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Apple has acknowledged some of its iPhone Duo handsets have developed problems with their screens, just days after the highly-anticipated smartphone went on sale.

Photos posted on social media show lines that appeared on the screens of the technology giant's first ever foldable device, which has a starting price of £1,999 ($2,668) in the UK.

Apple said it was aware of "an issue impacting the inner display on a small number" of the phones and urged affected users to contact the company for a replacement.

The Duo's launch, which attracted crowds at Apple stores around the world last week, is an attempt to reinvigorate the brand's device range and challenge the foldable phones made by rivals.

Some Duo owners also posted photos online showing cracks along the screen's centre crease, while others reported a crunching noise when opening the device.


An iPhone Duo user, Justin Lokos, posted an image of a device with lines across the right side of the display and later uploaded a picture of a new handset alongside the broken one, thanking an Apple store in New York for its help .

The extent of the issue remains unclear. Apple did not say how many devices were affected, while some images showing faulty devices may have been created using AI.

Francisco Jeronimo, technology analyst at market research firm IDC, said that meant some caution was needed before drawing conclusions about the whole production run

But he added the early reports of issues also showed "that even a company with Apple's engineering resources and supply chain discipline faces a steep learning curve in foldables".

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The Duo's 7.6-inch (19.3cm) inner display is held together by a central hinge - a complex piece of engineering that has resulted in similar flaws in folding devices made by some of Apple's competitors.

It is Apple's most expensive iPhone ever, costing up to £3,199 for the most well-equipped models.

Jeronimo said because Apple had positioned the Duo as a "premium alternative" to established foldables, "how it handles this first-generation issue will shape buyer confidence in the category well beyond its own sales".

APOPTOSIS:
Was it normal before?
Has it ever being normal?
What's a Normal Nigeria 2u?
Can you explain to me?
..because since I was born, it's been from one chaos to another

OALandAgents:
Does the victim have a name and nationality? What type of useless weak journalism is this ?

Ishilove:
The one you're probably used to is Mel Blanc

I have wronged you - Woman begs her husband for forgiveness after confessing two of their children are not his

A woman from Adumang in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, Abena Ampomaa, has appealed to her husband, Shaibu Mohammed, popularly known as Chief, for forgiveness after revealing that two of the three children he has raised during their 14-year marriage are allegedly not biologically his.

Abena made the revelation when she appeared on a TV programme on Tuesday, October 20, 2026

During the programme, she admitted having extramarital relationships with two men, which resulted in pregnancies while she was married to the Chief

According to her, one of the pregnancies occurred before their marriage, although she only discovered it after the wedding

She explained that another pregnancy resulted from a relationship she entered into after experiencing marital misunderstandings and allegedly struggling to receive financial support from her husband.

“I came here this afternoon to beg my husband, Shaibu Mohammed, to forgive me my sins,” she said.

Abena said she had concealed the children’s paternity for years because she was afraid of her husband’s reaction

However, she eventually decided to confess after finding it increasingly difficult to keep the secret.

“I couldn’t keep it anymore, so despite my fear, I decided to tell him. When I finally confessed, he said he had heard me. He then asked why I hadn’t told him earlier, and I explained that I was afraid,” she recounted.

She disclosed that the two children whose paternity is in question are currently 14 and 11 years old

Abena further alleged that following her confession, Chief threatened to stop providing for the children and prevent their biological fathers from offering any financial assistance.

According to her, her husband vowed that since he had spent about 12 years caring for the children, he would withdraw his support for an equivalent period, leaving her to shoulder the responsibility

“My husband told me that he had taken care of the children for 12 years, so he would no longer provide for them for the next 12 years. He said I should also suffer by taking care of them myself,” she alleged.


She also claimed that Chief threatened to harm anyone who attempted to support her, including the men she identified as the children’s biological fathers

The situation became more disturbing when Abena alleged that her husband had threatened her father, Mr Nyame, who reportedly died about two weeks before her appearance on the programme

She said she believed the threats were connected to her father’s subsequent illness and death, although no independent evidence was presented during the programme to establish a link between the two events.

“He said he wouldn’t allow anybody to help me and if any of the men I have children with comes into my life, he will kill him. He also said he would make my father fall sick. My father subsequently fell sick and died about two weeks ago. I know I have wronged him and I am sorry,” she said

Overwhelmed by the dispute, Abena made an emotional appeal to her husband, acknowledging her actions and asking him to forgive her

“Please, let all spirits, heaven and earth bear witness that I have wronged you. Please forgive me,” she pleaded.

Chief was subsequently contacted by telephone during the programme, where he expressed anger over the revelation and accused his late father-in-law of helping conceal the children’s true paternity

He alleged that Mr Nyame, who was an SDA church leader, knew that two of the children were not his biological offspring but deliberately failed to inform him

Chief also claimed that his father-in-law had changed the name he had given to one of the children without his knowledge or consent.

He further accused Abena’s parents of secretly receiving money from the children’s biological fathers while their daughter continued to live with him as his wife

Expressing his resentment over what he described as years of deception, Chief said he had invoked spiritual curses against his wife’s family and would not withdraw them until he received compensation for the money and resources he had spent raising the children.

