Zolani Tete, a two-time world boxing champion, was shot dead in front of his house in Mdantsane, South Africa, on Friday night.

Eastern Cape police spokesperson, Brigadier Nobuntu Gantana, confirmed that the shooting happened at around 6:30pm.

According to Gantana, the 38-year-old boxer arrived at his home and waiting for the gate to open when he and a 27-year-old female passenger were ambushed by two unknown armed suspects, who were wearing balaclavas.

‘In an attempt to escape the hail of bullets, the deceased drove his vehicle into the yard,’ Gantana said.

‘He unfortunately succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased on the scene.

‘The female passenger sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. She remains hospitalised.’

‘At this stage, no arrests have been made. The suspects fled the scene and are yet to be apprehended.’

Tete is a former junior bantamweight IBF champion and WBO bantamweight champion. He also holds the record for the fastest knockout in a title fight in boxing, knocking out Siboniso Gonya in 11 seconds of the first round of their fight in 2017.

The 38-year-old, who last fought in 2022, was preparing to make a return to the ring after serving a four-year doping ban.

‘The last four years have been nothing but hell for me and my family,’ Tete told The Herald in July.

‘To be denied to do what I love on frivolous circumstances when I know I am innocent is heart-breaking.

‘But as I said, UKAD never brought me to boxing, and they will not take me out of it.’

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Published: 22:43 BST, 21 August 2026 | Updated: 22:53 BST, 21 August 2026

Brooks Nader recreated her iconic Baywatch run as she headed to Club 55 in St Tropez on Friday. 

The actress, 29, who has recently been spotted filming the Baywatch reboot, cut a stylish figure in a sheer white lace beach cover-up for the outing. She teamed the look with statement sunglasses. 

Brooks was joined by her sister Grace Ann and her friends for the sun-soaked trip, with the group cooling off in the water at one point. 

They then headed to celeb hotspot Club 55, which is located on the shores of Pampelonne Beach.     

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The US actress has been sharing her vacation snaps and earlier this week enjoyed  a trip around the Amalfi Coast with her family.

She channelled her Baywatch character by wearing a plunging red swimsuit for some of the photos, showing off her incredible figure in the skimpy piece.

Brooks Nader recreated her iconic Baywatch run as she headed to Club 55 in St Tropez on Friday

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The actress, 29, who has recently been spotted filming the Baywatch reboot, cut a stylish figure on a sheer white lace beach cover-up for the outing

She also flaunted her luxury dinners and nights spent sipping cocktails on board the incredible boat.

The group headed for a meal at La Conca del Sogno beach club in the village of Nerano, where Brooks was fed by a waiter as she joked it was the ‘only way to eat in Italy’.

Later, she changed out of her swimsuit into a backless black dress for a ‘Champagne and Pearls’ evening on board the yacht. 

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Brooks has been busy shooting scenes for Baywatch in Malibu in recent weeks.  

She plays a character called Selene in the modern revival of the iconic series that made Pamela Anderson a global sex symbol in the 1990s.

The actress is newly single after splitting from actor Taron Egerton. 

Brooks and Taron’s romance began back in March, after they were set up on a date, and just last month he was pictured meeting her family during a dinner date in LA.

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However last month, the actor  was back on celeb dating app Raya after their whirlwind romance fizzled out.

Brooks was joined by her sister Grace Ann and her friends for the sun-soaked trip, with the group cooling off in the water at one point.

They then headed to celeb hotspot Club 55, which is located on the shores of Pampelonne Beach

She teamed the look with statement sunglasses

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Brooks has been busy shooting scenes for Baywatch in Malibu in recent weeks

She plays a character called Selene in the modern revival of the iconic series that made Pamela Anderson a global sex symbol in the 1990s

Baywatch star Brooks Nader is taking a break from Malibu beach for a summer break in Italy, sharing her vacation snaps as she enjoys a trip around the Amalfi Coast with her family

Love Is Blind UK is back on Netflix with eight fresh episodes for fans to binge watch

Love Is Blind UK star Jack Bradshaw has spoken out about disappearing from the show without warning his fiancée.

The hit Netflix experiment is back for its third season with a fresh batch of singles hoping to find love in the famous pods. As always, the contestants go on a string dates without ever laying eyes on each other.

