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Horny Grandmas Are Having a Moment

Creators in their sixties, seventies, and eighties have flooded adult platforms as the demand for mature content has skyrocketed, with some turning to online sex work as a retirement lifeline.

Emily Maitlis says Russell Brand's response to question about daughter is 'chilling' after rape conviction

Warning: This article contains discussion of rape and sexual assault which some readers may find distressing.Russell Brand was once asked what his daughter would think of his lifestyle, and the interviewer said that it's 'pretty chilling to listen back to that now'.Southwark Crown Court heard yesterday (5 November) that he had been found guilty of raping a fan he'd met after a show at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2009, and guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a bar in Soho in 2004.He was also f

10 Best Subscription Boxes for Kids (2026): STEM, Books, Clothes, Snacks, and More

These monthly deliveries get kids reading, coding, and cooking while encouraging them to learn about science and the world.

Can a Radar-Equipped AC Actually Cut Your Power Bill?

Air conditioners can now follow you from room to room to cut power draw. Saving the planet, however, won’t come from a smarter breeze.

NFL icon Rob Gronkowski clarifies Turning Point USA stance after 'being outed as MAGA'

Rob Gronkowski has cleared the air following speculation of his rumoured association with MAGA and Turning Point USA.The NFL star, who played nine seasons for the New England Patriots, was pictured with his girlfriend Camille Kostek outside a Hampshire polling spot on Tuesday (3 November).Photos and videos circulating on social media showed the 37-year-old posed with MAGA fans and signed merchandise in front of a tent associated with Turning Point, founded by the late Charlie Kirk and now run by

Greenlight Family Hub Digital Wall Calendar Black Friday Sale (2026)

The Greenlight Family Hub displays your family calendars, manages your kid’s chores, and doubles as a photo frame. It’s also already discounted ahead of Black Friday.

Katherine Ryan breaks silence on Russell Brand rape conviction and slams 'unprofessional' lawyer

These did not make the cut but did lead to Brand being dropped by the show.The pair were both judges on the 'Roast' panel show (Comedy Central)Ryan did not publicly name him because she stated it was ‘not her story to tell’, as she had not been assaulted by him.Now, though she has spoken out about his guilty verdict, stating she had not been watching the trial ‘very closely’ as she found it ‘extremely sad’.Ryan hits out at Brand’s ‘unprofessional’ lawyerFollowing yesterday's verdict, there was a

Debenhams Group Embeds Storfund Daily Advance for 30,000 Sellers

Eligible sellers can use the service across Debenhams, boohoo and PrettyLittleThing without additional administration.Dan Finley, chief executive of Debenhams Group, said the move was designed to make Debenhams Group the preferred platform for brands seeking to scale: “Giving sellers faster access to their sales revenue gives them greater flexibility to reinvest in their businesses when they need it most, particularly as we head into peak Christmas trading.”The marketplace liquidity

I’m A Celebrity 2026: Start date, time and how to watch

We'll update this article when we know.Ant and Dec are of course returning for season 26, as well as the 'Wild Frontier' spin-off (ITV/ I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!/ YouTube) How to watch I’m A Celebrity 2026 live and on catch upThe traditional way to watch I’m A Celeb is of course to do so live on ITV1 via a standard TV, or to stream it online through ITVX.To access ITVX you will need to register with a free account. You do not need to pay a subscription to watch it live or on demand.

National Lottery Christmas advert unveiled featuring a determined reindeer and voiceover from Claudia Winkleman

A determined reindeer who believes he can fly takes centre stage in a new festive advert featuring the voice of The Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman.TV star Winkleman, 54, who audiences recently saw fronting the celebrity edition of The Traitors on the BBC, can be heard at the end of the advert.The former Strictly Come Dancing host is a long-term National Lottery ambassador and has been visiting good causes which are funded by The National Lottery over the last year.The one-minute festive ad

Brits with ‘forgotten files’ could be breaking law as UK porn ban comes in today

"The most straightforward application of this rule is where a person knowingly downloads an image and stores it in their files or camera roll; if a person downloads, for instance, a pornographic video depicting strangulation, then they may be prosecuted on the basis that they knowingly obtained that video, were aware it was on their device, and had access to it."He said that when it comes to 'possession' of porn prosecutors would consider deleting an image to the point that they can no longer ac

