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When 21-year-old El Hadji Malick Diouf won the African Cup of Nations with Senegal, he fulfilled a childhood dream.In 2022, when Senegal celebrated its first-ever AFCON, Diouf was 17 years old, chasing an open-top bus as history-making heroes paraded around Dakar. Four years on, when Senegal defeated hosts Morocco 1-0 in one of the most extraordinary games in world football, he has made history alongside his heroes. But it almost wasn’t. In the 98th minute, just after Senegal were denied a goal for a soft foul in the build-up towards the end of stoppage time, Morocco were awarded a penalty…

You can’t walk through New York City’s Flatiron District without seeing the Flatiron Building. It first opened in 1902 and has been part of the city ever since. And for the first time in 124 years, an era has arrived where you can call your home as long as you have the money.The Flatiron Building, previously a commercial building, has been converted into 38 luxury condominiums and is expected to be fully completed later this year. Apartments in the building range from three-bedroom units priced at approximately $10.95 million to 21st-floor penthouses priced at more than $50 million. Corcoran Sunshine…

As the music industry gathers for Grammy Week, African music is playing an increasingly important role not only on the awards stage, but across global pop culture. That momentum will be on display at YouTube Music’s annual African music and culture festival Pamoja in Los Angeles on Saturday. Organizers say the theme reflects the collaborative and transnational nature of African music’s global rise. The event will recognize nominees for the Recording Academy’s Best African Music Performance category and present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Nigerian pioneer Fela Kuti. Pamoja will also highlight the role of the African diaspora and international…

Sky Sports F1’s Martin Brundle said Mercedes’ “relentless” pace and reliability “cannot be ignored” after the Barcelona shakedown.During the five-day event in Spain, lap times were virtually irrelevant as teams completed as many laps as possible to test reliability and collect data for the new 2026 car. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was fastest by a tenth of a second from Mercedes’ George Russell, but the Silver Arrows covered the most distance with 500 laps, with Ferrari in second place with 440 laps. “Mercedes have never really done well with their ground effects cars. They were porpoising but they never really got…

In his first term at the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh came to the central bank about to be asked to save the world. He now returns under very different circumstances and is asked to serve a famously capricious president, placing important but very different demands on himself.In fact, Mr. Warsh is a veteran of the Fed, having served during the critical period from 2006 to 2011 leading up to the global financial crisis and ultimately the central bank’s efforts to stabilize the economy. Mr. Warsh, appointed by President George W. Bush, was one of the youngest members ever to serve…

An explosion destroyed a building in Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran, on Saturday, state media reported. The cause of the explosion that killed the girl was not immediately clear. Iran’s state-run Fars news agency has denied rumors that have been circulating for several hours that Brigadier General Alireza Tansiri, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) navy, has been assassinated. The explosion comes amid rising tensions in the region after US President Donald Trump recently warned of possible military action against Iran. A U.S. official told CNN the explosion was not related to any U.S. military…

Luke Littler admitted darts fans might be “tired” of seeing him win after narrowly defeating Mike Decker in the first round of the Winmau World Masters.Littler survived match darts to score a dramatic victory in Milton Keynes on Friday. The 19-year-old came close to making an incredible nine-darter, while Decker won back-to-back sets but missed match darts to win 3-1 before Littler staged a late comeback. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player At the Winmau World Masters, Mike DeDecker missed a decisive dart against Luke Littler, allowing world No. 1 Luke Littler to fight back and snatch…

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during a party at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 12, 2000.Davidoff Studios Photography | Archive Photos | Getty ImagesThe Justice Department on Friday released many more records from its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, resuming disclosures under a law intended to reveal what the government knew about the millionaire financier’s sexual abuse of young girls and his interactions with the rich and powerful.Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than 3 million pages of documents in the latest Epstein disclosure, as well as more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.…

Our football betting expert Jones Knows provides his insight across the Premier League weekend.Many will be looking at Brighton’s price here of 17/20 with Sky Bet and get tempted in. Not me. This remains a type of tactical match-up where taking on the Seagulls is a profitable long-term strategy. Brighton, who are on a run of just one win in 10 Premier League games, can be brilliant in transition and lethal when teams engage them high but when the opponent drops into a compact mid-to-low block, that fluency can drain away. Under Fabian Hurzeler, Brighton have won only four of…

Kraft Heinz has announced plans to split into two separate companies, scrapping a 2015 mega-merger engineered by billionaire investor Warren Buffett. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBig Food is slimming down. As both consumers and regulators turn against ultra-processed foods, companies that make them are splitting up or selling off iconic brands. last year, unilever The ice cream business was spun off as The Magnum Ice Cream Company. Kraft Heinz Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital are scrapping most of the merger they forged over a decade ago and preparing to dissolve later…