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Zimbabwe's athletics had a pretty solid run this year, with the National Athletics Association crediting better coaching programs for the turnaround. Director Lisimati Phakamile ran some certification courses in Bulawayo and said the country got more athletes into World Championships while...

Sweden announced it's pulling development funding from Zimbabwe and four other nations to redirect cash toward Ukraine instead. The Nordic government plans to axe aid going to Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia, and Bolivia over the next couple of years. Benjamin Dousa, who handles...

Washington Navaya from TelOne got named Soccer Star after banging in 17 goals to lead the league, and he picked up his hardware at a Delta Beverages event in Harare. Scottland FC defender Kevin Moyo came second, while Simba Bhora's Emmanuel Ziocha landed third. Tonderai Ndiraya won Coach honors...

Harare-based financial services outfit Bard Santner wrapped up the year, saying things went better than expected despite tight liquidity and economic chaos across Zimbabwe. CEO Senziwani Sikhosana and executives Tatenda Hungwe and Lucia Chingwaru ran the show while the company pushed into asset...

UK electric car sales basically flatlined last month, with the weakest bump in nearly two years after Rachel Reeves dropped plans for a pay-per-mile tax on battery vehicles. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said registrations crawled up just 3.6% compared to the year before...

Ocado scored a $350 million payout from Kroger after the American grocery chain ditched another robot warehouse in Charlotte and admitted three other automated facilities flopped hard. The British tech company's stock bounced up briefly before settling higher, but CEO Tim Steiner is still...

AJ Bell CEO Michael Summersgill said pension savers yanked roughly £600 million out of their accounts because they thought Rachel Reeves was about to wreck the tax-free lump sum rules. Thousands of people over 55 pulled cash during September and October, expecting the Treasury to cap the 25%...

UK companies axed workers faster than at any point since the pandemic started, with private-sector jobs dropping 1.8% as Rachel Reeves kept everyone guessing about tax hikes for months before her second budget. Bank of England numbers show bosses are planning to cut another 0.7% of their...

The Supreme Court decided to hear arguments about whether kids born on US soil automatically become citizens, which stems from Trump trying to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. His executive order, back when he started his second term, said the government should stop giving citizenship documents...

Human Rights Watch called out armed groups in Putumayo for terrorizing civilians, with Indigenous people getting hit the hardest. The groups are basically using peace negotiations as a cover to tighten their grip on the region near Ecuador and Peru. Locals told HRW they got forced to bury murder...

The Faroe Islands just barely passed a law letting people get abortions on request during the first twelve weeks. Parliament voted 17 to 16 to ditch their super-restrictive 1956 rules that only allowed terminations for rape, incest, health emergencies, or fetal issues. The autonomous Danish...

Trump gave a pardon to Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar and his wife after they got hit with bribery charges last year. Federal prosecutors said the couple took roughly $600,000 from an Azerbaijani state-owned energy firm and a Mexican bank, laundering it through shell companies while Cuellar...

A Libyan prison boss got hauled before the ICC after Germany grabbed him on an arrest warrant. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri ran the Mitiga facility near Tripoli and stands accused of a dozen counts split between war crimes and crimes against humanity for stuff that went down between early 2015...

Human Rights Watch is calling out French President Emmanuel Macron to stop treating human rights like some separate checkbox when dealing with China. The group wants him to integrate rights concerns into broader policy talks during his visit to Beijing, specifically addressing forced labor in...

Violence keeps hitting religious communities across Nigeria, and the country's legal protections aren't doing much to stop it. Armed groups linked to Boko Haram and ISWAP have been attacking churches, schools, and civilians in the Middle Belt and northern regions. Last month, militants grabbed...

Human Rights Watch is freaking out about what might happen at the 2026 World Cup after ICE grabbed an asylum seeker who showed up to watch the Club World Cup final in New Jersey with his family. The guy got busted for accidentally flying a drone near the stadium, which normally just gets you...

Australia just forced social media platforms to start reporting how many under-16 accounts they ban each month after passing a law that kicks kids off major sites. The Online Safety Amendment hits Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Snapchat, and Reddit with fines up to 50 million...

A Kenyan parliamentary committee dropped a massive report accusing British troops of sexual violence, environmental damage, and general misconduct spanning multiple decades near their training bases. The two-year investigation heard testimony from communities around Laikipia and Samburu...

Apple just hired Jennifer Newstead away from Meta to replace Kate Adams as general counsel, and she's starting the transition process before officially taking over the legal team. Newstead spent over six years running legal stuff at Meta and previously worked at the State Department, plus Davis...

Netflix pulled off the Warner Bros. Discovery buyout with help from Skadden, while Wachtell and Debevoise repped WBD on the other side of the table. The deal values each WBD share at $27.75 through a mix of cash and Netflix stock, and the whole thing clocks in around $82.7 billion total...