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The Ritz’s long-standing chef has claimed the hotel’s two-Michelin-starred restaurant’s £221 tasting menu is the ‘best value in London’. John Williams MBE has been The Ritz Restaurant’s executive chef for more than 20 years and has curated a high-end menu using only the finest ingredients. Despite charging £221 for the seven-course The Epicurean Journey menu or £199 for the five-course version, he ‘solemnly’ believes his cuisine is the best value in the city. The seven-course experience allows diners to sample the best Williams MBE has to offer and includes signature plates of native lobster, duck liver, Dorset crab and pigeon. Because the chef goes…
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman was spotted out to dinner with a MAGA icon at a conservative hotspot in Washington – apparently on his wedding anniversary.The senator who has made a name for himself for bucking his party was spotted dining with a Breitbart reporter on Monday, June, Politico reported. But that’s not what caused the online stir. What left onlookers gobsmacked about the weeknight dinner was a brief visit from former Trump advisor and MAGA strategist Steve Bannon, the conservative fireband and liberal bogeyman who anchors his own influential ‘War Room’ podcast. More stunningly, that dinner at Butterworth’s – a buzzy Capitol Hill…
By ELENA SALVONI and LETTICE BROMOVSKY and JAMIE BULLEN Published: 10:23 BST, 12 June 2025 | Updated: 18:05 BST, 12 June 2025 An Air India flight bound for London Gatwick crashed in Ahmedabad just minutes after take off with more than 240 people on board.Flight 171 plummeted to the ground in the densely populated Meghani area of the city, striking a doctors’ hostel, after it departed from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.Incredibly, a British father was filmed walking away from the wreckage shortly after Indian police said there appeared to be no survivors.Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, told local media from hospital: ‘Thirty…
By VICTORIA CHURCHILL, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Published: 16:56 BST, 12 June 2025 | Updated: 16:56 BST, 12 June 2025 Advertisement President Donald Trump’s cheeky bite back to a Senate Republican at odds with his ‘big, beautiful bill ‘made waves across social media platforms Thursday morning. Kentucky Republican Rand Paul had previously told reporters Wednesday that the White House had disinvited him from the annual Congressional Picnic, set to take place there later Thursday evening. But Trump contradicted his own White House on Thursday, indicating that ‘of course’ Paul and his family could attend. ‘He’s the toughest vote…
By JACK BEZANTS Published: 16:42 BST, 12 June 2025 | Updated: 16:53 BST, 12 June 2025 Travis and Jason Kelce have seemingly announced that their mom Donna is going to be on season four of Traitors.Rumors first surfaced on Thursday morning that she was a potential contender to appear on the show, with the respected TV gossip account ‘Reality TV Fan’ naming her on X.The rumors appeared to be true with the New Heights podcast account then sharing an old clip of Travis and Jason discussing their love of the show.’Reposting this for no reason whatsoever,’ the caption read, with…
Like most luxury goods markets, investment grade wine has endured a bruising couple of years.Wine had enjoyed a bumper pandemic, with the combination of lockdown conditions and lower interest rates helping to attract new investors and drive prices to all-time highs.But the Liv-Ex 1000 – the broadest available index of investment grade wine – has slumped more than 20 per cent from its 2022 peak, marking an unusually large decline in the alternative investment asset’s history.Analysts point to higher interest rates, subdued demand from key markets like China and, more recently, US trade tariffs.Given the context in which the decline…
By A. JAMES FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 16:27 BST, 12 June 2025 | Updated: 16:27 BST, 12 June 2025 Carrie Bickmore has shared a touching tribute to The Project after the flagship program was axed by Network 10 on Monday after 16 years.The radio host, 44, who quit the show in 2022 after 12 years on the panel, took to Instagram on Thursday to post a ‘trip down memory lane’ celebrating her time on the show.Carrie also included a hilarious throwback clip reel to honour The Project team, past and present – including a few seconds from the very first…
Studying the depths of the universe usually involves billions of pounds of supercomputers, satellites, and telescopes.But a team of scientists has now made it possible for you to explore the cosmos from the comfort of your own home.Their incredible interactive map, dubbed COSMOS-Web, lets you scroll through almost 800,000 galaxies and peer back as far as 13.5 billion years.That means looking back through 98 per cent of cosmic time almost to the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago.Covering an area of sky about the same size as three full moons, this image combines more than 10,000 photographs from…
Experts are sounding the alarm over the spread of a rare deadly virus after two Americans tested positive this week. Hantavirus, the disease that killed Gene’s Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa, is a rare but severe respiratory illness spread through exposure, typically inhalation, to rodent droppings.The hantavirus, which kills 30 to 50 percent of people infected, was first identified in South Korea in 1978 when researchers isolated the virus from a field mouse. It is rare in the US, with fewer than 50 cases reported yearly.But now two cases have been confirmed in Nevada – bringing the US’ total count to 864 cases since 1993.Health experts are warning the public to…
Baggage delays cost the aviation industry billions each year, but ultimately, it’s the customer that pays the price when their luggage goes missing. Lost luggage not only causes anxiety and distress in affected travellers, but it can disrupt travel plans, impact important occasions, cause financial hardship and result in the loss of sentimental items, to name but a few. As millions of holidaymakers take to the skies this summer, it’s worth noting which parts of the world plane passengers are more likely to experience lost or mishandled luggage.According to aviation technology specialist Sita, 33.4 million bags were mishandled in 2024, down from 33.8…