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A clothing giveaway, pancake breakfast and raffle at Catholic Charities’ Tampa Hope site have offered practical support to about 200 people working to leave homelessness behind. The event was held on Saturday, 5 September, at the organisation’s East Tampa site on East 3rd Avenue, where residents were able to collect clothes and hygiene items while being connected with services intended to help them move towards stable housing. For Odell Reyes, the programme has marked a significant change after three years living on the streets. He has spent the past month at Tampa Hope, is now sober and is preparing to…

Australia’s under-16 social media restrictions have failed to remove many teenagers from the platforms they were intended to leave, according to broadcaster and author Madonna King, who interviewed 300 young people for her new book on the impact of screens. Ms King said children had routinely bypassed the rules by changing their dates of birth, creating new accounts or passing age-checking systems. She argued that the debate had focused too narrowly on social media while overlooking the wider effects of gaming, messaging services, artificial intelligence and other screen-based technologies. “Social media is only a tiny part of the screen pie,”…

Guyana has accepted six Cuban and Afghan nationals deported from the United States, becoming the latest country to take in migrants who are not its own citizens under the Trump administration’s third-country removal programme. The group arrived on Friday, September 4, after being vetted by Guyanese authorities and cleared as having no criminal backgrounds, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud told the Associated Press. He said they had been removed from the US primarily over immigration matters. The deportees will remain in Guyana while their immigration cases are assessed under an arrangement known as the Assisted Voluntary Return Programme. They could eventually…

Nicola Peltz Beckham accepted the Rising Star Award at the Kinéo Awards in Venice on Saturday night, paying tribute to her husband, Brooklyn Beckham, during her acceptance speech. The actress, screenwriter and producer received the honour at Casa Cinema Giovani on the Venice Lido as part of the 25th edition of the Kinéo Awards, held alongside the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Peltz Beckham, 31, has worked in film and television for around two decades, beginning her acting career as a child. Her credits include The Last Airbender, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Bates Motel. She has also moved into…

Married At First Sight UK star Holly Ditchfield has announced that her premature twin sons, Georgie and Marley, have died nine days after they were born. The boys were delivered on August 26 at 23 weeks and five days, almost four months before their due date. Georgie weighed 1lb 1oz, while Marley weighed 1lb 2oz. Ditchfield shared the news on Instagram, saying Georgie died on September 3 and Marley died in the early hours of September 4. She said both boys passed away in her and partner Aaron Summers’s arms. The reality star had previously described her sons as “little…

Ohio has become the latest US state to support digital driving licences and state identification cards in Google Wallet, allowing residents to store an electronic version of their ID on an Android phone. The expansion brings the number of participating states and territories to 12. Google Wallet state IDs are also available in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Puerto Rico. How to add an Ohio state ID to Google Wallet Users with a phone running Android 9 or later can open Google Wallet and tap the plus button beside “View more”. They…

Ben Chilwell scored Crystal Palace’s late winner against Fulham before appearing to answer a home supporter who called him a “Chelsea reject” at Craven Cottage. The full-back struck in the 77th minute to complete Palace’s 3-2 comeback on Saturday, September 5, after Fulham had twice taken the lead. Tyrick Mitchell scored twice for the visitors, while Josh King and César Palacios were on target for the hosts. ([uk.sports.yahoo.com](https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/ben-chilwell-scores-winner-crystal-160702276.html?utm_source=openai)) Chilwell had only been introduced as a substitute three minutes before finding the net, marking an immediate impact on his return to Crystal Palace. The victory was the club’s first of the…

Three members of the same family, including a 10-year-old boy, have been found dead with apparent gunshot wounds inside a burning home in Maywood, California. Firefighters and deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were called to the two-storey property in the 5000 block of East 61st Street at about 2.25am on Saturday, September 5. Smoke was seen coming from the building. After the fire had been extinguished, emergency crews searched the house and discovered the bodies of a man and woman in their late 40s and a boy aged about 10 in a bedroom. All three were pronounced…

Sum Yung Guys will bring its acclaimed South-East Asian menu to Crown Perth for a six-week residency from 17 September to 24 October 2026, with MasterChef Australia favourite Matt Sinclair leading the Sunshine Coast restaurant’s first pop-up in Western Australia. The Noosa institution will take over the former Bistro Guillaume space in the Crown Metropol lobby, serving lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Bookings are essential, with lunch available from midday to 2pm and evening sittings running until 9.30pm from Tuesday to Thursday and 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. ([crownperth.com.au](https://www.crownperth.com.au/restaurants/sum-yung-guys?utm_source=openai)) Guests can expect a menu built around bold, shareable…

The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed a new world map that shows Africa in a more accurate proportion, following a campaign by African governments and advocacy groups against what campaigners have called “cartographic colonialism”. The resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by members of the African Union, was approved on Friday by 164 countries. The United States voted against it, while Serbia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine abstained. It urges governments, schools, businesses and technology companies to consider replacing the traditional Mercator projection with the Equal Earth map, a design introduced in 2018 to represent continents closer to…