Joe Bonamassa announces UK arena tour for 2023

A woman who spent a long-haul flight being tormented a child sitting behind her was left gobsmacked when the youngster's mum complained about her. The passenger and her partner had been hoping to catch up on their sleep during the overnight flight - but quickly realised this was going to be difficult due to the toddler seated in the row behind.

Gutted Alex Mitchell confessed he has never experienced such an emotional game of football in his life after St Johnstone’s rollercoaster ride against Celtic.

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of using "dangerous language" as she took a swipe at the Conservatives.

Following his exit from the popular soap Eastenders, Danny Dyer is set to present a Channel 4 show that sees celebs denied light for days on end. Back in January, Danny revealed that he would be leaving the fictional borough of Walford after playing Queen Vic landlord Mick Carter for a glorious nine years. Many fans wondered what would be next for the 45 year old actor after previous roles in films The Football Factory, The Business and Human Traffic.

A Georgia K9 deputy uncovered more than $172,000 worth of fentanyl tablets shipped from California.  The discovery, made during a routine check at a Gainesville package delivery hub last week, was the first package that has been found containing fentanyl in Hall County, located about 55 miles from Atlanta.  The Hall County Sheriff’s Office and the Homeland Security Investigations Task Force seized the shipment of fentanyl tablets, which was worth approximately $172,500. The check was conducted Thursday, with the use of an HCSO narcotics detection K9, the sheriff’s office said in a news release Friday, and shared a photo of the blue pills packaged in plastic.  Georgia drug agents discovered $172K worth of fentanyl tablets at a Hall County delivery hub.  (Hall County Sheriff's Office) The K9 was taking part in an open-air search of packages arriving at the delivery hub when he alerted on a package from California being shipped to Oakwood, the sheriff’s office said.  Drug agents found the fentanyl, weighing about 575 grams, in a package concealed inside the original box.The investigation into the identities of the sender and the recipient of the package continues.

A Nashville man has been charged with homicide after a 52-year-old man he brutally beat with a metal pipe died of his injuries, authorities said Friday. Bryan Rebenstorf, 45, is accused of striking Jerry Muller with the pipe multiple times underneath a pedestrian bridge on 2nd Avenue North in downtown Nashville on Monday night, the Metro Nashville Police Department said.

WILLOW made her solo Saturday Night Live debut last night (October 8) and delivered a punishing two-song set – watch ‘Curious/Furious’ and ‘Ur A Stranger’ below.Fresh from releasing fifth album ‘COPINGMECHANISM’, WILLOW appeared on Saturday Night Live for a guitar-heavy performance.First track ‘Curious/Furious’ blended her soulful vocals with jangly indie melodies while ‘Ur A Stranger’ was a full-blown metal assault, complete with powerful screams and a broken TV.Check both performances out below. WILLOW previously appeared on SNL earlier this year, as a special guest during Camila Cabello’s performance where the pair aired their ‘Psychofreak’ collab.Speaking about it with Zane Lowe earlier this week, Willow said (via Rolling Stone): “I’m nervous obviously, because being with Camila— a really, really good friend of mine — there’s that feeling of comfortability there where you can look across the stage and be like, ‘Girl, we’re in this together. We’re doing this.’ I’m not baring my soul alone on the stage.

James Bond’s veteran screenwriters have shared some of the secrets of writing 007’s memorable lines.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has said him running for President Of The United States Of America is currently “off the table”.Johnson has been speaking about becoming President since 2016. First he said he “wouldn’t rule it out” before saying he was seriously considering running for office in 2020.

Pavement have reflected on their latest reunion, saying they feel like “a tiger let out of the cage” now they’re back on the road.The indie legends initially announced a reunion tour in 2019, which was then delayed due to COVID and eventually kicked off in Los Angeles in May, where they played their first gig in nearly 12 years.After headlining Barcelona’s Primavera Sound the following month, the band are currently on a North American headlining run, and will play a host of UK shows later this month.Speaking to the BBC about the tour, percussionist Bob Nastanovich said: “The tour’s been great so far. I’m sort of like a tiger let out of the cage.

