Barca punish 10-man hosts Villarreal to win eighth consecutive La Liga game and move four points clear at the summit.

Barcelona wingers Raphinha and Lamine Yamal guided the Catalan giants four points clear at the top of La Liga with a 2-0 win at 10-man Villarreal.

Brazil international Raphinha won and converted an early penalty on Sunday before Villarreal’s Renato Veiga was sent off before half-time for a late lunge on teenager Yamal.

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The 18-year-old slotted home Barca’s second midway through the second half, as Hansi Flick’s side restored their advantage on Real Madrid, who are second, and won an eighth consecutive league game.

Villarreal are fourth after Atletico Madrid moved ahead of them with a 3-0 win at Girona earlier on.

Flick launched into an impassioned defence of Raphinha on Saturday after he was not included in FIFA’s ‘The Best’ team of the year earlier in the week, and the winger quickly repaid his coach.

Raphinha produced an all-action display at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Ceramica, where the match was played instead of in Miami, after La Liga’s plans to take this game to the United States were scrapped in October.

Barca were poor defensively and struggled in their build-up play, but the quality of wingers Raphinha and Yamal and their goalkeeper Joan Garcia’s outstanding performance decided an entertaining encounter.

Jules Kounde blocked Villarreal striker Ayoze Perez’s shot before Raphinha drew a foul from Santi Comesana to win a penalty at the other end.

The winger dispatched it confidently and nearly added the second with a superb effort from distance which crashed back off the bar.

Kounde deflected a cross into his own net as Villarreal fought back, but the goal was disallowed for offside in the build-up.

Barca stopper Joan Garcia saved from Tajon Buchanan after an Alejandro Balde mistake as Villarreal almost levelled.

The visitors’ job was made easier by Veiga’s needless red card for an ugly, late lunge on Yamal before the interval.

The champions got their second goal after a scramble in the box, with Frenkie de Jong teeing up Yamal to fire home after 63 minutes.

Joan Garcia made stunning saves to deny Rafa Marin and Georges Mikautadze to help Barca end 2026 with three points and a third clean sheet in their last three games across all competitions.

Kounde went off hurt before the end, potentially adding to Flick’s problems at the back following Andreas Christensen being diagnosed with a partially torn knee ligament.

Barca finish the year in better shape than rivals Real Madrid, who beat Sevilla 2-0 on Saturday, but still have plenty of their own concerns to worry about.

Barcelona captain de Jong said his side had achieved their objective of finishing the year on top of the league and will rest before the league resumes in early January.

“Villarreal are very quick on the counter; they’ve got talented players up front. We could’ve managed to be a bit better… we have to organise ourselves a bit better,” he said.

“But I felt out there on the pitch that we were superior. Not necessarily comfortable, but I think we deserved to win.”

Villarreal captain Dani Parejo said he was pleased with how his team performed, apart from conceding the penalty.

“We had loads of really good chances; we could have been more than one goal up at halftime,” he said.

“It feels like everything is going against us at the moment; teams are scoring against us with not much, but we are pleased with the image we have shown, how we played with 10 men against a great team. We showed great attitude.”

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The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash.

Timothy Loehmann was fired on Friday from his position at the Snowshoe Resort Community District (SRCD). The district’s board announced Loehmann’s firing in a statement following their emergency meeting.

A Cleveland-based attorney for Rice’s family, Subodh Chandra, said that “Loehmann’s determination to inflict himself on other people seems pathological. So does the craven poor judgment required by any public officials who hire him.”

Rice, who was Black, was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland on 22 November 2014, when he was shot and killed by Loehmann seconds after the officer and his partner arrived. The white officers told investigators Loehmann had shouted three times at Rice to raise his hands.

The shooting sparked an outcry about police treatment of Black people and systemic racism, especially after a grand jury decided not to indict Loehmann or his partner.

Cleveland settled a lawsuit over Rice’s death for $6m. The city fired Loehmann for having lied on his application to become a police officer.

Loehmann landed a part-time position with a police department in south-east Ohio in 2018. He withdrew his application days later after Rice’s mother and others criticized the hiring.

He was sworn in as the lone police officer in Tioga, Pennsylvania, in 2022 – and also left amid backlash following his hiring.

