Apple was ordered to pay $5.7bn (£4.3bn) in damages after a US jury found it had used another firm’s tech without permission. Audio firm Taction Technology claimed in 2021 that Apple had infringed two of its patents for haptics systems, which enable vibrations for actions such as receiving a message or pressing a button. This tech is built into devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple has been approached for comment. In a statement given to news outlets including CNBC, the company said it had not used Taction’s vibration tech and would appeal the verdict. “While we thank the…
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Nairobi City Thunder are one win away from completing a third consecutive unbeaten Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) Men’s Premier League championship season after taking a 2-0 lead over Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) in the playoff final staged at Makande Gymnasium in Mombasa the past weekend. Thunder, who are under a KES 10 million sponsorship by I&M Bank this season, opened the best-of-five series playoff with a 78-67 overtime win in Game 1 on Saturday after playing to 59-59 draw in regular time, before following it up with a 72-63 win on Sunday evening to move within one victory of a…
Taylor Swift took home the video of the year award as she became the most successful artist in the history of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. The singer went into the night tied with Beyoncé on 30 wins, and went on to score the night’s top award for the visuals for her track The Fate of Ophelia, taken from her 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl. The original Queen of Pop, Madonna, won artist of the year, best dance and best collaboration alongside Sabrina Carpenter for their dancefloor-filler Bring Your Love, which was the lead single from…
Rwanda’s Celestin Nsanzuwera and Kenya’s Greg Snow were among the standout East African performers at the just-concluded Rwanda Open, a Sunshine Tour event held at Kigali Golf Resort & Villas from 24 to 27 September. Nsanzuwera produced a strong performance on home soil to finish tied for 25th on 14-under-par 274, following rounds of 68, 69, 70 and 67. His final-round 67 was his best score of the tournament and helped him finish as the best-placed player from the region behind tournament winner Kyle De Beer of South Africa who finished at an incredible 27-under par total. Kenya’s Greg Snow…
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has warned that the expected El Niño rains could deepen human rights violations, particularly among vulnerable communities, unless the government places rights protection at the centre of its disaster preparedness and response. In a statement issued on Monday, September 28, 2026, in Nairobi, KHRC called on the government to adopt a rights-based approach to the anticipated heavy rains expected between late September and December. The commission cited Article 19(1) of the Constitution, which provides that the Bill of Rights is an integral part of Kenya’s democratic state and forms the framework for social, economic…
A High Court judge on Monday pardoned Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja over the failure by the National Police Service to comply with a court order barring police from barricading roads during demonstrations. Justice Patricia Nyaundi, however, warned Kanja that the court would consider a custodial sentence if the police violate the order again. Kanja appeared before the court in person alongside Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat and Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin as the court considered contempt proceedings arising from the alleged breach. Justice Nyaundi said Kanja’s decision to personally appear before the court, acknowledge the directive…
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged French bishops to keep battling the “scourge” of clerical sex abuse during a trip to France, after repeated accusations against the Church in recent years. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics was on a four-day trip to France, a secular country with deep Catholic roots, marking the first official papal visit there in nearly two decades. “You have faced with determination the painful scourge of abuse of minors committed by members of the clergy or within an ecclesial context,” he told the bishops during a private meeting in the pilgrimage town of…
President Donald Trump said he will have a late dinner Sunday night with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the top AI executive who has cautioned about the technology’s breakneck pace of development even as the president warns against slowing it. The meeting comes after months of open conflict between the artificial intelligence startup and the Trump administration. The private dinner is the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to US media including Axios, which first reported the dinner plan. As he arrived at Joint Base Andrews near Washington after attending a golf tournament in Chicago, Trump joked about putting…
Three years after its first test flight, SpaceX’s Starship rocket will attempt Monday to enter Earth’s orbit, a key step in the development of the massive launch vehicle designed for future missions to the Moon and Mars. On the heels of its high-profile initial public offering in June, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to shift into high gear with a 14th test flight featuring ambitious goals. The test, expected to last about 10 hours, will involve the upper stage of the experimental rocket flying into Earth orbit and deploying 26 next-generation Starlink satellites there — if all goes well. But the…
A deeply polarized Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday to choose between two starkly different visions for the country proposed by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro. These are the key issues at stake: Leftist holdout, or join rightward march Latin America has swung sharply to the right in recent years, in elections in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. A Lula victory would keep Brazil as a major leftist bastion in the region, alongside Mexico, while a Flavio Bolsonaro win would see the country join the shifting tide. Oliver Stuenkel, a professor…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, September 27, 2026, and met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, according to multiple Israeli media reports. The visit was first reported by Israeli Channel 12 and later corroborated by a diplomatic source to The Jerusalem Post. A senior Israeli official also confirmed the meeting to Reuters. Netanyahu departed from Ben-Gurion Airport shortly after 12:00 p.m. on a private executive jet and landed in Abu Dhabi at 3:10 p.m. He spent approximately four hours in the UAE before his plane took off for the…
Aleksandar Vučić formally submitted his resignation as President of Serbia on Sunday, September 27, 2026, during a public address. He announced the decision during an interview with Radio Television of Serbia, stating he would submit his resignation around 8 p.m. local time. Vučić stepped down in order to run for the position of Prime Minister in the upcoming snap parliamentary elections. He is the candidate for the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). He was serving his second and final presidential term and was constitutionally barred from seeking a third. Following the resignation, Ana Brnabić, the Speaker of the National Assembly,…
Expansion of the Mzima Springs water project in Taita-Taveta County will commence this year, President William Ruto has announced. He said the Government will mobilise Sh30 billion for the project to tackle perennial water shortages in the county and neighbouring areas. The project, to be financed through the National Infrastructure Fund, will provide water to the Mwatate, Voi and Taveta constituencies and also supply Mombasa City. “The management of the National Infrastructure Fund is already in place, and I have instructed that Mzima Springs water project should get priority,” he said. He attributed the region’s persistent water shortages to inadequate…
Former Justice Minister and People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua has announced the death of her father, Mwalimu Jackson Karua. In a statement issued on Sunday, Karua said she had travelled to Kirinyaga earlier in the day to visit her father, accompanied by her siblings. The family spent time with him and sang his favourite gospel hymn before she began her journey back to Nairobi. She said she received news while on her way back that her father had died. “We were simply grateful to sit beside him, to see him and spend that time together. I did not…
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula has stepped up his criticism of retired President Uhuru Kenyatta over his recent claim that the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga won the 2022 presidential election. Speaking during a Sunday church service at Hewani Gospel PEFA Church in Garsen Constituency, Tana River County on Sunday , Wetang’ula questioned why Kenyatta handed over power to President William Ruto if he believed the 2022 election had been rigged. Last week, while handing over the leadership of the Jubilee Party to his deputy Dr Fred Matiang’i, Kenyatta said he remained convinced that the former prime minister Raila…