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Putin ‘ripped out deer’s heart and gave it to world leader’ | World | News

Putin ‘ripped out deer’s heart and gave it to world leader’ | World | News

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Russian President Vladimir Putin cut out the heart of a deer and gave it to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it has been claimed. A close ally of Berlusconi, who died in June last year, said the incident happened in 2013 when Putin took his Italian counterpart on a hunting trip near one of his dachas. Fabrizio Cicchitto, a former senator from Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, told the newspaper Corriere della Sera Sunday: “Vladimir showed me a violent nature that I didn’t imagine in such a kind and rational man.” Putin and Berlusconi reportedly had a close relationship when they were leaders of their respective countries. Berlusconi even backed Putin after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. When the former Italian leader died last year, Putin called him a “true friend.” READ MORE: Putin reeling after Ukrainians unleash bloody chaos with car bombings Cicchitto claimed that Berlusconi went hunting with Putin despite having never even touched a rifle before. Putin supposedly pointed to a deer and told Berlusconi: “That’s yours. Shoot.” Berlusconi refused to …

‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’: actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers | Josh O’Connor

‘I love work but I also love tending to my plants’: actor Josh O’Connor on gardening, reluctant stardom and getting ripped for Challengers | Josh O’Connor

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What makes a movie star? Josh O’Connor, the 33-year-old British actor best known until, well, last week as the thin-skinned, tight-lipped Prince Charles in seasons three and four of The Crown, has been mulling over this question of late. Earlier this year he completed a drama set in the first world war called The History of Sound, with Paul Mescal. “Paul’s a friend, and to watch him work was amazing,” says O’Connor. “I really can’t underplay how brilliant he is. Paul has that movie-star quality, whatever that is. I wish I could articulate it, but he’s just graceful about it all.” Zendaya is another one. O’Connor is currently in cinemas alongside her in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s critically acclaimed psychosexual tennis romp, which topped the box offices in both the UK and US last weekend. They play two sides of a lascivious love triangle, with Mike Faist as the third, but it is clear that Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan is the one pulling the strings. “I’ve never done premieres like I’ve done with Challengers,” says O’Connor. “So …

Sausage dog ripped off mum’s cheek and ate it in front of her

Sausage dog ripped off mum’s cheek and ate it in front of her

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A single mum who had part of her cheek ripped off when she was attacked without warning by a friend’s pet dachshund has said her “life has been ruined” and her self-esteem “absolutely destroyed” by the scar the dog left behind. Kelly Allen, 45, from Swansea, was enjoying a few drinks at a friend’s house last month when their “very friendly” dog suddenly changed its demeanour and latched on to her face. The dog refused to loosen its grip until it had torn a large chunk of her cheek off to eat it, leaving Kelly with an open wound that required five-and-a-half hours of plastic surgery and more than 40 stitches. The sausage dog was removed from the property by police and later put down. Kelly is seeking compensation after learning that the dog had allegedly already attacked two people, but this could take several years. The ordeal still haunts Kelly, who regularly wakes during the night crying and cannot face returning to work at a contact centre for the travel company Tui due to …

Meghan Markle acting return ripped apart by expert | Royal | News

Meghan Markle acting return ripped apart by expert | Royal | News

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Meghan Markle’s career as an actress has likely been killed by the notoriety she has gained as the Duchess of Sussex, according to an expert. Following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to quit their senior royal roles and their relocation to California, speculation swirled over a possible return to acting by Meghan. In late 2020, the Sussexes launched their productions company, Archewell Productions, and have since announced a series of fiction and non-fiction programmes, in some of which the Duchess is to play the role of executive producer. But a return for Meghan in front of the camera has been ruled out by Channel 5’s royal correspondent Simon Vigar. Speaking to The Sun’s royal correspondent Matt Wilkinson about Meghan’s media career, Mr Vigar said: “I think the media career, or relighting the screen career as an actress, I think that’s a long shot, because you can never see her as a character now, you are going to see Meghan, the Duchess, so that’s difficult. “How can you believe that she is anybody else …

Prince Harry security demand ripped apart as he ‘abandoned our nation’ | Royal | News

Prince Harry security demand ripped apart as he ‘abandoned our nation’ | Royal | News

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Senior Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski has criticised Prince Harry for costing UK taxpayers over £500,000 in his High Court case against the Home Office. The MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham said Harry and his wife Meghan Markle had “abandoned our nation” when they stepped down as working royals in 2020, later moving to California. In February 2020 the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) ruled that they would not offer Harry security while in the UK as his status as a non-working royal made him exempt, a decision Harry tried to overturn but failed to do so this year. A Freedom of Information request found that the Duke of Sussex spent £180,000 of taxpayer cash on barristers, £230,000 on Government Legal Department costs, £2,300 in court costs and almost £10,000 on an e-disclosure. Speaking to GB News, Mr Kawczynski said: “I believe we should review whether taxpayers’ money from hard-working families should be afforded for them [Harry and Meghan] which it still continues to be.” The Duke has spoken out against …

It’s daylight e-robbery: how entrepreneurs feel powerless as their work is ripped off | Online shopping

It’s daylight e-robbery: how entrepreneurs feel powerless as their work is ripped off | Online shopping

