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Trudie Styler attends the U.K. premiere of “Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples” in London on Jan. 21, 2025.Dave Benett | Getty Images | Disney+When Trudie Styler was growing up in 1960s working-class England, her family expected her to become a typist at a paintbrush factory.But life turned out rather more grandly: Going to a good high school meant Styler “started to dream much bigger,” she told CNBC by video call. She trained as an actress, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and met — and then married — Gordon Sumner, better known as rock star Sting. The couple have homes…

The parents of a newborn girl who died after childbirth complications at the Northern Beaches Hospital have described their overwhelming grief.

MANILA: The Philippines’ ambassador to Washington said on Monday (Mar 3) he was “confident” the two countries’ military ties would remain strong under the Donald Trump administration, while also acknowledging the unravelling of the US-Ukraine relationship. China and the Philippines have been involved in increasingly tense confrontations over reefs and waters in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims in almost its entirety despite a Hague ruling that its assertion has no basis. Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez said he believed that US backing in the disputed waterway and military assistance would continue, pointing to a US$336 million exemption granted amid a…

When the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas was announced in January, Israelis and Palestinians burst into simultaneous celebrations, optimistic after 15 months of war.Now, with the first phase of the deal over on Sunday and Israel introducing an entirely new proposal that Hamas has already rejected, concern is rising that the fighting that reduced Gaza to rubble, killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and threatened the lives of hostages could resume.As the cease-fire teeters, both Hamas and Israel are pursuing two paths, one diplomatic and another military.On the diplomatic front, Hamas is insisting on the implementation of the second…

FIRST ON FOX: A House GOP lawmaker is unveiling legislation on Monday to memorialize President Donald Trump on U.S. currency.Rep. Brandon Gill, R-TX, told Fox News Digital he would be introducing a bill to put Trump’s likeness on the $100 note after his current term.”President Trump could be enjoying his golden years golfing and spending time with his family,” Gill said. “Instead, he took a bullet for this country and is now working overtime to secure our border, fix our uneven trade relationship with the rest of the world, make America energy independent again and put America first by ending…

A 3.9-magnitude earthquake caused mild shaking in and near the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles late Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.The quake struck after 10 p.m. local time in Burbank, a city in Los Angeles County, at a depth of about nine miles. Little to no damage was expected, the agency said on its website.The epicenter was just over a mile east-southeast of North Hollywood, and a few miles north of the Dolby Theater, the venue for the Academy Awards on Sunday night.It has been more than three decades since California suffered a catastrophic earthquake. Scientists say this…

The deadline to contribute in a registered retirement savings plan is on Monday. Canadians have until March 3 to make any RRSP contributions count towards deductions for the 2024 tax year.Any money set aside in an RRSP after that date can only be claimed in a tax refund next year.Money that goes into an RRSP is exempt from being taxed until it is taken out, so it is essentially the government’s way of incentivizing people to save for retirement by reducing their taxable income, said Gerry Vittoratos, national tax specialist at UFile Canada.“The immediate reward that you get from contributing…

More than 20 people were charged with drug possession at a weekend music festival that took part in a landmark NSW government-backed trial of pill testing.The two-day Yours and Owls music festival in Wollongong was the first of 12 festivals to have the NSW Health-run service as part of a controversial year-long pilot program.The Minns government announced in December it would allow the trial of pill-testing at music festivals – a practice some other states have adopted – from early 2025.Officers said they would keep a highly visible presence, including sniffer dogs, at the festival, except in or around the…

BANGKOK: Thailand is studying the idea of building a wall on part of its border with Cambodia to prevent illegal crossings, its government said on Monday (Mar 3), as a multi-national effort to dismantle a sprawling network of illicit scam centres mounts.   The crackdown is widening against scam centres responsible for carrying out massive financial fraud out of Southeast Asia, especially those on Thailand’s porous borders with Myanmar and Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people have been trafficked by criminal gangs in recent years, according to the United Nations. At the weekend, Thai police received 119 Thai nationals from Cambodian…

Watch the moment No Other Land, a Palestinian-Israeli film, won the Oscar for best documentary.