Once they are ready to commit to one person, they leave the pods and get engaged. From there comes a series of relationship milestones including moving in together and meeting each other’s families.

Chef Jack, 30, proposed to Faye Domaille after sparking a strong connection in the pods. But the couple hit an unexpected hurdle when Jack “vanished” from their shared apartment the morning after Faye’s 29th birthday party.

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Faye soon realised that Jack’s phone location had been turned off, leaving her concerned about his whereabouts. “He’s literally vanished,” Faye said.

Jack has now explained his actions, admitting he went on a walk because he was “panicking” about formally meeting Faye’s parents later that day.

He told Tudum: “I started panicking and stressing about meeting Faye’s parents properly and being back on camera again. It felt like the walls were closing in on me. I needed to get out, disconnect, and just have some time by myself. “

The Cornwall-based star was also overwhelmed by living in the heart of Canary Wharf and needed a moment to breathe, so he turned his phone off and headed out.

“In Canary Wharf, I’m in this glass box, 43 stories up in the air,” he said.

“Can’t relax there. Go out to get fresh air and there are skyscrapers everywhere. There are cars, police cars, people. I’m walking along just stressing myself out.”

Although it felt like the right move at the time, Jack claims he felt “overwhelming guilt” when he finally turned his phone on and saw a several messages from his partner.

He said: “Faye is worried sick, and I get this overwhelming feeling of guilt about how I let her down. I wasn’t used to having somebody there who cares that much about me.”

Jack confessed: “Just seeing how one selfish decision in your mind can affect somebody…. And that’s the only way I can describe it. It was selfish. I was looking after number one.”

The first eight episodes of Love Is Blind season three are now streaming on Netflix, with the final three instalments set to air next Wednesday, August 26.

Love Is Blind: UK Season 3 is streaming on Netflix

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A fatal car crash and a censored rap album, seemingly unrelated and a year apart, have sparked what could be the largest revolt of Vietnam’s youth in living memory. Over the past ten days, millions have mobilised around the death of an 18-year-old student, caused by a former National Assembly deputy who walked away without charge. What began as isolated outrage has since put the country’s political system on trial.

On the evening of August 14, uniformed police cleared away bunches of flowers at the base of a tree near the centre of Hanoi. Later that night, groups of young people came back and laid more. Where these were removed, they started laying them at other trees and outside police stations. Then they started wearing white ribbons on their backpacks.

This tree – “Memorial tree 55” on Hanoi’s Nguyễn Huy Tự Street – is at the centre of a growing protest for gen Z in Vietnam. It marks the spot where, in May 2025, a black BMW crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a motorcycle carrying a father and his 18-year-old daughter, Do Ngoc Phuong Thuy. Mina, as she was widely known, lost her leg and died days later, shortly before she should have graduated from high school.

Over the next year there appeared to be no progress in the investigation of the incident, except that the driver was identified by the initials N.S.C. But social media users flooded into the information vaccuum, starting to link these initials to former National Assembly deputy Nguyễn Sỹ Cương. There was much online discussion of a government cover-up.

But by August 2026, the car crash and Mina’s death had almost faded from public memory. It may have stayed that way if hadn’t been for the heavyhanded decision of Vietnam’s minister for culture, Lam Thi Phuong Than, to all but ban a new album by rap artist “MCK”. This censorship against the most popular rap singer among Gen Z drew scrutiny to the culture minister – and from there attention moved to her husband, Nguyễn Sỹ Cương.

Within days, more than a million posts naming Cương spread across Threads and TikTok. One local person I spoke to, who for security reasons only wishes to be known by their pseudonym “Tam Khien”, says that young people across the country are outraged.

But, Tam Khien told me, it would be a mistake to view this sequence of events as outrage over one fatal crash, or even a single case of alleged corruption. Rather, it was the spark that lit up grievances with the state that had been present for years.

This is borne out by data from the Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), which shows how public attitudes have changed. For more than a decade, when asked which problems they view as the most urgent policy challenges, nationally representative samples have named poverty and hunger. But in 2024, corruption overtook these problems – named by 22.6% of respondents, up from under 5% the year before.

Top three issues of concern to people in Vietnam

While this number does not measure levels of corruption in Vietnam, it shows how it has come to dominate public debate. Combined with consistently low levels of confidence in the accountability of the government towards its citizens – rated as low as 0.47 out of 10 – the conditions were ripe for a single event to galvanise protest.

