After three delightful seasons on the small screen, The Mandalorian is about to hit cinemas for the first time.

Later this month, Pedro Pascal and his right-hand man Grogu will be starring in the hit Star Wars spin-off’s first feature-length adventure, which had its world premiere in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

And it probably goes without saying that all eyes were on one man in particular at The Mandalorian And Grogu’s debut.

Yes, we’re obviously talking about Grogu.

The adorable alien was pictured stealing the show on the event’s red carpet, with video footage also showing striking a pose for photographers.

Naturally, it was all too much for some fans to take…

And if you liked that, you’ll love these dancing droids busting a move on the red carpet, too…

Disney’s official synopsis for the new movie in the Star Wars franchise teases: “The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy.

“As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin and his young apprentice Grogu.”

In addition to Pedro reprising his role as Din Djarin from the original TV series, The Mandalorian And Grogu will feature appearances from several Star Wars regulars, plus Sigourney Weaver as a new character, Ward, a former Rebel Alliance pilot.

Meanwhile, Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White will also be lending his voice to Rotta the Hutt, son of Jabba, with Jon Favreau – who previously helmed Iron Man and Disney’s Jungle Book and Lion King remakes – on writing and directing duties.

Originally, a fourth season of The Mandalorian was planned, but these plans were put on ice in favour of making a film.

Speaking to SFX magazine, Jon Favreau explained that he had to “start from scratch” when putting together The Mandalorian And Grogu, rather than adapting his planned scripts for season four.

“[Season four] would have heavily linked to Ahsoka season two,” he explained. “You can’t just take those scripts and turn them into a movie. There were a lot of characters, it assumed you’d watched the whole show, and it was teeing up what was happening moving into [season two of] Ahsoka.

“It was about Grand Admiral Thrawn and following the larger storyline [of this era of the Star Wars timeline]. This is a completely different medium. So I had to start from scratch, essentially.”

It’s still unclear whether The Mandalorian could get a fourth season, after its creator gave a rather cryptic answer when asked about it on the red carpet.

This month’s dry, sunny weather might be good news to sunbathers, but it can be tough on gardeners – plants may be missing the much-needed rain.

But sometimes, even when you do everything right, your garden still looks a little… lacklustre.

That’s partly because, as the Royal Horticultural Society writes, watering during a hot spell (or at all) is a delicate thing.

Flowers, raised beds, potted plants, and grass all have different needs, for instance. Even within those, not all soils are created equal.

So it’s a good thing Montana State University has a solution involving a pan and some water.

Cheryl Moore-Gough, a horticulturalist at the university, says that those wanting to figure out exactly how much soil their specific garden is losing should try a “simple pan test.”

Using a straight-sided pan, she says you should fill it with water and mark the top of the liquid.

Then, you should watch it for “a week.”

“The amount that has evaporated is about the amount of evaporation that has occurred from the soil profile,” she explains.

“You’ll need to water that much to make up for evaporation plus the amount the plant has lost due to transpiration.”

This is especially useful in the sort of unpredictable and unseasonable warmth and dryness we’re seeing now, because it reveals how much moisture the weather has drawn out of your specific garden in your exact location.

Speaking to HuffPost UK previously, gardening expert Chris Cooper from Hayter, manufacturer of battery lawnmowers, said that you should water in the morning when it’s hot out to prevent evaporation.

“When the sun begins to rise, your grass and plants will begin to soak up the water for healthy growth – so make sure they start the day with a decent breakfast,” he added.

“This is especially important in a heatwave, as the weather will be much cooler in the morning than at midday when the temperature is at its peak.”

Keir Starmer’s premiership is hanging by a thread following Labour’s disastrous performance in the local elections.

A growing body of MPs are calling for the prime minister to resign, less than two years into the role, but Starmer is digging in.

With no clear successor putting their head above the parapet for the mutinous party to rally behind, MPs are in limbo.

So what might happen next? Here’s what you need to know.

Starmer became prime minister in July 2024 after Labour won a landslide victory in the general election.

But within weeks, his government was plunged into crisis by the decision to scrap winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners and a row over free clothes and hospitality accepted by Starmer and other senior Labour figures.

A series of messy U-turns on things like the two-child benefit cap, digital ID and the farmers’ inheritance tax also led to the prime minister’s approval rating plummeting.

The controversy over his decision to make Peter Mandelson the UK’s ambassador to Washington also helped push the PM’s unpopularity to new depths.

In Labour’s biggest electoral test since the 2024 election last week, voters overwhelmingly rejected the party in England, Scotland and Wales – triggering further anger towards the PM from the party’s MPs.

More than 50 of then have called on Starmer to stand down following the devastating bloodbath.

It’s incredibly hard to predict exactly what happens next, especially Labour Party makes it difficult to oust the party’s leader.

But here are the options MPs are considering, as of Monday…

Under the party’s rules, a challenger needs the backing of at least 20% of Labour MPs to trigger a leadership contest. That currently works out to 81 MPs.

Even then, the sitting leader would automatically be put on the ballot paper.

