He thought the stage would save him from the classroom. Instead, it dragged him deeper into books than he ever expected. Philip Luswata’s journey from reluctant student to PhD candidate is one of Uganda’s most unexpected academic comebacks.
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A Kampala court has shut down a former Ugandan diplomat’s attempt to derail his extradition to the United States, where he faces serious charges linking cocaine, firearms, and terrorism. Justice Simon Peter Kinobe ruled the move premature, and now the clock is ticking again. Here’s what you need to know.
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House prices are sliding in Australia, and at least one prominent voice in Canberra is calling that a good thing. With almost every property sold in the first half of 2026 still netting a profit for its owner, the numbers tell a more complex story than the headlines suggest. Here’s what’s really going on.
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SpaceX arrived on Wall Street like a rocket launch, all spectacle and ambition. Then came the first quarterly numbers. Revenue is growing fast, yes, but the spending is growing faster, and investors are starting to ask the uncomfortable questions.
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One season after writing Scottish football history, Eva Olid is walking into one of the most storied clubs in the world. Manchester United’s women’s team has a new boss, and she’s exactly the kind of understated overachiever the role demands.
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has broken his silence on the Stephen Nuwagaba affair, issuing a pointed warning to security agencies while publicly rebuking prominent journalist Andrew Mwenda. The message from State House is unusually direct: torture and abuse of power will not be tolerated, and those who deflect from that truth will be called out by name.
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A management split, a bruising bout of depression, and a career that looked like it was heading nowhere fast. Then Vinka picked up the phone, and everything changed. The story of how ‘Tompa’ became a lifeline is one of Uganda’s most quietly powerful music comebacks.
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The courtroom fell into a heavy silence as Uganda’s Public Service Minister, Gen. Edward Katumba Wamala, described the moment gunfire tore through his convoy and his daughter fell into his arms. Five years on, the grief has not dulled. The testimony has only sharpened it.
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England and Wales are holding over 86,000 prisoners, and the government’s attempt to ease the pressure is satisfying almost nobody. PC Harper’s mother has spoken out, victims’ advocates are furious, and the political fallout is only getting louder.
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You are getting a remarkable deal every time you fire up a free AI chatbot. But the companies behind those tools are wrestling with a pricing problem that nobody has fully solved yet. The economics of artificial intelligence are shifting so fast that even the vendors selling it cannot quote you a firm rate for next year.
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