Pakistan’s match against the United Arab Emirates at the Asia Cup has been delayed by an hour amid the ongoing fallout from Sunday’s match against India.
Pakistan said India’s players refused to shake hands after the match – the first between the two countries since the military conflict earlier this year – and also claim match referee Andy Pycroft told their captain Salman Agha not to shake hands with his India counterpart at the toss.
Pakistan subsequently asked for Pycroft, due to be match referee for Wednesday’s match against the UAE, to be removed from officiating at the tournament.
Wednesday’s match, a must-win for Pakistan, was due to begin at 15:30 BST.
Their players remained at the team hotel as talks continued but did depart for the Dubai International Stadium around 30 minutes before the scheduled toss.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chair Mohsin Naqvi held talks with his predecessors Ramiz Raja and Najam Sethi shortly before their departure.
Soon after organisers announced the match will begin at 16:30 BST. Pycroft is expected to remain as match referee.
Should Pakistan beat the UAE, they will meet India again in Dubai on Sunday in their first match of the Super Four stage, meaning the episode will continue.
It is the latest occasion relations between India and Pakistan has impacted cricket.
They already do not play each other outside of global events and India’s matches at the Champions Trophy were moved to Dubai earlier this year after they refused to travel to hosts Pakistan.
Pakistan will not travel to India for next month’s Women’s World Cup, with their matches instead being moved to Sri Lanka.
If you’re looking for a cosy and comfy pair of slippers to see you through the autumn in style, but don’t want to spend a fortune on Uggs, we’ve found plenty of cheaper alternatives
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Ugg boot alternatives for autumn from £15 that genuinely look and feel expensive(Image: Amazon)
Last year’s autumn and winter footwear of choice was undoubtedly theTasman slippers by Ugg, but with a £100 price tag, they’re not exactly wallet-friendly. As the trend for mini fleece-lined mules remains in vogue this season, we’ve been scouting for similar pairs that won’t empty your pockets, while balancing all the comfort and style you’d expect from the real thing.
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1. Tan Stitch Detail Platform Slippers
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Tan Stitch Detail Platform Slippers from Tu Clothing(Image: Tu Clothing)
Tu Clothing is offering this pair of tan slip-ons that seamlessly resemble the classic Ugg Mules, but with a much more affordable price tag of £15.
Touted as an on-trend addition to your seasonal footwear, this pair of slippers has a platform sole, fleece lining, and stitch detailing on the upper, akin to Ugg’s iconic style. They are made in a faux suede fabric for a premium look and feel. A staple choice for relaxing at home, these comfortable slippers are also ideal for running quick errands outside, thanks to their water-resistant rubber soles.
2. Women Tasman Tazz Slippers Ankle Boot
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Women Tasman Tazz Slippers Ankle Boot from Amazon(Image: Amazon)
Coming in a similar brown shade to those sported by celebrities, these suede slippers boast a soft and fluffy sheepskin lining on the interior, for optimal comfort and cosiness and promise to keep your toes warmer as the temperatures drop. Meanwhile, the rubber soles are anti-slip, thanks to the water-resistant material, and are thick enough to keep the wearer stable and supported.
Also featuring grips on the bottom, these slippers are ideal for wearing inside and outside of the house, especially during the winter months when you don’t want to sacrifice warmth for style and practicality, but also don’t want your favourite slippers getting soaked.
3. ‘Zoe’ Aztec Faux Fur Slip On Micro Slippers
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‘Zoe’ Aztec Faux Fur Slip On Micro Slippers from Debenhams(Image: Debenhams)
The Zoe Aztec Faux Fur Slip-On Micro Slippers usually retail for £34.99 – already a bargain – but shoppers can snap them up for an unbeatable price, for a limited time. The online retailer has slashed the price to £25, making them £75 cheaper than the Uggs.
Similar to the Tasman slippers, the Zoe shoes flaunt an eye-catching Aztec print and boast a convenient slip-on style. Keen fashionistas on a budget will be thrilled with the Ugg-style footwear, crafted from soft suede and cosy plush natural wool.
