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In a now-viral clip from the E4 show, the rugby star was shocked to learn that his date had appeared on the hit show Supernanny when she was a child.

Amidst the rubble of this Government, the challengers for the Labour leadership see an opportunity.

Director-general Matt Brittin takes charge at the corporation after ex director of news and current affairs Fran Unsworth said she felt forced out.

Thousands of desperate shoppers camped outside stores for days in the hope of securing one of the £335 'Royal Pop' watches.

In a Sunday Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump unleashed his latest threat to the Iranian regime.

Iran's government "wants to charge the world's largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz," reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran's state-linked media outlets "have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don't pay." Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab countries to Europe and Asia. "We will impose fees on internet cables," Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari declared on X last week. Iran's Revolutionary Guards-linked media said Tehran's plan to extract revenue from the strait would require companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon to comply with Iranian law while submarine cable companies would be required to pay licensing fees for cable passage, with repair and maintenance rights given exclusively to Iranian firms. Some of these companies have invested in the cables running through the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, but it's unclear if those cables traverse Iranian waters. It's also unclear how the regime could force tech giants to comply, as they are barred from making payments to Iran due to strict US sanctions; as a result, the companies themselves may view Iran's statements as posturing rather than serious policy. Still, state-affiliated media outlets have issued veiled threats warning of damage to cables that could impact some of the trillions of dollars in global data transmission and affect worldwide internet connectivity... Iran's threats are part of a strategy to demonstrate its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and ensure the survival of the regime, a core objective for the Islamic Republic in this war, said Dina Esfandiary, Middle East lead at Bloomberg Economics. "It aims to impose such a hefty cost on the global economy that no-one will dare attack Iran again," she said. The article notes that subsea cables "carry vast internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf," and that targetting them "would affect far more than internet speeds, threatening everything from banking systems, military communications and AI cloud infrastructure to remote work, online gaming and streaming services." CNN spoke to Mostafa Ahmed, "a senior researcher at the United Arab Emirates-based Habtoor Research Center, who published a paper on the effects of a large-scale attack on submarine communications infrastructure in the Gulf." Armed with combat divers, small submarines, and underwater drones, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) poses a risk to underwater cables, Ahmed said, adding that any attack could trigger a cascading "digital catastrophe" across several continents. Iran's neighbors across the Persian Gulf could face severe disruptions to internet connection, potentially impacting critical oil and gas exports as well as banking. Beyond the region, India could see a large proportion of its internet traffic affected, threatening its huge outsourcing industry with losses amounting to billions, according to Ahmed... Any disruption could also slow financial trading and cross-border transactions between Europe and Asia, while parts of East Africa could face internet blackouts. And if Iran's proxies decide to employ similar tactics in the Red Sea, the damage could be far worse.

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They have been charged by police

On Saturday the star shared fears that her spouse had 'been kidnapped' and claimed he was 'detained in a van with his hands tied' after his disappearance.

Haters are gonna hate the fact Bobby Prince's demonic dirges rank with Taylor Swift's 1989

The Scottish actor and comedian died aged 99 in Denville Hall, a north London care home for entertainment figures, in December.

Classified intelligence revealed that officials in the country have talked about hitting the US base and Key West, just 90 miles north of Havana.

Sian Welby has detailed the pressure of being a female breadwinner as she praised her fiancé Jake Beckett for always giving his 'support'.

Afrim Sinani, 54, was seen prowling a bustling high street last week and has been traced to a suburban address. His new neighbours are probably oblivious to his vicious past.

There's a moment in her new Netflix documentary series where a tearful Kylie Minogue discusses her greatest love.

Venezuela, 16, tied the knot with boxer Noah Price, 19, at the Victorian Royal Chapel of St John's on the Isle of Man, wearing a lace gown.

The daughter of Tyson and Paris Fury tied the knot with boxer Noah, 19, at the Victorian Royal Chapel of St John's on the Isle of Man on Saturday, wearing a lace gown with a 50ft-long train.

After being photographed 'in the running' for the Labour leadership on Friday, fitness fan Andy Burnham insisted to sceptics that he had not arranged for his daily jog to be filmed by the media.

The BBC stars announced their shock split after 22 years of marriage last Friday in a joint statement posted on Instagram, insisting they 'amicably' decided to part ways.

Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting - the frontrunners to take over from Keir Starmer - said Britain's future was as part of the bloc.

Essex Police searched the area for around an hour