Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance.

Nigeria's president has ordered a corruption investigation into allegations that a fictitious government agency was set up within his own office, complete with public funding worth $950,000 (£700,000).

According to the presidency, the letter from the president's chief of staff creating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) had been forged.

A German palliative care doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 15 of his patients.

A court in Berlin found the 41-year-old man, named only as Johannes M. in line with German privacy rules, guilty of murdering 12 women and 3 men between September 2021 and July 2024.

Square Enix and Disney announced Kingdom Hearts 4 at the Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary event in 2022, giving us a fresh new look at Sora and what he’s been up to after he left his friends for a solo adventure at the end of Kingdom Hearts 3. To no one’s surprise, there haven’t been many updates for the sequel since then, but its recent appearance at a Nintendo Direct affirmed the game's continued development.

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Nexstar‘s The Hill hopes to get a bump from offering a new tier of content to hard-core subscribers.

The Washington, D.C. publication, which analyzes politics and policy for people focused on inside-the-Beltway going-ons, is on Wednesday launching “The Hill Insider,” a new subscription tier that features access to premium newsletters, live interactive video calls with the publication’s journalists and deeper reportage that offers more detail and analysis about some of the biggest stories of the day.

Nexstar, the local TV giant, is getting into the digital subscription business through its national political news brand The Hill.

The Hill on Wednesday will launch what it is calling The Hill Insider, with exclusive content and access that the company hopes will appeal to political professionals and news junkies alike.

Cheers to Christopher Nolan!

Tom Holland, who stars as Telemachus in Nolan’s The Odyssey, has launched a collaboration between the forthcoming epic from Universal Pictures and his non-alcoholic beer brand BERO. Available beginning July 8 on BERO’s website, the collaboration unites the brand and the film through a limited-edition Noon Wheat 6-pack, featuring collectible packaging, a custom box and can designs inspired by The Odyssey.