Beth Shriever, a British cyclist, triumphed in the 2025 World Championships in Denmark, taking home her third BMX world title.
In 35. 614 seconds, Shriever, the Olympic champion from Tokyo four years ago, came in ahead of Dutch rider Judy Baauw and Australian rider Saya Sakakibara.
Elsa Rendall Todd won silver in Copenhagen’s junior final.
After a poor first half of her semi-final, Shriever dominated in the final and fought back to beat Sakakibara, who had already won the Paris 2024 gold medal.
Shriever, a 26-year-old, described it as “absolutely incredible.”
“A crazy, crazy day of racing has passed. This is all or nothing, I said as I scraped through the semi. I’m excited to win.
Shriever won her second European title this year before clinching her third-place finish at the Olympics, finishing last last summer.
In the women’s junior final, British team-mate Rendall Todd, 17, beat New Zealand’s champion Lily Greenough, 38.130 seconds, to take silver.
According to doctors treating him, a Palestinian teenager who was shot in the eye by Israeli forces while desperately searching for food for his family in a Gaza-area neighborhood has an eye condition called forced starvation.
Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar, 15, claimed Israeli soldiers continued to shoot at him even after he was shot, making him believe that “death was near” and that this was the end.
Abu Jazar claimed he visited the site around 2am (23:00 GMT), retracing the terrifying chain of events from a hospital bed with a white bandage covering one eye.
He claimed that this was his first time visiting the distribution center. I went there because my siblings and I couldn’t eat. There was nothing we could eat.
He claims that he followed the crowd’s directions for about five hours before arriving at al-Muntazah Park in the Gaza Strip.
When they started shooting at us, we were running. Three other people were hit while I was with them. They opened fire right away as we began to run. Then my body felt like an ejector of electricity. I sat down and fell to the ground. I thought I had been electrocuted because I was unsure of where I was and just sat there. When I awoke, I asked, “Where am I?” to people.
Abu Jazar was informed by others nearby that he had been shot in the head. They continued to fire. I began reciting prayers because I was afraid.
The boy’s wounded eye was being examined by a doctor at the hospital for any signs of light. He was unable to. A gunshot wound wound that had caused a perforating eye injury was discovered by the doctor.
According to Abu Jazar, who underwent surgery, “God willing, I hope my eyesight will return.”
More aid-seeking bodies are delivered to hospitals.
Over the past 24-hour period, the Gaza Health Ministry reported that 866 wounded Palestinians had arrived at the enclave’s hospitals, including 119 bodies, including 15 that had been recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings or other locations.
At least 511 Palestinians were wounded in addition to the 65 who had died while seeking aid.
Palestinians who are attempting to access GHF-run distribution centers in Gaza have been regularly shot by Israeli forces, according to a report released this week by the UN claiming more than 1,300 aid seekers have been killed since the organization’s operation began in May.
On August 3, 2025, Palestinians return from a food distribution point in the center of the Gaza Strip. [Eyad Baba/AFP]
According to the health ministry of the territory, at least 175 people have died as a result of Israel’s punishing blockade, including 93 children, and the situation has been worsening daily.
According to the Global Nutrition Cluster, which includes the UN health and food organizations, more than 6, 000 Palestinian children are receiving treatment for malnutrition as a result of the blockade.
Despite the fact that this humanitarian pause was intended to bring more aid into the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir el-Balah.
Palestinians are having trouble obtaining a bag of wheat flour. A food parcel is difficult to find for them. And this demonstrates that Palestinians are starving on the ground, she continued, adding that this pause and all of the Israeli claims are untrue.
Khoudary noted that the entire population relied on UN agencies and other partners to distribute food.
Son Heung-min bids his final match of his Tottenham career in front of his adoring home fans in Seoul by way of an emotional farewell.
When he was substituted in the 65th minute, his Spurs team-mates and the opposing Newcastle players performed a guard of honor at his embrace.
The 33-year-old Son was greeted off the field by the backroom staff and substitutes after Ben Davies had given him the captain’s armband, and he rested his head in his hands as he fought back tears.
Eddie Howe, manager of Newcastle, said: “My players instinctively responded.
That speaks for himself. Not just his talent, but also how he has managed to succeed throughout his career.
Son said on Saturday that leaving Spurs after ten years was “the most difficult decision of his career.”
At the Seoul World Cup Stadium, the pre-season friendly ended 1-1.
Son said, “I didn’t initially believe I was going to cry.”
“But leaving the club I’ve spent so much time with felt really tough after hearing a few words from my teammates.”
“It was a really, really happy match,” I said. I had a memorable day thanks to my fans, my teammates, and also my opponents.
James Maddison, who had only been playing for ten minutes, was taken off on a stretcher, which raised questions about his injury, according to new Tottenham manager Thomas Frank.
According to Frank, “Sometimes things in life and football can be both beautiful and brutal.”
“That’s what we have today,” the statement read. Maddison appears to have suffered a bad injury, but Son’s teammates’ unbelievable scenes and the players’ respect show up on the other side.
He was emotional when the team-mates gathered around and then we had the walkaround.
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Son joined Spurs from Bayer Leverkusen for about £22 million in 2015, making him the most expensive Asian signing in Premier League history.
