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President Paul Biya returned to Cameroon on Thursday after a 73-day absence that fuelled speculation about the 93-year-old’s health – and who is really running the country. The world’s oldest serving head of state, Biya landed in Yaoundé at around 1600 GMT from Geneva, where he had been staying since June 7 on what his office called “a short private stay”. Cameroonian media had reported that Biya, leader since 1982, had been in the Swiss city with family members and close aides. Watch moreLeo and ‘the tyrants’: Does new pope’s defiant message resonate? After more than two months away, the president…

Although the deal takes Verstappen to the end of 2030, there are still mechanisms by which he could leave if performance does not come up to expectations.This is standard practice in driver contracts in F1. The details are not yet known, and teams do not comment on contractual intricacies.Mekies said: “Having Max continue with us and retaining the best driver on the grid is fantastic news.”Very few partnerships in sport achieve what Max and this team have. Since the very beginning, Max has embodied everything that makes Red Bull Racing special: uncompromising competitiveness, relentless determination and the courage to challenge…

A month after the Trump administration declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, officials with the Department of Homeland Security were unable to substantiate the claim.The administration claimed to have identified 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states, including an exact number of 15,903 in Nevada. But during a meeting last week with state election administrators, Homeland Security officials said they had identified just 185 potential noncitizens in the state so far, according to emails as well as recordings of the meeting obtained by The New York Times.The federal officials said they…

“Good morning from Sochi. We’re getting ready to go to the sea,” Antonina Kirsanova, a Moscow hairdresser in her thirties, says cheerfully in a video posted on Instagram. The jarring note in an otherwise typical holiday tableau is the wail of an air-raid siren in the background. “But actually, it’s not too bad . . . No risk, no reward,” Kirsanova added.A week after she posted the video, a drone fell on a beach in Arkhipo-Osipovka, another Russian resort on the Black Sea coast, killing four children and three adults and injuring another 40.Air-raid sirens, drone interceptions, fires, fuel in the water and queues…

A team of astronomers has just detected the fastest star in the galaxy. Its anomalous speed has a more unsettling explanation: It orbits Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the mass of which is equivalent to four million times that of the Sun.S301, as astronomers have named the star, reaches 25,000 kilometers per second (km/s) at its maximum speed and takes 8.7 years to complete one orbit around Sagittarius A*. (By comparison, the Sun orbits the center of the galaxy at about 230 km/s.) At its peak speed, S301 moves more than 100…

PDFs sit at the end of almost every workflow. Contracts, invoices, research papers, scanned intake forms, manuals, and compliance filings all arrive as PDFs. The format is very good at freezing a layout. It is much worse at letting you change one number inside that layout. That gap has become more visible as language models have gotten better at reading documents. A model can summarize a 90-page master services agreement in seconds. It will not reliably rewrite the source file. It will not hold the table alignment. It will not hand back a clean, signable copy. UPDF is built for…

A recently patched Zimbra Collaboration vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, according to Poland’s CERT Polska. The security hole is tracked as CVE-2026-73570 and it was patched by the developers of the enterprise email server and collaborative software suite with the release of version 10.1.20, announced on July 20. The high-severity flaw exists when the optional ‘zimbra-snmp’ package is installed and SNMP notifications are enabled.  An attacker can exploit the vulnerability without authentication to execute arbitrary OS commands as the Zimbra user. The Polish CERT announced seeing attacks this week but did not share any details about the active…

Closed versus Open Source code has divided the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry for well over a decade. Bitcoin advocates have long argued that the financial infrastructure of the world should be built in public. Transparency and auditability, they say, are non-negotiable when real money is at stake. Yet the app and legacy layers of finance often disagree.  Yet the recent Coldcard hack, a popular self-custody hardware wallet where users lost over $100 million worth of bitcoin (more than 1,500 BTC), cast doubt over what “Open Source” actually means. It revealed that perhaps most people, even many hardcore bitcoiners, are…

Keith Elias’s family have been fishing on the river for 300 years – he said he only caught one fish this season.”It’s been in my family for so long, I love carrying the tradition on but it’s getting to the point where you get to the end of the season and you’re not hitting fish. “You just don’t want to go.”Last year, the nearby River Teifi was noted as one of the UK’s most polluted rivers, with 2,232 spills lasting more than 22,000 hours recorded in 2024.It has been reported that some incidents of pollution were made by Welsh Water.The…

SEBRING, Fla.—The city of Sebring has an “Old Florida” charm.  Citrus trees greet motorists driving into town. Red, white and blue bunting hangs from a white gazebo in the middle of the town circle. Many of the century-old stucco and brick buildings surrounding the downtown circle have generous awnings to protect against the Florida sun.  There is a tranquility to the city, located smack dab in the center of the peninsula’s southern half, that is unheard of on Florida’s coasts. It won’t last long. Some of Florida’s biggest growth spots are now on former citrus groves and cattle pastures in…