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Salah in Liverpool squad for Brighton match

Today at 19:38 PM, via BBC News

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is in the squad for Saturday’s Premier League match against Brighton after talks with head coach Arne Slot on Friday.

Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Today at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Africa

Ghost workers haunt Kenyan state

Today at 00:00 AM, via Mail & Guardian

Investigations show individuals receiving multiple salaries, with one case involving five salaries paid to a single ID

Sport

Former champion Cross cruises through at Worlds

Today at 18:35 PM, via BBC News

Former champion Rob Cross is safely through to the second round of the PDC World Championship after a comfortable 3-0 win over Norway’s Cor Dekker.

Sport

F1 stakeholders sign new Concorde Agreement

Today at 18:32 PM, via BBC News

Formula 1 has finalised a new Concorde Agreement, the legal contract that defines the relationship between the key stakeholders in the sport.

Education

Ghana: Prang D/a No. 1 Primary School Gets New Classroom Block

Today at 14:26 PM, via AllAfrica

[Ghanaian Times] Yapra Rural Bank PLC, headquartered in Prang, Bono East Region, has constructed and handed over a three-unit classroom block with ancillary facilities to the Prang D/A No. 1 Primary School.

Science/Tech

‘Apple Tax is Dead in the USA’

Today at 19:25 PM, via Slashdot

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has almost entirely upheld a scathing April ruling that found Apple in willful violation of a 2021 injunction meant to open up iOS App Store payments in its long-running legal battle against Epic Games. A three-judge panel affirmed that Apple’s 27% fee for developers using outside payment options had a “prohibitive effect” and that the company’s design...

Science/Tech

China Leads Research in 90% of Crucial Technologies – a Dramatic Shift this Century

Today at 18:44 PM, via Slashdot

China is leading research in nearly 90% of the crucial technologies that “significantly enhance, or pose risks to, a country’s national interests,” according to a technology tracker run by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) — an independent think-tank. Nature: The ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker evaluated research on 74 current and emerging technologies this year, up from the...

Science/Tech

The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps

Today at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

A new study of roughly 80,000 bachelor’s degree recipients from a large urban public college system finds that characteristics of a graduate’s first job can explain nearly two-thirds of the otherwise-unexplained earnings gap between students from low-income and high-income families five years after graduation. The research [PDF], published as an NBER working paper by economists at Columbia...