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Alessandro FUCARINI/AFPThe final body from the yacht was brought to the surface last FridayItalian authorities are expanding their investigation into the deaths of seven people on the yacht, the Bayesian, to include two crew members as well as the captain, according to Italian news agencies.British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others lost their lives when the 56m (184ft) yacht, flying a British flag, sank off the coast of northern Sicily on 19 August.The investigation is now said to include ship engineer Tim Parker Eaton and sailor Matthew Griffith.Being investigated does not equate to being charged and is a procedural…

NFL stars Travis and Jason Kelce have signed a lucrative podcast deal with Amazon, reportedly worth $100m (£75m).The three-year deal, announced on Tuesday, gives the company’s Wondery audio network exclusive multimedia rights to the brothers’ popular New Heights podcast.The pair said they “couldn’t be more excited” at the deal ahead of the show’s third series.The siblings launched the podcast in 2022 – interviewing celebrity guests and discussing their own lives – all with brotherly humour. Travis, 34, a three-time Super Bowl champion for the Kansas City Chiefs, has since found wider fame as the boyfriend of pop megastar Taylor Swift.…

The government must ban flavoured and disposable vapes, doctors say, to protect children against a growing epidemic of use in the UK. The British Medical Association says bold action is needed and vapes have no rightful place in young people’s lives. Children are being targeted with colours, branding and flavours such as bubble gum or candy floss, it says, to push a product that can lead to nicotine addiction. About 8% of 11-17-year-olds vape, according to estimates. Although it was already illegal to sell any vape to anyone under 18, Prof David Strain, who chairs the BMA’s Board of Science,…

Citizens’ Advice is bracing itself for a “really difficult” winter ahead of the scrapping of winter fuel payments for 10 million pensioners, the charity’s boss says.From next month, those not on pension credit or other means-tested benefits will no longer get the annual payments, worth between £100 and £300.Dame Clare Moriarty, who will attend a government meeting with energy firms to discuss the issue on Wednesday, told the BBC there should be better targeted support for those with the highest needs and the lowest incomes.The prime minister has defended the decision to scrap winter fuel payments, saying it was needed…

Warning: This story contains details readers might find distressingA predator posing as a famous teenage YouTuber who blackmailed hundreds of girls around the globe into performing sex acts on camera has been jailed for 17 years in Australia.Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed pleaded guilty to 119 charges, relating to 286 people from 20 countries, including the UK, the US, Japan and France. Two-thirds of his victims were aged under 16.A Perth court heard the 29-year-old coerced them into a cycle of increasingly extreme abuse by threatening to send explicit messages and images of them to their loved ones. Australian authorities…

AARON CHOWN/PA WIREKatie Price was previously arrested at Heathrow Airport after failing to attend a court hearingA hearing in which Katie Price was due to be questioned over her bankruptcies has been adjourned so she can attend a “private interview” instead.The former glamour model, 46, had been due to face questions in court from barristers after being warned by a judge that she must attend with “no ifs or buts”.She was arrested at Heathrow Airport earlier this month after failing to attend a previous hearing relating to her finances.But a judge agreed to adjourn the public hearing on Tuesday, with…

BBCChris, one of the trained counsellors at the service, says she would not end a call if she didn’t feel she had helpedPeople in crisis with mental health problems can now access services through NHS 111 in England, giving them another way to get urgent help. It means support is available for mental health issues, as well as for physical problems.The number connects to a local team of call handlers with mental health training, alongside nurses and clinicians who are available around the clock.The team can organise a mental health assessment, send out a crisis team and flag up help…

Getty ImagesThe former Paralympian said she waited for 20 minutes at the station before having to disembark herselfBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to “crawl off” a LNER train arriving at London’s King’s Cross.Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the former Paralympian said she had initially booked assistance to help her off the 19:15 train from Leeds but missed it and went on the 19:45, as she journeyed to Paris for the Paralympics.She said she should have been helped off but after waiting for 20 minutes, no one arrived so she had to try to disembark herself.LNER has said it…

Getty ImagesPavel Durov founded Telegram in 2013Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France.On Monday evening, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement that Mr Durov was being held in custody as part of a cyber-crime investigation. The statement mentioned 12 different offences under investigation that it said were linked to organised crime.These included illicit transactions, child pornography, fraud and the refusal to disclose information to authorities, the prosecutor said.Telegram said in a statement that “it is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner is responsible for abuse of that platform”.Who is Pavel…

ReutersPeople sheltered in a metro station in Kyiv during the barrageAt least six people have been killed after Russia launched a massive attack across Ukraine, seriously damaging some power and water supplies.Explosions rang out in several cities including Kyiv on Monday morning, as more than half of the country’s regions came under attack from missiles and drones.Authorities in Zaporizhzhia, Lutsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Dnipropetrovsk regions reported people had died in the huge air raid.Russia confirmed it had targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure – one of its long-term tactics – and said all its targets were hit.The barrage of drone and missile…