He also threatened people who participated in his father-in-law’s burial, suggesting that they would face consequences similar to those he attributed to the deceased.

“Where I have taken this issue to is too far, and anybody who buries your father will be the next person. I am deeply hurt after taking care of all three children. I don’t even know whether the last one is biologically mine. If I tell you that I have no hand in your father’s death, then that is not true,” he declared

Chief insisted that DNA tests must be conducted on all three children to determine their biological paternity before any attempt at reconciliation could be considered.


He said he would also calculate the total expenditure incurred in raising the children and demand compensation before agreeing to resolve the matter


“I want DNA tests conducted on all three children. After that, I will calculate all the expenses I have incurred in raising them and demand compensation before agreeing to settle this issue,” he stated

In a further threat, Chief warned Abena that members of her family could die one after another if his demands were not met, with her allegedly being the last person to die

Mattswaggz:
Russia didn't just wake up and decided to invade Ukraine.... something led to another so stop acting ignorant here.

A mob has beaten a foreign national to death during a protest in the South African port city of Durban, amid a wave of anti-immigrant tension.

Police said the group approached the man as he stood by the side of a road in Durban’s central business district

The victim was allegedly assaulted by a group of about 50 people and was declared dead at the scene, a police statement said.

Police did not reveal the nationality of the man or details of the march.

They said the victim was in his 30s or early 40s, and they were still trying to identify suspects in the attack.

Anti-migrant marches

Durban has been at the epicentre of months of protests against foreign nationals, with looting and violence erupting after an anti-migrant march in the city two weeks ago.

Demonstrations calling for government action against African migrants who entered the country illegally began in June, with some escalating into violence.

Nigeria, Mozambique, Malawi and other countries have said some of their citizens have been killed in xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

South African authorities disputed some of those claims, saying that some deaths were linked to criminal activity.

Tens of thousands of migrants have left South Africa in recent months in one of the largest mass exoduses in years to avoid the violence.

The government also said that many were deported for not having the required papers to be in the country.

South Africa is Africa’s largest economy and migrants have moved to the country for opportunities. But communities in South Africa say there are not enough jobs and public services are overburdened.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has denounced anti-migrant violence but acknowledged that weak border control systems allowed undocumented migrants to travel to and stay in the country.

Government figures show there are about 2.4 million foreign nationals living among South Africa’s population of 62 million.

DonaldGenes:
No, Trump is definitely trying to end the bloodshed going on in Ukraine

Something has to give..we know Russia won't stop so the best thing to do is Ukraine giving up the land to Russia - simple - then the war will end

You know Russia is militarily stronger that Ukraine , so what is the point of the killing when Ukraine can easily gibe a small part of the land

Donald Trump has sold out Ukraine. He makes appeaser Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle - Simon Tisdall

Europe’s leaders can no longer trust a word that comes out of Washington. No more slaps on the wrist – we need concrete steps to punish Trump

Historical comparisons are always inexact. No one conflict precisely mirrors another. Yet Donald Trump’s shameless appeasement of Vladimir Putin carries more than a noxious whiff of Neville Chamberlain’s failed attempt in Munich in 1938 to head off war with Nazi Germany. To be fair to the former UK prime minister – and history largely hasn’t been – his peacemaking efforts had the enthusiastic backing of most people in Britain and France who, like him, were desperate to avoid a repeat of the horrors of the first world war. Trump enjoys no equivalent public support for his treachery. Nor does he face the prospect of a US war with Russia. His betrayal of Ukraine is cynically self-interested, globally dangerous and utterly contemptible.

US-Russian talks on agreeing the shoddy terms of a precedent-setting American sell-out of Ukraine are at an advanced stage, after meetings in St Petersburg this week. Trump has zigzagged over the war ever since returning to office. Now, panicked by record-low poll ratings, he seems determined to scapegoat Ukraine and force its de facto capitulation. Recent steps – his shocking decision to fund Putin’s war machine by buying Russian diesel, his waiving of tougher sanctions, his mysterious, lethal interruptions in US satellite and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, and his renewed attempt to oust Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – mark Trump out as the skulking Judas, the craven Brutus of the modern age. He makes Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle. All that’s lacking is an umbrella.

Why does Trump act this way? Partly, it’s personal. He doesn’t like Zelenskyy and it’s obvious why. Ukraine’s leader is everything he is not: courageous, principled, morally unimpeachable, hard-working and politically savvy. Partly, it’s money and power. Trump has set his shrivelled, grasping heart on normalising relations with Putin’s repressive rogue regime, opening the way for lucrative deals on energy, raw materials, and control of the Arctic and outer space. He likes the idea of a world dominated by three all-powerful blocs and authoritarian leaders: himself, Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. And partly it’s the unexplained, sinister hold Putin appears to exercise over this former society playboy, New York real-estate developer and serial bankrupt.

