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Professor Jason Arday, the British-Ghanaian academic who made history as the youngest Black professor appointed at the University of Cambridge, has died aged 41. Arday was found unresponsive at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. Emergency services were called shortly after 3pm, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Metropolitan Police said his death is being treated as unexpected but is not believed to be suspicious. His family has been informed and a file will...

Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal charges connected to the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, bringing an unexpected turn to one of America’s most closely watched criminal cases. Appearing before a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, 14 August, the 28-year-old admitted that he tracked Thompson to New York and shot him outside a Midtown hotel on 4 December 2024. Thompson had been in the city to attend an investor conference. Mangione pleaded guilty...

Nearly two decades after opening its doors, Oprah Winfrey is preparing to close the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. The prestigious boarding school, which opened in 2007 following a promise inspired by conversations between Oprah and the late Nelson Mandela, will officially end operations in its current form after the 2027 academic year. But Oprah isn’t walking away from the mission. Instead, she is changing how she delivers it. The media mogul and philanthropist...