4. Risley Waterproof Flat Mules
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Risley Waterproof Flat Mules from M&S(Image: M&S)
Marks & Spencer shoppers will be thrilled to know that the massive retailer also stocks affordable alternatives to the autumn season’s must-have style, including this pair from Regatta.
Described as a pair of refined mules, these shoes are waterproof to keep them looking their best come rain or shine. They feature a slip-on design for easy on and off with a soft faux fur lining to keep feet cosy. Plus, much like Uggs, these beauties boast thick soles that have plenty of grip for indoor or outdoor wear.
5. BOBS Keepsakes Lite
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BOBS Keepsakes Lite from Skechers(Image: Skechers)
The perfect pick for chilly evenings, the faux shearling-lined slippers are also a great alternative to UGG’s pricier Tasman II slippers, which cost £115.
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Just like the UGG pair, Skechers’ BOBS Keepsakes have a slip-on, backless design that makes them easy to get on and off. They have a cosy lining and decorative trim around the edges. However, they are made from faux suede and faux shearling rather than the real deal, like UGG’s, which is why they have a more affordable price point.
The court case against Nantes over Emiliano Sala’s death, which was supposed to start on September 22 and go on until December, has been postponed.
In April 2025, Cardiff sued Nantes in a French court, alleging losses of more than £100 million as a result of a dispute over striker Sala’s passing.
In January 2019, Sala, an Argentina striker, and pilot David Ibbotson, both 28, died while flying from Nantes to South Wales to join their new club.
The statement continued, “Cardiff City FC reiterates its confidence in the French justice system and will be prepared to file a case on December 8.”
After being dropped from the Championship last year, Sala was due to join the Welsh club, which was later relegated to League One.
After the Swiss Federal Tribunal determined that the Court of Arbitration in Sport (Cas) was not competent to handle the Bluebirds’ claim for damages, they have chosen to pursue a separate legal action against Nantes.
After initially refusing to pay Nantes the first installment of the £15 million transfer fee, the world’s governing body Fifa placed an end to Cardiff’s transfer ban.
After a failed appeal with Cas, the club paid that sum in January 2023. Fifa sanctions were lifted with that payment.
Victoria Beckham has appeared to snub her son Brooklyn once again in a new trailer for her Netflix documentary. The Spice Girls star turned fashion designer is fronting a three part series for the streaming giant.
A new trailer has been released today, which shows Victoria’s meteorological rise to fame with the Spice Girls and her subsequent struggles with her fashion business as she prepares for the biggest fashion show of her life.
As it kicks off, Victoria insists she isn’t a “miserable cow” like people might think she is – before adding that she has “never forgotten where she comes from”.
Victoria insists she isn’t a ‘miserable cow’ ( Netflix)
In one poignant moment, her husband and her kids are seen sitting on the front row at her fashion show. Brooklyn is not in attendance as the camera pans over her kids and David and she says: “I want my kids and David to be proud of me.”
Romeo is shown in the trailer hugging his mum in an orange cap, whilst Cruz is seen backstage in a smart suit. However, Brooklyn seemingly doesn’t appear in the trailer amid a very public feud with his parents.
In the trailer, Victoria also opens up about her fame with the girlband. She tells the camera: “Performing was my dream. The Spice Girls made me accept who I am. Then all of a sudden, it stopped.
Victoria and David’s kids appear in the trailer ( Netflix)
“That uncool kid at school that’s awkward, that was me. I desperately wanted to be liked, have a sense of worth. Fashion was this creative outlet. People thought she’s a pop star, she’s married to a footballer. who does she think she is?”
David also appeared in the trailer, where he shared his nerves for his wife, asking her ahead of her fashion show: “Is this what you felt like when you came to watch me play?”
Victoria then explained that she didn’t want it to all slip through her fingers again. Emotional, she says: “It’s taken so long to get to this point. I’m not going to let it slip through my fingers again.”
