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The British-born wrestler walked out to a standing ovation at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Wednesday. All Elite Wrestling (AEW), which staged the Dynamite: Grand Slam event, officially welcomed her after the surprise appearance. Saraya announced she was leaving WWE in June after a long absence from the ring due to a neck injury. Her first appearance for AEW came after a four-way Women's World Championship match between Toni Storm, Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, Athena and Serena Deeb. Saraya, wearing a hot pink, studded leather jacket, emerged at the top of the walk-on ramp as a chorus of cheers rang out. After making her way into the ring, she pointed to the mat and yelled "my house" while glaring at the other wrestlers. '...

Anton Du Beke returns to the judging panel but this time it's on a permanent basis as he officially takes over the reins from Bruno Tonioli. Despite being a bundle of energy, the Italian has clearly decided that the jetlag from bombing back and forth between LA (where he films Dancing with the Stars) and London is too much even for him. Anton will again be joined by head judge Shirley Ballas plus Motsi Mabuse and the fab-u-lous Craig Revel Horwood. The launch show is on Friday, having been delayed due to the Queen's death earlier in the month. To whet your appetite, here's what the celebrity contestants revealed just as they were beginning rehearsals. 1. Kym Marsh had to borrow some underwear on the first day of training IMAGE SOURCE,KYM...

Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party is leading the polls ahead of 25 September elections - and if she wins, she will look to form a right-wing government. Two months after the collapse of Mario Draghi's unity government, here's what you need to know about the main challengers and how Italy's revamped elections work. Giorgia Meloni Four years ago, her party attracted little more than 4% of the vote in the last general election and yet she's now is in pole position to win, with a possible quarter of the vote. Backed by two other parties, the League and Forza Italia, polls suggest she is heading for a majority coalition in Italy's two houses of parliament. Giorgia Meloni, 45, was the only major party leader who refused to go into popular technocr...

John Kirby said the US was not changing its "strategic deterrent posture", but that Mr Putin spoke irresponsibly. On Wednesday Russia's leader warned his country would use all the means at its disposal to protect its territory. It came as four Ukrainian regions part-occupied by Russian forces are about to stage snap votes on joining Russia. Ukraine and its allies call these votes a sham exercise, designed to give spurious legitimacy to an illegal annexation. "It is a dangerous precedent for Mr Putin to be using this kind of rhetoric in the context of a war clearly that he's losing inside Ukraine," National Security Council spokesman Mr Kirby told the BBC. "We have to take these threats seriously and we do... We've been monitoring...

"The very international order we've gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the gathering in New York. "We can't let President Putin get away with it." UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that talk of nuclear conflict was "totally unacceptable". And he was deeply concerned about Russia's plans for so-called referendums on joining Russia in occupied parts of Ukraine, saying the annexation of a country's territory through force - or the threat of it - was a violation of the UN charter. But Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, used his speech to attack Ukraine in turn - accusing the West of "connivance" with human rights groups in "covering the crimes of the Kyiv regime". US nationa...

Prof Tom Marsh, a University of Warwick academic from Rugby, had been visiting La Silla Observatory in Chile. He was last spoken to on Friday evening. Warwickshire Police said it was liaising with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Interpol, and Chilean authorities. The 60-year-old's family said they were "deeply concerned". In a statement issued through the Warwickshire force, relatives said: "We are deeply concerned for Tom and miss him, and would ask anyone who may have information on his whereabouts to please help." Specialist police officers were supporting the family, police said. Prof Marsh is described as white, approximately 6ft 3ins, with balding grey hair and a beard. He was likely to have been wea...