Woman, 22, woke up to half her face 'paralysed' and now can't walk

(SWNS)"She is staying very positive and has a great sense of humour which is helping her get through it."Lillie was discharged on 22 October and has since regained her ability to speak but still slurs her words and stutters as well as suffering from seizures and being unable to walk.Currently, she is living with her grandparents in their bungalow and has been referred for physio to help regain her mobility and independence.Lillie’s family have launched a GoFundMe to help pay for specialist treat

911 recordings show reality of situation at Christa Pike's failed execution

Audio recordings from the night of Christa Pike's botched execution have shed more light on the confusion of the emergency services that were stuck outside the prison for a time.Pike, 50, was due to be executed on 30 September with an injection of two doses of pentobarbital, but it became clear that the lethal injection had failed to kill her and an ambulance had to be called to take her to hospital.Recordings of the 911 calls showed that the Department of Emergency Communications (DEC) said the

Diver 'attempts to pull scuba gear off instructor' 50ft underwater in insane footage

Normally when people are scuba diving it’s to get a good look at the sea floor, to swim amongst the fish, to watch the wildlife do their thing – not to see humans brawling.But an investigation has been called for after a scuba diving instructor claimed another diver tried to ‘kill him’ in the Maldives.Wild footage that’s since gone viral on social media shows a man seeming to attempt to pull off the instructor’s gear in the dive site.Xiao Du was off-duty, exploring the Kuda Rah Thila dive site l

Emirates NBD and BlackRock Launch Two Funds at Partnership Anniversary

Emirates NBD Asset Management and BlackRock have launched two income-focused public funds to mark the first anniversary of their strategic partnership, broadening a collaboration that began in 2025 with access to private market alternatives and has since accumulated $350 million in assets under management.The two new products are the FundStar Emirates CLO AA Fund, sub-managed by BlackRock, and the Emirates Systematic Income and Growth Fund, for which BlackRock serves as investment adviser while

Dubai Future Finance Week day four: a tokenisation rulebook, a court on chain and the liquidity question

