Every sports day, nativity play, and graduation ceremony gets photographed and posted online by well-meaning schools. But those images of children do not disappear into thin air. They travel, they index, and sometimes they end up somewhere nobody intended.
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One month after writing his name into Spanish football folklore with an extra-time winner in the 2026 World Cup final, Ferran Torres has traded Camp Nou for the Parc des Princes. PSG have landed their World Cup hero, and the timing could not be more perfect. Here is the full story.
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He made history at one of the world’s most prestigious universities. Then, in a matter of weeks, everything unravelled. Jason Arday, Cambridge’s youngest-ever Black professor, has been found dead at 41, a tragedy that leaves the academic world grappling with grief, guilt, and hard questions about how institutions handle public scandals.
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She danced for Sheebah out of pure love. But now Ritah Dancehall is building something of her own, and it turns out Sheebah is the one who told her to stop. Here is the story behind one of Uganda’s most talked-about artistic separations.
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A sweeping reshuffle of Uganda’s senior military command has moved several generals into new positions, with Maj. Gen. Felix Busizoori stepping into one of the army’s most senior roles. The changes, ordered by Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, take immediate effect and signal a deliberate reconfiguration of battlefield leadership across the country.
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A murdered child’s clothing goes missing. A high-profile true crime writer reportedly claims to have it. Two whistleblowers raise the alarm, and the BBC stays quiet. This story has the makings of a thriller, but every detail is devastatingly real.
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Ice cream has always been about pleasure, but inside Magnum’s research and development centre near Bedford, it’s also about survival. With volatile commodity prices and relentless competition, the world’s biggest publicly listed ice cream maker is dreaming up the next generation of frozen treats, one luminous lolly at a time.
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Some golfers play well under pressure. Scottie Scheffler plays like pressure doesn’t exist. The world number one matched the course record at TPC Southwind with a breathtaking nine-under 61, turning the St Jude Championship into his personal showcase heading into the weekend.
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A region of 400 million people grows the coffee, picks the cotton, and mines the minerals, then watches the profits get made somewhere else. East Africa’s raw materials export habit is old, expensive, and increasingly hard to defend. Uganda thinks it has a plan to change the equation.
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A joint security operation in Uganda ended with the arrest of Kigozi John Baptist, the man at the wheel when a crash on Entebbe Road killed two journalists and left a TV presenter fighting for his life. It is the kind of story that stops a newsroom cold, and the nation is watching every development closely.
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