Amanda Sylvester

Traveling to experience other cultures is a must.

[Sowetan @Sowetan1981]

WATCH | Veteran house duo Liquideep, [Jonathan “Ziyon” Hamilton and Thabo “Ryzor” Shokgolo], have reflected on the whirlwind experience of watching Grammy-winning global sensation Tyla breathe new life into their iconic hit Fairytale, revealing how they initially thought the invitation to collaborate was a scam.

In a sit-down interview with Sowetan, the award-winning pair unpacked their classified recording session with Tyla in January, keeping the collaboration a secret, and how the past several months have been since their reunion in October last year that has birthed new music.

Full episode drops on Youtube this Monday: https://t.co/aU0p2jqFmb

[Wally Rashid @wallyrashid]

Everyone needs to see this. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are coming down from hilltops and setting entire Palestinian villages on fire. Full on pogroms.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦

New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.

It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.

The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.

When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.

The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.

One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."

Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.

[AG @g_zlorya]

موت كائن جسده مكيف بيولوجيا لتحمل المناخ الصعب بسبب درجة الحرارة مؤشر مخيف ومقلق بيئيا والله

[The Associated Press @AP]

Punch, the baby Japanese macaque that captured hearts around the world after going viral earlier this year, turns 1 on Sunday.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is warning of deep cuts to its aid to Gaza, where it supports the vast majority of the population, without additional funding.

Insufficient funding could lead to worsening the acute hunger in Gaza.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/LPeJuvMRCd

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has arrested wounded Palestinians in a hospital as it shuts off Nablus following Friday’s deadly settler attack. The raids come after Israeli PM Netanyahu announced a series of ‘forceful’ measures in the occupied West Bank.

[Variety @Variety]

“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson slammed the “fucking rapists” in politics and says he’d release the full Epstein files “in two seconds” to “hold people accountable”:

“I don’t care what room they’re in. Bitch, move. Give me the fucking manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files,” he said on the “Happy, Sad, Confused” podcast. “Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable? These fucking rapists! We’re just cool with it?”

Without naming names, the action star turned his attention to a politician with quite a lot of power: “That bitch has the keys to the nuclear. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.”

Ritchson prefaced the rant by joking that his publicist is somewhere “biting her nails” and saying he is “missing” the gene that makes some actors “afraid to speak their mind.” “Everybody is scared around me for what I’m going to say,” Ritchson said, adding that he is not a “loose cannon,” he’s just “saying the shit that everybody should say if they give a shit about humanity.”

https://t.co/j4Qyl9qi4l

[The Associated Press @AP]

Spain’s government declared a national emergency Friday after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid. The national emergency means that the interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has taken charge of overseeing the firefighting efforts by Spain’s regions as they struggle to battle multiple blazes that are being fanned by a heat wave.

[Reuters @Reuters]

French authorities ordered the total evacuation of the Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourism hotspot on the Atlantic Coast, sending boats to remove people from an area threatened by a major wildfire https://t.co/EBDskSSOAC

[Florian Plettenberg @Plettigoal]

🚨💣 Jürgen Klopp addressing the German public during his introductory press conference as the new Bundestrainer:

“I’m not doing this job for myself. I’m doing it for you. I’m taking this job even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Julian Nagelsmann. I’m taking it even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Thomas Tuchel.

If you go after my family, I’m gone. If you think I’m rubbish, tell me to my face and I’ll leave immediately, without asking for any compensation.”

@SkySportDE 🇩🇪

[Franz Beckenbauer @beckenbauer]

The new national team coach! 🇩🇪

Wishing Jürgen Klopp all the best as he takes over as the new head coach of the @DFB_Team! 🍀💪

📸: (Archive image: Imago©️)

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: More than 4,200 Israelis storm Al-Aqsa compound

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/F4FX6OoTRa

[Sphiwe Mkhize @PiwanaSphiwe]

We are at the memorial service of Sputla Sebogodi at the State Theatre in Pretoria. As Patrick Sanku Bokaba and Jerry Phele take to the stage, they honour not only a legendary actor, but also a dear friend and colleague.
#SputlaSebogodi
#sabcnews

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Journalist Liz Oliva Fernández reports from inside Cuba's oil crisis. From a woman walking nine kilometers to work because there's no transport to people living next to piles of uncollected trash – this is what life is like in Havana.

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

Advocate Sello got angry for the first time and expressed it. I'm happy she represented our emotions in this manner. Johnson might as well withdraw that apology for all I care. How does she still claim Brigadier Mokwele would loot funds in future, based on what?! She is vile!!
#MadlangaCommission

[Cartoons On The Moon @CartoonsOTMoon]

Plas Johnson, el icónico saxofonista de La Pantera Rosa, ha fallecido a los 94 años.

[its Shelley, not Shirley. Sorry 🤷‍♀️ @ShellsPemBroke]

I kinda don’t want to let this go until I hear from Spur and know she’s been recognised. She’s saving to study medicine. I want people to go there and say, “I want Tebogo. Here’s a big tip. Now please be my doctor.” @SpurRestaurant

[CNN @CNN]

As wildfires blazed in southern Italy this week, authorities probing for arson found a grisly clue: cats “with flammable-soaked rags tied to their tails.” https://t.co/elEqY0yVZL

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Wreckage of Pan Am plane that shaped aviation safety found 74 years on https://t.co/ym16dPRMv4