He was a legend at Spurs, who won the Europa League match against Manchester United to put an end to their 17-year search for a trophy in May.
Son is engaged in discussions with Los Angeles FC’s Major League Soccer (MLS) team in advanced.
After the game, Frank claimed that it was “very likely Sonny’s last game because]a move is] very close” and that saying goodbye in South Korea would “provide a beautiful ending” for Son.
Spurs will play Bayern Munich on Thursday in Germany, and they will also face Paris St-Germain in the Uefa Super Cup the following week.
Every time Son touched the ball, the eager Seoul crowd erupted in joy.
After scoring from the penalty area from the edge of the penalty area in the fourth minute, Son paid tribute to him by replicating his celebration, which he mimicked taking a photo.
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Spurs will miss Son, how much?
Son’s stats speak for themselves: he scored 173 goals in 454 games, which is the highest total for Spurs, and he added 101 assists, which is his 16th-highest total in the history of the competition.
He also ranks seventh among Spurs’ 71 Premier League assists, and he became the first Asian player to achieve the award, which he scored 23 goals in addition to Mohamed Salah at Liverpool.
Son added 17 goals and added 10 assists to his league team’s 35 games the following season when Harry Kane, Spurs’ top scorer, moved to Bayern Munich in 2023.
Son, the club’s three-time all-star player of the year, was the first player to score twice in league goals last year as Spurs moved one place above the relegation zone.
Son’s influence should not be only measured by goals, though.
His best return to date came from having 0.38 assists per 90 minutes last season, which was his fifth-highest total in the league last season for players who played for more than a thousand minutes.
The statistics that illustrate his impact on the rest of the team are perhaps the most interesting.
Spurs won 42% of the 24 league games Son started in 2024-25, compared to 7% without him, and 13 of those games were lost to their captain.
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Femi Falana, a senior advocate for human rights in Nigeria (SAN), has urged President Bola Tinubu to lead the nation’s efforts to combat widespread poverty rather than just urging governors to take action.
At a recent meeting with governors elected on the All Progressives Congress (APC), where the President acknowledged the harsh economic realities that Nigerians face as a result of neoliberal policies, Falana made reference to the President’s remarks in a statement on Sunday.
Falana, the president’s quota, stated that “Nigerians are still complaining at the grassroots.” You must wet the grass more, governors, to bring about progressive change in Nigeria. God’s blessings on our democracy and fertile soils
Falana urged the Federal Government to abandon appeals and instead demonstrate leadership by fully funding current welfare programs.
President Bola Tinubu is urged to ensure that the National Social Investment Programme Agency Act is passed and signed into law by the 36 state governments, saying that they should not be pleading with them to “wet the ground more.”
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The senior lawyer argued that governments at all levels should concentrate on putting together positive social policies to alleviate suffering among the populace rather than spending billions on state house renovations.
FILE: Femi Falana
Falana criticized the Federal Government for funding the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) in 2025 with a sum of 32.7%, noting that this amount is significantly lower than the 39.9% that was reportedly used to renovate the Abuja International Conference Center.
He argued that a government that recently claimed to have spent 39 billion dollars on the renovation of the International Conference Center in Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory cannot justify the $32.7 billion investment in the National Social Investment Programmes for 2025 to help the 133 million people who are alleged to be multi-dimensionally poor in the nation.
A federal initiative to reduce poverty, the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), established under the 2023 Social Investment Programme Agency Act, provides funding for programs like the N-Power for youth empowerment, the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme for access to soft loans, the school feeding program to combat child malnutrition, and conditional cash transfers for disadvantaged households.
President Bola Tinubu is in the photo.
Falana pointed out that there are funds available to help with these programs. He cited the $11.9 trillion that the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) provided to the 36 states, local governments, and the Federal Capital Territory last year.
The National Assembly allegedly padded the federal budget by putting together 11, 122 projects worth $6.93 trillion, according to a report from BudgIT, a civic tech company. Falana pointed out that President Tinubu signed a $54.99 trillion budget into law on February 28th, making up 12.5% of that figure.
He questioned the viability of a system where senators receive massive salaries each month and House of Representatives members receive $115 million in funding for crucial social programs.
FILE: Federal Executive Council photo
Falana argued that the social sector needs to be given the same urgency as the Federal Executive Council, which recently approved $3.5 trillion in funding for roads, airports, and other infrastructure.
According to him, the Federal Executive Council should appoint not less than $5 trillion to finance the National Social Investment Programme as a matter of urgency.
At the Women’s Open in Wales, Mimi Rhodes’ ball deflected off her playing partner Steph Kyriacou’s ball to roll in for an ace. The Englishwoman hits a miraculous hole-in-one on the fifth hole.
Although Israel’s policy of starving the Palestinians in Gaza is still in force, other countries around the world discuss its statehood.
The Republican Party, the country’s ruling party, continues to be unmoved despite some opposition from his party’s efforts to stop the Palestinians from killing them in Gaza and highlight Israel’s starvation policy.
Republicans have a disproportionate support for Israel’s policies against Palestinians in light of the decline in independent and democratic voter support.
Trump claims that the GHF, a militarized distribution system, needs to be expanded to provide food to Gaza. He criticized Western nations for mentioning diplomatic initiatives like the recognition of Palestinian statehood.
