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Aston Merrygold rushed to hospital as JLS star shares ambulance snap

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Aston Merrygold has been rushed to the hospital, he’s revealed. The musician who shot to fame on The X Factor took to his Instagram Stories to share a collection of selfies taken in the back of an ambulance. 37-year-old Aston was hooked to an intravenous line as he was strapped to a stretcher while on board the emergency vehicle.

“It’s been an interesting 13 hours,” he commented. One image saw Aston lying with a pair of sunglasses on, while a second saw a sticky tab on the back of his hand as he put his thumb up for the selfie. The Beat Again hitmaker hasn’t disclosed the reasoning behind his hospital admission nor why he required an ambulance.





Aston Merrygold has been rushed to hospital


Aston Merrygold has been rushed to the hospital

Aston’s hospitalisation comes just days after he and his bandmates made a surprise appearance at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball on Saturday, sending Wembley Stadium into shock when they appeared on stage.

The band joined the likes of Dasha, Benson Boone, Mariah Carey and JADE for the star-studded event. Screams and cheers erupted throughout Wembley Stadium as they took to the stage.

JLS performed a setlist of four of their hit songs, including The Club Is Alive, Beat Again, She Makes Me Wanna and Everybody In Love.






JLS


JLS recently performed at Summertime Ball
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The group spoke of their excitement at playing Summertime Ball on their official Instagram page. “What an incredible 360 experience it was being back on the Wembley stage for the Capital Summertime Ball! AND WHAT A MOMENT!!” they wrote.

“Thank you once again to @capitalofficial and @barclaycarduk for having us. Bring on The Club Is Alive Tour 2025!!!” Fans were over the moon with the surprise performance.

One user wrote in the comment section: “Best surprise ever !!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU GUYS,” and another posted: “I ran from toilet because i heard the club is alive starting, been to see you three times before and you deliver every time!!”

“Wish I could have been there @jlsofficial,” one said and another commented: “Still can’t believe it [crying emojis] Best surprise of all time.”

The Mirror has approached Aston’s spokesperson for comment.

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Aston Merrygold rushed to hospital as JLS star shares ambulance snap

By in Entertainment News, News

Aston Merrygold has been rushed to the hospital, he’s revealed. The musician who shot to fame on The X Factor took to his Instagram Stories to share a collection of selfies taken in the back of an ambulance. 37-year-old Aston was hooked to an intravenous line as he was strapped to a stretcher while on board the emergency vehicle.

“It’s been an interesting 13 hours”, he commented. One image saw Aston lying with a pair of sunglasses on, while a second saw a sticky tab on the back of his hand as he put his thumb up for the selfie. The Beat Again hitmaker hasn’t disclosed the reasoning behind his hospital admission nor why he required an ambulance.

Aston Merrygold has been rushed to hospital
Aston Merrygold has been rushed to the hospital

Aston’s hospitalisation comes just days after he and his bandmates made a surprise appearance at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball on Saturday, sending Wembley Stadium into shock when they appeared on stage.

The band joined the likes of Dasha, Benson Boone, Mariah Carey and JADE for the star-studded event. Screams and cheers erupted throughout Wembley Stadium as they took to the stage.

JLS performed a setlist of four of their hit songs, including The Club Is Alive, Beat Again, She Makes Me Wanna and Everybody In Love.

The group spoke of their excitement at playing Summertime Ball on their official Instagram page. “What an incredible 360 experience it was being back on the Wembley stage for the Capital Summertime Ball! AND WHAT A MOMENT!”! they wrote.

“Thank you once again to @capitalofficial and @barclaycarduk for having us. Bring on The Club Is Alive Tour 2025!!”! Fans were over the moon with the surprise performance.

One user wrote in the comment section: “Best surprise ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU GUYS”, and another posted: “I ran from toilet because i heard the club is alive starting, been to see you three times before and you deliver every time! “!

One person said, “Wish I could have been there, @jlsofficial,” and another responded, “It’s the best surprise of all time. “

Aston’s spokesperson has been contacted for comment by The Mirror.

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Afghan-born Nadim back in Denmark squad for Euros

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Adwaidh Rajan
BBC Sport journalist

Denmark forward Nadia Nadim will return to the national team following an 18-month absence after she was named in their 23-player squad for next month’s Euro 2025.

