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The Kenyan man had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on 3 October. He later died, becoming Kenya’s first recorded Ebola death in the current outbreak. Although both patients passed through Entebbe airport on the same day, health officials have not established whether they met, used the same […]

“Being the ambassador to Russia was probably the hardest assignment of my career,” Lynne Tracy, who represented the US in Moscow from 2023 and 2025, tells the BBC. US, UK and European diplomats once played a crucial role in Russia, defusing tensions even at the worst moments of the Cold War. But now, deemed “unfriendly” […]

Beauty giant L’Oreal says the rise of weight loss drugs has affected beauty and skin care sales, as it designs products to specifically target some side effects of rapid weight loss. The company’s head Nicolas Hieronimus said the beauty market was proving resilient in a challenging global context, and that the use of GLP-1s was […]

Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access, Donald Trump has said. The US president was speaking hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity, which is provided by Musk’s satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored. Musk has previously denied he was behind the slowdown, which affects Ukraine’s ability to use drones to […]

The New York City Council has passed a ban on the city’s well-know horse-drawn carriages starting in June 2028, a proposal backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. While animal rights activists and officials have pushed for the ban for years, the final catalyst was the death of a 18-year-old earlier this year, who died after a […]

Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor of the US state of Ohio, has called an attack ad against her that features her estranged mother “despicable”. Acton commented on the campaign ad from her Republican opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, on Wednesday, saying: “This is despicable, what he’s done”. In the ad Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, says […]

Kyiv has been hit by another round of missile strikes hours after Russia agreed to resume peace talks on Wednesday. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the three waves of missiles were launched by “Russian humanitarians”. This comes after US envoy Steve Witkoff called Russia’s President Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian” following a meeting in St Petersburg […]

PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It’s a programming language which runs on a web server, behind the scenes of a website, and effectively lets you see the sites you visit. When you go to a site, PHP is the code which collects data and effectively turns it into a page you can read. It […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s campaign has requested the disqualification of right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro in the lead up to the final round of the presidential election on Sunday over alleged interference by social media company Meta. In a petition filed to the country’s top electoral court on Wednesday, the leftist incumbent president […]

Meta has agreed a deal with Mark Zuckerberg to stop the Facebook co-founder from leaving California after he threatened to move from the state because of a proposed tax on billionaires. The agreement allows Zuckerberg – reportedly one of the world’s richest people – to sell shares in Meta without losing control of the Californian-based […]