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Kate Ceberano has described turning down a role in Strictly Ballroom as the greatest missed opportunity of her career, as she returns to the stage for the Australian Made encore tour. The singer was approached by a young Baz Luhrmann in the early 1990s while she was immersed in flamenco, a dance form she had taken up as a child to explore her Filipina and Spanish heritage. She declined because she believed the film’s ballroom interpretation was not authentic flamenco. “To my absolute shame, I declined the offer to be part of Strictly Ballroom because I didn’t know what the…

Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt during his concert at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, weeks after rapper Macklemore was barred from performing at the venue following pro-Palestinian remarks. Bryan was performing the first of two shows at the stadium on Friday, with the second scheduled for Saturday night. Several members of his band also wore shirts carrying similar messages. The shirt worn by Bryan displayed the words “Free Palestine” alongside “An appeal to heaven” and a pine tree logo. The phrase “An appeal to heaven” dates back to the American Revolutionary War and appeared on Massachusetts’s official maritime flag…

Scotland’s NHS has paid more than half a billion pounds in compensation over the past decade following thousands of clinical negligence claims, including almost £100 million linked to birth injuries. The payouts have been made to patients affected by botched operations and inadequate care in hospitals and clinics across the country. Twelve of Scotland’s 14 health boards paid compensation to people injured through maternity and obstetric negligence. The cases included babies who developed cerebral palsy and mothers who died during childbirth. The figures have emerged as NHS Tayside faces the prospect of further claims from more than 200 patients who…

The US debt outlook is increasingly vulnerable to rising bond-market costs, Scope Ratings has warned after maintaining the country’s sovereign credit score at AA-. The Europe-based agency kept its outlook stable on Friday, but said persistent spending pressures and limited political willingness to pursue fiscal reform would push deficits higher. Its rating is three notches below the top grade and two levels below the AA+ ratings assigned by Moody’s, Fitch and S&P Global Ratings. Scope said the US retained significant strengths, including a powerful economy, the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, strong institutions such as the Federal Reserve,…

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz skipped Victoria Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week show, instead spending time together in the French capital as speculation about tensions within the family continued. The couple were seen kissing on the streets of Paris on Friday while out with friends. Brooklyn wore a white shirt and jacket, while Nicola paired black trousers with a cropped, furry jacket. Victoria’s show was attended by her husband, David Beckham, and their other children, Romeo, Cruz and Harper. Sharing a photograph from the family outing, David wrote: “We feel so lucky to be part of your beautiful night in a…

North Macedonia are scheduled to face Scotland in a UEFA Nations League Group B1 fixture on Saturday October 3, 2026. The match is due to kick off at 7.45pm at the Philip II Arena.

Tennessee’s prisons chief will step down this month following the failed execution of death-row inmate Christa Pike, after two doses of the lethal-injection drug pentobarbital failed to kill her. Governor Bill Lee announced on Saturday that Frank Strada, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Correction, had offered his resignation. The move comes as an independent review examines what happened during the execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Wednesday, September 30. Mr Strada said leaving was “in the best interest of Tennesseans” while the investigation proceeds. He added that he believed the department had acted in accordance with…

The co-pilot of a flydubai flight attempted to carry out a terrorist attack by attacking the captain with a crash axe during a flight to Israel, Emirati investigators have said. The incident occurred aboard Flight FZ1073 after it departed Dubai for Tel Aviv. Passengers reportedly overpowered the co-pilot, allowing two off-duty pilots on board to help stabilise the Boeing 737 MAX and make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. UAE Prosecutor General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said the early findings showed that the co-pilot had attacked the pilot inside the cockpit using an axe kept on the aircraft for emergencies.…

A plane carrying six people has gone missing while travelling from Bermuda to Boston, prompting a US Coast Guard search near Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Gulfstream aircraft, operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, was carrying out a medical evacuation from Bermuda when contact was lost early on Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Search launched near Nantucket Coast Guard crews began searching at about 6am, with teams from Cape Cod, Brant Point and William Sparling involved in the operation. Aircraft and boats are assisting in the search. FlightAware data indicated the plane descended to about 11,000ft from roughly 25,000ft shortly after…

Argentina’s new citizenship-by-investment programme is expected to become a status symbol among wealthy Americans, according to one of the consultants involved in its design. Nuri Katz, founder of Apex Capital Partners, said he expected the scheme to attract significant interest from high-net-worth individuals when applications open in the fourth quarter of 2026. “I expect that the Argentina program will become so popular with the American [high-net-worth individuals] that really wealthy Americans will be embarrassed if they do not have an Argentina passport,” Katz said. How Argentina’s citizenship-by-investment programme will work The programme was announced by Economy Minister Luis Caputo in…