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Arriva North London Bus Drivers Strike Next Week Over Hot Working Conditions
More than 1,500 bus drivers employed by Arriva in North London will strike next week after negotiations with management collapsed without resolution. The industrial action centres on concerns about excessive heat in buse
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Arriva bus strikes return as City close in on Bouaddi, Kejelcha smashes half marathon record
More than 1,500 Arriva North London bus drivers strike next week after talks collapsed; a report criticises a £8m Albanian prisoner transfer scheme; DR Congo and M23 agree a peace roadmap; and Man City near a €100m deal for Ayyoub Bouaddi.
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Kejelcha breaks men’s half marathon world record by 29 seconds
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha has reclaimed the men’s half marathon world record, clocking 56 minutes 51 seconds to win a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires. The result restores his status as the fastest man over the distance after Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo had taken the record from him earlier in the year, underlining Kejelcha’s status…
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The new world’s most wanted: Now Daniel Kinahan is behind bars, the $1bn narco ‘Chubby Jos’ who’s living ‘like a king’ in palm fringed Sierra Leone beach resort after fathering a baby with the president’s DAUGHTER
Dutch cocaine trafficker Jos Leijdekkers, 35, has become the world’s most wanted drug smuggler following the arrest and extradition of Daniel Kinahan from Dubai to Ireland earlier this month. Leijdekkers, nicknamed “Chubby Jos”, is reportedly living openly and with apparent impunity in Sierra Leone, where he is said to have married the president’s daughter and…
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Two-time world champion Tete shot dead outside home
Two-time world boxing champion Zolani Tete has been shot dead outside his home in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in what officials have described as an ambush. The 38-year-old was waiting in his car for his gate to open when two armed, balaclava-clad suspects emerged from a vehicle and opened fire, also wounding a 27-year-old…
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Fifa general secretary Mattias Grafström could stand against Infantino in election
Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, has been sounded out by senior African football figures over a potential challenge to Gianni Infantino in next year’s Fifa presidential election, the Guardian reports. The approach follows growing unease within the Confederation of African Football (Caf), whose executive committee claims unanimous backing for Infantino despite reports that as many…
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Ethiopia’s Virgin Mary festival in Tigray cancelled over drone strike fears
A major festival in northern Ethiopia celebrating women and the Virgin Mary has been cancelled in Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, amid fears it could be targeted in drone attacks. The Ashenda festival traditionally draws thousands of young women to a mass gathering, but Tigrayan officials cancelled Saturday’s stadium event citing “ongoing drone…
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Corruption charges dropped against South Africa’s police intelligence boss
South African prosecutors have withdrawn fraud and corruption charges against Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo, head of the police’s crime intelligence unit, along with six fellow officers, following a review by the country’s chief prosecutor. Khumalo and his colleagues had been arrested in June 2025 over the allegedly unlawful appointment of a civilian, Dineo Mokwele, to a…
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Victony on New Album ‘Starlife’ and How Breakout Hit ‘Soweto’ Encouraged Him ‘To Keep Experimenting’
Nigerian singer Victony has released his 15-track sophomore album *Starlife*, out 21 August, which grew organically from an initially planned four-song EP after the song “FRE$H” sparked a broader creative surge. Speaking to Billboard UK from London, where he is hosting a listening party following one in Lagos, Victony described the record as a more…
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Two Mexicans arrested as police uncover big meth lab on South African farm
South African police have raided a crystal methamphetamine laboratory on a remote farm near Musina in Limpopo province, close to the border with Zimbabwe, arresting five suspects including two Mexican nationals. The bust follows a two-month investigation into suspicious activity at the property and forms part of a wider pattern in which South African farms…