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The home secretary will on Monday warn Kremlin-linked elites pose a ‘real and present danger to our way of life’ and outline plans to ban them from the UK UK bans Kremlin-linked elites in bid to pile pressure on Putin Britain will ramp up the pressure on Vladimir Putin by banning Russian elites with links to his regime from the country. The home secretary will on Monday warn Kremlin-linked elites pose a “real and present danger to our way of life” and outline plans to ban them from the UK. The ban will target anyone who provides significant support for…

Surge in the number of homes in Britain valued at £1 million-plus Britain has seen a surge in million-pound homes, with their numbers increasing by approximately a third in the last five years. That’s according to estimates from property firm Savills. Around 702,580 properties across the country are now valued at £1 million or more, representing a net gain of 3,127 such homes in 2024 compared to 2023. This means one in every 42 homes in Britain reaching the million-pound mark. The North East of England saw the biggest rise in property millionaires outside of London London spearheaded this growth, boasting the…

Coleen Nolan pays tribute to sister Linda, who died earlier this year Coleen Nolan has paid tribute to sister Linda Nolan on what would have been her 66th birthday. The Irish singer died in January this year, after being diagnosed with secondary breast cancer which had spread to her brain. Pop sensation Linda rose to fame at the age of 15, starring alongside her sisters as a member of the Anglo-Irish pop group the Nolans. The singer was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and was initially pronounced cancer-free after six years of treatment in 2011. However, tumours were…

It’s the movie that gave us the iconic scene of Terry Crews singing along to A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. And now, over 20 years after its release, White Chicks is finally getting a sequel. The beloved comedy flick first landed in cinemas in 2004, starring Crews, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Busy Philipps, and more. Its plot follows two disgraced FBI agents, Kevin Copeland and Marcus Copeland (played by the Wayans brothers), who are assigned a new case where they must protect two cruise line heiresses from getting abducted. To do so, the two Black agents go undercover as…

The identity of the woman Dave Grohl had a love child with has been revealed – with Jennifer Young coming out as the mother of his daughter. Foo Fighters frontman Dave, 55, devastated fans last year after revealing in a bombshell Instagram post that he was expecting a child with another woman. He confirmed he had cheated on his wife of 21 years, Jordyn Blum, stating that he was ‘doing everything [he] can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness.’ Weeks later, it was revealed he had hired a divorce attorney, with Dave and Jordyn both spotted without their wedding…

Anton Du Beke’s hips were swinging. His cheeky chappy smile was on full beam. His arms swooped up into the air in one gracefully smooth manner. The scene may have you thinking I was rewatching one of his Strictly Come Dancing routines on YouTube, perhaps his Paso Doble with Ruth Langsford or Viennese Waltz with Emma Barton, but actually, Anton, 58, was doing something else entirely. While his love for dance is pretty obvious to anybody who’s ever turned into BBC on a Saturday evening in the autumn/winter since 2004, there is another sport that he’s equally fond of…

Astro Bot – Mario’s new rival (Sony Interactive Entertainment) Double the pleasureI really don’t think Nintendo has much to learn from Astro Bot. All the 3D Mario games sell far more than Sony’s games and the only one that Astro Bot is better than is Super Mario Sunshine. For my view I think that the next game should try and make itself as different as possible to Mario, because the déjà vu is the worst thing about the current game. Which is a shame, because the controls and graphics are really good. I think it’s great that Sony is going…

June does seem to be the favourite prediction There’s increasing agreement over the likely release date of the Nintendo Switch 2 but apparently retailers are not to be trusted. Although the Nintendo Switch 2 has been officially announced we still know very little about the console, with the reveal trailer explaining almost nothing. It did state a 2025 launch, but it wasn’t any more specific than that. Traditionally, new consoles launch in the autumn, but spring is the second most popular choice, as it was with the March release of the original Switch. Anytime in summer is extremely rare…

Everything has returned to normal in the village of Gjader and the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania. Almost exactly a year to the day when the parliament ratified the country’s migrant center agreement with Italy, not a single migrant is in either of the facilities constructed in Gjader and Shengjin. The agreement signed by Italy and Albania in November 2023 and ratified by the Albanian parliament on February 22, 2024, envisioned that Italy would build migrant holding centers in Albania that would house up to 36,000 irregular migrants a year while their asylum applications are processed by Italy. Series…

In late February 2022, Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, starting a war that, three years later, has become one of deadliest and most destructive in the 21st century. Ukrainians and neighboring states and allies have watched in horror as the war unfolded. But there are surprisingly few universally agreed upon figures for the full extent of destruction. The number of civilians killed has most likely been underreported in the broad range of death toll estimates, and what official information the governments of Ukraine and Russia have released has been difficult to independently verify in the chaotic conditions of the war. DW has surveyed data…