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Lionel Richie has been admitted to hospital in St Louis after falling ill following a performance at The Muny on Saturday night. The 77-year-old singer checked himself into the facility after appearing at the outdoor theatre in Forest Park, where he was reportedly taken to the intensive care unit for medical tests. Richie was still in hospital on Monday afternoon, according to TMZ, but was expected to be discharged on Tuesday. Sources said the admission was precautionary and that doctors were investigating whether he had become dehydrated. No further details about his condition have been released. The concert had been…

Applications to host side events around TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco will close at midnight Pacific time on Friday September 4, with organisers inviting founders, investors, companies and community groups to submit plans for gatherings across the Bay Area. The programme will run alongside the main TechCrunch Disrupt conference at Moscone West from October 13 to 15. Side events may take place between October 10 and 16, giving approved hosts the opportunity to engage with conference attendees beyond the official programme. TechCrunch expects more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors and technology industry leaders to attend the three-day event. Approved…

Juventus have reached an agreement with Newcastle United to sign Germany international Nick Woltemade on loan, with the move expected to be completed before the transfer window closes. The 24-year-old forward joined Newcastle from VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 2025 in a club-record deal, but has struggled to establish himself as a regular at St James’ Park. Woltemade made 51 appearances in all competitions last season, contributing 11 goals and assists, according to Newcastle’s official player profile. He is also part of Germany’s squad for the 2026 World Cup. The proposed switch to Turin would give Woltemade the opportunity…

Amazon is to cut 121 jobs across its Seattle, Bellevue and Sumner sites in Washington state, with the first redundancies due to take effect on October 1. The planned dismissals were disclosed in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with Washington’s Employment Security Department on Monday, August 31. The reductions are scheduled to take place in stages throughout October. Thirty-two employees are due to leave by October 2, while the largest group — 66 workers — is scheduled to be separated by October 20. The final departures are expected on October 27. Roles listed in the filing include…

Oil prices climbed and Wall Street fell after US forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz, raising fears of further disruption to one of the world’s most important energy routes. The S&P 500 slipped 0.5 per cent, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 333 points, or 0.6 per cent. The Nasdaq fell 0.4 per cent. Australian sharemarket futures were pointing to a weaker opening, with the ASX 200 expected to fall by about 31 points, or 0.3 per cent. The index closed 0.2 per cent lower on Monday, while the Australian dollar was…

FIFA World Cup sell-off plans have drawn a public response from Joshua Kushner, whose investment firm has been linked with a possible deal to buy a stake in the governing body’s commercial business. Mr Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital and the younger brother of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former son-in-law and senior adviser, has not confirmed that an investment agreement has been reached. Reports that private investors could acquire part of FIFA’s commercial operations have prompted questions over whether revenues and rights associated with the World Cup could be brought under outside ownership. The proposals are understood to concern a…

Photographs of deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro smiling and making a peace sign inside a federal prison in Brooklyn have been released months after he was seized by US forces. Maduro, 63, is shown in a grey tracksuit and white trainers in two images apparently taken at the Metropolitan Detention Center. Metadata indicates they were captured on June 25, although they were published on Sunday. The photographs were shared on Maduro’s social media accounts alongside a message saying he was “standing firm”. He described them as a gift for his grandchildren and supporters, adding that Venezuela would “rise again”. ([cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicolas-maduro-photos-new-york-prison/))…

Coronation Street actress Brooke Vincent has reportedly split from her fiancé, former professional footballer Kean Bryan, after a decade together. The couple are said to have quietly called off their engagement earlier this year. Vincent, 34, and Bryan, 29, became engaged in 2022 and share two sons, Mexx and Monroe. Speculation about the relationship emerged after Vincent posted a cryptic message on Instagram following a girls’ night out. Alongside photographs from the evening, she wrote: “August… somehow an ending and a beginning all at once.” A source told The Sun that the pair had decided to separate but remained focused…

Microsoft has warned of TerminalFix attacks in which fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA checks trick Windows users into running malicious PowerShell commands, giving criminals a potential route into internal networks through a reverse tunnel. The campaign is a more advanced form of the ClickFix technique, which uses bogus prompts to persuade people to paste or execute commands on their computers. Rather than delivering a conventional information-stealing program, the operation builds a multi-stage foothold that could allow attackers to move through a compromised organisation. Microsoft said it had observed the attacks in the wild but had not seen evidence of the operators carrying…

Joshua Kushner has broken his silence over the collapse of a controversial plan to give private investors a stake in Fifa’s commercial operations, as Uefa seeks evidence for a potential criminal complaint against president Gianni Infantino. Kushner, whose investment firm Thrive was expected to lead the proposed investor group, said the scheme had been intended to spread football investment more evenly among Fifa’s 211 member associations. He added that Thrive would not have become involved had it anticipated how the plan would develop. “Money in football has historically been concentrated amongst a small group of countries,” Kushner said in a…