicious packages. The crates.io team and the security response working group issued the warning. According to the alert, attackers lure targets into video calls under the guise of job offers or contract opportunities.  Once on the call, the target is tricked into installing software under the pretext of a missing audio codec or executing malicious code pasted to their clipboard. To lend the approach credibility, the attackers are creating new companies…

Australia’s new 40-year economic outlook has identified artificial intelligence as one of five major transitions expected to have a profound effect on the economy, while leaving out any mention of crypto. The latest Intergenerational Report, published on Monday by the Australian Treasury, described agentic AI systems as having become “significantly” more capable, autonomous and widely used — surpassing human-level performance on some benchmarks. The other major transitions are geopolitical conflicts, an aging population, a shift to clean energy and Australia’s industrial transformation toward services.“The Intergenerational Report makes it clear that Australia’s prosperity over the next 40 years will depend heavily on…

1 Min Read Perseverance’s View of ‘Turquoise Bay’ PIA26815 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Perseverance’s View of… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Turquoise Bay,” a geologic area of interest in the “Margin Unit.” The 818 images used to create the natural-color panorama were captured between Oct. 5 and Oct. 16, 2023, the 933rd to 944th Martian days, or sols, of the mission. Figure A is an enhanced-color version, in which color bands were processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate…

Well into its fourth year, the war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. At least 59,000 people have been killed and more than 14 million displaced, while famine and widespread sexual violence have left millions in urgent need of food, medicine, and mental health support. Sudanese people know the war must end—and, God willing, it will. But after more than a dozen failed cease-fires brokered by international parties, it is time to put a lasting end to this war so the guns do not return when the world looks away. That is what Sudanese civilians ask of me,…

Nearly 4m records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time.The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.The global collection offers millions of descendants across the African-Caribbean and wider African diasporas access to one of the most extensive surviving archives of British enslavement, potentially helping them uncover family histories.The collection, known as the Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers, contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people…