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  • Wednesday, August 26th 2026 - 08:35 UTC

    Chevening Scholarship Falkland Islands; Deadline: 06-Oct-2026

    The Chevening crest

    The Chevening Scholarship Falkland Islands offers exceptional future leaders from the Falkland Islands the opportunity to pursue a fully funded one-year master's degree at a UK university. The program supports individuals with leadership potential who want to develop their professional expertise and return home to contribute to positive social, economic, environmental, or community development.

  • Wednesday, August 26th 2026 - 08:25 UTC

    PM Burnham on taxes, “I won't be unrealistic, and people need to understand that”

    “I ran Greater Manchester for 10 years and we ran a very tight ship with rock solid finances,” Burnham said.

    Prime Minister Andy Burnham has suggested tax rises could be on the cards in the coming Autumn Budget, warning “I won’t be unrealistic” over the state of the public purse. The PM quickly pledged to give people “breathing space” and ease the cost of living after taking the keys to No.10 last month.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 07:28 UTC

    Burnham picks Kyiv for his first foreign trip as British prime minister

    Burnham announced that his government had authorised defence firm MBDA to declassify information on British-made components of the long-range SCALP missile

    British Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrived in Kyiv on Monday on his first trip abroad since taking office in July, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's independence. He met Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and is due to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and chair his first meeting of the so-called coalition of the willing, set up by London and Paris under his predecessor, Keir Starmer.

  • Monday, August 24th 2026 - 02:11 UTC

    The Evolution of Online Casino Sites

    The online gambling industry has grown from a handful of experimental websites into one of the fastest-expanding segments of the global digital economy. Over roughly three decades, it has passed through distinct phases shaped by technology, regulation, and changing consumer habits. Its trajectory offers a useful case study in how a lightly regulated digital sector matures, fragments across jurisdictions, and adapts to successive waves of enforcement and innovation.

  • Friday, August 21st 2026 - 21:52 UTC

    FIFA sanctions Argentina over the final's brawl and the Falklands banner

    The heaviest penalty fell on midfielder Leandro Paredes, banned for ten international matches and fined 90,000 dollars for striking Spain's Eric García and Gavi

    FIFA's Disciplinary Committee on Friday imposed financial and sporting sanctions on the Argentine Football Association and four members of its national squad over the confrontations at the end of the 2026 World Cup final and over breaches committed throughout the tournament, among them the display of a banner asserting a sovereignty claim over the Falklands.

  • Friday, August 21st 2026 - 00:15 UTC

    Which Clubs Won the Summer 2026 Transfer Window?

    The summer window isn't decided by who makes the biggest signing announcement. It comes down to whether a club fixes real weaknesses, gives the manager players he can actually use, and avoids stacking one position while ignoring another. By that measure, Chelsea, Tottenham, Real Madrid, AC Milan, and Manchester City have done the most coherent work so far as of August 6, 2026, even though the Premier League window doesn't close until September 1. It's still too early for a final judgment.

  • Thursday, August 20th 2026 - 08:06 UTC

    Harry and Meghan will move to the UK without resuming official royal duties

    According to the same sources, Meghan will continue running her As Ever company from the United Kingdom

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will settle in the United Kingdom from this autumn, though they will not resume their roles as working members of the royal family, British media reported on Wednesday. The story was broken by The Telegraph and corroborated to the Associated Press by a person close to the couple who was not authorised to speak publicly. There has been no official statement from the palace or the Sussexes.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 21:47 UTC

    A personalized mRNA therapy passes a phase 3 melanoma trial for the first time

    Despite the vaccine label used in much of the coverage, this is not a preventive measure but a treatment

    Pharmaceutical companies Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Moderna announced on Wednesday that their individualized neoantigen therapy, intismeran autogene, met its endpoints in a phase 3 trial in melanoma patients. It is the first positive result at that stage for an mRNA-based cancer treatment.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 10:01 UTC

    Falklands consolidates the future of its economy in the fishing and hydrocarbons industries

    In late 2025 Fortuna Ltd acquired Ocean Fish Group, a fishing and processing company based in Cornwall, England.

    The Falklands Planning and Building Committee has approved two projects tied to the sectors that underpin the Islands' economy: fishing and hydrocarbons.

  • Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 08:45 UTC

    Australia launches program to vaccinate colonies of little penguins against avian influenza

    Operations will be conducted at night when the penguins return from the sea and are directed to a special area where they will receive the first dose

    According to ABC News Australia wildlife conservation agencies in the state of Victoria have launched a program to vaccinate little penguins against the H5 strain of avian influenza. Over the next few weeks, experts plan to capture and vaccinate more than 5,000 birds in colonies on Philip Island and St. Kilda.