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Getty ImagesKate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey pictured at the film’s premiere in 2003A sequel to How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days is in development, more than 20 years after the original hit rom-com was released, with original star Kate Hudson set to produce.Work on the film is in the “very early days”, with sources telling US media that both Hudson, 47, and Matthew McConaughey, 56, could reprise their roles from the first film.In the original, Hudson played a magazine journalist called Andie who researches an article about modern dating. She convinces her boss she can get a man,…
EPAIranians have been feeling the impact of the war day in, day outThe US says it has launched an “economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe”. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions included digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping. Any nation financially partnering with Iran would be isolated.However, Bessent’s announcement of what he termed an “economic D-Day” may have sounded more dramatic in Washington than in Tehran.Shortly after the announcement, Iran’s Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh called it “the same old talk” and said Iran was ready for “every scenario”. He said Tehran had expected the measures and…
NurPhoto / Getty ImagesOnlyFans made $700m in profit last yearThe late owner of streaming platform OnlyFans was paid more than $700m (£513m) in dividends before his death from cancer earlier this year.Fenix International Ltd, the British company that owns OnlyFans, made $714m in profit before tax last year, it said in its annual report. This is an increase of 5% from 2024.The site hosts a range of subscription-based content from cooking to fitness videos, but it is best known for pornography and is credited with transforming online adult content by encouraging personal connection between sex workers and subscribers.Its owner Leonid…
Daniel LindsaySarah thought she knew what she was getting into when she attended a coroner’s court in May 2024 to discuss the death of her second cousin.Her day job as a murder detective meant she was used to courts, to judges, to legal argument. What she wasn’t prepared for was a coroner’s court. “I felt like I was on trial,” she recalls of her first hearing, in Woking, Surrey. “I remember just feeling completely railroaded… It [was] far more hostile than I had ever expected.”Her cousin, Daniel Lindsay, died in 2023, aged 41. He had lived at a home in…
Seraj AliMamta, from the Dalit (formerly untouchable) community, says access to water in her village becomes harder in the summersA couple of months ago, just after sunrise, 40-year-old Mamta began the first of as many as 10 journeys she would make that day.Carrying three empty plastic buckets, she walked a few hundred metres to the nearest handpump in her village in Jalaun district, in the drought-prone Bundelkhand region of northern India. Temperatures in parts of the region were soaring above 40C.The taps installed under a government drinking water scheme had been dry for two years, she said, leaving most of…
Getty ImagesWest’s 2026 tour has been hit by cancellations amid backlash over his history of antisemitic commentsThe Russian stadium that was scheduled to host two shows by Ye, the rapper also known as Kanye West, has said the events will no longer take place.In a social media post, St Petersburg’s Gazprom Arena said no rental agreement had been signed with the concert promoters. “Accordingly, the concert cannot take place on our site.”West would have been the first major Western performer to play Russia since it invaded Ukraine in 2022. The rapper is trying to rehabilitate his image after years of…
ReutersPan Am Flight 103 was brought down on 21 December 1988The trial of a Libyan man over the Lockerbie bombing has been postponed for a third time, after new evidence on the 37-year-old case came to light three days ago.Jury selection was due to get under way in Washington DC on Wednesday but the BBC understands a new start date has been set for January next year.Lawyers acting for Abu Agila Mohammad Kheir Al-Marimi said “newly discovered evidence” previously unknown to the defence and prosecutors from the US government emerged on Friday 21 August.Al-Marimi has denied building the bomb that…
Caroline KraetzerCaroline Kraetzer no longer gets tips but her salary is double the normWine waiter Caroline Kraetzer earns $40 (£30) an hour, double what most service staff in San Francisco are paid but then it costs a lot to eat at her restaurant.At a set price of $140 (£100) per person, La Cigale is one of a small number of restaurants charging higher prices so it can pay high salaries – and it doesn’t allow tips.It tells customers: “What you see is what you pay. We do not accept tips, your kind words and return visits will suffice.”Kraetzer says it…
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New Zealand PoliceNew Zealand police released a picture of Shulai WangA New Zealand court has jailed a religious sect leader over the death of an elderly follower who had travelled from China to live with his family.Kaixiao Liu was found guilty of manslaughter and kidnapping, and sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.The body of 70-year-old Shulai Wang had been found wrapped in rice bags near Auckland’s Gulf Harbour in March 2024, sparking a major homicide investigation which eventually led to Liu.Liu, a musician who previously appeared in a talent show in China, had denied the charges. He also…