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Loan stars: Premier League youngsters to watch in the EFL
The Guardian profiles nine young Premier League players who have been loaned out to English Football League clubs this season, highlighting their progress and potential. – Stockport’s 18-year-old goalkeeper Whatmuff, tipped for the top after earning promotion with Rochdale and touring with Manchester City’s squad alongside Gianluigi Donnarumma. – Winger Iling-Junior, 22, who has moved…
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‘Uber rapture’ leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
Uber has abruptly shut down its ride-hailing service in Nigeria and Uganda, with some users and drivers reportedly left mid-journey when the app cut out, prompting online jokes about an “Uber rapture.” The company gave notice on 2 September that the service would end that same day, offering little warning to customers, drivers or staff…
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At 29 I was drinking a box of wine a day despite my successful career. Then I tried the £3 ‘Ozempic for alcohol’ pill – now I haven’t felt a craving for almost a decade
Luke Smith, now in his mid-30s, has described how he overcame a severe alcohol addiction that saw him drinking around 500 units a week using a £3 pill called naltrexone, sometimes referred to as the “Ozempic of alcohol”. The medication works by blocking opioid receptors in the brain, making drinking less pleasurable and helping curb…
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Yen soars as Bank of Japan tipped to raise interest rates
The Japanese yen surged more than 1.7% against the dollar on Thursday amid growing speculation that the Bank of Japan is preparing to raise interest rates, pushing the currency to its highest level in a month. The move follows remarks from BoJ policymaker Hajime Takata suggesting the bank needs to act more “nimbly”, which markets…
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Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase
Microsoft has confirmed that its August 2026 update preview for Windows 11 is causing some desktops to lose their personalisation settings, forcing affected machines onto a default black background that users cannot manually override. The bug affects Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, and matters because it strips users of a basic customisation option with no…
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Russia’s strikes near Moldova raise alarm over Putin’s plans for Europe’s eastern flank
Moldova, which recently marked 35 years of independence, is facing escalating pressure from Russia as the war in neighbouring Ukraine edges closer to its borders. Officials say Moscow has struck Ukrainian border infrastructure near Moldova and repeatedly violated Moldovan airspace, moves seen as attempts to intimidate the country into scaling back its support for Ukraine…
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Kenyan president orders crackdown on foreigners operating small businesses
Kenya’s President William Ruto has ordered foreign nationals to shut down small-scale businesses such as hawking and street trading from next week, and pledged to fast-track legislation barring foreigners from certain sectors of trade. The move follows growing tension over the role of African migrants in Kenya’s informal economy, with Ruto arguing that foreign investors,…
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Arsenal bank on continuity after big names elude them late in transfer window
Arsenal ended the summer transfer window without adding attacking reinforcements despite manager Mikel Arteta’s calls for greater squad depth, letting Gabriel Jesus and Ethan Nwaneri leave and with Gabriel Martinelli set to join Al-Hilal, while missing out on targets including Malick Fofana, who signed for Sunderland. The lack of late business has raised questions among…
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Acorn icon bar claim revives Windows taskbar origins debate
A recent X thread reignited a long-running debate about the origins of Windows 95’s taskbar, after former Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore insisted it was not derived from NeXT’s Dock but grew out of internal Microsoft work by the Cairo team. The Register notes this echoes a claim it previously reported from Paul Fellows, who led…
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Kate Middleton’s carefully planned path to the throne revealed as expert says she ‘played the long game’
Royal biographers say Kate Middleton’s evolution from a middle-class St Andrews student to a central figure in the monarchy was the result of a deliberate, patient strategy rather than chance. Author Simon Vigar, writing in “The Four Wives of Windsor”, quotes a source close to Prince William describing Kate’s approach as one of “steady progress”,…