Whatever Trump’s motivations, the short-term consequences of his betrayal are potentially fatal for Ukraine’s bid to repel the Russian invaders and survive as a sovereign democratic state. For much of this year, Ukraine has been winning, or at least holding its own, in the contested lands of the Donbas and along the Black Sea littoral. More than that, by using homemade missiles and drones, it has taken the fight to Russia’s industrial heartlands and oil refineries, significantly undermining Putin’s ability to fund his war. Zelenskyy has also been winning the battle for international opinion, particularly in Europe, which itself is under escalating Russian hybrid attack. Amid Trump’s egregious backsliding, European nations have taken the lead in supporting Kyiv militarily, financially and diplomatically.

It’s hard not to wonder whether there’s a connection between Trump’s sudden, divisive, decisive lurch towards unabashed support for Putin and the fact that Russia, suffering unsustainable battlefield casualties, severe economic damage and deepening international isolation, is at increased risk of regime-toppling humiliation. [/b]Whatever the truth, Trump’s Putin bailout – his duplicitous Russia rescue act – could turn the tide.

[b]Trump’s perfidy is the shame of the world, and it is the world – and not only Ukraine – that will pay the price over the longer term. This calculated attempt to force Kyiv’s submission imperils everyone. Ukraine, if it is allowed to fall, will haunt Europe and the wider geopolitical biosphere for decades, as was the case with Czechoslovakia after 1938.

Trump’s Molotov-Ribbentrop-style pact with a warmongering dictator, an indicted war criminal, a smirking, bigoted mass murderer, may fatally compromise the western alliance and spell the end of Nato as an effective defence against eastern totalitarianism. Who among the democratic governments of western Europe, in the Elysée, in the German and Polish chancelleries, in Brussels or in Downing Street, can now trust a word that comes out of Washington? Its bond is broken, its honour in shreds.

Trump’s betrayal follows a pattern of lesser treacheries: arbitrary tariff wars waged against trading partners, the traducing of loyal allies, threats against Canada and Greenland, abandonment of a two-state solution in Palestine and most recently, his disastrous war against Iran – the real reason why US midterm voters, facing inflated fuel prices, are turning against him and his Republicans. But his Russian folly may be the most egregious and consequential. As MI5 has warned, Britain and Europe are under daily attack from Russia, its spy networks, saboteurs, cyber warriors and paid agents. Reports this week suggest it is menacing western space satellites, too. Don’t look to turncoat Trump for help. He’s on the other side.

Barack Obama has said congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under federal criminal investigation simply because she's an outspoken critic of the President Donald Trump.

"The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president," the former US president wrote on X, calling the probe "so appalling".

The White House defended the inquiry, saying the justice department was "focused on restoring law and order".

Last week, homeland security agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's Washington DC home as part of an investigation into her immigration status. Born in Somalia, Omar moved to the US with her family as a child.

US media outlets have reported that the probe is tied to her American citizenship and whether she lied about her age when she arrived in the US in 1995.

Questions have been raised about whether the age listed on Omar's citizenship application differed from her actual birth date.

Obama said in his X post on Sunday that her father became a naturalised citizen when she was 17, and not yet legally an adult, which then gave her citizenship.

"Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen," he wrote.

"If this becomes the new normal," he added, "there's no reason to believe it will stop with her - or that future presidents, in either party, won't do the same."

According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, a child born outside of the US automatically becomes a citizen when he or she has at least one parent who is a citizen by birth or naturalisation, or he or she is under the age of 18, and is a lawful permanent resident living in the custody of a citizen parent.


White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis denied the investigation was politically motivated.

"Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump has not weaponized the Department of Justice against his political foes," she said in an emailed statement to the BBC.
"The Department is focused on restoring law and order and keeping Americans safe."

Trump has often argued that federal criminal investigations against him as he campaigned for re-election were politically motivated.

The investigation into Omar could lead to the justice department seeking to "denaturalise" her, or revoke her citizenship. It would have to prove there were material lies in the naturalisation process.

In 2023, Republicans removed Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for comments and tweets she made about Israel, which drew bipartisan criticism.

Omar has said that Trump has targeted her for years with "baseless lies and smear campaigns" and called the investigation "the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation".

But Trump has said the investigation had "nothing to do" with him, while describing Omar as a "terrible person" and a "complainer".

Federal agents reportedly seized her phone, computers, notebooks and passport in the raid a week ago.

Her lawyers have demanded the government return her belongings, CBS News, the BBC's US partner, has reported, arguing in a letter sent on Friday that the seizure of property had violated restrictions put in place by a judge to protect her work as a federal lawmaker.

The lawyers also alleged agents did not duly notify Omar or the House of Representatives general counsel that a search would be taking place and kept her from contacting her attorney for more than an hour, according to CBS.

Democrats characterised the raid as the president attempting to interfere with the legislative branch of government. Republicans, meanwhile, have said Omar should be treated the same as anyone else under the law.

When Obama first ran for president, and throughout his two terms in the White House, Trump repeatedly raised questions about his citizenship, asserting he was not born on American soil and was disqualified from serving in office. Obama released two records proving he had been born in Hawaii .

Obama did not mention that history in his X post on Sunday.