Former Foreign Office minister Catherine West stunned Westminster on Saturday by announcing she would challenge the PM if the cabinet did not choose someone to replace Starmer.

But by Monday she had backed down, instead calling for MPs to sign a letter urging Starmer to set out a timetable to allow him to be replaced by September.

Among others thought to be weighing up a leadership bid are former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and health secretary Wes Streeting.

Starmer’s other major opponent is the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

However Burnham left Westminster in 2017 and would have to become an MP again in order to stand.

Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), blocked him from running as the party’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election in February – at the behest of Starmer.

On Thursday, Labour MP Josh Simons announced he agreed to stand down from his Makerfield seat to make way for the Greater Manchester mayor, less than two years after being elected.

However, there are no guarantees Burnham would win the subsequent by-election.

His decision to stand would also trigger a mayoral contest in Greater Manchester – which could give rival parties another chance to hammer Labour at the ballot box.

As the number of MPs calling on him to resign rises, the PM could decide he doesn’t need the hassle and announce he is quitting.

However, he has insisted he “won’t walk away” from the job, and in an interview with The Observer insisted he still planned to be prime minister for 10 years.

With the PM’s opponents apparently racked with indecision about what to do next, there is a world in which he rides out his latest leadership crisis.

In his make-or-break speech on Monday setting out how he plans to turn around Labour’s fortunes, Starmer said: “I know that people are frustrated by the state of Britain, frustrated by politics, and some people – frustrated with me.

“I know I have my doubters and I know I need to prove them wrong, and I will.”

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A big section of the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 is predicted to crash into the moon on August 5, astronomer Bill Gray said on his site, Project Pluto.

Gray is the creator of various software, some of which tracks “near-Earth” objects, asteroids, comets, and items in orbit.

His calculations found that the “upper stage” part of the rocket – or the bit which carries the “payload” of the vessel, where the important part, be it people or tracking equipment, lies – should hit the Einstein crater of the moon next month.

There are no people on board. Per ScienceAlert, the Falcon 9 is a partially reusable rocket, which means “its first, larger stage returns to Earth and alights on a barge so it can be refilled and re-flown, while the second stage remains in orbit”. That second part is the bit that’s set to hit the moon.

The astronomer’s best estimation so far is August 5, 7:44am UK time.

Not without special equipment, BBC Sky At Night suggests.

It’s normal to leave this part of a rocket in orbit. They’re often designed to detach.

Hundreds of Falcon 9 rockets have been launched, Gray added, with many of their upper stages orbiting or falling back down to Earth. Some are orbiting the sun.

The one projected to hit the moon in August has been orbiting the Earth for about a year. It was the 10th rocket launched by the company, whose CEO is Elon Musk, in 2025.

Gray called loose bits of spacecraft and other manmade debris in orbit “space junk” and said the issue is increasing “steeply”.

It’s about the size of a five-storey building, the astronomer said.

Gray used his own software to identify the predicted trajectory. “Space junk”, he explained, usually behaves quite predictably: it’s guided by the gravity of celestial bodies around it, like the Earth and moon. That should make tracking and predicting their movements easy.

But these objects are also “pushed around by sunlight,” he added. This is a very slight force, but it adds up over time, and as the object moves around, it’s hard to say exactly how much sun will hit it.

As a result, the astronomer explained, “I can be sure it will impact near the time and place I’ve predicted, but those varying forces mean that the actual impact will be at least a little off from that time and place”.

It’s predicted to zip along at 8,700km an hour.

It’s set to hit the “Einstein crater,” which BBC Sky At Night said sits at a “10 o’clock” position from the perspective of the Earth.

Almost certainly not, the expert said. We’ve even sent items to crash into the moon on purpose before.

But the broader issue of “space junk” might be something we should worry about more, Gray stated.

It can ruin stargazers’ view, might pollute our upper atmosphere on re-entering Earth, and crash into other bodies and other bits of “junk” too.

“The worst-case scenario would be the Kessler effect: we have enough junk in orbit so that a few collisions generate shrapnel that causes more collisions, generating still more shrapnel until just about everything is colliding,” Gray said.

Budget airline Ryanair has announced that it will no longer run flights from its Greek Thessaloniki base.

It will also reduce its capacity for Athens Airport during the upcoming winter season (2026), and plans to suspend operations at Crete airports, Chania and Heraklion, in the off-peak season too.

Overall, the site reads, these changes will result in the loss of about 700,000 inbound and outbound flights and 12 routes.

The company’s chief commercial officer, Jason McGuinness, claimed that Ryanair had been responsible fo 90% of international capacity to Thessaloniki.

He added that they will be reallocating the aircraft no longer used for these locations to Albania, regional Italy and Sweden.

Though jet fuel costs have ballooned since the US-Iran conflict, Ryanair cited another price hike here.

The company said on their site that “This devastating loss in off-peak winter connectivity is the direct result of the hopelessly uncompetitive costs charged at the German-run Fraport Greece monopoly and Athens Airport”.