Last year, he resigned from his position as a probationary officer in White Sulphur Springs City, West Virginia, and the police chief responsible for hiring him stepped down.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was met with boos while attending a vigil honoring the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting on Sunday.

An estimated 10,000 mourners, including Albanese and various Australian politicians and members of the Jewish community, gathered on Bondi Beach to commemorate the victims. David Ossip, who serves as president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, remarked on Albanese’s presence to the crowd and received a chorus of boos.

“This has to be the nadir of antisemitism in our country,” Ossip said. “This has to be the moment when light starts to eclipse the darkness.”

Meanwhile, the crowd cheered at the mention of opposition leader Sussan Ley. Ley has said that a coalition government under her leadership would reverse a decision by Albanese’s government to recognize a Palestinian state.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, center, and his wife Jodie Haydon, second from left, arrive for a memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on Dec. 21, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (Izhar Khan/Getty Images)

The tense reaction comes after Jewish leaders and Israeli officials have lambasted Albanese’s government for ignoring warning signs of Australia’s rising antisemitism in the months before the attack on Bondi Beach.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted a letter he sent to Albanese earlier this year when the latter’s government announced it was recognizing a Palestinian state. He argued the move “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Albanese’s handling of antisemitism. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

“Your government did nothing to stop the spread of antisemitism in Australia. You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action. You let the disease spread and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today,” Netanyahu said the day of the attack.

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The Dec. 14 attack left 15 people dead and dozens more hospitalized. The shooters were a father-son duo, and the father was killed in the attack. The son, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, woke from a coma after recovering from severe injuries and faces charges of murder and terrorism.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Two Spirit Airlines employees were charged with theft after a passenger left behind her $500 Louis Vuitton wristlet.

Olukunle Idowu, a 49-year-old Spirit Airlines supervisor, and another airline employee, Hyacinth Linton, 56, were charged with petit theft. The Miami Herald first reported the alleged theft.

The incident occurred at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on October 19 when a passenger, about to board her Spirit Airlines flight to Austin, Texas, left behind her Louis Vuitton wristlet — which the victim valued at $505 — on the counter at the airport gate. The wristlet was given to Spirit employees working at the gate.

Surveillance footage captured Idowu finding the wristlet three days later inside a drawer, “took possession of it,” and looked inside of it, court records say.

Idowu then took the wristlet to another gate two down, where he took a full inventory of its contents. Linton then joined Idowu at the gate, where she poured the contents onto the gate’s counter. But within seconds, Idowu scoops those items into a plastic bag as Linton puts the wristlet “deep inside” her backpack, records say.

Two Spirit Airlines employees face charges of theft over a $500 Louis Vuitton wristlet that a passenger at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport left behind (Getty Images)

Idowu then discarded the plastic bag in the trash, according to the affidavit.

Idowu was arrested on November 21 and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of petit theft valued at more than $100 and less than $750. No bond information appeared for Idowu but jail records suggest he’s no longer in police custody. The Independent has contacted the Broward Sheriff’s Office for more information.

Linton was arrested on November 13. She posted a $500 bond and is no longer in custody. She’s not yet entered a plea after being charged with petit theft worth under $40.

The Independent has reached out to the airline for comment.

Spirit Airlines told the Miami Herald in a statement that one employee has been suspended and the other is on a leave of absence.

“We are aware that two employees were charged in November for an alleged theft,” Spirit said in a statement. “One employee has been suspended without pay, and the other is on a leave of absence. We are conducting a thorough investigation into this matter and will take further action as deemed necessary following the conclusion of our investigation.”

“Spirit conducts background checks on all employees consistent with applicable law,” the statement continued.

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• Alanis Morissette’s 1995 third album Jagged Little Pill sold nearly 20 million copies
• “Ironic” was the third U.S. single from the album
• The song was nominated for the record of the year Grammy at the 1997 ceremony

If social media had existed back in 1996, pop and rock fans probably would have had a collective online meltdown over Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic.” As armchair critics of the time were fond of gleefully pointing out, the song, the third U.S. single from Morissette’s blockbuster 1995 Jagged Little Pill album, didn’t quite grasp the meaning of “irony.” Wasn’t that ironic?

The Canadian Grammy winner, however, didn’t need access to Instagram or Facebook to know the grammar police wanted to lock her up.

