8 h. ago Scotland's Botox Bandits facing ban over country's "wild west" treatments

New legislation will introduce regulatory framework and quack operators from dangerous procedures

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47 h. ago London pedicab regulation moves forward after public backs tackling 'Wild West' rip

A consultation of 7,700 people has given overwhelming support to regulation of the rickshaws in the capital

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64 h. ago Trump administration could deport immigrants to 58 other countries after Supreme Court opened door for swift removals

Diplomats have reportedly been offering payments and potential relief from Trump’s renewed travel ban to entice countries to take deported ‘third-country’ immigrants

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3 d. ago Spear and loathing: 20 years since tackle on Brian O’Driscoll that changed rugby

Mealamu and Umaga’s slam-dunking of the Lions captain was typical of the game’s wild west years but it proved a watershed – and the hurt still lingersBrian O’Driscoll is sick of talking about it. Tana Umaga says anyone still asking needs to put it behind them. But here we are, 20 years to the day since the tackle that ties them together – and people do still want to talk about it.That moment – in the first minute of the first Test of the Lions series against New Zealand – still pops up on TikTok and YouTube feeds, still sparks arguments on Reddit threads, still leads hour-long podcasts when players reminisce about how they saw it. And it still inspires articles like this one, long after the men involved have made up and moved on. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mamma Mia! star Georgina Castle strips totally NAKED as West End actress goes skinny dipping during her very wild hen

The actress, 32, who is the daughter of former tennis player Andrew Castle, celebrated her very wild hen do on the Greek island - even stripping off at one point.

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6 d. ago Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori is nearly naked in wild outfit after calls for 'public indecency' arrest

Kanye West's wife Bianca Censori pulled off another jaw-dropping stunt in New York City on Saturday.

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1 week ago Fears over butt lifts, fat jabs and Botox offered in public toilets in 'Wild West' procedures market

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said there is a need for urgent Government action over unregulated and unlicensed practitioners and treatments, alongside where they can be offered.

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1 week ago Trump administration demands action from 36 countries to avoid travel ban

The Trump administration has given 36 countries, most of them in Africa, a Wednesday deadline to commit to improving vetting or face a ban on their citizens visiting the United States

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1 week ago Bogus cosmetic treatments such as Brazilian butt lifts being carried out in public toilets

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) has urged the government to crack down on 'Wild West' of treatments carried out by rogue surgeons, including BBL's

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1 week ago Will Smith reveals he turned down HUGE role in one of the greatest films of all time for box office flop Wild Wild West

Fans were left in shock after Will Smith revealed he turned down a role in one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time for a 1990s Western sci-fi movie. 

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1 week ago Trump considers travel ban on another 36 countries after restricting people from 19 nations from entering the US

Another 36 countries have been put on alert after Trump imposed full bans on nationals from 12 countries and partial restrictions for visitors from another seven countries earlier this month.

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1 week ago Trump considering adding another 36 countries to his no travel list including African and Caribbean nations: report

State Department memo asks diplomats representing 36 different countries to meet new requirements or potentially face travel restrictions

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2 w. ago World must move from ‘plunder to protection’ to save oceans, UN chief warns

Speaking at France summit, António Guterres called for bold pledges to stop deep sea from becoming ‘wild west’Nations must move from “plunder to protection” in order to save the world’s seas from crisis, the UN chief, António Guterres, told the ocean summit on Monday.All countries must come forward with “bold pledges” including a biodiversity target to protect at least 30% of the ocean by 2030, to tackle plastic pollution, overfishing and for greater governance of the high seas, he said at the opening ceremony. Guterres also stressed the importance of multilateralism and warned, in an apparent swipe at the US, which was not present at the conference: “The deep sea cannot become the wild west.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump’s travel ban could cement racism as his most dangerous legacy

From his so-called ‘Muslim ban’ to slashing DEI measures, the US president has turned taboo behaviour into normsThis month marks exactly 10 years since Donald Trump coasted down an escalator at Trump Tower, declared his run for US president and accused Mexico of sending drugs, criminals and rapists into the homeland. The past decade has been exercise in normalising.When Trump threatened to terminate Elon Musk’s government contracts, and Musk linked Trump to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, all because of a petty clash of egos, people were riveted but unsurprised. Likewise, when Trump ordered a travel ban on a dozen countries, many reacted with a collective shrug: well, of course he did. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump travel ban barring citizens from 12 countries goes into effect

Afghanistan, Haiti and Iran included in full 12-country ban and citizens from seven other countries partially restrictedDonald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens of a dozen countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect at 12am ET on Monday, more than eight years after Trump’s first travel ban sparked chaos, confusion, and months of legal battles.The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, “fully” restricts the nationals of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the US. The entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago As the UN Ocean Conference opens in France, a push to turn promises into protection

The U.N. Ocean Conference is opening in France as pressure mounts to turn promises into action on protecting the ocean

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3 w. ago State Dept says current US visas from travel ban countries will not be revoked

The State Department has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates not to revoke visas previously issued to people from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries now under President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, which goes into effect next week

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3 w. ago Trump’s new travel ban is a gratuitously cruel sequel | Moustafa Bayoumi

The policy is alienating, counterproductive and racist – and it isn’t the flex that Trump thinks it isTrump’s new travel ban: the countries chosen and how it differs from the last oneI’m not much for horror movies, but I have just read that the film Black Phone 2 “will creep into cinemas” in October and that, compared to the original, it’s supposed to be a “more violent, scarier, more graphic” film. I’ll pass on the movie, but that description seems pretty apt to what living under this Trump administration feels like: a gratuitously more violent sequel to a ghoulish original.Consider the Muslim ban. Back in late 2015, candidate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. He signed the first version of the Muslim ban on 27 January 2017, and protests erupted at airports across the nation at the revival of a national policy, similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act, that b...

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3 w. ago Countries under Trump’s travel ban are unique subjects of American imperialism

US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and SudanThe list of countries banned by the Trump administration’s newest order seems to have no rhyme or reason. Little connects Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, all targeted for a total ban, or Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, all targeted for restrictions. The reasoning stated in the order is that they all pose security threats measured by “whether each country has a significant terrorist presence within its territory, its visa-overstay rate, and its cooperation with accepting back its removable nationals”.Visa overstays, the order elaborates, “indicates a blatant disregard for United States immigration laws”. Yet the latest data on overstays from Customs and Border Protection does show these countries high on the list, along with others not included. Continue ...

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3 w. ago What unites countries under Trump’s travel ban is American imperialism

US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and SudanThe list of countries banned by the Trump administration’s newest order seems to have no rhyme or reason. Little connects Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, all targeted for a total ban, or Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela, all targeted for restrictions. The reasoning stated in the order is that they all pose security threats measured by “whether each country has a significant terrorist presence within its territory, its visa-overstay rate, and its cooperation with accepting back its removable nationals”.Visa overstays, the order elaborates, “indicates a blatant disregard for United States immigration laws”. Yet the latest data on overstays from Customs and Border Protection does show these countries high on the list, along with others not included. Con...

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