The UK streaming market welcomed a new addition in Tubi, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation. Tubi is ad-supported streaming service that will rival Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, ITVX and Channel 4’s streaming platform as well as BBC iPlayer.
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A social worker who was rejected for a job after his views on homosexuality was made known. Felix Ngole has vowed to appeal the decision after an employment tribunal upheld part of his claim but ruled he was not discriminated against by the failure to employ him.
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As it turns out singer Taylor Swift has been making her mark off stage in UK cities where her music tour wrapped up last weekend.
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A London borough chief executive, Bayo Dosunmu has been arrested and charged with driving and drug offences.
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Telecoms giant Motorola has filed a lawsuit against the UK government over claims it has failed to pay £14.5m worth of bills linked to a contract to modernise communications for the country’s emergency services.
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The Yoruba Party (YPUK) – a newly registered political party in the UK is fielding one of its founding members as a candidate in the forthcoming July 4 general election.
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Senegal says it has detected Covid-19 in dozens of pilgrims returning from their Hajj journey in Mecca arising from tests conducted at Dakar’s Blaise Diagne International Airport where 78 cases of Covid-19 were recorded.
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American Airlines has placed an unspecified number of employees on leave for their involvement in an incident in which Black passengers were removed from a flight in Phoenix, allegedly over a complaint about body odour.
Three passengers filed a lawsuit against the carrier in May, alleging racial discrimination in the 5 January incident.
Denmark’s Fehmarnbelt tunnel which is set to reduce travel times between Scandinavia and Central Europe from 45minutes to seven minutes by train was flagged off by King Frederik X of Denmark.
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More than a thousand people died from heat-related illnesses during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca amid extreme temperatures, it was being reported on Wednesday.
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