Creative protests

Vietnam’s constitution grants a right for public demonstrations, but the law needed to exercise it has neven been passed. In its place, a 2005 decree requires gatherings to be registered in advance – and protesters are routinely arrested and prosecuted for “disturbing public order”.

So it is clear to protesters in Hanoi that mass rallies are not a realistic option. Publicly accusing a powerful former official is risky, Tam Khien told me. Instead the emerging movement turned to more creative forms of protest, which confront the state with acts that are hard to prosecute.

They pinned the “Tree of Justice” – as Tree 55 has become known – on Google Maps (although pins have been deleted). They continued to lay in defiance of the authorities removing them – and when the flowers were removed they laid them at other trees. They also mark these other trees with the number 55 – an easily recognisable reference which is ambiguous enough to retain plausible deniability.

People changed their profile pictures to memes taunting officials, made paintings and artistic drawings of the crash victim to commemorate her loss and created a virtual “justice tree” that cannot be cleared away. When posts started being taken down, they switched to displaying their messages in Morse code or binary.

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Each of these actions was an adaptation to extensive efforts by the government to crack down on the movement: scrubbing the internet of related content and increasing the police presence at the crash site. Authorities were ordered to paint over the number 55 on trees. This has failed to quell the protests.

What next?

On the evening of August 17, state television VTV aired a rare public statement about the crash. Hanoi police confirmed that Cương had indeed been behind the steering wheel of the BMW. The statement announced that prosecutors had determined no criminal liability, but were vague as to the exact criteria for this decision.

Neither Nguyễn Sỹ Cương nor his wife have made a public statement about the crash. Meanwhile, the victim’s father appeared on camera saying he fully agreed with the government’s decision and had no complaints. But this was greeted by the protesters as scripted.

Vietnam is not Nepal, where a Gen Z movement occupied the streets and burned the parliament. But the resemblance to the youth movements that upended authoritarian politics from Nepal to Indonesia to Madagascar last year is undeniable.

Each began with a local trigger that would have gone nowhere without years of accumulated frustrations with their elites. Each was leaderless and mobilised quickly online. The groundswell of Vietnam’s Gen Z protest continues to grow and, as the protest is taking forms that are not easily policed, the state appears at a loss as to how to deal with them.

Another famous face has been eliminated from this year’s Celebrity MasterChef, which is currently airing on the BBC

Welsh presenter Jason Mohammad has bid farewell to Celebrity MasterChef.

The first heat of the 2026 series has been taking place this week, with TV and radio host Jason, actor and author Joe Pasquale, The Wanted’s Jay McGuiness, weightlifter and Olympic medallist Emily Campbell and Love Island star Shakira Khan all competing for a place in the semi-final.

Jay was the first celebrity to face elimination this week, with Cardiff-born Jason soon following him out the door on Friday (August 21).

The latest episode saw the remaining four celebrities team up to cook a three-course menu for judges Grace Dent and Giorgio Locatelli.

“We are going to create our own mini restaurant, because if you stay in the competition, you’ll end up cooking in a real-life kitchen,” Giorgio explained, reports the Mirror.

Later, Grace and Giorgio welcomed food content creator Seema Pankhania to the kitchen, as she set the next challenge.

With her recipe content regularly going viral, each celebrity was tasked with recreating one of the chef’s technically challenging favourites. The recipes had been developed by Seema and were inspired by her travels.

Emily was tasked with a northern Thai classic, khao Soi – a spicy noodle broth topped with crispy chicken skin, while Jason was given Seema’s cabbage dumplings filled with ginger and Shaoxing wine-infused chicken, and served with egg fried rice.

Joe worked on a biscuit base for a dessert that was inspired by a well-known American shop-bought treat – a chocolate, peanut butter and caramel tart. Lastly, Shakira had to successfully recreate Seema’s most viral recipe, butter chicken with naan and kachumber salad.

Jason soon encountered some problems with his dish. Grace noted: “You had trouble in that round. I could see you beginning to become very stressed and I think that the fact that you’ve delivered this entire plate is really to be commended.”

Jason added: “That was a really tough one because I’ve never, ever made cabbage rolls.”

Unfortunately, Jason’s efforts weren’t enough to keep him in the running, as he became the next celebrity to be eliminated.