Stevie Nicks has featured on a new collaborative song to raise money for the Ukraine relief effort.The song, ‘Face To Face’, is part of the ‘Collaborate For Peace’ project from Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart, Russian musician Boris Grebenshchikov and Ukrainian Serhii Babkin. All proceeds will go to the Global United24 initiative from the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Nicks said in a statement: “Since the day the war began, I have carried Ukraine and its people in my heart. I am so honoured to sing on this song written by my friend Dave Stewart, Boris Grebenshchikov and Serhii Babkin.

When it comes to higher education, there is no shortage of scandals, but perhaps the biggest scandal is how colleges and universities drop academic standards to match the proficiency levels of today’s student population. When professors lower standards, we are diminishing the quality of education, cheapening our own profession, and betraying the core mission of academia — to transmit knowledge, foster critical thinking, and prepare students for the professional world that awaits them.

One adorable cat has traveled a very long way to find his forever home. Chaz, an all-white domestic shorthair cat, is currently up for adoption at King Street Cats in Alexandria, Virginia, after he was rescued in Kuwait. As a small kitten, Chaz was picked on by other cats — as discovered by a caretaker.  Chaz was brought to King Street Cats after spending a year with a rescuer — and was declared to be positive for FIV — feline immunodeficiency virus.  (HIV infects only humans, while FIV infects only cats.

Leish, who was matched with Farmer Ben, took to Instagram on Thursday with a FWAW update. 

Korean series Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Squid Game were the big winners at Busan International Film Festival’s Asia Contents Awards (ACAs), which featured a star-studded red carpet and welcomed back international guests for the first time since the event’s inaugural edition in 2019. Extraordinary Attorney Woo took the Best Content Award, the top prize of the ceremony, as well as Best Actress for Park Eun Bin, who heads the show in the role of a young female lawyer with autism. The series was broadcast in Korea on the ENA cable channel where it set the record for the highest ratings in the channel’s history. Netflix also started streaming the show in select territories from June, after which it topped the streamer’s non-English language weekly rankings for two months straight. Netflix’s Squid Game won the Technical Achievement Award and Best Supporting Actor for Park Haesoo, who plays the childhood friend of Lee Jung-jae’s main character in the Emmy award-winning series. Best Actor was presented to Suzuki Ryohei, star of Japanese series Mobile Emergency Room, which was broadcast on Japanese channel TBS and Disney+, while Best Supporting Actress went to Sora Ma of Singaporean series This Land Is Mine. Best Newcomer went to actress Bao Shang En for Chinese show Love Behind The Melody and actor Yokohama Ryusei for Japan’s The Journalist. China’s Wang Xiaoshuai (So Long, My Son) and Yang Yishu were awarded Best Writer for Wang’s first foray into drama series, The Pavilion, produced by Chinese streamer iQiyi. Chinese actress Fan Bingbing was awarded the ACA Excellence Award.

The state broadcaster of Iran appeared to be hacked on air this weekend, including a news bulletin being interrupted with a protest.

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Love Island's Paige Thorne appeared to be in good spirits as she enjoyed a night out with her fellow Islanders despite rumours she had split with Adam Collard. Paige, 24, enjoyed a night out at Menagerie bar and restaurant in Manchester on Saturday and was joined by Tasha Ghouri, Andrew Le Page, Antigoni Buxton and Danica Taylor.The group showed off their tightknit bond as they dined out and then partied away with Paige appearing to put any relationship woes behind her as she danced for the camera. Paige effortlessly turned heads in a black blazer-style mini dress with a plunging neckline.The Welsh beauty also donned a pair of black ankle boots and carried a matching handbag.

The victims of a California kidnapping and murder scheme were Punjabi immigrants who came to the United States and "worked tirelessly for 18 years to achieve safety, security, and community for themselves and their families," a new GoFundMe for the family states. "This is the story of our shared American dream gone wrong," Jaspreet Kaur, who organized the GoFundMe for her family, states. "[O]ur loving family was violently taken away from us on October 3rd.

A Texas A&M student was arrested Saturday morning in connection with a wave of vandalism at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station.

 The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman on a movie pitch that involves filming in space, which was first tabled in 2020 before the Covid-19 pandemic halted plans.Cruise and Liman are said to have reached out to Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) on an idea which will see the actor take a rocket up to the International Space Station.“I think Tom Cruise is taking us to space, he’s taking the world to space,” UFEG Chairman Donna Langley said, per BBC News.“That’s the plan.