Nearly 30 years later, the now–51-year-old singer-songwriter is totally unbothered by the fact that “rain on your wedding day” and “a free ride when you’ve already paid” are less examples of irony than just plain old bummers. On the fourth episode of the MGM+ Words + Music series that premieres Dec. 21, Morissette addresses the hullabaloo over the song that would have broken the internet if there had been an internet to break in 1996.

“When Glen [Ballard] and I wrote ‘Ironic,’ this was the first of the songs written for the whole record,” she recalls. “And I wasn’t writing wildly autobiographically quite yet, more sort of storytelling, getting to know Glen. And at one point, I didn’t want the song in the record, because I thought that it was sort of, for lack of a better term, our warm up, you know. But I love the song. So it’s not that I had any issues with it, but I just thought that was one of the last songs where I wasn’t entirely talking about sort of that inside-out approach.”

She was unprepared for the public shaming when “Ironic” followed “Hand in My Pocket” into heavy rotation on the radio. “People got really triggered by the malapropism, or whatever the word,” Morissette says. “I am a linguist. I’m obsessed with linguistics. I also love making up words, and I also don’t care.”

Alanis Morissette on ‘Words + Music’.

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But, she continues, the uproar intrigued her. “Where I go when people are triggered by anything is I quickly go to what’s at the epicenter of this — what is, what is everyone really up in arms about?” she explains. “Why is everyone laughing? And I think we’re afraid to look stupid. So I think because who is a linguist and then misuses a word, you know, what kind of person does that is where I go.”

“But I wasn’t being precious about it,” she adds. “And I think a lot of lyrics around the planet, many, many artists, most of us aren’t being wildly precious about it. So I’m 90% grammar police, which is the real irony. And then 10% I really couldn’t care less. So I think the 10% won over on that song. Yeah.”

Morissette ended up having the last laugh, as the malapropism didn’t halt her ascent. Jagged Little Pill, her third album, sold nearly 20 million copies and won four Grammys, including album of the year in 1996. The following year, “Ironic” received a record of the year Grammy nomination but lost to Eric Clapton’s “Change the World.”

Alanis Morissette accepting her album of the year Grammy in 1996.

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Words + Music is a spin-off of the Audible series of the same name, and it’s co-produced by Gunpowder & Sky. Previous episodes featured John Legend, Sheryl Crow and Elvis Costello.

“Throughout the new Words + Music series, we’ve enabled musicians to bring their songs and stories to life in real time through compelling visuals, high-res art and tech-enhanced volume stages,” says Gunpowder & Sky CEO Van Toffler. “There’s still nothing more human, powerful or emotional than a killer marriage of music, performance and imagery.”

“Words + Music has more than achieved our goal of reimagining and revolutionizing [MTV’s] Storytellers and Unplugged — with a touch of acid and a healthy dose of naturally occurring steroids,” he adds.

The Alanis Morissette episode of Words + Music premieres Dec. 21 on MGM+.

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By LAURA PARNABY, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Published: 11:44 EST, 21 December 2025 | Updated: 11:49 EST, 21 December 2025

An elderly woman has been found dead beside a bloodied skateboard in her New York City apartment, with police treating the case as a homicide. 

The New York Police Department (NYPD) told the Daily Mail that Zhu Hou, 76, was found dead on Monroe Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Friday. 

Officers found Hou dead in her apartment in Knickerbocker Village with ‘trauma to the head and body’ just before 8pm, a spokesperson for the NYPD said. 

Her cause of death has not been formally confirmed. The case is being investigated as a murder, and no arrests have yet been made.  

The New York Post reported that Hou was found beside a ‘bloodied skateboard’ and police believe her son may be the killer. 

Her son, who has not been named, was the person who dialed 911 on Friday night. He has a history of mental illness, according to the Post. 

Neighbors said they heard shouting coming from Hou’s home the day before she died, which continued through the night into Friday morning. 

‘I’m not scared,’ an anonymous neighbor told the Post. ‘They’ll catch them. There are cameras all over the buildings.’ 