Shortly after his exit, he said: “Thank you so much. It’s been incredible. Thank you for having me… It’s been the best thing I’ve ever done.”

Giorgio praised Jason for his “instinctive” nature in the kitchen, before offering him an invitation to his own kitchen in the future.

Jason quipped: “As long as you don’t have a go at me, that’d be great!”

Celebrity MasterChef is available to stream on BBC iPlayer

A ferry service on Scotland’s west coast has been evacuated over a bomb threat after a passenger was rescued from the water.

Operator CalMac said a person was reported overboard on the MV Caledonian Isles 16:40 sailing from Brodick on the Isle of Arran.

The vessel’s fast rescue craft was launched to recover the passenger. The BBC understands that they then claimed there was a bomb on board.

CalMac said emergency protocols were put in place. The vessel was searched and 329 people were removed on foot when it berthed at Ardrossan.

Passengers from the ferry and others waiting at the port were taken to a nearby Asda car park by police while the search was carried out.

When this was complete, police declared that the situation had been resolved and allowed people back on board to collect their vehicles.

The Duchess of Sussex has had ‘preliminary conversations’ to join the cast of Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, it was claimed tonight.

It is believed filming for the third series of the Netflix action comedy will begin in the autumn, with the cast in the process of being confirmed.

A source told US entertainment website Deadline that talks with Meghan were in their ‘very early stages’ and added that a role has not yet been identified.

The Gentlemen, which stars Theo James as an army officer turned drug baron, became one of Netflix’s biggest hits of 2024, drawing 44million views in the first four weeks of its debut. It also stars Vinnie Jones and Kaya Scodelario as the daughter of Ray Winstone’s crime boss character.

The second series premieres on Netflix on September 3.

It follows the 2019 film of the same name, starring Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Dockery and Hugh Grant.

That was also a hit, grossing just over $115million at the box office, against a reported budget of $22million. In the film version, McConaughey plays a drug lord who tries to sell off his profitable marijuana business to a dynasty of billionaires.

It came as sources also claimed the duchess will be eyeing up a major part in a West End show when she moves back to Britain with Prince Harrynext few weeks.

A former friend told the Daily Mail that she has ‘desperately wanted to be in a West End’ production for many years and ‘will certainly be speaking to people about a role’.

Another source in Theatreland said there were deafening rumours the former Suits actress wants to land a serious stage role in London upon her UK return.

It comes after news broke Prince Harry and Meghan (pictured) would be returning to the UK after departing to the US in 2020 in a move famously dubbed ‘Megxit’

Guy Ritchie’s hit Netflix show features Theo James (pictured) and has grossed just over $115million at the box office, against a reported budget of $22million

The duchess – a former National Theatre patron – is known to be a fan of the theatre, attending several West End shows with Harry while living in Britain, including Hamilton, Tina: The Musical and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

After her last episode of Suits aired in 2018 and she joined the Royal Family, the 45-year-old duchess paused her acting career and has not had any parts since.

Sources have, however, told Australian outlet News.com.au that Meghan has been offered a part in an unnamed upcoming project based in the UK. Bronte Coy, the reporter behind the story, said Meghan being offered the role in the ‘top secret’ UK production had played a key part in the family’s decision to return.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘This is such a key part of the puzzle. I think when we all heard that news that Harry and Meghan were moving here, and within a matter of days, and the kids were enrolled in school, everyone was asking, what is Meghan going to be doing?’

Ms Coy added that the project is ‘significant’ and Meghan – who has a small part in the upcoming US film Close Personal Friends, making a cameo appearance as herself alongside Lily Collins and Brie Larson – is ‘very excited’, adding that more details will be released ‘relatively soon’.

Later, the journalist told ITV News: ‘We don’t know exactly what the project is, but it’s clearly significant enough and one that’s got her excited enough to be… pushed back to a country that I really think most of us didn’t expect she’d return to in any sort of permanent capacity.’ Sources close to the duchess did not deny the reports. Nearly a decade ago, Meghan said in a joint interview with Harry after their engagement in 2017 that she was happy to pause her acting career.

Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, are thought to have already enrolled in a British school (the family are pictured in December 2025)

It is, however, thought that King Charles ‘welcomes’ news of his son’s return to Britain (the pair are pictured together in 2022)

She said at the time: ‘I don’t see it as giving anything up. I just see it as a change. It’s a new chapter.’

