WorldPingAl Jazeera
The Global South’s digital future must not belong to Bezos and Musk
Satellite internet can close digital divide, but Global South must not trade access for dependence on foreign firms.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Al Jazeera
Times of India
Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott returns to writing with 80K-word novel
WorldPingNovelist MacKenzie Scott returns to fiction writing after a thirteen-year hiatus. She will serially release an eighty-thousand-word novel throughout the month of August. Scott studied creative writing under Nobel laureate Toni Morrison at Princeton University.
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WorldPingSky Sports Football
EFL latest: Wrexham set to make record signing as Phillips returns to Blades
EFL latest: Wrexham set to make record signing as Phillips returns to Blades — full report at Sky Sports Football.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Sky Sports Football
WorldPingThe Guardian
I Give You My Silence by Mario Vargas Llosa review – Nobel laureate’s final novel is a love letter to Peru
This fascinating, eccentric book becomes a quirky primer on Peruvian music and culture When I Give You My Silence was published in Spanish in 2023 its author, the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, rightly predicted that it would be his final novel.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Guardian
Hollywood Reporter
‘The State of Us’: Samuel Bottomley Breaks Callum Scott Howells Out of Hospice for One Final Hurrah in Edinburgh-Bound Indie (Exclusive Clip)
From British filmmaking duo Jake Harvey and Ollie Gardner, the movie examines the profound fragility — and sanctity — of male friendships in a landscape where the manosphere looms large.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Hollywood Reporter
WorldPingBBC Sport
Scottish striker Ure makes £5.5m Sevilla move
Sevilla announce £5.5m move, rising to potential £7.6m, for former Scotland youth international striker Robbie Ure to join from Swedish club IK Sirius.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by BBC Sport
WorldPingBBC Culture
KT Tunstall returns to the Fringe 30 years on with ground-breaking musical
A new play The Singer brings deaf and hearing performers together in a show at this year's Fringe.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by BBC Culture