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For most, meeting Prince Charming – and then enjoying a fairytale wedding – remains an idle daydream…but for one woman, the fantasy became a reality after she fell for a real-life royal in a Washington D.C nightclub.Ariana Austin, now 41, was just 20 when she met Joel David Makonnen Haile Selassie – an Ethiopian prince, now 43, in 2005, after he used a cheesy pickup line to catch her attention.At the time, she had no idea that Joel – a great-grandson of Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia – had royal lineage.And it took months before Austin found…
By TARYN KAUR PEDLER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 12:51 BST, 30 September 2025 | Updated: 14:24 BST, 30 September 2025 The South African Ambassador to France has ‘plunged to his death from the 22nd floor’ of a Paris hotel.The body of Nkosinathi Emmanuel Mthethwa, who also served as the Ambassador to Monaco and the Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, was found on Tuesday ‘right above the Hyatt Hotel’ at Porte Maillot, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed.The 58-year-old diplomat is believed to have jumped from the 22nd floor of the 4-star hotel, according to local reports.’He had booked a room on the 22nd floor, whose…
Ruined careers, decimated retirement prospects, impoverishment and even social unrest.Those were the apocalyptic warnings made last week by the Daily Mail’s esteemed City Editor Alex Brummer.He warned that in his 50 years writing about the economy, he had never felt so worried that a terrible financial crash was coming.And Brummer is not alone among renowned City experts in fearing a bubble may be building up in the world’s overheating stock markets.The signs, he said, were starting to appear all over the place.He gave the example of tech giant Nvidia investing £100billion in OpenAI – the maker of popular AI tool…
Madonna has confirmed that she suffered from a life-threatening disease that left her in intensive care for four days. The Queen of Pop, 67, was rushed to hospital with a bacterial infection in mid-2023 and her world tour was paused.She took to her social media at the time to tell fans she was on the road to recovery and had been released from hospital. Now two years on, in her first podcast appearance, Madonna has revealed came down with an infection which turned into sepsis and she spent four days in intensive care on a ventilator. Speaking on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast, Madonna…
1976: Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne created the company on April 1 1976 as they set about selling computer kits to hobbyists, each of which was built by Wozniak.The first product was the Apple I. 1977: Apple released the Apple II in June, which was the first PC made for the mass market. Steve Jobs unveils Apple Computer Corporation’s new Macintosh February 6, 1984 in California.1981: Jobs became chairman. 1984: The Macintosh was introduced during an ad break for the Super Bowl and later officially unveiled during a launch event. It was discontinued a year later and Jobs left the…
A new study has found that high levels of air pollution can exacerbate the symptoms of a dangerous sleep condition linked to an increased risk of heart attacks. Obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA) causes people to repeatedly stop breathing—for a few seconds or more than a minute—when the muscles which support the tongue and soft palate temporarily relax and the airway becomes blocked.Symptoms include loud snoring, making gasping, snorting or choking sounds, and waking up frequently in the night. In the day, it can indirectly cause fatigue, concentration difficulties, mood swings, and a headache upon waking. The Sleep Apnoea trust estimates that up to…
Wetherspoon has become well-known for restoring fascinating old buildings while turning them into pubs, from cinemas to theatres and courts to banks.But the latest venue could be its most unusual to date, sitting on the site of one of London’s biggest ever fires and most popular haunted tourist attractions.The new £2.75million Sun Wharf pub, which opens today, is located on Tooley Street outside London Bridge railway station on the former London Dungeon site.It was also the site of Tooley Street Fire in 1861 – viewed as the biggest fire since the Great Fire of London – which started by spontaneous…
Shortly after sunrise on Friday morning, the wives of Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley stood near the second fairway of Bethpage Black and began speaking in hushed tones.They were in matching uniforms – the official colors of WAGS USA – and watching their husbands play in the opening throes of the Ryder Cup. They were deep in prayer. Among the topics of conversation with their creator? The ‘pressure’ and the ‘crowds.’A few minutes later, after watching a crucial putt drop, Meredith Scheffler and Teil Duncan Henley shared a high-five. Before long, however, evidence began to stack up that perhaps God, European…
An enraged anti-Semitic attacker filmed himself whipping two Jewish American tourists with a belt while screaming ‘Free Palestine’ in Florence, Italy.In footage posted to social media, the man approaches the two visibly Jewish men walking down a street in the evening and demands that they stop and tell him where they are from.After one answers that he is from New York, the man proceeds to repeatedly scream ‘free Palestine, f***er’ in the tourists’ faces, before verbally abusing them with a string of other obscenities and whipping his belt down on the pavement.’Motherf***er,’ the man shouts at them. ‘Free Palestine s***’,…
The family of former Liverpool boss Matt Beard have invited fans to pay their respects after details of a memorial service were confirmed.Beard died aged 47 in the Countess of Chester hospital at 9.15pm on Saturday, September 20.Beard was in charge of Liverpool twice during his 17-year career in women’s football management, winning back-to-back league titles in 2013 and 2014. He was most recently in charge of Burnley, but resigned after two months in charge. An outpouring of love towards Beard flowed after news of his death, with many paying tributes to an ‘icon’ of the women’s game, as he was described by Manchester United boss…