Betting firm Ladbrokes is offering 80/1 odds on Meghan appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, 100/1 on EastEnders and 150/1 on Coronation Street. Meanwhile, the journalist closest to the couple, Omid Scobie, claimed they have been ‘slowly and methodically’ planning their move back to Britain

The British journalist said clues about the Sussexes leaving America after six years ‘have been there all along’ – including how they had reduced the size of their US office and rebranded their Archewell Foundation to Archewell Philanthropies.

Mr Scobie told ABC News: ‘This is definitely a couple that have been looking to make changes, for sure.’

The Daily Mail has approached the Sussexes’ representative for comment. 

Netflix declined to comment. 

The supermarket is anticipated to open in 2028

A new supermarket is set to open at a Cambridge development. Waitrose has announced its plans to open in Springstead Village in Cherry Hinton. The shop is anticipated to open in late 2028.

Jamie Smith, project delivery director for the Bellway Latimer joint venture said: “It is testament to the unique future-focused vision offered at Springstead Village that Waitrose wants to be part of this sustainable new neighbourhood in Cambridge.

“The location of the new store at the heart of the development will make it easy for residents to do their shopping on foot or by bicycle, promoting greener ways of getting about and helping to make this a place where pedestrians and cyclists are prioritised.”

Springstead Village is a new community of around 1,200 homes on a 138 acre site that used to belong to Cambridge Airport. As well as a Waitrose store, the local centre is also planned to have two other retail units. These are yet to be announced.

There will also be a community hub and café set around a new tree-lined market square. Jamie added: “We are proud of the collaborative approach we have taken to the design process at Springstead Village which has helped shape the local centre here.

“Work is progressing well across the development, with parkland, cycleways, a community centre and nature-inspired public art already in place, and around 200 private and affordable homes now occupied.

“The opening of the local centre at Springstead Village will be a significant moment for residents here, providing an important focal point which will further help bring the new community together.”

Police in Ireland have stepped in to reassure the public after alarming AI-generated images of a character resembling Dr Seuss’ Cat in the Hat spread widely online

Police have been compelled to issue a statement following the emergence of disturbing images that seemingly depicted someone dressed as Dr Seuss’ Cat in the Hat menacing a residential area.

The unsettling photographs surfaced from Limerick in Ireland, showing an eerie cat-like figure lurking through streets and loitering in residents’ driveways, sparking concern among both locals and social media users. Fortunately for those left unnerved, Gardaí officials have now confirmed the pictures are fabricated and were in fact artificially generated by an unidentified hoaxer.

The images, which initially surfaced on Facebook though were believed at the time to have come from photo-sharing platform Snapchat, were paired with bogus and deceptive claims that officers were looking into the sinister real-world cartoon character, the Irish Mirror reports.

The prank wasn’t confined to Limerick either, with doctored images of the figure appearing in locations including Glanmire, Cork, Cahir, Tipperary, Curracloe, Wexford, and Broadford Park in Dublin, all contributing to the mounting panic online.

Notably, one regional police force even deemed it necessary to tackle the matter head-on, issuing a firm statement to reassure residents that the entire episode was complete nonsense.

A spokesperson for Wexford Garda stated: “In an unusual turn of events we are hearing a lot about an illusive Dr Seuss character doing the rounds online, apparently causing havoc in neighbourhoods and towns across the country.

“Fortunately, we can rule out the issue, which is essentially an AI prompt that places the character into images/videos of familiar places. To be clear, the Cat in the Hat was not in your driveway while you were out and he is not currently hiding out in Curracloe.”

Remarkably, this isn’t the first occasion officers have been forced to issue alerts about misleading AI-generated trends.

Last year, police forces across the UK became involved after a viral stunt featuring a fabricated “AI homeless man” supposedly invited into people’s homes resulted in numerous emergency calls from individuals who’d been duped by what turned out to be an elaborate wind-up.

Dorset Police disclosed they’d taken a call from one “extremely concerned parent” who’d been convinced by their daughter that an unknown man was present in their family residence while she was home alone, only for officers to establish the entire incident was an AI-generated hoax.

A force spokesperson advised: “: “If you receive a message and pictures similar to the above antics from friends or family, please attempt to check it isn’t a prank before dialling 999.”

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