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A Somali sports official was suspended for nepotism on Wednesday after a viral video showed an apparent novice runner skipping across the finish line in last place at an international competition. The video, which circulated widely on Wednesday, showed Nasro Abukar Ali competing in the third heat of the first round of the women’s 100-meter race at the International University Sports Federation’s (FISU) Summer World University Games in China. Ali starts sluggishly out of the blocks as the other runners burst forward, and quickly fades far behind the pack before jogging toward the finish line and ending with a small skip.…

Former Northwestern University offensive lineman Ramon Diaz is suing the school and its recently fired football coach Pat Fitzgerald over allegations of racism and hazing during his time on the team – joining a succession of similar accusations against the university’s athletic programs. “My experience playing football at Northwest University haunts me to this day. I never will forget the mistreatment that I experienced for those four years,” said Diaz, who is Latino, at a news conference in Chicago on Wednesday. Diaz was a member of Northwestern’s football team from 2005 to 2008. He was among three former football players included in a report…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are separating, Trudeau announced on his Instagram account Wednesday. Trudeau said after “many meaningful and difficult conversations” with Sophie, “we have made the decision to separate.” “As always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,” he wrote. He asked that their privacy be respected for the well-being of their children. The prime minister’s office said the pair have “have signed a legal separation agreement,” in a Wednesday statement. “They have worked to ensure that all…

Separate outbreaks of violence this week, including the alleged shooting of three Muslim men by a police officer on a train, have exposed the deep communal fissures in India weeks before it welcomes Group of 20 (G20) leaders to the capital. Violence erupted in the northern state of Harayana state on Monday after a right-wing Hindu organization led a religious procession in the Muslim dominated region of Nuh. Clashes spread to several districts of the finance and tech hub, Gurugram, also known as Gurgaon, home to more than 1.5 million people and hundreds of global firms, where violent mobs predominantly…

YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson has been accused of “bullying tactics” after he took legal action against the firm behind his namesake burger chain. Donaldson claims the deal has damaged his reputation, but Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC) said his “notoriety” had grown “in part” due to the partnership. MrBeast Burger was opened in 2020 to much fanfare, but Donaldson is now asking a judge to end the arrangement. VDC claim his case is “meritless” and “riddled with false statements”. Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind the fast food chain, said it would be vindicated in court. “We had hoped Mr. Donaldson would…

Tour operators in the UK are on notice: Uber wants to take your business. The ride-hailing company, famous for upending the global taxi business, wants to do the same for holiday travel, by expanding the services available on its app. Boss Dara Khosrowshahi discussed his ambitions to make Uber a go-to travel platform as the firm reported its first-ever global operating profit. The milestone came as a record number of Uber trips were taken this spring. Uber said about 25 million trips were made on the platform per day on average in the April to June period, up 22% year-on-year…

A Russian drone strike has hit Ukrainian port facilities at Izmail on the River Danube, a short distance from Nato member state Romania. A grain warehouse, a passenger building and an elevator for loading grain have all been damaged. Russia began targeting Ukraine’s ports after abandoning a UN deal that enabled both countries to export grain safely across the Black Sea. A large fire raged from the port area of Izmail early on Wednesday. Video, filmed from the Romanian side of the Danube roughly 3km (1.9 miles) away, showed the extent of the fire. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis condemned Russia’s continued…

Zendaya has said that “words are not enough to describe the infinite beauty” of her Euphoria co-star Angus Cloud, following his death aged 25. The actress, who stars as recovering addict Ruby “Rue” Bennett in the HBO series, shared a black and white image of Cloud on Instagram, celebrating his “boundless light, love and joy”. Cloud played drug dealer Fezco “Fez” O’Neill in the teen drama. Rappers Drake – an executive producer on it – and Kid Cudi also paid homage. Cloud died on Monday at his family home in Oakland, California, a publicist confirmed. “It is with the heaviest…

Singer Dua Lipa is facing a multi-million dollar copyright claim over the use of a recording in her hit single Levitating. The legal action was filed by musician Bosko Kante, who claims the star used a recording made with his talk box in remixes of the song without permission. The talk box is a wearable device that makes vocal vibrations sound like musical instruments. Dua Lipa and her label Warner Music Group have not responded to the claims. Levitating is one of Dua Lipa’s most popular tracks from her 2020 album Future Nostalgia. The legal action, which was filed in…

Artificial intelligence can “safely” read breast cancer screening images, a Swedish study suggests. Researchers led by a team at Lund University found computer-aided detection could spot cancer at a “similar rate” to two radiologists. But they said more research was needed to fully determine whether it could be used in screening programmes. Experts in the UK agreed AI offered huge promise in breast cancer screening. This is not the first study to look at the use of AI to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms – X-rays of the breast. Previous research, including some carried out in the UK, has looked retrospectively,…