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Luisa Zissman has revealed she paid her 16-year-old daughter Dixie £2,750 after promising her cash incentives for achieving strong GCSE grades. The former Apprentice star discussed the results on LuAnna: The Podcast, explaining that she had offered £1,500 for a grade nine, £1,000 for an eight, £500 for a seven and £250 for a six. Dixie achieved grades six and seven across her exams, earning the full £2,750 under the deal. Zissman said her daughter had also been one mark away from an eight, while two of her sixes were within two marks of a seven and had been sent…

Nottingham Forest defender Zach Abbott is undergoing a medical at Southampton as the clubs work towards a season-long loan move for the England Under-20 international. The proposed agreement is understood to include an option for Southampton to buy the 20-year-old next summer. Abbott’s move to the Saints would give him the opportunity to secure regular first-team football in the Championship. Southampton have been seeking defensive reinforcements after Taylor Harwood-Bellis moved closer to a transfer to Aston Villa. The club moved ahead of interest from several Championship rivals, including Millwall and Watford. Abbott has made 13 appearances for Forest’s first team,…

Nepal’s devastating flash floods have exposed the widening divide between countries bearing the brunt of climate change and governments still reluctant to accept responsibility for the crisis, after Australia’s prime minister declined to say whether the world shared blame for the disaster. Anthony Albanese was speaking in Palau on Tuesday, September 1, where he is attending the Pacific Islands Forum, when he was asked whether the international community had failed Nepal by not doing enough to curb global warming. “There will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here,” Mr Albanese said. “My thoughts are solely focused,…

A 75-year-old charity worker was chased through a Melbourne street by a man allegedly wielding a cricket bat after an attempted robbery at a Salvation Army store in Mentone. Footage shows the elderly man being pursued following the incident on Florence Street shortly after 6pm on Monday, August 31, Victoria Police said. Police allege a 30-year-old man had been stealing from a charity bin when he was confronted by the 75-year-old. The younger man is accused of taking a cricket bat from the bin and assaulting him. It is further alleged that the man threatened the victim and demanded his…

Rita Ora has shared a series of holiday photographs in which she models a tiny silver sequin bikini while enjoying a summer break in Ibiza. The singer posed on board a yacht in the shimmering two-piece, pairing the look with dark sunglasses, jewellery and a green headscarf. Further images showed her swimming and snorkelling in the Mediterranean. Ora also appeared in a strapless black bikini in one of the photographs, as she relaxed with friends during the sun-soaked getaway. Her husband, filmmaker Taika Waititi, was among those on the yacht, alongside model Lady Mary Charteris and her family. The photographs…

Ethan Nwaneri is set to leave Arsenal for Borussia Dortmund on a season-long loan after the clubs reached a verbal agreement on transfer deadline day. Fabrizio Romano reported that the 19-year-old had approved the move overnight, with the Bundesliga club agreeing to cover his wages for the duration of the 2026-27 campaign. The deal is understood to contain no option or obligation for Dortmund to sign him permanently. ([football365.com](https://www.football365.com/news/arsenal-transfer-romano-here-we-go-nwaneri-transfer-deadline-day?utm_source=openai)) Nwaneri is expected to travel to Germany for a medical before completing the formalities. The move therefore remains subject to the final stages of the transfer process, despite Romano’s “here we…

Former Australian prime minister John Howard has said he feels vindicated by his government’s handling of the Tampa asylum seeker crisis, 25 years after Australian troops stopped a Norwegian freighter carrying people rescued at sea from entering the country’s waters. The MV Tampa was carrying 433 asylum seekers, many of them Hazara Afghans, after rescuing them from the Indonesian fishing boat Palapa in the Indian Ocean in August 2001. The vessel later became the centre of a confrontation between Canberra and its captain, Arne Rinnan. Australian special forces boarded the ship on August 31 after the government refused permission for…

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that a collapse in the market for artificial intelligence investments could trigger a disorderly correction across global markets. In a letter sent to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on Monday, August 31, Mr Bailey said the combination of stretched AI valuations, rising borrowing and concentrated investment had increased the risk of a severe market shock. The letter was issued in his separate role as chairman of the Financial Stability Board, the international body responsible for monitoring threats to the global financial system. ([fsb.org](https://www.fsb.org/2026/08/fsb-chairs-letter-to-g20-finance-ministers-and-central-bank-governors-august-2026/?utm_source=openai)) Mr Bailey said markets were vulnerable to…

Actress Caroline Quentin has said she has turned her back on home ownership after downsizing from a six-bedroom farmhouse in Devon. The 66-year-old, best known for her role as Dorothy in Men Behaving Badly, now lives in rented accommodation with her husband, Sam Farmer, after deciding that a smaller home better suited their life. Quentin previously described the move as part of a gradual downsizing process following the departure of the couple’s two children, who have established homes of their own. In an interview published by The Telegraph in November 2024, she said she and Farmer had moved into a…

Two recently patched PaperCut zero-day vulnerabilities are being exploited to steal data from print-management servers, security researchers have warned. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, affect PaperCut NG and MF. When used together, they can allow an attacker to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution on an exposed server. PaperCut Software issued emergency updates on Thursday and Friday, alongside indicators of compromise intended to help organisations identify and block attacks. The company has not publicly attributed the campaign or detailed what attackers have done after gaining access. Threat intelligence firm Defused said it had detected exploitation in its…