David then tells her in a heartwarming moment: “You could make a cheese and ham sandwich and we’d be proud of you,” but she quipped back: “Let’s be honest, I couldn’t actually make a cheese sandwich very well.”
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Tesla shares jumped 6 percent on Monday after CEO Elon Musk disclosed that he had bought $1bn worth of the company’s stock. The move reinforces Musk’s push for greater control over Tesla and comes a week after the company’s board offered him a $1 trillion pay package over the next decade.
Musk’s stock purchase – his first open-market buy-up of shares since 2020 – comes at a critical time for Tesla, as it races to transform into an artificial intelligence and robotics firm whilst also grappling with falling sales of electric vehicles (EVs).
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But Musk’s pay packet has come in for intense criticism. Last weekend, Pope Leo decried the widening pay gap between corporate bosses such as Elon Musk – whose estimated wealth now stands at $367bn – and ordinary working people, which he said was a major factor in growing global unrest.
Tesla Model Y cars on display as Tesla opens its first Delhi-NCR showroom at Aerocity on August 11, 2025 in New Delhi, India [Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images]
Why is Musk buying up Tesla shares?
On September 12, Musk, 54, purchased 2.57 million shares (which represents less than one percent of Tesla’s market capitalisation), paying between $372 and $397 per share as the price varied through the day, according to regulatory filings. He now owns almost 20 percent of Tesla, which seemingly pleases its investors.
Tesla’s share price rose to around $422 on Monday – still 12 percent lower than its all-time high of $479 (reached in December 2024). Following his recent move, Musk posted on X that the increase in Tesla’s value was “foretold in the prophecy”.
While Musk wasn’t an original founder of Tesla – he invested in the company one year after it was established – he became chairman in 2004. The South African entrepreneur has consistently demanded a bigger stake and more voting power at Tesla, having previously said he would prefer to build AI products and robots outside of Tesla if he cannot control 25 percent voting power in the firm.
Musk sold more than $20bn of Tesla’s stock (or 4.6 percent of its market cap) in 2022 to fund his acquisition of Twitter, now X, for $44bn. He also owns private holdings in SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Is Musk really being paid $1 trillion?
The Tesla CEO will have to meet certain performance-related criteria first. To unlock the full $1 trillion payout, Musk will have to raise the company’s valuation from roughly $1 trillion today to $8.5 trillion over the next 10 years. He will also have to sell one million autonomous taxis and one million robots and increase Tesla’s profits by more than 24 times what it earned last year.
Tesla currently operates a few dozen autonomous taxis in a limited area in the city where it is headquartered, Austin, Texas in the US. Known as “robotaxis“, they are self-driving vehicles but are accompanied by human “safety supervisors”, who can intervene if problems occur.
On the robotics side, the company unveiled its first humanoid robot – Optimus – in 2022. In 2024, Musk claimed that Tesla would deploy robots for “internal use [ie for use inside its own factories]” in 2025, and that it would have produced 5,000 units by then. Neither pledge has been met so far.
Musk also recently said that “80 percent of Tesla’s [future] value will be Optimus”.
How has Musk’s pay at Tesla risen over time?
After Musk joined Tesla in 2004, he took very little cash pay. Instead, he chose to be paid in equity. Then, in 2018, shareholders approved a landmark 10-year pay package for Musk – linked to various operational targets – estimated at $2.6bn.
As Tesla’s market value surged after the start of 2020 (when it was trading at just $29.50 a share), many of those pay objectives were met, and Musk received a large number of additional Tesla shares. Due to broad stock market gains since the COVID-19 pandemic, Musk’s earnings are estimated to have climbed by $40bn-$60bn.
Though Musk’s pay windfall at Tesla has attracted regulatory scrutiny for overcompensation, especially from Delaware’s Court of Chancery, most of the company’s shareholders have repeatedly ratified the CEO’s payment packages.
How do CEOs’ pay packets compare to those of average US workers?
Tesla doesn’t disclose non-executive salaries, so it is hard to say how Musk’s income compares to that of the average worker there.
