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On Saturday, it was revealed the veteran presenter, 66, was blue-lighted to hospital this week and is now recovering on a ward.

Chris Pleasance breaks down the military options available to America for seizing the Strait of Hormuz by force and why each would come at a devastating price.

Honda is bringing a tiny city EV to the UK this summer and it will cost around £20k. Inspired by Japan's 'Kei' cars it offers fun, city driving for a bargain price.

It sees thousands of visitors each year

An Aintree punter with deep pockets is now an awful lot richer after I Am Maximus's Grand National victory.

Roan was heaped with opprobrium over allegations that a member of her protection team 'aggressively' confronted Jude Law's 11-year-old daughter Ava.

175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system "Pix", developed by the country's central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant payments. Latin America has been able to build up sleek and effective payment systems in record time because it is not held back by legacy payment technology that isn't built for instant money movement. In the likes of the U.K., U.S. and Europe, payment systems are built on infrastructure that is often decades old. The process of building new systems is therefore incredibly operationally complex. Money must continue moving, so these systems can't just be "switched off." Emerging markets, such as those in Latin America, did not have to contend with legacy technology on the same scale. Many of these communities were cash dominant until recently, due to the high fees associated with card usage and the lack of banking infrastructure in rural regions. However, while many people didn't have a local bank on their corner, they did have mobile phones... Through these digital channels, money moves instantly, via account-to-account transfers, QR codes and mobile wallets... Beyond this, real-time and traceable digital payments generate valuable cash-flow data that can transform credit underwriting for small and medium-size businesses, or SMEs. Historically, many SMEs in emerging and cash-reliant markets have struggled to access credit due to a lack of documented transaction histories, audited accounts or formal credit records... Mexico is now poised to be the next success story. In Mexico, a third of people are unbanked, but 96% of the population owns a mobile phone. This creates the perfect launchpad for a digital-first payment system that can reach those historically excluded from traditional banking systems. In fact, something already changed in 2025. Bloomberg reports that for the first time, digital payment transfers in the U.S.-to-Mexico remittance corridor exceeded cash transfers (with physical pickup locations like Western Union), according to Mexico's central bank. It's part of a Latin American market "worth more than $160 billion a year, roughly $62 billion of which goes to Mexico." And Mexico's digitalization efforts will continue, according to the country's president, who said at a March banking conference that digital payments will now be encouraged for gasoline and tolls.

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This pretty village in Essex home to "gourmet pubs" and a "cool coffee shop" has been named one of the poshest in the country - here's why.

A Braintree man has denied supplying drugs and having counterfeit money.

A council leader has said we need to “build communities, not just housing” as plans are proposed to build thousands of homes across the district.

This pretty village in Essex home to "gourmet pubs" and a "cool coffee shop" has been named one of the poshest in the country - here's why.

This year's Revolve Festival was headlined by Don Toliver along with music producer Mustard.

The moment sparked wild celebrations on the course and Lowry's playing partner, Tommy Fleetwood, embraced his Ryder Cup teammate.

Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 "wagering" misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge "temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators," reports the Associated Press, "and put the brakes on a criminal wagering case that the state has filed against Kalshi. "U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi's ruling means a Monday arraignment hearing for Kalshi has been called off." The order was issued in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration. The judge's order said the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission had sufficiently shown that "event contracts" fall within the Commodity Exchange Act's definition of "swaps," and that it had demonstrated a reasonable chance of success in showing that the act preempts Arizona law... The commission had sued Arizona in response to cease-and-desist letters sent to Kalshi from state gambling regulators and the criminal charges filed against the prediction market operator. The commission argued Arizona is intruding on its exclusive federal power to regulate national swaps markets... Earlier this month, the federal government filed lawsuits against Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois challenging their efforts to regulate prediction market operators. The Trump administration has so far backed the platforms. President Donald Trump's eldest son is an adviser for both Kalshi and Polymarket and an investor in the latter. Trump's social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict. Federal and state judges in Nevada and Massachusetts have now issued early rulings in favor of states looking to ban Kalshi and its competitor Polymarket from offering sports being in their states, according to the article, "while federal judges in New Jersey and Tennessee have ruled in favor of Kalshi." And Arizona's attorney general's office said it disagrees with the court's ruling and "will evaluate our next steps."

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When Lily Collins appeared with a design in a similar place over the weekend, some may have assumed she took inspiration from her fellow actress.

Fans lambasted the sassy 26-year-old singer as 'rude' and 'ignorant' and 'mean,' and even 'nasty'

Research links ultra-processed food to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or enlarged prostate, which affects three million men in the UK.

A growing number of celebrities are getting ducks, including Stacey Solomon, 36, who recently introduced her Instagram followers to two new additions: Daisy and Delilah Solomon-Swash.

New food standards for schools in England will introduce a ban on deep fried foods from September 2027 as ministers seek to curb the UK's childhood obesity crisis.