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The ever-anticipated Met Gala passed us by quickly earlier this month, with glamorous celebrities such as Zendaya, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez stealing the show.But even their glamour on the red carpet wasn’t enough to overshadow this month’s main event: the simply adorable Pet Gala 2024. Monday night’s extravaganza – for which a ticket costs $300 – served as a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, and had all the stunning designer fits and lavish hair dos of the Met (though its stars were undoubtedly more natural in front of a camera). Image: Pics: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Image:…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the UK economy is heading for a “soft landing” but reiterated its message to Jeremy Hunt that he should not have cut national insurance at the last two fiscal events.In its annual check-up on the state of Britain’s economy, the Washington-based Fund also warned of a black hole in the public finances, with £30bn of spending cuts or tax rises needed to stabilise the national debt. Money latest:Easiest countries for Britons to retire to revealedThe fund raised its forecast for gross domestic product growth this year from 0.5% to 0.7%, saying: “The UK…

People with small fat cells are more likely to gain weight when they’re older, according to scientists in Stockholm.Although you might not be able to tell from looking at them, some people have smaller fat cells than others, which shrink and grow as their weight fluctuates. To test how these different-sized cells impact weight over time, doctors at the Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge in Sweden measured the size of people’s fat cells and weighed them.Fifteen years later, they weighed the same people again.They have now discovered that people with smaller fat cells are more likely to gain weight in the…

Richard Osman has revealed the final lead character for the forthcoming big screen adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club.Calender Girls actress Celia Imrie will play retired nurse Joyce Meadowcroft – one of four main characters from the book. She will star alongside Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley, who Osman announced as cast members last month on his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment. Image: Celia Imrie, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley. Pics: PA They will play the roles of Elizabeth Best, Ron Ritchie and Ibrahim Arif respectively.Speaking on that podcast, Osman had said: “Joyce, we’re still in negotiations…

Superdry is preparing to run an emergency four-week sale process if creditors block its founder’s plans to inject up to £10m of his own money into the fashion chain in a bid to stave off insolvency.Sky News has learnt that the accelerated M&A process would be launched if a restructuring plan is not approved by creditors in the coming weeks. Under the proposed survival plan, Julian Dunkerton would stump up either £8m in an open offer available to other shareholders or £10m in a placing that would only be accessible to him.The share sale would precede Superdry’s delisting from the…

A device that sends an electrical “buzz” through the skin could allow people who were paralysed several decades ago to regain movement in their arms and hands.The ARC-EX device sends an electrical current to the spinal cord through surface electrodes, increasing strength, sensation and ability to move in people with paraplegia. Volunteers who took part in the first clinical trial of its kind say the effects were astonishing.Melanie Reid, a columnist for The Times newspaper, who was paralysed after falling off a horse 14 years ago, used the device for several months.”Everyone thinks with spinal injury that all you want…

Amal Clooney has revealed she was on the panel of international legal experts who recommended seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli and Hamas leaders.The human rights lawyer, whose husband is actor George Clooney, wrote about assisting with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza, in a post on the couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice website. She and other international law experts unanimously agreed to recommend that International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan seek the arrest warrants. Image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he rejects the…

The US embassy in London owes £14.6m in unpaid congestion charge fees, figures have revealed.Unpaid fees and fines amassed by all embassies in the capital have been published by Transport for London (TfL). The statistics show the Japanese embassy has the second highest debt at £10.1m, followed by India’s high commission at £8.6m.The embassy of the Republic of Togo, in central Africa, appears at the bottom of the list with a £40 bill.Among all embassies, the total unpaid fees and fines accrued by diplomats between the launch of the congestion charge in London in 2003 and the end of last…

Scarlett Johansson has said she was “shocked” and “angered” after OpenAI allegedly recreated her voice without her consent for a new ChatGPT system.The actress released a statement where she personally criticised the company’s CEO Sam Altman for insinuating she was the voice named ‘Sky’ by posting the word ‘her’ on X, a reference to a film where she voiced an AI which a human fell in love with. “Last September, I received an offer from Sam Altman, who wanted to hire me to voice the current ChatGPT 4.0 system,” the 39-year-old Oscar nominee said.”He told me that he felt that…

The former home and burial site of Elvis Presley is set to be sold at a foreclosure auction on Thursday – but his granddaughter is attempting to halt the court-approved sale of Graceland.Actress and model Riley Keough – Elvis’s granddaughter, who became the new owner of Graceland when her mother Lisa Marie Presley died at the age of 54 in January 2023 – alleges in a lawsuit that the pending sale is “fraudulent”, reports Sky’s US partner network NBC News. Image: Riley Keough at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California. Pic: Reuters The case stems from a…