…of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with his deputy, Monisade Afuye, retained as running mate. If re-elected, Oyebanji would become the first governor in Ekiti's history to win two consecutive terms. OYEBANJI: The front runner Oyebanji enters the poll as the clear favourite. He won the 2022 governorship election wit…

…President Tinubu, seconded to Shettima. They also knew Datti Ahmed, Peter Obi's former running mate. Dr Baba-Ahmed ran to everybody in the presidency to plead for help. The entire presidency was involved. Promises were made to the Baba-Ahmed family. Days and weeks rolled by. The bandits, who had demanded a hefty ransom…

…¥2,400. Go's robotaxi ambitions are rooted in a human problem. Japan's taxi industry is running out of drivers. The number of taxi drivers has fallen roughly 20% in recent years, according to a report citing Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. An aging population means that figure is unlike…

…backed Anthropic and Mistral AI. "Physical AI is only as good as the underlying systems running it," the American VC firm wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing its investment. Kyber's potential applications go well beyond AI, though. Kempf told TechCrunch the platform is built for "all the use cases where the person who'…

…top spot in Group D if Turkey fail to beat Paraguay later Friday. Excitement had been running high from last week’s US thrashing of Paraguay. And a glorious day in the Pacific Northwest did not disappoint the red-and-white-clad fans who packed Seattle’s Lumen Field and its surrounding streets and bars. Even before kick…

…Stellarators can keep plasmas burning for long periods of time - a boon when it comes to running a commercial power plant - but to do so, they require twisty magnetic fields. Most stellarators build magnets that mimic that complex shape, but Thea Energy thinks that by wreathing its doughnut-shaped reactor in dozens of…

Partey misled Canadian officials over previous arrestImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Thomas Partey previously represented Ghana at the 2022 World Cup in QatarByBen CollinsBBC Sport journalistPublished16 June 2026Updated 17 June 2026Thomas Partey will miss Ghana's World Cup opener against Panama after wrongly t…

…made an immediate impact with two wickets in the opening over, before some diabolical running between the wickets gifted South Africa three more. But an inspired half-century from captain Fatima Sana dragged Pakistan up to 126-9 after a stand of 71 for the ninth wicket with Tuba Hassan. Fatima finished unbeaten on 55 f…

…OrderDet Ch Insp Paul McNamara, of Police Scotland, said: "This investigation was a long running, joint operation between the Home Office, Border Force, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and Police Scotland."As part of this, a Trafficking and Exploitation Risk Order (TERO) was in place."Breaches of the conditions imposed…

…the same third button as on the current Ultra. Storage: 64GB of storage is expected, running One UI 9 Watch on Wear OS 7. Glucose monitoring: heavily rumored for the Ultra tier but not confirmed by Samsung. One UI 9 Watch itself brings Live Updates, a Now Bar, redesigned widgets, and Gemini-powered AI features. Google…

…a few. In other words, there's no such thing as a sure thing for Gable, despite his long-running reputation as an incredible in-ring performer and one of WWE's most underrated and unappreciated stars.The key, of course, is to strike while the iron is hot, which hasn't been WWE's strong suit in the Triple H-led creative…

…and its FlexBreeze portable fan feels almost made for Cannes.When beach activations are running under full Riviera sun, portable cooling stops feeling indulgent very quickly.2. Battery Is CurrencyBlavor Solar Power Bank⁠, from around $50At Cannes, a dead phone is more than an inconvenience.No battery can mean no QR e…

…Ezri Konsa. With no pressure on the ball, a dinked pass was able to find Ivan Perisic running into that space between England's defenders. His flick-on assisted Petar Musa's goal.Image caption, Martin Baturina pulls the England midfielders out of the defensive line. With the back five now a back four, the gap between K…

…in his final season. "I know that pre-season was meant to be out in the sand dunes, running around, things that we would experience even with Championship level, but it builds bonds that are slightly different and I think you can see that"That emotion, that's probably just a release of a couple of years."It's been diff…

…worked really hard on the defensive side of his game and his off-the-ball running."On Friday night one of the things that's got to be really clear is how hard these players run, how hard these players work, particularly in defence and for each other."Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Janse van Rensburg and Ojomo…

…his county home throughout his career. He has regained fitness from previous injuries by running around the athletics track behind the Finchale End, and by completing shuttle runs on the outfield.In the warm-ups before day one against Northamptonshire, he was throwing balls to former Durham captain Scott Borthwick, who…

Nike v Adidas - the World Cup brand battleImage source, Reuters and Getty ImagesImage caption, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are key parts of the World Cup advertising campaigns for Nike and Adidas respectivelyBySimon CassonBBC Sport senior journalistPublished19 June 2026The World Cup is all about numbers. Which team …

…territories will not be able to charge prices as high as Fox Sports, and not all are running them for the maximum duration allowed, but the total amount accrued will be huge."When you start scaling that up over all the rest of the countries, it's probably a billion dollars (£756m) from hydration break ads across the gl…

…via that chat app. It performs log analysis (the script the software writes while it's running) to help determine why something broke in production, and lets users tell it to generate and submit a fix for the problem in one click. Silmaril What it's building: AI security infrastructure Why it's a fav: Autonomy is a hot…

…the only outside bet on the future of lithography. Peter Thiel - who has his own long-running ties to Trump's political orbit - has backed Substrate, a separate startup explicitly pursuing its own EUV-rival technology, with ambitions to compete with ASML more directly than xLight says it intends to. As Bloomberg notes,…

…managed deployments. The ideal Smartbird customers need direct control over the servers running their models - typically for political or business-model reasons - and value data sovereignty over the scalability of the public cloud. Carlsten couldn't yet estimate the size of that market and argued that it was fairly nas…

…title defence in style, while traditional heavyweights will be looking to hit the ground running after strengthening their squads during the summer. Meanwhile, clubs with European commitments will also be keeping a close eye on how domestic fixtures align with their continental campaigns, knowing that squad depth could…