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The England Women's football team won the Euro 2022 Championship at Wembley Stadium over the Weekend.
Around 87k people - a record crowd for women's football - attended the final against Germany.
Faye White MBE is a former England footballer and says this could inspire generations of young girls to get involved in sport.
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Authorities are continuing to recover bodies after flash floods in Eastern Uganda. Saturday night's flooding in the Mount Elgon region left a trail of destruction and at least 21 people dead. Leon Ssenyange reports.
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The Islamic States West Africa Province, ISWAP has been identified to be responsible for last week's attack on a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Abuja – Nigeria's capital.
The group is a splinter faction of terror group, Boko Haram which has been operating in Nigeria and other countries in the Lake Chad basin for over a decade.
Correspondent Tesem Akende reports.
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Former UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced he would cut taxes further if he is chosen to be the next leader of the Conservative Party.
Mr Sunak is going head-to-head with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in the leadership contest, which will see the winner replacing Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
While Mr Sunak had previously held off from announcing drastic tax cuts, the former finance minister has now pledged to cut the basic income tax rate from 20% to 16% within seven years if he makes it into Downing Street.
The bookies' favourite Liz Truss has accused her opponent of 'flip-flopping'.
Political Editor for HuffPost UK, Kevin Schofield, believes the move could be an attempt to win more votes.
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India is forming a special monitoring unit after the country recorded its first death from Monkeypox.
A 22-year-old man who had recently returned from the UAE died in Southern India.
Authorities are now cautioning against panic.
Ishan Garg reports.
IN: Officials say...Sports fans in Hong Kong are celebrating the return of the city’s famous Rugby Sevens event for the first time in three years. The competition will take place in November, amid a range of COVID-19 restrictions.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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The actress Nichelle Nichols who played the iconic role of Lieutenant Uhura on the original "Star Trek" series has died at the age of 89.
The news was announced by her son, with whom she had been living in New Mexico while she battled ill health.
The creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, cast her as Lieutenant Uhura at a time when black actresses were usually relegated to playing the roles of servants, not characters in positions of authority.
She planned to leave the series after the first season, but was talked out of it by civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King during a chance meeting, as Nichols recalled during a 2011 appearance at the "92nd Street Y" in New York.
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[TAG] Nichelle Nichols went on to star in three seasons of that original Star Trek series.
A conservative member of the US Supreme Court has mocked world leaders who condemned a controversial ruling last month overturning abortion rights in America.
Speaking at a conference in Rome, Justice Samuel Alito brushed off criticism from several prominent figures, including outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who Mr Alito claims "paid the price" for his opposition to the verdict.
From Washington, Benji Hyer reports.
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Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed 133 cases of monkeypox in 26 states of the country.
The agency also says from January to July 24, 2022, three deaths were recorded in three states.
Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja
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Eurozone inflation soared again to 8.9% in July, according to flash estimates from the European Union's statistics agency.
That's a new record for the 19 countries which use the euro currency.
Rosie Birchard has more from Brussels.
The UK government has announced some of the details of its Energy Support Scheme.
Rising bills are heavily impacting millions of people across the nations and the scheme is aimed at helping all households across England, Scotland and Wales keep up with the costs this Autumn.
Chris Jones has more in London
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