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By KEVIN ADJEI-DARKO Published: 15:28 BST, 4 August 2025 | Updated: 15:46 BST, 4 August 2025 South Korean actor Song Young-kyu has been found dead in his car, local police have said.The ‘Extreme Job’ actor was discovered by an acquaintance in a car at a housing complex in Yongin, just south of Seoul, around 8am, police said.Authorities said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. They also clarified that he did not leave behind a suicide note. In June, the 55-year-old found himself in controversy when he was embroiled in a drink-driving scandal. The case, which made national headlines in his local…
By JOHN MCGARRY Published: 13:33 BST, 4 August 2025 | Updated: 15:28 BST, 4 August 2025 Celtic will face either Kairat Almaty or Slovan Bratislava in the play-off round for the Champions League.Requiring to clear one hurdle if they are to make it back to the group stage, Brendan Rodgers’ side now know they’ll have to defeat either the men from Kazakhstan or Slovakia at the end of this month.The Parkhead outfit are due to be at home first on August 19/20, with the away leg the following week.Celtic haven’t faced Kairat before, but they did beat fellow Kazakh outfit…
Great Scott! Is it 2012 again, or did I just hit 88 miles per hour in a DeLorean?This week’s news jolted Team Proactive straight back to the past.Rockhopper Exploration, that blast-from-the-past Falklands oil explorer, is launching an equity placing to fund the Sea Lion project.For a split second, we half expected Marty McFly to appear, skateboard in hand, quoting oil reserves.A lot has changed since Sea Lion was the talk of AIM, long before Trump, tariffs, Covid, AI, or even the phrase ‘net zero’ entered the mainstream.Back then, big-money offshore oil plays still had their admirers. Now? Let’s just say…
Vick Hope has welcomed her first child with her husband Calvin Harris. Calvin announced the arrival of their first child, a son named Micah, and shared the happy new to Instagram on Monday afternoon.Alongside a series of photos, Calvin wrote: ’20th of July our boy arrived. Micah is here! My wife is a superhero and I am in complete awe of her primal wisdom! Just so grateful. We love you so much Micah.’Vick went on maternity leave from her BBC Radio 1 show in May and jetted out to her home in Ibiza shortly afterwards.The couple, who live in Gloucestershire, also have a…
From helping you answer emails to translating legal documents, artificial intelligence is now a part of almost all facets of life.Meanwhile, organisations from Microsoft and Apple to the NHS have piled vast sums of funding into the latest intelligent software.And for the few people behind this AI boom, there have been enormous profits to be made.Leading the pack as the richest of new AI billionaires is Jensen Huang, CEO of chipmaker Nvidia, with a staggering net-worth of £113 billion ($151bn).Mr Huang joins several monumental big tech figures, such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who have recently made huge…
Alzheimer’s disease is largely seen as one of old age.The most common form of memory-robbing dementia, Alzheimer’s affects nearly 7 million Americans, most of whom are over the age of 65.In general, about one in 14 people develop the disease by age 65, and one in three are diagnosed by 85.But the hundreds of thousands of Americans living with Down syndrome are ‘destined’ to be struck by the deadly condition, experts have warned.Down syndrome is one of the most common intellectual disabilities in the US, affecting about 200,000 to 400,000 Americans. Individuals with Down syndrome have an extra copy of…
Prince Andrew looked ‘wary and threatened’ as he was seen for the first time after the release of a scathing new biography about his life, a body language expert has claimed. The disgraced Duke of York, 65, was spotted driving a black Land Rover Defender alongside his ex-wife of 10 years, Sarah Ferguson, who herself looked in ‘sadness or deep pain’. It comes after the prince was heavily criticised in the book penned by Andrew Lownie and serialised by the Mail, called Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.One of the most explosive claims was that Prince Andrew and his…
The German government says a dip in the number of people seeking asylum is proof that its strict migration policies are working. According to figures, the number of people applying for asylum in Germany for the first time fell by more than half in the first six months of the year.There were just over 70,000 applications between January and July, compared to nearly 141,000 during the same period last year. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said: ‘We have massively reduced the number of initial asylum applications compared to last year.’The drop has been seen as a big success for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative…
Canterbury have been branded ‘hypocrites’ after it was revealed on Monday that the footy club has complained to the NRL about several unsavoury gestures that Wests Tigers players made to Bulldogs supporters on Sunday afternoon.A week after their 34-point drubbing by Penrith, Benji Marshall’s side stunned the high-flying Bulldogs at a rain-soaked CommBank Stadium, with Jeral Skelton crossing the tryline twice to help his side seal a huge 28-14 win.However, the result has been soured by controversy after it was revealed that the NRL’s Integrity Unit is now investigating the behaviour of multiple Tigers players who made an apparent offensive…
By OLIVIA CHRISTIE Updated: 12:24 BST, 4 August 2025 Papa John’s has closed 74 of its pizza takeaway outlets across the country due to severe financial difficulties. The UK arm of the American fast food chain suffered pre-tax losses of £21.8million in the latest financial year. Papa John’s revenue has also taken a hit with newly-filed accounts on government website Companies House showing a drop from £95.9million to £88.6million.Moreover, the last time the pizza chain achieved a pre-tax profit in the UK was in 2021, when it recorded £8.1m, The Mirror has reported. The closure of the 74 outlets has taken place over…