They stated that the Greek government reduced Airport Development Fees from €12 (£10.40) to €3 (£2.60) in 2024. Ryanair called this change “wise”.

But they said these savings haven’t been passed on to consumers and alleged that some Greek airports have “continued to increase charges, which are now +66% above their pre-Covid levels”.

They added that Athens airport will see fee hikes this winter, too.

In response, Fraport Greece has said, “Any claims linking this decision to airport charges or the airport development fee imposed by the Greek state are entirely unfounded”.

They added that it has invested millions to upgrade its Thessaloniki airport.

will be shut entirely during the off-season of 2026 (winter), per Ryanair.

And Ryanair said the following routes have also been canned entirely for now:

1. Thessaloniki to Berlin,
2. Thessaloniki to Frankfurt-H,
3. Thessaloniki to Gothenburg,
4. Thessaloniki to Niederrhein,
5. Thessaloniki to Poznan,
6. Thessaloniki to Stockholm,
7. Thessaloniki to Venice-T,
8. Thessaloniki to Zagreb,
9. Athens to Milan-M,
10. Chania to Paphos,
11. Thessaloniki to Heraklion,
12. Thessaloniki to Chania.

We don’t know for sure.

Fraport Greece has called Ryanair an “important partner”.

And Ryanair said that the flight and aircraft losses were “preventable” and have only shared these updates for winter 2026 so far.

They shared, “Regrettably, Greece will continue to miss out on investment opportunities, tourism and traffic development until Fraport Greece and Athens abandon their shameless practice of pocketing this tax cut.”

And McGuinness added, “There is an opportunity for Greece to secure significant year-round traffic growth; however, this investment can only be realised once the German-run Fraport Greece monopoly fully passes through the Greek Govt.’s sensible tax cut from November’24”.

He continued to say that the aircraft lost to other countries as a result of this process will be moving to areas “where airports have passed on their Govt’s aviation tax savings”.

Wes Streeting will definitely run in the upcoming Labour leadership contest, his allies have told HuffPost UK.

It is the first confirmation that he plans to mount a bid to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister.

Supporters of Starmer have claimed that the former health secretary – who resigned with a ferocious attack on the prime minister yesterday – does not have enough support from Labour MPs to mount a challenge.

Under Labour Party rules, any candidate must have the support of at least 20% of its MPs to make it onto the ballot paper. At the moment, that is 81 MPs.

Starmer allies have claimed that Streeting currently only has 43 names, leaving him well short of the number required.

They said that was why he did not formally trigger a contest when he quit the cabinet, as had been expected.

But a source close to Streeting told HuffPost UK: “He has the numbers and will be a candidate when there’s a contest.”

In his resignation letter, Streeting stopped short of saying he would challenge the PM.

But he said: “It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election and that Labour MPs and Labour unions want the debate about what comes next to be a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism.

“It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates. I support that approach and I hope that you will facilitate this.”

A leadership contest appears inevitable, despite Starmer insisting he “won’t walk away” from No.10.

Cabinet ministers, including home secretary Shabana Mahmood and foreign secretary Yvette Cooper, have personally told the PM to set out a timetable for his departure.

More than 90 Labour MPs have so far publicly called on him to quit, while four junior ministers have also resigned from the government.

Andy Burnham kicked off his own attempt to be the next PM when it was announced that Labour MP Josh Simons is standing down to let the Greater Manchester mayor stand in his Makerfield seat.

Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) is not expected to block Burnham’s bid to be the party’s candidate in the resulting by-election.

However, he faces a huge challenge to see off Reform UK and be elected the new MP for the constituency.

If Burnham wins, he is expected to immediately challenge Starmer, triggering a full leadership contest.

Others who could throw their hats into the ring include former deputy PM Angela Rayner, defence secretary John Healey, energy secretary Ed Miliband, Mahmood, Cooper and junior defence minister Al Carns

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James Bond bosses have shared an update on the search for the next 007 – and unfortunately, it sounds like we might still be in for a bit of a wait.

And while recent rumours indicated that Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi were all in the running, it seems that production company Amazon MGM Studios is still a little way off casting anyone.

On Friday morning, the studio shared an “update on the search for the next James Bond”, confirming that the casting process has only just begun.

“The search for the next James Bond is underway. While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process, we’re excited to share more news with 007 fans as soon as the time is right,” a spokesperson said.

A press release noted that work has been underway on the film “has been taking shape over the past several months”, albeit without a leading man.

Last month, Amazon MGM Studios’ head of film Courtenay Valenti told fans: “I know you’re all wondering when we’re going to announce who’s playing James Bond.

“Please know that we’re taking the time to do this with care and deep respect. It is the dream of a lifetime for all of us to bring audiences this next chapter, and it’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly.”

It was already confirmed that Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve, who has recently enjoyed huge success with his Dune movies, will be on directing duties, while the script has been penned by Steven Knight.

Steven Knight is best known as the creator of Peaky Blinders, but has also helmed shows like A Thousand Blows for Disney+ and House Of Guinness for Netflix.