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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Weeks of nationwide Gen-Z protests in Madagascar sparked by power and water shortages escalated and led to a military coup that forced President Andry Rajoelina into exile. Army officer Col. Michael Randrianirina has been sworn in as the new leader of the Indian Ocean nation.The colonel is not the first in history to rise from the barracks to the presidential palace.Here are five other famous military leaders who followed a similar trajectory:Myanmar — Min Aung HlaingAfter decades of a gradual, deliberate ascent through the Myanmar military, Min Aung Hlaing was appointed joint chief of staff of the…

A demo setup of racks of AI servers connected with Credo cables, displayed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California.CredoIn July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims to turn into a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee.Musk’s pictures, posted to his X feed, didn’t show off the pricey Nvidia racks that are filled with powerful graphics processing units. Rather, he focused on the wires behind the servers, including one image with thousands of neatly organized purple cables connecting the computers together.Those purple cables are the…

Oct 17, 2025, 05:40 PM ETPep Guardiola has left the door open for Jack Grealish to return to Manchester City.The England international has made a big impact at Everton since joining the Merseyside club on a season-long loan from City in August.The 30-year-old playmaker had fallen down the pecking order at the Etihad Stadium.- Rodri to miss Everton clash after knee setback- Every Premier League team reranked- Man City unveil new 2025-26 fourth kit in EA Sports FC collabGuardiola does not have to find a way to contain Grealish when the clubs meet in the Premier League on Saturday, as…

Shares of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dropped Friday, after President Donald Trump said his administration aims to cut the cost of brand name GLP-1 weight loss drugs to $150 per month, a fraction of their current list price.”In London, you’d buy a certain drug for $130 and even less than that … $88 as of… a month ago. And in New York, you pay $1,300 for the same thing,” Trump said during a Thursday afternoon event about in vitro fertilization at the White House. “Instead of $1,300 you’ll be paying about $150 and they’ll be paying $150 so we’re…

Boeing 737 Max aircraft are assembled at the company’s plant in Renton, Washington, U.S. June 25, 2024.Jennifer Buchanan | Via ReutersBoeing has won regulator approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jetliners to 42 a month, a milestone for the manufacturer nearly two years after the Federal Aviation Administration capped its output after a midair near-catastrophe.In January 2024, the FAA restricted Boeing to building the planes at a rate of no more than 38 a month — though it had been below that level at the time — after a door plug from a nearly new 737 Max 9…

What EFL is live on Sky Sports+ at 12.30pm on Saturday?Sky Sports+ brings you seven live EFL games on Saturday, with build-up starting from 11am on Sky Sports Football ahead of the feature game: QPR vs Millwall. You can also keep up with all the action on the EFL Goal Zone on Soccer Saturday. CH: Oxford vs Derby, QPR vs Millwall, Southampton vs Swansea Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player The Sky Sports Essential EFL podcast looks ahead to QPR vs Millwall QPR are six unbeaten now since their 7-1 shellacking at Coventry and have moved…

DENVER (AP) — A jury has awarded $19.7 million to six bystanders who were wounded as a Denver police officer opened fire at an armed man as bars let out at closing time, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Friday.The award for damages is the result of a lawsuit against Denver Police Department in connection with the 2022 shooting. Police officer Brandon Ramos previously pleaded guilty in the shooting to a misdemeanor assault charge that makes him ineligible to serve as a police officer and included a probation sentence.Ramos was working in a gun violence prevention team in Denver’s Lower Downtown…

Chinese state media and pundits have called the Dutch government a “pirate” and even threatened it with a ban on rare earths, following its seizure of control of the Chinese-owned semiconductor maker Nexperia in late September.  On September 29, the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued an interim rule extending its Entity List and Military End-User List to cover affiliates of the sanctioned entities. Any company at least 50% owned by a listed entity now automatically inherits the same restrictions.  On September 30 this year, having failed to persuade the Chinese owners to yield control…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump potentially sending federal troops to San Francisco, where his company is based. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff wrote in a post on X.The Trump administration recently deployed the National Guard to Portland, Oregon and Chicago, sparking protests and lawsuits and resulting in citizens and immigrants being detained without legal representation.In a story published late…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday joined Bluesky, the social media platform of choice of many in the left-leaning online world.In its inaugural post, the White House account offered a sizzle reel of the administration’s memes, trolls and messages from President Donald Trump’s nine months since returning to office. The post appeared aimed at tweaking liberals who aren’t fans of the Republican president. The first post included mentions of the administration’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, a doctored image of Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries adorned in a sombrero with a faux mustache, and stream…