An elderly woman has been found dead beside a bloodied skateboard in her New York Cityapartment and police are treating the case as a homicide

The New York Police Department (NYPD) told the Daily Mail on Sunday that Zhu Hou, 76, was found dead at her apartment on Monroe Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Friday

Officers and paramedics found Hou dead in her apartment in Knickerbocker Village with ‘trauma to the head and body’ just before 8pm, a spokesperson for the NYPD said

They added that Hou’s son was strange. ‘He was always off. But I didn’t think he was dangerous until Friday,’ they said. 

Photographs show police officers searching the Knickerbocker Village apartment complex on Friday night.

Officers were seen removing bags of evidence from the scene. Paramedics also moved a stretcher from the home with what appeared to be a body bag on top. 

Knickerbocker Village is a government-subsidized housing complex which borders Chinatown and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 

It comes after Pulp Fiction actor Peter Greene was also found dead inside his apartment in the Lower East Side.

Greene – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and The Mask – died at the age of 60 on December 12. 

Police said that Greene’s body was found unresponsive inside his residence at ‘around 3.25pm’. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Edwards, who was his manager for over 10 years, told the publication that Greene – who was known for playing iconic villains – ‘was a terrific guy’.

Peter Greene – known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and The Mask – has died 

Authorities said the medical examiner is still working to determine the cause and manner of death, and it remains unclear whether Greene died as a result of homicide, suicide, drugs, or another cause.

Sources also told TMZ that police were contacted after neighbors reported loud music coming from inside Greene’s apartment for several days.

Officers then conducted a welfare check, used a locksmith to enter the unit, and one neighbor claimed Greene was found face down on the floor, with a handwritten note also discovered inside the apartment.

The neighbor told the New York Daily News: ‘Peter was lying on the floor, facedown, facial injury, blood everywhere…’

The note reportedly said ‘I’m still a Westie,’ which appears to be a reference to the Irish-American gang who had operated out of Hell’s Kitchen from 1970.

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The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed that some specifically adapted cars won’t be included

The Motability changes over tax will come into force in July next year, the DWP has confirmed(Image: Getty Images)

The Department for Work and Pensions has provided an update on upcoming changes that will hit the average Motability customer with an additional £400 bill. During November’s Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that VAT would be slapped on Advance Payments from July 2026, whilst Insurance Premium Tax would also be applied to Scheme leases – however officials have not confirmed that some vehicles will be exempt.

Motability, the firm running the massive programme that represents one in every five car sales across the UK, has calculated that typical Advance Payments – the upfront costs for vehicles – will surge by roughly £400 across three-year packages.

A Labour MP has raised concerns about the financial strain on disabled people, with Neil Duncan-Jordan questioning Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden: “Whether he plans to publish a consultation on the VAT treatment of Motability scheme vehicles.”

In response, Sir Stephen Timms, Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions), explained the DWP’s intention to implement the changes swiftly – meaning no consultation would take place.

He stated: “The government recognises the importance of engaging with tax payers on the development of tax policy, however, as set out in the tax policy making principles, the need to deliver change quickly means a consultation is not always practicable. Prior to announcing tax changes to the Motability Scheme at Budget 2025, the government instead engaged closely with the Motability Foundation to understand in depth how tax changes would impact the Motability Scheme and their customers. There are no plans for further consultation on the measure.”

Last week, the DWP confirmed that vehicles ‘substantially adapted for wheelchair users’ would remain unaffected by the tax alteration.

Labour’s Ruth Jones posed a written question to Mr McFadden: “What assessment has he made of the potential impact of the Government’s changes to the Motability scheme on wheelchair users who do not use a wheelchair accessible vehicle.”

Sir Stephen indicated that grants might be available in certain circumstances: “The Motability Scheme is a lifeline for many disabled people and families, supporting their independence by enabling them to lease a car, wheelchair accessible vehicle, scooter or powered wheelchair in exchange for an eligible disability benefit allowance.

Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) Sir Stephen Timms confirmed a timetable for key Motability changes(Image: Parliament TV)

“Before any announcements were made, Motability Operations confirmed it will continue to offer a broad range of vehicles without an Advance Payment. This will ensure that people who elect to join the Scheme can access vehicles suited to their needs, whether that’s a larger vehicle or extra boot space to carry wheelchairs, whatever their health condition or disability, in exchange for all or part of their mobility allowance.

“Motability Foundation will continue to offer means-tested grants to those most in need of financial help. These grants support eligible people who would otherwise struggle to afford the advance payment or adaptations for a vehicle, or a wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) through the Motability Scheme.”