<h2>The DFSA published its view of how tokenised markets can scale and DIFC Courts proposed a way to enforce rulings on chain. On stage at the Future Tokenisation Forum, regulators and market builders agreed that issuing tokens is now the easy part. Making them tradeable is not.</h2>On Thursday, Dubai Future Finance Week turned to two longer-term questions: how family wealth passes between generations, and how tokenised assets can move from pilots into real markets. The Future Tokenisation Forum at Jumeirah Mina Al Salam took the second question, and it was the busiest regulatory day of the week.<h3>A paper that maps the debate</h3>Mark Steward, chief executive of the DFSA, opened the forum with the regulator’s new report, Scaling Tokenisation: The Road Ahead. It draws on input from BlackRock, Ripple, Robinhood, Soter Insure and Standard Chartered, and looks at what tokenisation needs as it moves from experiments into live financial products, payments and market infrastructure. The paper deliberately stops short of picking a winner. It sets out where the industry agrees and where it does not, and does not prescribe a particular technology, rulebook or business model. The DFSA wants it to start a wider conversation with firms, investors, policymakers and international standard setters.DIFC Courts brought a more concrete proposal. Working with DECA4 Advisory and industry partners, the courts published a white paper on a Dispute Resolution Oracle, an opt-in link between a smart contract and a court or other forum the parties choose before they transact. The gap it targets is simple to state: a court can decide who owns a digital asset, but it cannot make that decision take effect on chain. Under the proposal, a disputed asset would be preserved once a claim is raised and the final decision enforced directly on chain. Judges, arbitrators and mediators would still decide cases off chain, with limited asset freezes, early review, reasoned decisions and rights of appeal as safeguards. The courts are pitching it as an open standard for any jurisdiction, not a Dubai-only tool. Amna Al Owais, deputy director of DIFC Courts, was among the day’s speakers.<h3>Regulators: the wrapper changes, the rules should not</h3>The regulators’ panel was the clearest guide to where supervisors stand. Michail Fekkas, first vice chairman of Greece’s Hellenic Capital Market Commission, argued that tokenisation changes how an instrument is issued, transferred and traded, not what it is. Europe already has the tools in MiFID, CSDR, the DLT Pilot Regime and MiCA, he said, and should not build a separate regime for tokenised assets. The principle should stay simple: same activity, same risk, same regulatory outcome. For him, the real obstacles are now legal uncertainty, fragmentation and whether market infrastructure can pay its way. “Europe must move from regulatory experimentation to regulatory scalability, and smaller European markets must be part of that,” he said.William Mason, director general of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, described a lighter-touch route. Guernsey audited its existing laws, found them largely fit for purpose and issued guidance on how it would read them, rather than rewriting them. He added that the GFSC aims to finalise its stablecoin rules next month. His bigger worry was liquidity. Supervisors do not want private assets moved on chain and sold to retail investors who then cannot get out, he said, and he doubted that automated market makers alone would solve it. Real market makers taking positions would be needed for the market to scale. “Buying is easy; anybody can buy,” he said. The hard part is being able to sell.Paul Kayrouz, Chief Fintech Officer at the Central Bank of the UAE, gave the UAE’s position. The central bank regulates entities, he said, so a bank that starts tokenising securities needs a separate licence from the Capital Market Authority, but the central bank still oversees its whole balance sheet, operational resilience and conduct. On tokenised money, he said the UAE expects central bank digital currency, tokenised deposits and stablecoins to coexist rather than compete. The central bank’s job is to build the rails and let the market choose. The digital dirham is close to launch, the UAE has licensed four banks and one non-bank to issue stablecoins, and several banks are close to launching tokenised deposit programmes. To move beyond closed loops, he said, tokenised assets will need a unified ledger for clearing and settlement, and on-chain records with the same legal force as the assets they represent.Kayrouz also pointed to a cross-border problem. A handful of stablecoin issuers dominate the market, and their tokens are used in the UAE although they are issued and licensed elsewhere. Protecting consumers then depends on regulators sharing information and working together, he said, because “we will never be in any stage where we will have the same regulation”. An Israeli regulator on the panel made a related point: owning a token used to be a technical question about who holds the key, but scaling it into finance needs a legal answer about enforceable rights, including across borders.