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After years of dealing with mental health issues, Kelly Robinson-Key found writing poetry helped her through the dark times. From there has emerged a cottage industry based around her inspirational “pocket poems”. But now the Wales-based poet has found herself “mentally drained” from fighting waves of counterfeit products that have copied her work, and are frequently for sale on some of the biggest online marketplaces. Robinson-Key, known as Kelly The Poet, estimates she may have lost thousands of pounds in sales because of poor quality copies. “I am exhausted – I never rest as I am either looking after my children, or working on my business. I am mentally drained from … chasing sales I know I cannot fight,” she says. She is one of the many small businesses affected by the prolific and growing problem of counterfeiting, where companies, frequently based abroad, lift an original idea and sell their own version. More typically associated with designer handbags, or knock-off jeans, the problem is much wider than that. Fake perfumes have posed health risks, while …

Most uncomfortable gowns worn at the 2024 Oscars: Margot Robbie’s corset, Emma Stone’s ripped dress, more

Most uncomfortable gowns worn at the 2024 Oscars: Margot Robbie’s corset, Emma Stone’s ripped dress, more

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The 96th Academy Awards saw a fleet of A-listers descend onto the red carpet at the Los Angeles Dolby Theatre on Sunday night.  With Hollywood’s biggest night also comes the opportunity for sartorial sorcery, and the star-studded guests at the Oscars did not disappoint. Historically, awards season has spurred on some of fashion’s most outrageous red carpet moments ever.  WATCH: Fashion highlights from the Oscars 2024 At the Oscars in 2001, Icelandic singer Bjork graced the awards in a tulle swan dress and proceeded to ‘lay’ six eggs onto the carpet. In 2013, Jennifer Lawrence turned heads in a billowing Dior gown that was so heavy it caused her to trip up the stairs while picking up her award. This year, there was no shortage of impossibly high heels, body-distorting corsets and fashion faux pas at the Oscars. From Emma Stone’s ripped Louis Vuitton gown to Margot Robbie’s breathtaking (literally) corseted bodysuit, see the most outrageous looks from the Academy Awards. Emily Blunt’s structured Schiaparelli gown © Mike Coppola Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt opted for …

Dakota Johnson Reacts To Madame Web Being ‘Ripped To Shreds’

Dakota Johnson Reacts To Madame Web Being ‘Ripped To Shreds’

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Forget the Glasgow “Willy Wonka” experience and Ryan Gosling at awards season – the viral moment of 2024 that’s closest to our hearts is undoubtedly Dakota Johnson’s Madame Web press tour. While promoting her new film, Dakota has been totally honest and shot from the hip in her own inimitable style throughout – leading to plenty of attention-grabbing moments… including from us: And during a new interview with Bustle, the former Fifty Shades Of Grey star was every bit as candid when it came to the negative reception her latest film has received. “It’s hard for me to fake it. It’s hard for me sometimes to go along with the silliness of doing a press tour,” Dakota began, noting she “can’t take any of it seriously at all”. Asked whether she was “bothered” by some of the “nasty reviews” of Madame Web, she responded: “Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has.” Dakota Johnson in her latest film Madame Web Dakota continued: “It’s so hard to get movies made, and …

Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off

Cybertruck Crashes, Entire Wheel Ripped Off

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At least the hotel’s sign is fine. Stop Sign Another day, another Cybertruck mishap — and this one crashed into the Beverly Hills Hotel sign. Images from the collision show the futuristic steel-silver pickup stopped headfirst at the base of the palm-lined sign. It appears that the front right wheel was ripped clean off, while the driver-side wheel was close to joining it. While the iconic signage was fortunately unharmed in the incident, the reputation of the hotel’s valets took something of a hit after a prankster decided to “joke” that one of the hotel’s valets had been driving the Cybertruck when it crashed. Naturally, TMZ and others ran with the valet story, and Elon Musk himself weighed in on the platform he owns to suggest that the misidentified hotel worker who crashed the vehicle might have been caught off guard by its raw power. “Cyberbeast is faster than a Porsche 911, but looks like a truck,” Musk tweeted, “so perhaps the valet wasn’t expecting so much acceleration.” But the hotel’s parent company, the Dorchester Collection, …

An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs

An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs

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Today in AI ouroboros vertigo: our reporting about AI rip-offs was ripped off by a spammy AI site. In November, we published a story revealing that the legacy American magazine Sports Illustrated had published articles bylined by fake, AI-generated authors. Afterward, on a platform dubbed “Toolify.ai,” an outfit called “Curiosity” published two separate AI-generated articles — one titled “The Controversy of AI-Generated Authors: Sports Illustrated’s Shocking Revelation,” the other titled “The Scandal Unveiled: AI-Generated Authors Exposed in Sports Illustrated” — rehashing our report’s findings without credit. “This article delves into the controversy surrounding AI-generated authors and explores the case of Sports Illustrated, a renowned magazine,” reads one of the posts, “where AI-generated authors were published without disclosure or acknowledgment.” The creators of these articles even threw in an accompanying YouTube video in which a tinny, seemingly AI-generated voice reads our reporting word-for-word. (The YouTube account is just a plagiarism engine that’s verbatim-copied many Futurism articles.) And speaking of publishing things without disclosure or acknowledgment: Futurism is never named nor linked to in either article. We are mentioned …