Regarding the consequences of the tax alterations, Mr Duncan-Jordan also enquired: “What assessment he has made of the potential financial impact of the proposed (a) application of VAT on payments for higher value vehicles and (b) removal of the Insurance Premium Tax exemption for vehicles that are not substantially and permanently adapted for wheelchair or stretcher users, or originally designed for their use on Motability scheme users; and what steps his Department is taking to support disabled people who will be affected by these changes.”

Sir Stephen stated: “The package of reforms to the Motability Scheme announced as part of the Budget will ensure the Scheme delivers fairness for the taxpayer, while continuing to support disabled people. The Scheme will continue to offer a choice of affordable vehicles to meet a range of accessibility needs and offer vehicles which require no advance payment, meaning that people will be able to access a suitable vehicle using only their qualifying disability benefit. Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) will apply to leases at the standard rate, bringing tax treatment in line with commercial leasing firms.

“Existing leases and vehicles substantially designed for, or adapted for, wheelchair or stretcher users will continue to benefit from VAT reliefs on advance payments and the IPT exemption, in recognition of the additional costs associated with these vehicles. Motability Foundation, the independent charity with responsibility for overseeing the Scheme, will continue to offer means-tested grants to support eligible people who would otherwise struggle to afford the advance payment.”

Following the Budget, Motability issued a statement outlining their plans and pledged: “Changes to the Scheme’s package are expected to be introduced from July 2026. Motability Operations, which runs the Scheme, will begin engaging with customers about the proposed changes in spring 2026. Proposed changes to the leasing package will undergo disability impact assessment by the Motability Foundation, which oversees the Scheme, before any changes are approved, announced and implemented. As the Scheme evolves and we fully understand the impacts changes may have on disabled people, the Foundation will also need to consider how its grant programmes best support those most in need.”

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Liverpool and Egypt star forward Mohamed Salah is centred on winning his first Africa Cup of Nations title.

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Egypt captain Mohamed Salah ‌has put aside his travails at Liverpool and is focused on Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) ‍success with his national ‍team, coach Hossam Hassan said on Sunday.

Egypt’s talisman is at the tournament in Morocco on the back of a fiery outburst after being dropped by the Premier League champions, but his comments and subsequent apology to teammates have had no impact on his form, Hassan ⁠said ahead of Egypt’s opening Group B match against Zimbabwe in Agadir on Monday.

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“Salah’s morale in training is ​very high, as if he were just starting out with the national team, and ‍I believe he will have a great tournament with his country,” said the coach.

At 33, it is arguably Salah’s last chance to win an elusive trophy with Egypt and add international honours to an impressive collection of medals at club ‍level.

“I believe Salah ⁠will be among the best players at the tournament, and he will remain an icon and one of the best players in the world.

“I support him technically and morally, because we cannot forget that Salah needs to win the Africa Cup of Nations,” Hassan added.

Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush, right, will pair with Mohamed Salah to form an awesome front-line attack for Egypt at AFCON [File: Ahmed Mosaad/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Liverpool struggles on the backburner

Salah goes into Monday’s match having last started for Liverpool in their 4-1 home loss to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League at the end of November.

He was dropped for the next game against West ​Ham United, and after a draw with Leeds United on December 6, lashed ‌out at the club and Liverpool coach Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been made a scapegoat for their poor start to the season and suggested that he may not have long left at Anfield.

Hassan said he had kept in ‌touch with his captain throughout the controversy.

“There was constant communication with Mohamed Salah during what I don’t want to call a crisis because any player ‌can have a difference of opinion with his coach at his ⁠club.”

Salah has not scored since Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Aston Villa at the start of November, including an outing with Egypt in a friendly against Uzbekistan last month.

“The same situation happened with Salah when he went through a period of not scoring goals with ‌Liverpool,” Hassan told reporters.

“Then he returned to the right path through the national team, and as a result, he came back at a level even better than before. I believe he will deliver a strong ‍tournament alongside his teammates.”

Salah has twice been a Cup of Nations runner-up, in 2017 and 2021. Egypt have won a record seven AFCON titles, but their last success was in 2010.