<h3>The market view: cheap to imagine, costly to issue</h3>A second panel looked at why tokenisation has barely left the pilot stage. The founder of a UAE-based tokenisation platform said technology is no longer the bottleneck. Cost is: legal advice, issuing vehicles, licences and prospectuses mean the economics rarely work unless an issue runs into hundreds of millions of dollars. Today the money goes to lawyers, administrators and technology vendors, he said, and will shift towards distribution and trading as tokens trade across many venues. He expects funds and traditional capital markets to grow fastest, and warned that tokenising an asset with no clear use will fail. He also called the UAE lucky to have regulators that are approachable and willing to find ways to meet their objectives without blocking new products.A speaker from the UAE’s Capital Market Authority, which replaced the SCA as a legal continuation on 1 January, said the authority’s tokenisation framework is still narrow, covering only securities and commodities. The CMA is considering a discussion paper to review it in light of market demand. Questions include which assets should qualify, how disclosure should work, who can custody tokens, and whether making illiquid assets easier to buy should change who they can be sold to. There is no single change that would unlock the market, she said.<h3>Distribution: trust before scale</h3>The forum’s closing panel, moderated by BCG, set the scale of the challenge: roughly USD 3trn in crypto assets and about USD 300bn in stablecoins, against only USD 30bn to 40bn in tokenised real-world assets. A partner at SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s venture arm, said demand today comes mainly from crypto money looking for exposure to traditional assets. Institutions are next, once settlement and collateral benefits make the economics work, and everyone else will follow. Liquidity is the gap. “Just tokenising something doesn’t automatically make it liquid,” he said, adding that more market makers, leverage and links between traditional and digital rails would be needed.Paul Boots, senior director and head of sector development at VARA, said the authority learns through regulatory pilots, including its expanding real estate tokenisation pilot with Dubai Land Department. Issuance rules are clear and licensed broker dealers can already distribute tokens. The next step is for tokens to trade on more than one platform with market makers behind them, so retail buyers of property tokens can sell when they need to. He was firm when an audience member asked VARA to make licensing easier: liquidity matters, but not at the expense of KYC and anti-money laundering checks. Investors, he said, will end up buying on “the platforms of trust”.Mohamed Damak, managing director and global head of Islamic finance at S&P Global Ratings, said S&P has rated some tokenised money market funds and digital bonds at the same level as their conventional equivalents after finding that the technology added no extra risk. He named three barriers to scale: the legal structure of what a token holder owns, interoperability between bank platforms and public blockchains, and the money leg, where settlement still waits for banks to open. He pointed to the DIFC Courts proposal as the kind of recourse investors will want before they commit. The president of Robinhood MENA, which arrived in the UAE recently, said investor education remains the biggest hurdle for retail demand.<h3>Family wealth and the next generation</h3>The Dubai Family Wealth Summit, held the same day, focused on governance, succession, structuring and philanthropy, with the UAE’s Year of Family as the backdrop. Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade, gave the keynote on international connectivity. Speakers included Hussain Sajwani of DAMAC, Halima Dangote of Dangote Industries, Maurice Gravier of Emirates NBD, Shehab Gargash of Gargash Prime and Osama Ibrahim Seddiqi of Seddiqi Holding. DIFC announced a 2027 NextGen Internship Programme that will place future family business leaders in DIFC firms across financial services, audit, consultancy, law and AI, Fintech and innovation, ahead of an estimated USD 18.3trn global wealth transfer by 2030. The Investment Leaders Exchange brought sovereign wealth funds, institutional allocators and family offices together on asset allocation and the place of digital assets in long-term portfolios.<figure id="attachment_137953" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-137953" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-137953" src="https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-1024x649.jpeg" alt="Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi" width="1024" height="649" srcset="https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-1024x649.jpeg 1024w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-300x190.jpeg 300w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-150x95.jpeg 150w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-768x487.jpeg 768w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-960x609.jpeg 960w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-631x400.jpeg 631w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg-585x371.jpeg 585w, https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Minister.jpg.jpeg 1120w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-137953" class="wp-caption-text">Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Foreign Trade</figcaption></figure><h3>A China to Gulf payments link</h3>Outside the forums, Lianlian DigiTech, the Hong Kong-listed payments group, opened its Middle East regional office in DIFC. The company already holds a DFSA Category 3D payment services licence and will offer cross-border collections, foreign exchange and vendor payouts for businesses trading between China, the Gulf and global markets. It already supports sellers on Noon, Amazon UAE and Amazon Saudi Arabia.Dubai Future Finance Week closes on Friday with GEFI’s ethical finance conference at DIFC.The post <a href="https://thefintechtimes.com/dubai-future-finance-week-day-four-a-tokenisation-rulebook-a-court-on-chain-and-the-liquidity-question/">Dubai Future Finance Week day four: a tokenisation rulebook, a court on chain and the liquidity question</a> appeared first on <a href="https://thefintechtimes.com">The Fintech Times</a>.

