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Romania’s incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) was tied with far-right NATO critic Calin Georgescu, with 90% of votes counted, as the two battled for first place in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday. Georgescu came in with a razor thin margin of 22% of the vote, while Ciolacu had 21.7%. As neither candidate can achieve an absolute majority, they will have to face off in a runoff vote on December 8. Ballots from Romania’s sizable diaspora, which have yet to be included in the main tally, meanwhile showed center-right Elena Lasconi leading with 33.4%, with Georgescu second.…

As of 5 October 2024, 512 public tenders submitted by Germany to the EU in the nine first months of the year were accepted and published by the EU Tenders Transparency Portal despite their egregiously discriminatory nature. Their peculiarity was that they contained a “Bidder’s declaration of protection” against a specific religious group to be mandatorily filled in and signed on a “form 2496” for the bidding to be valid. One of the 512 tenders concerned “advanced services in preparation for the construction of the future excavation pit shoring for the new center at the Nuremberg Clinic” (Ref. 598098-2024).…

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Strictly Come Dancing star Dianne Buswell was left in tears after her parents saw her perform on the show for the first time in seven years. The professional dancer, 34, joined the BBC series in 2017 after competing on Dancing with the Stars in Australia. She is currently competing on this season with comedian Chris McCausland, 47, with Dianne left sobbing following their performance in Blackpool last weekend. Last year Dianne’s parents, Mark and Rina, were meant to travel from Australia to watch their daughter on the BBC series however had to cancel the trip after he was diagnosed with…

Zayn Malik made a poignant return to the stage tonight for his solo tour, which he previously postponed due to the death of friend and bandmate Liam Payne. In a loving gesture, he ensured Payne was included as he paid tribute to him with a sweet message on-screen. The Pillowtalk hitmaker attended Payne’s funeral just three days ago after the One Direction star tragically died at the age of 31 on October 16. Zayn joined Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, and Harry Styles for the devastating goodbye at St. Mary’s Church in Amersham, as Payne’s loved ones held a private service.…

A former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! star has taken aim after being ‘bullied’ by Rebekah Vardy. In 2017 stand-up comedian turned broadcaster Iain Lee appeared on the long-running ITV reality series. However his time on the show was marred by run-ins with Vardy, who left him in tears and whom he’s since called a ‘liar and manipulator’. His comments come as Vardy reignited her feud with Coleen Rooney, who is appearing on the current season, following their infamous Wagatha Christie defamation trial two years ago. Reflecting on his experience in the jungle, Iain said he suffered a…

Until now, the cast of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 2024 has been getting on like a house (well, camp) on fire… but less than a week after entering the Jungle, two stars have come to blows. The likes of Oti Mabuse and Coleen Rooney headed Down Under last weekend for the once-in-a-lifetime experience, while Maura Higgins and Reverend Richard Coles have since joined as latecomers. Tonight, though, two of the camp’s bubbliest personalities clashed, as Dean McCullough and Alan Halsall gave us the first row of the series. As camp leader along with Tulisa Contostavlos, Alan,…

Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon has split from her partner of 18 years, according to reports. The TV star and Mis-Teeq singer has been with dancer Azuka Ononye since 2006, and they share two daughters, one aged 11 and one aged six. Alesha, 46, and Azuka, 43, never officially married that we know, but she has referred to him as her ‘husband’ before, including in 2017 while appearing on Michael McIntyre’s Big Show. However, Alesha has reportedly been confiding in her friends that she feels their romance is now more of a friendship. According to The Sun, the talent show…

A reader argues that the low-tech Nintendo DS is the best console ever made, with a line-up of exclusive games unlike any other. I very much enjoyed the recent feature on the 10 weirdest Nintendo DS games and was proud to realise that I own most of them. They were categorised as the best and the weirdest and I feel that sums up the DS very well. It had a mountain of great games but almost all of them were odd or peculiar in some way, and not something you could imagine existing on any other format – not even…

The original host of Wheel of Fortune, Chuck Woolery, has died at the age of 83. Woolery’s death was announced on Saturday by his friend and co-host on podcast Blunt Force Truth Mark Young. ‘It is with a broken heart that I tell you that my dear brother @chuckwoolery has just passed away,’ Young wrote. ‘Life will not be the same without him.’ He added to TMZ that Woolery died after trouble breathing at his home in Texas. Woolery, who began his career as a singer, hosted Wheel of Fortune from 1975 for six years, before being replaced by long-running…