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It’s a rare thing for a museum to talk about what it doesn’t know. But unanswered questions and archival silences are at the heart of the new Africa Hub at Manchester Museum, north-west England, which is inviting people around the world to help fill the gaps.

The museum holds more than 40,000 items from across Africa, many of which were traded, collected, looted or preserved during the era of the British empire.

As a result, the names of makers, the cultural significance of objects and the people to which they once belonged are largely unknown to curators in Manchester; in many cases, only the name of the donor or the collection from which an item came is recorded.

The new Africa Hub will display “beautifully crafted” items that have been in storage for years, the museum says.

A view of a carved wooden figure, one of the objects at Manchester Museum. Photograph: Manchester Museum/Reuters

It is inviting visitors to the collections on Oxford Road, in the city’s university district, as well as those exploring the collections online, to share stories about the objects’ provenance.

Curators say this could lead to the restitution of items, as well as new partnerships in the African diaspora. And community collaboration has already begun. A display at the heart of Africa Hub draws on the knowledge of Manchester’s Igbo community, one of the oldest Nigerian diaspora communities in the UK.

Lucy Edematie, the curator of African collections from colonial contexts at Manchester Museum, worked with the Igbo Community Greater Manchester (ICM) organisation to research objects and celebrate Igbo heritage.

Sylvia Mgbeahurike, the vice-chairof ICM Women, said: “Some of these objects were given, some were stolen, some were taken forcefully out of conquest. It is important that we start bringing them together again. It shows inclusiveness. It shows there is strength in diversity. It shows we are one people, irrespective of our colour or where we are from.”

Edematie said: “Unlike most galleries or exhibitions, which represent the culmination of years of research and collaboration, Africa Hub is the beginning. It builds on work the museum has already been doing to engage with both diasporic communities and communities in Africa but provides an opportunity to extend this even further.

“It is a chance to do our thinking in public, with honesty and transparency, and to involve people in that process from the start.”

The museum says the Africa Hub will be an “evolving space for reflection, dialogue and shared learning and its future direction will be shaped by public contribution”.

The objects from across Africa include animals, cultural heritage items, minerals and plants. Photograph: Manchester Museum

A spokesperson added: “We’re supposed to know everything there is to know about the collections we care for, ready to communicate the wisdom of the world through a series of carefully written object labels.

“Well, sometimes the reality is slightly different. And, on this occasion, we need your help, as visitors and communities, to uncover the stories that museum records cannot tell or have suppressed.

“Mostly, Africa Hub means being honest about what we don’t know. Manchester Museum holds over 40,000 objects from across Africa, cultural heritage items, plants, animals and minerals … much of their story remains untold.

“We’re laying our lack of knowledge bare and extending an invitation to you, to come and view these collections, either in person or online, and share your own knowledge, experience and perspectives to create richer narratives.”

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Nine people were killed and at least 10 others wounded when gunmen opened fire inside a South African pub early Sunday, sparking a manhunt for the attackers in the country’s second mass shooting in less than a month.

The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. at KwaNoxolo tavern in Bekkersdal, a township located 28 miles west of Johannesburg. Police said about 12 unknown suspects in a white mini-bus and a silver sedan opened fire at pub patrons and continued to shoot randomly as they sped away from the scene.

“Some victims were randomly shot in the streets by unknown gunmen,” police said.

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South African police gather at the scene of a mass shooting where gunmen killed nine and injured at least 10 in a pub in Bekkersdal, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alfonso Nqunjana)

Maj. Gen. Fred Kekana, Gauteng’s acting provincial commissioner, told The Associated Press that the gunmen, some of whom covered their faces with balaclavas, were armed with an AK-47 rifle and several 9mm pistols.

Onlookers gather at the scene of a mass shooting, where gunmen killed nine and injured at least 10 in a pub in Bekkersdal, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alfonso Nqunjana)

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Authorities have launched a manhunt for the suspects, led by Gauteng’s Serious and Violent Crime Investigations unit in coordination with the Crime Detection Tracing Unit.

South African police investigate a mass shooting in Bekkersdal, South Africa, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/ Alfonso Nqunjana)

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The attack follows a string of mass shootings at bars — often called shebeens or taverns in South Africa. Earlier this month, multiple gunmen opened fire at an unlicensed bar near the capital, killing at least 12 people and injuring 13 others.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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