The Duchess of Sussex is said to be discussing a return to acting in the third season of Netflix’s hit crime series

The Duchess of Sussex is in talks to make her acting return in Netflix’s hit series The Gentlemen.

According to Variety, Meghan is in discussions to join the third season which has yet to receive an official greenlight. The Gentlemen is a spin-off from the 2019 crime comedy of the same name with Guy Ritchie acting as creator of both.

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MPs receive Harry Styles concert tickets worth £858, Chelsea flower show tickets worth £1,839, and £3,432 of hospitality at Brit awards

MPs have been accused of failing to learn their lesson over freebies after taking almost £400,000 of hospitality to concerts, sport matches and other events this year, with Louise Haigh, Lucy Powell and Wes Streeting among those accepting tickets.

Despite the outcry in 2024 over Keir Starmer accepting football tickets and gifts of clothing, MPs appear to have been declaring hospitality since the start of the year on a greater scale than previously seen.

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Tom Meighan

Tom Meighan

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Tom Meighan

Tom Meighan

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After years of refusing to adopt tap-to-pay technology in its stores, retail giant Walmart announced today that it is finally accepting payments via both Apple Pay and Google Pay. The rollout begins August 24 at select Walmart and Sam's Club locations and is expected to reach all stores by year-end. It will then expand to fuel stations by mid-2027. TechCrunch reports: The news is a surprise, as Walmart has long refused to adopt the ubiquitous payment technology to instead promote its own in-house solutions, like Walmart Pay and Scan-and-Go. In years past, Walmart even teamed up with other big retailers in an attempt to take down Apple Pay entirely with an alternative mobile payment system of their own, called CurrentC. The effort failed and was shut down back in 2016.

All the while, Walmart customers have begged the company to support modern tap-and-pay technology, like Apple Pay, which is now accepted at 85% of retailers across the U.S., including most larger stores.

For Walmart, the decision reads as a defeat. As one of the world's largest retailers, it believed it could push customers to its own payment solutions despite the growing adoption of Apple Pay and others of its kind. Ultimately, it had to admit that it was disadvantaging its own customers in the process.

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Feyenoord wil graag het contract met Oussama Targhalline openbreken en verlengen. De Marokkaanse middenvelder heeft momenteel echter geen basisplaats meer. In FC Rijnmond bespreken Mikos Gouka, Dennis van Eersel en Robert Maaskant de toekomst van Targhalline.

WENEN (ANP/DPA) - Oostenrijkse boeren krijgen in totaal 240 miljoen euro aan overheidssteun na een hete en droge zomer waarin de droogte enorme schade heeft aangericht. De regering in Wenen kondigde het steunpakket vrijdag aan.

De voorbije twaalf maanden waren de droogste sinds de landelijke metingen in 1850 begonnen. Landbouwminister Norbert Totschnig zei dat de droogte in de agrarische sector voor in totaal meer dan 1 miljard euro aan schade heeft veroorzaakt, waarbij bijna alle gewassen zijn getroffen. "We kunnen onze boeren niet in de steek laten", benadrukte hij.

Minister van Financiën Markus Marterbauer vertelde dat de regering onder meer geld vrijmaakt om premies voor droogteverzekeringen te subsidiëren. De regering wil ook waarborgen dat de boeren op korte termijn genoeg geld hebben om hun rekeningen te betalen. Ze hebben nu namelijk financiële ademruimte nodig om zaaigoed, meststoffen en diervoeder te kopen.

Walking the Length of Manhattan. I did this, solo, right before I moved out of NYC. Loved it. Will do it again someday.

IJsland houdt op 29 augustus een referendum over de vraag of gesprekken over EU-toetreding hervat moeten worden. Het land is altijd gepolariseerd geweest als het gaat om toetreding tot een organisatie. „We zijn er tot nu toe mee weggekomen door hier midden in de oceaan te zitten en te doen waar we zin in hadden.”