T.I. will retire from rap after he upcoming double album

First Minister Humza Yousaf has said he shed "tears of relief" after sharing the news that his in-laws would be coming home with his 14-year-old stepdaughter.

An ambulance union has slammed bosses for failing to protect staff after a driver was sacked for defending himself from a drunken thug.

Olivia Rodrigo has shared a teaser of her new song ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’ which will feature on the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: ‘The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.The US singer-songwriter posted a 60-second teaser trailer of the upcoming film to her Instagram late yesterday (November 1), which features her song.“There’s blood on the side of the mountain / There’s writing all over the walls,” she sings on the dramatic new track, which builds in intensity as it goes on. “But I’m in the trees, I’m in the breeze / My footsteps on the ground.”“Soooo beyond excited that I got the opportunity to write a song for @TheHungerGames,” Rodrigo wrote on social medias.

A woman died following a drug overdose in the weeks after she was viciously beaten by her boyfriend. Kevin Courtney, 36, punched Jessica Lewis in the face and dragged her by the hair.

A frantic search is underway to trace a missing man who vanished from a Scots town in his van.

North Korea. Your house is on fire. What do you try to rescue first? Your kids? Your pet? No, the first thing you reach for is the portrait of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un and his father and grandfather that is hanging on your wall, as mandated by the authoritarian government. Everything else can wait. 

Will Smith has congratulated his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith on becoming a bestselling author.Pinkett-Smith’s new memoir, Worthy, made it onto the New York Times bestsellers list this week, debuting at number four on the non-fiction book list.In a post about the achievement, she published a new post on Instagram saying: “Thank you to the RTT family, the Worthy Warriors and to all who wanted to know my story beyond headlines.”She continued: “I was sitting here thinking that there was a time where women actually had to take on the names of men in order to be published, and here we have four women at the top of the bestsellers list,” she said, adding, “… I’m deeply grateful.”In the comments section of the post, her husband Will wrote: “‘New York Times Best Selling Author, Jada Pinkett Smith’ CONGRATS, MAMA! Big Looks.”A post shared by Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapinkettsmith)A post shared by Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapinkettsmith)Elsewhere in the memoir, Jada finally addressed Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, saying, “It wasn’t until Will started to walk back to his chair that I even realised it wasn’t a skit.” The Madagascar actress was shocked he still referred to her as his “wife” since the two have been separated for the last seven years.Jada also recently revealed that her popular web show Red Table Talk will be returning next year.The Facebook Watch Original show saw Pinkett-Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and daughter Willow Smith.As per The Daily Mail, during a Q&A session with fans on a livestream event, the actress and musician confirmed the return of the show, saying: “We could not do the Red Table while I was writing this book and while Willow was on her music journey.

With the weather growing frosty and the nights longer, hibernation season is officially here and nothing gives cosy vibes like an Oodie.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent Boys’ Love, or ‘BL’ as it is also known, was once a minor and lightly regarded type of Japanese manga catering mainly to female fans, delivering stories of handsome young guys falling in love with each other. Now its popularity has spread beyond Japan to much of East Asia and beyond, while metamorphozing into a film, TV and online genre with millions of fans. Just how big BL has become was evident in a Wednesday TIFFCOM seminar on the BL phenomenon in Thailand: Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Appeal and Diversity of Thailand’s Boys’ Love Contents. The eleven speakers, including an official from the Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Japan, vigorously pitched partnerships with Japanese content companies, which seemed to be a classic case of selling ice to Alaska’s indigenous inhabitants. Members of the packed seminar room might beg to differ, however.

When it's finished, the views over Manchester city centre and beyond for hundreds of miles will be breathtaking. Standing at more than 550ft-high, Tower D2 will dominate the city centre's skyline as one of Manchester's tallest buildings, together with its near neighbours.

Greater Manchester will get an extra £16m for buses from the government next year. The city-region received £94.8m to spend over three years from the same pot of funding, but the cash which has helped subsidise bus fares is still set to run out in 2025, as it stands.

Police are probing the theft of two tractors from a field. The vehicles, and a set of spotlights, had been stored close to the Nigg Roundabout.

The UK is working intensively to allow Britons trapped in Gaza to leave but the border crossing remains closed because of Egypt’s legitimate concerns, ministers said.

A man has been charged with murder after being extradited from Sweden over a fight in east London in 2022.

Island communities could get cut-price electricity from locally owned wind farms as part of Labour’s plan for a new nationalised clean energy company.

Barry Melrose is retiring.

Bre Tiesi got real about her “intense” postpartum experience.

A clean-up operation is underway to remove 9,500 tonnes of debris from the A83 following heavy rainfall last weekend.

There’s been another round of eliminations on The Debut: Dream Academy!

Irish director Joe Lawlor said his film Baltimore – about heiress-turned-IRA mastermind Rose Dugdale – has modern connotations with groups such as Extinction Rebellion UK and Just Stop Oil who he suggests will become “more militant” in time.