Nadim, 37, represented Denmark in the 2022 edition in England but has not played for the country since a Nation’s League defeat by Germany in December 2023.

The Afghan-born player spent last season on loan at Swedish side Hammarby and has also played for Manchester City, Paris St-Germain and AC Milan.

Nadim has won more than 100 caps for Denmark and guided them to a runner-up finish in Euro 2017 – scoring in a 4-2 defeat by the Netherlands in the final.

“We see Nadia as a player capable of making a difference for us”, Denmark head coach Andree Jeglertz told public television network DR.

“She also has experience in major tournaments, which I believe could be valuable for the squad”.

A medical graduate, Nadim fled Afghanistan with her mother and four sisters when she was 11 after her father was executed by the Taliban.

The Denmark squad is headlined by captain and former Chelsea forward Pernille Harder while Crystal Palace defender Katrine Veje and identical twins Sara and Karen Holmgaard, both playing for Everton, are also called up.

Denmark squad

Goalkeepers: Alberte Vingum (HB Koge), Kathrine Larsen (Sampdoria), Maja Bay Ostergaard (Vaxjo).

Defenders: Emma Faerge (Fiorentina), Frederikke Thogersen (Roma), Isabella Obaze (Portland Thorns), Katrine Veje (Crystal Palace), Sanne Troelsgaard (Roma), Sara Holmgaard (Everton), Sara Thrige (PSV Eindhoven), Stine Ballisager (Fiorentina).

Midfielders: Emma Snerle (Fiorentina), Janni Thomsen (Utah Royals), Josefine Hasbo (Gotham FC), Karen Holmgaard (Everton), Kathrine Kuhl (Roma), Rikke Madsen (Everton).

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Streaming Platform Deezer Starts Flagging AI-Generated Music

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In what it called a global first, French streaming service Deezer told AFP on Friday that it is now alerting users when they discover music that has been identified as entirely produced by artificial intelligence.

A torrent of AI-generated tracks is being uploaded daily, according to Deezer’s chief executive Alexis Lanternier’s announcement, which comes in response to repeated statements from the platform from Swedish streaming service Spotify.

Deezer reported in January that it was adding 10, 000 AI tracks per day, up from the previous month’s figure of about 18, 000 in an April statement.

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According to Lanternier, the company “wants to make sure that tracks created from a quick text prompt inserted into a music generator like Suno or Udio aren’t being taken away” from artists.

Deezer’s library does not contain any AI tracks, but instead they are demonetized to prevent unfairly lowering the royalties of human musicians.

A notice stating “content generated by AI” is now displayed on albums containing tracks that Deezer claims are a streaming service’s first-ever global flagging feature.

Lanternier claimed that Deezer’s patented detection system was 99 percent capable of identifying AI provenance markers.

An audio signal is a complex collection of information, according to Wikipedia. We can identify the little sounds that only they make when AI algorithms create new songs, he said.

It is visible in the audio signal but not audible to the human ear.

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Deezer is a relative savior when compared to Spotify, which has 268 million subscribers and 9.7 million worldwide, the majority of whom are in France.

With Universal Music Group, the biggest label in the world, signed a deal in January that would better reward artists and other rights holders.

However, Spotify has not yet demonetized AI content like Deezer.

Putin says Russian recession must not happen ‘under any circumstances’

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Russia’s economy must not slide into recession, President Vladimir Putin said, after economists warned for months of a slowdown in growth.

Putin told attendees, including government ministers and central bankers, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday that some specialists and experts were “pointing to the risks of stagnation and even a recession”.

“This must not be allowed to happen under any circumstances”, he said.

“We need to pursue a competent, well-thought-out budgetary, tax and monetary policy”, he added.

Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Thursday that the economy was on the verge of slipping into a recession, and monetary policy decisions would determine whether it falls into one or not.

In October, the Bank of Russia increased its key interest rate to the highest level since the early 2000s to curb high inflation, only to cut it by one percentage point to 20 percent earlier this month.

Moreover, economists warned for months of a slowdown in the economy, with the country posting its slowest quarterly expansion in two years during the first quarter of 2025.

However, the Kremlin said it expected the slowdown due to two years of rapid expansion as it increased military expenditure to fund its war against Ukraine.