However, corporate pay in the US has generally rallied in recent decades compared to that of workers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, average pay for CEOs at S&P 500 companies – the 500 biggest listed firms in the US – rose by almost 1,000 percent over the 50-year period leading up to 2024.
By contrast, a typical worker at an S&P 500 company has seen his or her pay packet rise by just 27 percent (adjusted for inflation) over the same period. Stated differently, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has increased from 30:1 to 350:1 over the past five decades.
In an interview last week with Crux, a Catholic news website, Pope Leo singled out Elon Musk as an example of the kind of wealth he said was corroding “the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society”.
Asked about Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion pay packet, Leo responded: “What does that mean, and what’s that about? If [personal wealth accumulation] is the only thing that has any value any more, then we are in big trouble.”
Is Tesla in trouble?
Despite its recent uptick, so far this year, Tesla’s stock market performance has been among the worst of the “Magnificent 7” group of tech giants – which also includes Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia – having lost around 2 percent of its value this year so far.
Tesla’s most recent quarterly results showed profit losses amid falling demand for electric vehicles and increased import production costs associated with US President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. Looking ahead, earnings look set to continue falling.
Dame Helen Mirren has opened up about the tragic death of her stepson Rio Hackford, who died from a rare form of eye cancer in 2022, and how it has impacted her
Dame Helen Mirren with her late stepson Rio Hackford(Image: John Sciulli via Getty Images)
Dame Helen Mirren has shared the heartbreak of seeing her stepson’s face “every day” following his tragic passing after a battle with a rare cancer.
The Oscar-winning actress, who never had children of her own, became a stepmother to husband Taylor Hackford’s two sons from an earlier relationship when they tied the knot in 1997.
Her stepson, Rio Hackford, tragically lost his life to a rare form of eye cancer in 2022 at the tender age of 51.
Dame Helen has opened up about how this loss affected her in the years since. In an interview with People, she revealed: “I have his picture on my phone as my screensaver, so I look at his face all the time, every day.
Taylor and Dame Helen first met in 1985 on the set of White Nights(Image: Michael Buckner, Variety via Getty Images)
“Rio died of ocular melanoma (also known as eye cancer), we didn’t know about that condition, and it was only through that awful experience that we learned that this is a melanoma that can grow at the back of your eye without you having any consciousness of it.”
Dame Helen is of the belief that if her son had gone for more regular eye tests, he might still be alive today.
She continued: “Rio hadn’t had his eyes checked for 10 years because his eyesight didn’t change. So he thought, ‘why do I need my eyes checked if my eyesight’s perfectly fine?’ “
“If he’d had his eyes checked they would have caught it early. It’s a rare thing, but it happens and it’s a death sentence.”
There are roughly 850 people diagnosed with eye cancer in the UK each year(Image: Jason LaVeris, FilmMagicvia Getty Images)
According to NHS data, fewer than 1,000 (850) cases of eye cancer (ocular cancer) are diagnosed in the UK each year.
The organisation says: “There are a number of different types of cancer that affect the eyes, including: eye melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, lymphoma and retinoblastoma – a childhood cancer.”
Dame Helen tied the knot with her husband after they met on the set of the 1985 film White Nights. This was her first walk down the aisle and his third, despite having lived with actor Liam Neeson in the early 1980s.
She once confessed to having “no maternal instinct”, but found it a “great pleasure” to be involved with her husband’s children.
Dame Helen recently starred in the Thursday Murder Club(Image: HENRY NICHOLLS, AFP via Getty Images)
Last month, Dame Helen graced our screens again with her role in the adaptation of Richard Osman’s bestselling book The Thursday Murder Club. The film had a limited cinema release and also premiered on Netflix.
She has been in the running for an Oscar four times, clinching the award for her portrayal of the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2007.
Her performances in The Madness of King George, Gosford Park and The Last Station also earned her nominations.
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Over the years, the 80-year-old actress has starred in two of her husband’s films; White Nights in 1985 and Love Ranch in 2010.
