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Woman sold herself as Alexis Carrington-style girlboss with $350m fortune, ambassadorship and award from Biden… so why was she living at her mom’s modest home near a McDonald’s? We reveal humiliating truth
Shannon Monet Steel, a 42-year-old woman from Detroit, presented herself online and in public as a mogul worth $350 million, complete with a private bank, an ambassadorship to the Central African Republic and a presidential award, but federal prosecutors say the persona was almost entirely fabricated. She has now been charged with a single count…
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Spanish protesters demand Sánchez resignation over Ceuta migrant crisis
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona and Ceuta, to protest against prime minister Pedro Sanchez’s handling of a migrant crisis in the North African enclave of Ceuta. Opposition parties, including the conservative Partido Popular and far-right Vox, accused the government of abandoning Ceuta’s residents and called for Sanchez’s…
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Raffaele Annecchino, Former President and CEO of Paramount International, Dies at 55
Raffaele Annecchino, the former President and CEO of Paramount International, has died of acute meningitis at the age of 55, prompting tributes from across the media industry. Over more than 25 years at Paramount/ViacomCBS he rose from an early sales role in Madrid to lead the company’s international operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa,…
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‘Uber rapture’ leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
Uber has abruptly shut down its ride-hailing service in Nigeria and Uganda, with some users and drivers reportedly left mid-journey when the app cut out, prompting online jokes about an “Uber rapture.” The company gave notice on 2 September that the service would end that same day, offering little warning to customers, drivers or staff…
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Kenyan president orders crackdown on foreigners operating small businesses
Kenya’s President William Ruto has ordered foreign nationals to shut down small-scale businesses such as hawking and street trading from next week, and pledged to fast-track legislation barring foreigners from certain sectors of trade. The move follows growing tension over the role of African migrants in Kenya’s informal economy, with Ruto arguing that foreign investors,…
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South African airline behind low-level flyby stunt cancels repeat display
South African carrier Airlink has scrapped a planned low-level flypast ahead of Saturday’s Springboks-All Blacks Test in Johannesburg, as the country’s civil aviation regulator scrutinises a similar stunt it performed the previous week. The withdrawal comes while the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) verifies whether safety protocols were followed during the airline’s 29 August…
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At least 80 die on migrant boat found drifting off Gran Canaria having set sail from African coast 26 days ago
More than 80 migrants, including a baby, are feared to have died after their overcrowded boat was found drifting off Gran Canaria, having set sail from Gambia roughly 27 days earlier. Spanish coastguards launched a rescue operation in rough seas after receiving an alert, finding only 45 survivors and five bodies still aboard from an…
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Airlink drops stadium flypast, Range Rover goes electric, Galliano pulls out of Met Gala
Also: Nick Searcy quits LA for Nashville, Olivia Rodrigo launches Daisy Chain Fields, Hackett and Rothery release an album, and Diane Warren adopts viral piglet Wilbur.
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‘The crowd shouted that we’d stolen someone’s genitals’ – deadly rumours spread on social media
An investigation by the BBC Global Disinformation Unit has found that more than 80 people were killed across six African countries between October 2025 and July 2026 after false rumours spread that they had used sorcery to make men’s genitals shrink or vanish. The panic, fuelled largely by videos circulating on TikTok and Facebook, has…