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The mayor of Minneapolis called on Friday for state investigators to be allowed to join the federal probe into the killing of a US woman by immigration enforcement, accusing the Trump administration of pre-judging the case.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday blamed the deadly New Year’s fire in a Swiss ski resort bar on people “not doing their job” or chasing “easy money”.

Pope Leo XIV warned on Friday that war was “back in vogue” and highlighted the “ambition of belligerents”, as his own country, the United States, flexes its military muscles.

Gale-force winds and storms barrelled through northern Europe on Friday, disrupting air and rail travel and cutting power to hundreds of thousands in freezing temperatures.

[Scrolla] Naledi Pandor will become chancellor of Nelson Mandela University from 1 April replacing Geraldine Fraser Moleketi. University council says Pandor shares the university’s values and will help strengthen its reputation locally and internationally.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Ministry of Education will release the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination results on Thursday, a senior ministry official has confirmed.

[Parliament of South Africa] The Chairperson of the Select Committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries, Mr Makhi Feni, has said there is a need for emphasis on qualitative approaches in the passes for Grade 12.

[Daily Maverick] Nearly 900,000 Grade 12s who wrote the 2025 NSC exams are on the edge of their seats. Minister Siviwe Gwarube will announce the results on 12 January 2026, with individual access from 13 January. Whether you pass, need a re-mark or hope to explore alternatives, here’s everything you need to know.

Amazon has begun equipping managers with a dashboard that tracks not just whether corporate employees show up to the office but how long they stay once they’re there, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. The system, which started rolling out in December, flags “Low-Time Badgers” who average less than four hours daily over an eight-week period and “Zero Badgers” who...

Linus Torvalds has weighed in on an ongoing debate within the Linux kernel development community about whether documentation should explicitly address AI-generated code contributions, and his position is characteristically blunt: stop making it an issue. The Linux creator was responding to Oracle-affiliated kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes, who had argued that treating LLMs as “just another...

Craigslist, the 30-year-old classifieds site that looks virtually unchanged since the dial-up era, continues to draw more than 105 million monthly users and remains enormously profitable despite never spending a cent on advertising or marketing. The site ranks as the 40th most popular website in the United States, according to Internet data company Similarweb. University of Pennsylvania...

Apple’s iOS 26 appears to be witnessing the slowest adoption rate in recent memory, with third-party analytics from StatCounter indicating that only 15 to 16% of active iPhones worldwide are running the operating system nearly four months after its September release. The figures stand in stark contrast to iOS 18, which had reached approximately 63% adoption by January 2025, and iOS 17, which...

After canceling a spacewalk planned for Thursday, the space agency’s administrator said it was erring on the side of caution and bringing a crew of four home in the coming days.

NASA said it canceled a spacewalk planned for Thursday after an astronaut had an undisclosed medical issue on the International Space Station.