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Prolific sisters Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga have been instrumental in transforming Malawi from no-hopers to giant killers to finalists at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Read moreChawinga sisters shine as Malawi reach Women’s Africa Cup of Nations final The Malawian Scorchers scored 12 goals en route to the title decider against Cameroon on Sunday with Temwa from Kansas City Current claiming five and Tabitha from Lyon four. Opposing them in Rabat will be Michaely Bihina, the outstanding goalkeeper at the tournament, who has played a key role as the Indomitable Lionesses reached the final. The 22-year-old…

It was, as one person in the room described it, something of an Agatha Christie thriller, if Agatha Christie had written about superpower summits.There were the leaders of the two nuclear giants huddled in a supposedly haunted house built on top of lava along a windswept coast, with rain lashing the windows and the fate of the world at stake.The arms control meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in 1986 has slipped into the fog of history. But the tense, unscripted encounter that was deemed a failure at the time arguably proved to be the…

One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink’s pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download tens of thousands of titles through each device’s respective online bookstores, but with Xteink’s devices you have to source DRM-free ebooks on your own. That’s about to change, as the developers of CrossPoint Reader, a free alternative firmware for the X3, X4, and X4 Pro, are introducing support for third-party plug-ins that will expand the e-readers’ capabilities. One of the first from the community will give the devices access to DRM-protected ebooks borrowed through OverDrive’s…

In brief Ireland published its first National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy on Thursday, with crypto-asset rules among the reforms it sets out. The final elements of the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation will bring enhanced checks on transfers involving private crypto wallets and stricter due diligence on overseas crypto firms. The strategy builds on a 30-point action plan published in June that promised enhanced safeguards around crypto-assets and digital finance. Ireland published its first national anti-money laundering strategy on Thursday, including crypto measures targeting wallets held outside regulated firms.Most of the EU Transfer of Funds Regulation has already been implemented in Ireland,…

Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, co-host Jake Bolster sits down with reporters Georgina Gustin and Lisa Sorg to talk about the wide-ranging impacts of how America fattens animals to become the meat that people eat. Listen and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart. JAKE BOLSTER This week on Inside Climate, we’re heading to the farm. GEORGINA GUSTIN: Tens of thousands of animals being fed and fattened for slaughter in one place. Concentrated animal feeding operations, called CAFOs for short, are the backbone of America’s livestock…

At least 93 patients have tested positive for cholera at a single hospital in Myanmar’s biggest city, officials said, as an outbreak that began last week spread across the region.They are among more than 180 people in the city, Yangon, who have been hospitalized with diarrhea, a common symptom of the disease, Dr. Nanda Win, the head of the Yangon Region Public Health and Medical Services Department, said Friday. One 92-year-old man had died, he said.The outbreak is the latest strain on Myanmar’s faltering medical system, which has been neglected under a junta rule that has prioritized weapons over health…

Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s parent company, Amazon.Although the move has reassured some creators, it remains unclear exactly when the streaming platform began using the posts, streams, and videos of its users to train Amazon’s systems. The revelation is raising new concerns about how big tech companies handle their users’ data.The opt-out process is simple. From the Twitch website or mobile app, click on your account avatar, select Settings, and then go to the Security and Privacy section in the…

The City of Baltimore and its mayor, Brendan Scott, filed lawsuits against Kalshi and Polymarket over allegations that the companies violated local gambling laws.In a Thursday notice, the Baltimore mayor’s office said that the two prediction market companies operated “illegal, unlicensed sports-betting platforms” and misled users about the ”legality and regulatory status of their products.” The lawsuits are centered on claims disputing Kalshi’s and Polymarket’s characterization of event contracts, arguing that the trades amount to unlawful wagers under state laws.“These companies are running sportsbooks without licenses and betting that a new label will put them above the law,” said Scott.…

Iqra Wasim from Fishponds in Bristol has struggled with PMOS symptoms such as painful acne since the age of 11.PMOS affects about one in eight women. It is a major cause of female infertility and symptoms can include irregular periods, excessive hair growth and weight gain.Wasim, who learned more about it through asking doctors questions and social media, said she now educates her mum, who also has PMOS, on ways to manage symptoms.”My mum was going through heavy bleeding with her PMOS and didn’t know what birth control was,” she said. “I told her about it and she thought I…

It feels like a very Greek summer here in the UK?. The ground is scorched, it last rained months ago, and the giant publicity machine for Christopher Nolan’s billion-dollar-grossing The Odyssey – from red-carpet frocks to professorial disapproval – is a Charybdis, swallowing all other cultural events in its gaping maw. Mere Mortals – San Francisco Ballet’s astonishing work inspired by the story of Pandora – runs in Edinburgh this month before going to Sadler’s Wells in September. And Greek tragedy continues to fill London’s theatres.Last week, I went to see Simon Stone’s reworking of Aeschylus’s Oresteia at the Bridge…