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For a number of very obvious reasons, we don’t want to roll back the clock to early 2020. No thank you. But if there was a feel-good lockdown story, it was the perfectly timed arrival of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which allowed friends who could no longer meet up IRL to do so virtually on their carefully pruned islands.The game will almost certainly never be as popular as it was back then again, but Nintendo is hoping a good chunk of lapsed islanders will return for its latest DLC drop, which arrived on January 14, a day earlier than planned.…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a strong lead in provisional results from Thursday’s presidential election, the electoral agency says.The results announced on Friday morning put Museveni in the lead with 76% of the votes, based on results from 45% of the country’s polling stations.He is followed by opposition leader Bobi Wine with about 20%. Ugandans voted in a tense national election on Thursday after an often violent campaign, with President Museveni, 81, seeking a seventh term in office.
The first woman to publicly accuse high-profile twins Oren and Alon Alexander of sexual assault was found dead in Australia late last year, according to new reports. Kate Whiteman sued the men in March 2024, alleging they sexually assaulted her in the state of New York in 2012. Months later they were arrested alongside their older brother and charged with sex trafficking offences.An investigation into the death of Whiteman, 45, by the New South Wales coroner’s office has now concluded, finding her death was not suspicious.The Alexander brothers – who deny wrongdoing and have pleaded not guilty to the criminal…
Leapmotor’s range-extender (REx) technology for EVs could be used by other Stallantis brands in Europe as part of a move to increase “synergies” within the group. The Stellantis-backed Chinese brand offers its B10 and C10 SUVs with the option of pure-electric power or a REx system in which a small petrol engine works as a generator to charge the battery on the move. It claims the system allows the C10 Hybrid EV to travel up to 590 miles on a full battery and tank while emitting just 10g/km of CO2 in official testing. With Mazda now having dropped the MX-30 R-EV, Leapmotor is the…
The second season of Amazon’s excellent Fallout show is currently airing, but the company is already looking to expand its programming around the popular franchise. Prime Video has greenlit a unscripted reality show titled Fallout Shelter. It will be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the team behind reality projects including Squid Game: The Challenge and The Traitors, as its primary producer. Bethesda Game Studios’ head honcho Todd Howard is attached as an executive producer.Amazon’s description of Fallout Shelter is: “Across a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas and moral crossroads, contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork and resilience as they…
Natalie ShermanBusiness reporterGetty ImagesUS President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell A political leader demanding questionable policy from the central bank and testing the legal limits to get it – to Martin Redrado, sitting in Argentina, Donald Trump’s stand-off with the Federal Reserve feels surprisingly familiar.Redrado was fired as head of Argentina’s central bank in 2010, after he resisted orders by then-President Cristina Kirchner to hand over reserves to help pay off national debts. He fought the decision successfully in court, but eventually resigned in the face of what he told the BBC was “intolerable” pressure. Today, the…
Leehyun Choi,SeoulandKelly NgGetty ImagesThis verdict comes more than a year after Yoon’s short-lived martial law decreeSouth Korea’s beleaguered ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of abuse of power, falsifying documents and obstructing justice when he tried and failed to impose martial law in the country in 2024. He has also been sentenced to five years in jail.Yoon is facing three other trials for charges ranging from insurrection to violating campaign law. The verdict comes more than a year after his short-lived decree threw South Korea into political turmoil, leaving it deeply divided.Here’s what to know about the key…
Mercedes executives might be a little irked to see the Crafter just ahead of the Sprinter on our list, but for our money, this Volkswagen is the best large van on the market, despite it getting on in years. Why would they be annoyed? Well, Mercedes used to make the Crafter, but then, after more than €1 billion of investment, Volkswagen built its own plant and ended the relationship. Nearly a decade on, the Crafter’s dimensions make it a benchmark, with up to 18.4m3 of load volume, not to mentioned payloads of 1.5 tonnes in a 3.5-tonne van. 3. Renault Master We said…
As part of a new agreement, films from Sony Pictures Entertainment will stream on Netflix first, the companies announced via a joint statement. The new deal expands on the exclusive rights Netflix had to Sony films in the US, and means the service will be the first place people will be able to stream upcoming projects like the live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda, and a quartet of biopics about The Beatles.Sony’s films will stream worldwide on Netflix in what’s called “Pay-1,” the first window of availability after a movie’s theatrical and VOD releases. As part of the deal,…
Mansur Abubakar,AbujaandMakuochi Okafor,BBC Africa, LagosEPAPopular author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alleges her toddler was denied oxygen and excessively sedated, leading to cardiac arrestA series of harrowing cases of allegations of medical negligence, including the death of novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 21-month-old son, has ignited a fierce debate about patient safety and systemic failures within Nigeria’s healthcare system.The family of the internationally acclaimed author says her young son, Nkanu Nnamdi, died last week at a private hospital in the main city, Lagos, following a short illness. They allege the child was denied oxygen and excessively sedated, leading to cardiac arrest. The hospital…