Show goes on for Trump’s 80th birthday event – featuring a 92ft ‘Claw’, thousands of seats and a fighting cage – despite ominous weather forecasts

There may be swarms of bugs, rain showers and thunderstorms, but this isn’t Exodus, or the apocalypse: the president of the United States will host the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) at the White House on Sunday, his 80th birthday.

The iconic South Lawn – typically used by presidents to board Marine One on their way to summits, funerals and wars – has been blanketed by an octagon, ringed by thousands of seats in a mini coliseum, and dominated by a 92ft, 600-ton steel structure organizers have nicknamed “the Claw”, not unlike the alien tripods from the 2005 film War of the Worlds.

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Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain

I live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food turn you into an antisocial moron, or is it that only antisocial morons eat junk food? Could it be an unfortunate confluence of both?

I never eat it, and never throw litter out of my window. QED. I do find other ways of being antisocial, I suppose, but farts disperse on their own and don’t have to be picked up by passing dog walkers and irate householders.

Louis de Bernières’s fourth novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, became a worldwide bestseller in 1994

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Director Adam Shankman and drag queen actors explain putting a brilliantly madcap twist on Airplane! style parody

Drag queens are never more striking than when they’re set against an everyday background. “Kristen Stewart is a buoy … ” the Laotian American beauty Jujubee muttered spacily to herself in the hallway of Bleecker Street Media’s New York office, reading out the tag-line of a framed poster for the 2024 sci-fi/romance Love Me. The former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and star of the new disaster-comedy Stop! That! Train! was lingering outside an office cubicle in a structured blazer and fishnets as an attentive PR took her order for lunch. By that point she’d been in full wardrobe and make-up all day fielding press, including a mid-morning stop with her castmates at NBC’s Today with Jenna & Sheinelle.

I’d heard Jujubee and her co-star Ginger Minj before I saw them, laughing like glamorous hyenas from another room. When they made an entrance, they did so in coordinated cheetah print looks, greeting me with the kind of mega-watt smiles that told me I was now their audience. I was impressed by how “on” they were, but could imagine it was taxing to keep up. How had the whirlwind of press been for them? “It’s been a lot of work but it doesn’t feel like it,” Ginger admitted. “The tour has absolutely mimicked the making of the movie.” “We have to schedule our sleep,” Jujubee added as she slowly began to peel off some cumbersome press-on nails. “But I’m so high on life and all of us have been able to stay in the moment, and live in this stormaganza of press.” They immediately started cackling again.

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Plans for new event at the Secret Garden Party site and Womad Glasgow are dashed, but others remain optimistic

Hosting Scotland’s first Womad festival seemed like an easy sell for Glasgow, the country’s gig capital and self-proclaimed “dynamic global hub for music lovers”.

However, last week the internationally renowned event celebrating performance from around the world, successfully staged in 30 countries since being co-founded by former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel in 1982, was cancelled due to low ticket sales.

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TEL AVIV (ANP/AFP) - De Israëlische krijgsmacht heeft zaterdag gewaarschuwd voor nieuwe aanvallen op het zuiden van Libanon. Inwoners van twintig steden en dorpen, waaronder verschillende plaatsen in de buurt van de stad Nabatieh, krijgen het dringende advies te evacueren.

Een woordvoerder heeft gezegd dat inwoners naar het gebied ten noorden van de rivier de Zahrani moeten gaan. Volgens Libanese staatsmedia volgden kort na deze waarschuwing Israëlische luchtaanvallen op een aantal gebieden die genoemd werden in de Israëlische oproep.

Israël blijft aanvallen op Hezbollah uitvoeren ondanks een staakt-het-vuren tussen Israël en Libanon. Hezbollah is niet betrokken bij dit bestand. De Israëlische krijgsmacht verklaarde vorige maand alles ten zuiden van de Zahrani tot "gevechtszones" en voert sindsdien aanvallen uit op het gebied.

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BORK!BORK!BORK! We're big fans of retro computing here at Vulture Central, and so it is with a certain delight that we can report XP-era Windows has been spotted disgracing itself on London's Docklands Light Railway. Spotted by Register reader Tim Hayward, the wonderfully named DaisySignApp.exe has thrown up an application error. While the Windows shell might be shorn of all of XP's fripperies, the Recycle Bin icon hints at the operating system's origins. Hayward reckoned that XP was stalking the DLR, but it could also be Windows Server 2003. Support for Windows Server 2003 finally ended in 2015. XP was sunset in 2014, so the DLR display is rather out of date. Then again, as any IT administrator would admit, if something isn't broken, there's no point fixing it, no matter how much Microsoft would encourage them to. In this case, it is unlikely that the operating system is at fault (although one could argue that it should handle a misbehaving application more discreetly), and DaisySignApp.exe should be dealing with its own dirty laundry rather than throwing an exception in commuters' faces at Limehouse station. Limehouse connects London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to the UK's National Rail services. It was one of the first DLR stations and predates the borked operating system by more than a decade. Indeed, at the time of the DLR's opening in 1987, Microsoft was preparing to inflict Windows 2.0 upon the world – the delights of later versions and the company's GUI dominance were still a few years in the future. The DLR also seemed like a glimpse into the future back in the 1980s. However, a fair chunk of its underpinnings, such as formerly disused railway viaducts, hark back to an earlier era. Anyone looking at today's iteration of Windows might wonder how much of it dates back to what's on display at Limehouse. ®