Sylvester Stallone reveals what finally ended his 20-year feud with Arnold Schwarzenegger

<figure><img src="https://resizer.ladbiblegroup.com/unsafe/rs:fit:1204:0:0:0/g:sm/q:70/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHRmZTA3YTYzZjUwM2FmNDM5LzZhZWQ0M2MzNjNiMDkxNDU4NGFiMzYzYi9TdGFsbG9uZV9TY2h3YXJ6ZW5lZ2dlci5qcGc.jpg"/></figure>Sylvester Stallone has shared what ended his 20-year-long beef with fellow action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger, after admitting that things were so bad the two wouldn’t even appear on stage together. Back in the 1980s and 90s, <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/sylvester-stallone" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stallone</a> and <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/arnold-schwarzenegger" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Schwarzenegger</a> were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood with a slew of action movies between them. Stallone rose to fame with Rocky in 1976, but then pivoted to action roles in the likes of Rambo, Cliffhanger, and Demolition Man. Meanwhile, bodybuilder-turned-actor Schwarzenegger appeared in Commando, Predator and the <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminator-cameron-fight-105498-20230608" rel="noopener" target="_blank">iconic </a><a href="https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminator-cameron-fight-105498-20230608" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Terminator </a><a href="https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminator-cameron-fight-105498-20230608" rel="noopener" target="_blank">franchise</a>. In 2010, fans were delighted to see the two legendary actors join forces for The Expendables, which was also co-written by Stallone alongside David Callaham, alongside a slew of other stars including Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Jet Li, and <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/bruce-willis" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bruce Willis</a>. <figure><img src="https://resizer.ladbiblegroup.com/unsafe/rs:fit:1204:0:0:0/g:sm/q:70/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHRlNzc0NDhmM2UzYmRmNWRkLzZhZWQ0MzdhNGNjOGM5MDZhODM5MzJiYi9zdGFsbG9uZS1zY2h3YXJ6ZW5lZ2dlci5qcGc.jpg"><figcaption> Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger had a decades-long feud (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) </figcaption></figure>The movie was such a success that it went on to spawn several sequels, with Schwarzenegger playing Trent ‘Trench’ Mauser in three films across the franchise. However, while the two men are pals now, things weren’t always that way. In fact, the Hollywood stars were embroiled in a decades-long feud after seemingly seeing each other as fierce competitors for action roles. Speaking on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHqlp0TZ3I" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rest is Entertainment</a> podcast, Stallone said: “It was very contentious, trust me, which I enjoyed, because the madder I made him, the madder he made me, the more he fought to make the next action film bigger-than-life, louder, more body count, this and that, better location - it just kept elevating.” He went on to say that things between the pair were so fraught that they ‘couldn’t get on the same stage together to make a presentation or a speech’, despite both of them being investors in the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain at the time. Awkward. The 80-year-old added: “It wasn’t put to bed until like 20 years.”Opening up about what prompted the pair to bury the hatchet, Stallone said it was Schwarzenegger’s move away from acting and into <a href="https://www.ladbible.com/politics" rel="noopener" target="_blank">politics</a> that did it. <figure><img src="https://resizer.ladbiblegroup.com/unsafe/rs:fit:1204:0:0:0/g:sm/q:70/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQ0MDFjZjFiY2RjYjhiMjg2LzZhZWQ0Mzk1ZDA2NmEyNTFkYjY3ZDEzMi9hcm5vbGQtc3RhbGxvbmUuanBn.jpg"><figcaption>The pair are pals now, but it hasn’t always been that way (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)</figcaption></figure>In 2003, the Terminator star was elected as governor of California, and later ran again where he was reelected in the 2006 gubernatorial election.And it was Schwarzenegger’s political career that made Stallone realise the feud could be done and dusted. He shared: “I said, ‘Enough of this, we're not in competition’,”“He was not doing movies anymore. All right. Thank you very much for waking me up, lighting a fire under me. And he felt the same way.”In 2011, Schwarzenegger reached his term limit as governor and returned to acting, which was neatly timed with the release of The Expendables and the start of a beautiful on-screen pairing between him and Stallone. Reflecting on how their relationship has changed over the years, Stallone said: “We’re always going to be competitive. That’s the nature of the beast and I enjoy it.”He then added: “We’re not as financially competitive anymore … that’s long gone.“It’s something that’ll never happen again, where you have two actors in the same genre, literally going for it – on-screen, off-screen.” <img src="https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=15593740&cv=2.0&cj=1" />

Eric Dane's widow reveals first symptom she noticed months before ALS diagnosis

So there were definitely signs, but nothing was so major that you would really stop and pay attention to it.”Gayheart and Dane got married in 2004 and went on to have two children together: Billie, who is now 16, and Georgia, who is 14.Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart married in 2004 (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI) In 2018, Gayheart filed for divorce but she dismissed the filing in March 2025, shortly before Dane went public with diagnosis.In a heart-wrenching passage in his memoir, Dane de

Red Baron worker pauses fundraiser after thousands rally behind him following 'sickening' streamer prank

A Red Baron worker who went viral after he was ‘publicly harassed by a streamer’ has paused donations on a GoFundMe page set up for him after it pulled in almost $800,000 (£595,000).The man, who has been identified as Walt Z, was working at a Red Baron in Michigan when two internet pranksters approached him while he was stacking shelves and pretended to steal his money.In the clip, which was originally filmed back in August, the streamer approaches Walt and asks him for the time, but when he pul

JonBenét Ramsey's brother reveals what he believes could be key to solving his sister's murder

I know none of my family did it,” he added.JonBenét's dad thinks a 'masked intruder' is responsibleIn previous interviews, Burke and JonBenét’s dad John has said he believes that an intruder is responsible for the heinous crime.John Ramsey has previously shared his theory on who he believes did it (Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)Speaking to PEOPLE in 2024, he shared his own theory on who was behind the shocking crime but claimed police ‘blew it off’.John told the publication about the case