Yet, Putin denied that the defence industry was solely driving the economy. “Yes, of course, the defence industry played its part in this regard, but so did the financial and IT industries”, he said.

He added that the economy needed “balanced growth”, calling on officials to keep a “close eye on all indicators of the health of our industries, companies and even individual enterprises”.

At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday that it was time to “cut the]interest] rate and start heating up the economy”.

German Gref, CEO of Russia’s largest lender Sberbank SBER. MM also called for faster rate cuts to incentivise companies to invest.

Growth of military industries

Putin has used the annual economic forum to highlight Russia’s economic prowess and encourage foreign investment, but Western executives shunned it since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, leaving it to business leaders from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The economy, hit with a slew of Western sanctions, has so far outperformed predictions. High defence spending has propelled growth and kept unemployment low despite fuelling inflation.

Large recruiting bonuses for military enlistees and death benefits for those killed in Ukraine have also put more income into the country’s poorer regions. But over the long term, inflation and a lack of foreign investments pose threats to the economy.

Economists have warned about the economy’s continuing downward pressure and the possibility that it will stagnate as a result of inadequate investment in other than the military.

Putin claimed that the expansion of military-related industries contributed to the development of modern technologies for the military.

He vowed to keep up the modernization of the military, drawing inspiration from the experiences of the conflict in Ukraine.

He declared, “We will use modern military infrastructure facilities, modernize the Russian armed forces’ combat capabilities, and equip them with the most modern technology, weapons, and equipment,” and use of new technology.

’50 years of work’ – Cercene in shock 33-1 Ascot win

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The 33-year-old outsider Cercene won the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot in a thrilling finish.

The French-trained favorite Zarigana, the jockey who won, led the way with January in third place, but his mount rallied to win by half a length.

The trainers who have been training in Ireland since 1977, Joe Murphy, who has won the award, said, “This is 50 years of work, that’s what it is, of love and care, and it’s just a whole group of people together.”

“Heaven on Earth,” says the phrase.

Cercene failed to win the Irish 1, 000 Guineas, despite placing third overall.

“It’s unbelievable. She wanted to win, and she’s very tough. It’s magic to do this at Royal Ascot, jockey Carroll said.

Another surprise winner came on Friday in the top-level Group One match, where Shadow Of Light, who was favorite, could only finish fifth despite a 25-1 chance of winning the Commonwealth Cup.

The winner, who is known as “Flip Flop,” was ridden by Richard Kingscote from stall one for Harry Eustace, a seasoned trainer.

After winning the first Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday with Docklands, Eustace was celebrating a top-level Group One double.

The horses have arrived in excellent condition, according to Eustace, despite being the hardest place on earth.

Trainer Charlie Appleby said the good going going made him unsuitable for the youngster and that he was third in the 2, 000 Guineas last year.

The Albany Stakes saw the end of Aidan O’Brien’s dominance of this week’s junior races with the training of Venetian Sun, trained by Karl Burke.

Horses drawn high performed well on Thursday, but Clifford Lee’s 7-1 winner also advanced from stall one on Friday, defeating O’Brien’s favorite Signora, who is now ninth in ninth place.

The best two-year filly I’ve trained, Burke said, “I think she’s very special.”

Brighton and Hove Albion’s heir Tony Bloom owns a portion of Venetian Sun, hoping that she will compete in the 1,000 Guineas in the coming year.

Ryan Moore won the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes for the sixth time with Ethical Diamond, trained by Willie Mullins.

The 3-1 favorite finished fourth last year, but this time it was without a doubt.

Shoemark excels as a King’s teen out of luck.

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Warren Fentiman, a young jockey for King Charles, rode for him in his biggest performance so far.

The 17-year-old finished 16th overall in the Sandringham Stakes aboard Purple Rainbow, which was trained by William Haggas for King and Queen Camilla’s owners.

This week, the Royal couple finished third behind the field.

The 22-1 chance Never Let Go, trained by Ed Walker, was the winner for Kieran Shoemark in the Sandringham.

Shoemark was claiming his second Royal Ascot crown, after losing his position to trainers John and Thady Gosden last month.

The King Edward VII Stakes winner was steered by Rossa Ryan, who trained Ralph Beckett, by 11-8 favorite Amiloc.

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