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An 18-year-old Brit faces 20 years in prison in Dubai after being charged with having sex with a then-17-year-old during a family holiday.Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, London, was held in a notorious UAE prison for days after police heard of his holiday romance from her ‘strict’ mother.The couple ‘had a wonderful time together’ on holiday in August, meeting up in secret as she feared she could not tell her mother she was seeing a boy. They hoped to continue their relationship when they were back in London.But as the girl’s furious mother later found out and told police in Dubai about…
By HARRY BAMFORTH and IAN LADYMAN AT PORTMAN ROAD and CHRIS WHEELER AT PORTMAN ROAD and NATHAN SALT AT PORTMAN ROAD and KIM MORRISSEY Published: 10:07 EST, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 13:32 EST, 24 November 2024 Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Ipswich vs Man United – Premier League: Live score and updates as Red Devils underwhelm in Ruben Amorim’s first match in charge This article was originally published by a www.dailymail.co.uk . Read the Original article here. .
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought NATO spending back under scrutiny, with Washington’s warning that Europe should be prepared to defend itself from Russian aggression refocusing minds in Brussels.The United States will ‘no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship’ regarding the war in Ukraine and will not be taken for ‘suckers’, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week as he declared that fellow Nato members should be spending more.The US is by far the biggest spender on defence overall – forking out a total of $967.7billion, equivalent to 3.38 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).The UK…
More than two decades ago when I came to live in Portugal, a surprising number of people asked: ‘Do you speak Spanish already?’Sardines and fado music were known associations to the well-travelled, but many people still thought of Portugal as a region of Spain. Few had heard of the Alentejo, a region of dolmens and vineyards, olive trees and storks that takes up more than a third of the country. Portugal was often called ‘Europe’s best kept secret’.Fast forward to today and the country is on just about every traveller’s lips, with Lisbon usually featuring in the top ten of…
Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted he’s not holding any ‘grudges’ against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for trying to have him fired, but other Republicans are done with the chaos she and her rabble-rousing cohorts have brought on this Congress. ‘I don’t hold grudges. I’ve got to work with everybody. I told her last night before she left the floor, let’s move on, Marjorie,’ Johnson told ‘Fox and Friends’ on Thursday. Johnson told Politico he told Greene on the House floor after the vote: ‘I’m not angry about this. We have to work together. And I want to work with you guys and…
The distraught father attempted to drown his daughter in a riverThe man waded into the river with his two daughters after a family disputeBut rescuers pulled the pair to safety onto a boat in ChinaBy Belinda Robinson Published: 11:15 EDT, 25 May 2014 | Updated: 12:27 EDT, 25 May 2014 This is the moment rescuers pull a man and his daughter onto a boat after the man attempted to commit suicide and drown his daughter in a river following a family row.The harrowing scene unfolded in Qingjiang township of Yueqing, Zhejiang province yesterday.The man who was identified only as Mr…
By RUTH STAINER and HANNAH PHILLIPS Published: 12:00, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 17:00, 27 March 2025 A sneaky traveller managed to successfully avoid paying Ryanair’s baggage fees by creating a fake pregnancy bump.Grace Hale shoved two jackets and a bag full of makeup inside her top after realising they wouldn’t fit in her carry-on baggage.In a viral TikTok video titled ‘It’s a boy and we’re naming him Ryan’ the 20-year-old, who was travelling from London’s Stansted Airport to Edinburgh, showed herself with her fake ‘bump’.After walking through security, she bundled the items inside her top and wore a trench…
Dolly Parton shocked her fans on Monday with the announcement that her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, had died at 82.Unlike the bubbly 79-year-old country legend, Dean was a more reclusive figure who eschewed the touring life and was rarely seen in public — with or without Parton.Dean was last pictured out in public in photos snapped just over five years ago.The pictures were snapped in 2019, when he was seen venturing out to a post office in Brentwood, Tennessee.Prior to that, Dean hadn’t been knowingly photographed in public in four decades, though he and Dolly had both…
Outrage ensued on Monday as Elon Musk launched his latest attempt to get a conservative Wisconsin judge elected to the state’s Supreme Court.The billionaire leader of DOGE kicked-off a new social media campaign on Monday with the apparent aim to boost Republicans’ preferred candidate to replace a retiring liberal judge.He is offering $20 to every person who takes an image with another person while holding a picture of Judge Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate, while flashing a ‘thumbs up.’ Both people in the image will get $20, Musk explained in his X post on Monday.’Easiest money you ever made!’ he…
The best hotel in Wales. This accolade was bestowed upon The Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff in the 2024 AA Hospitality Awards – an eye-opening stamp of approval for the property, which is housed in the Grade II-listed former head post office building and county court on Westgate Street.Keen to see for myself what impressed the AA’s inspectors, I climb aboard a GWR express at London Paddington (see fact box for details on its ‘long weekender’ ticket deals, which include Cardiff) with my dear mother and head west to the Welsh capital at 125mph for a stay at The Parkgate, notebook and…