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Ncuti Gatwa paid tribute to the trans community in a surprise Glastonbury appearance on Saturday as he took to the stage to introduce Jade Thirlwall ahead of her solo debut. 

On the International Space Station, air has been slowly leaking out for years from a Russia-controlled module, reports CNN. But recently "station operators realized the gradual, steady leak had stopped. And that raised an even larger concern." It's possible that efforts to seal cracks in the module's exterior wall have worked, and the patches are finally trapping air as intended. But, according to NASA, engineers are also concerned that the module is actually holding a stable pressure because a new leak may have formed on an interior wall — causing air from the rest of the orbiting laboratory to begin rushing into the damaged area. Essentially, space station operators are worried that the entire station is beginning to lose air. Much about this issue is unknown. NASA revealed the concerns in a June 14 statement. The agency said it would delay the launch of the private Ax-4 mission, carried out by SpaceX and Houston-based company Axiom Space, as station operators worked to pinpoint the problem. "By changing pressure in the transfer tunnel and monitoring over time, teams are evaluating the condition of the transfer tunnel and the hatch seal," the statement read. More than a week later, the results of that research are not totally clear. After revealing the new Wednesday launch target Monday night, NASA said in a Tuesday statement that it worked with Roscosmos officials to investigate the issue. The space agencies agreed to lower the pressure in the transfer tunnel, and "teams will continue to evaluate going forward," according to the statement... The cracks are minuscule and mostly invisible to the naked eye, hence the difficulty attempting to patch problem areas. Axiom Space launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday. But its four-person crew had previously "remained locked in quarantine in Florida for about a month, waiting for their chance to launch," notes CNN, as NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos "attempted to sort through" the leak issue.

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Police and ambulance crews are at scene of a 'serious incident' in an Essex park

Police and ambulance crews are at scene of a 'serious incident' in an Essex park

When Loretta Basey married Nat Rothschild, heir to the banking dynasty, in 2016, she not only captivated society but raised eyebrows after it emerged she was a former glamour model.

The boxer, 26, was spotted on the rare outing without former fiancée Molly-Mae Hague , also 26, who he met on Love Island in 2019 and split from last year, before reconciling.

John Travolta gave fans some 'chills' when he made a surprise appearance at a Grease sing-along in Los Angeles Friday night.

Homeless Brits, Spaniards and Albanians have had no choice but to live in the makeshift commune after Brexit and a surge in BnB-style properties priced them out of their homes.

If you've ever noticed an ashtray in an airplane bathroom and wondered why it's still there despite the no smoking signs lighting up all around you - you're not alone.

Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt has found himself embroiled in controversy this week after footage emerged of him throwing a plastic chair at a woman.

Lily Allen appeared to be in good spirits as she stepped out with her stylist friend Marco Capaldo at Glastonbury on Saturday morning.

Bloomberg reports: By the time Jessica Lindsey's customers accuse her of being an AI, they are often already shouting. For the past two years, her work as a call center agent for outsourcing company Concentrix has been punctuated by people at the other end of the phone demanding to speak to a real human. Sometimes they ask her straight, 'Are you an AI?' Other times they just start yelling commands: 'Speak to a representative! Speak to a representative...!' Skeptical customers are already frustrated from dealing with the automated system that triages calls before they reach a person. So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine. "They just end up yelling at me and hanging up," she said, leaving Lindsey sitting in her home office in Oklahoma, shocked and sometimes in tears. "Like, I can't believe I just got cut down at 9:30 in the morning because they had to deal with the AI before they got to me...." In Australia, Canada, Greece and the US, call center agents say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI. These people, who spend hours talking to strangers, are experiencing surreal conversations, where customers ask them to prove they are not machines... [Seth, a US-based Concentrix worker] said he is asked if he's AI roughly once a week. In April, one customer quizzed him for around 20 minutes about whether he was a machine. The caller asked about his hobbies, about how he liked to go fishing when not at work, and what kind of fishing rod he used. "[It was as if she wanted] to see if I glitched," he said. "At one point, I felt like she was an AI trying to learn how to be human...." Sarah, who works in benefits fraud-prevention for the US government — and asked to use a pseudonym for fear of being reprimanded for talking to the media — said she is mistaken for AI between three or four times every month... Sarah tries to change her inflections and tone of voice to sound more human. But she's also discovered another point of differentiation with the machines. "Whenever I run into the AI, it just lets you talk, it doesn't cut you off," said Sarah, who is based in Texas. So when customers start to shout, she now tries to interrupt them. "I say: 'Ma'am (or Sir). I am a real person. I'm sitting in an office in the southern US. I was born.'"

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She's brushed shoulders with the great and good of English football including Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard and John Terry - and even shared a recent snap with Jude and Jobe Bellingham.

Raziq Ali, 41, was given the green light to replace a modest garage to the side of his £350,000 detached home near Bradford but constructed what has been described as a full-blown 'detached dwelling'.

An elderly SNP politician has been arrested and charged with drug offences after police discovered a massive cannabis farm worth half-a-million pounds at a country property.

Lalo Schifrin died inside his Los Angeles home on Thursday from complications with pneumonia , his son, Ryan, confirmed. He was surrounded by his loved on

EXCLUSIVE: In order to maintain order, Glastonbury employs an army of security guards over the course of the event who patrol the huge perimeter.

'My skin has been transformed, it really works on the deeper layers'

The footage released by Ukrainian military shows a projectile tearing through the 240mm calibre multiple rocket launcher (MLRS), known as the M1991, in the village of Novopavlivka.

Donald Trump plans to visit Scotland next month for the first time since his victory in the US election, MailOnline can reveal.