The drink is surprisingly fitting for the release of The Life of a Showgirl this October
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Taylor Swift enjoys the age-defying and immune system-boosting drink daily, according to reports(Image: Charles McQuillan/TAS24, Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
Taylor Swift fans might be interested to discover that one item she claims to drink every morning – and it could already be in your fridge at home. The 35-year-old pop sensation is reported to begin her day with a specific drink made from a common superfood
Millions of Taylor’s fans have been eagerly awaiting the drop of her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, which launches a new ‘era’ for the star. The singer chose the colour orange to represent the new wave of music – and it seems like it’s not the only orange thing in her life.
During an interview with Bon Appétit magazine, Taylor said that she pairs her “go-to breakfast” with a glass of orange juice. This budget-friendly supermarket staple not only satisfies thirst but also comes with a wealth of health benefits.
Oranges are brimming with vitamin C, an essential nutrient that the NHS acknowledges for supporting healthy skin, blood vessels, bones, and cartilage. Organic and unsweetened orange juice can contribute to overall wellness.
It’s also believed to strengthen the immune system, assisting in fighting off common colds and reducing illness duration. Consuming oranges proves especially valuable during winter months when bugs like norovirus, coronavirus, and flu circulate widely, reports Surrey Live.
Eating vitamin C-rich foods can also benefit people battling anaemia by enhancing iron absorption, leading to improved uptake and greater dietary advantages. Oranges also contain flavonoids, natural plant substances that primarily provide antioxidant qualities, potentially protecting the body from ailments, including heart disease and cancer
Oranges, packed with vitamin C, are a fantastic way to boost your body’s collagen levels. Vitamin C aids the body in producing this vital protein, which contributes to healthy skin, cartilage, blood vessels and more.
Collagen is responsible for giving our skin strength, elasticity, and hydration, resulting in a plump, firm and smooth appearance. Although our bodies naturally produce collagen, production begins to decline from our mid-20s onwards.
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According to NHS guidelines, a 150ml glass of unsweetened orange juice can be considered as one portion. However, it’s important to remember that regardless of how much you drink, juices like orange juice can only be counted once per day.
Here is how things stand on Friday, October 3, 2025:
Fighting
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine it was playing a dangerous game by striking near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and suggested Moscow could retaliate against nuclear plants controlled by Ukraine.
The plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power facility, has been cut off from external power sources for more than a week and is being cooled by emergency diesel generators, which were not designed for lengthy operations.
As both Ukraine and Russia blame each other for cutting off the external power at Zaporizhzhia and shelling the area, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia deliberately cut the external power as it was preparing to connect the station to its own grid.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said power had been fully restored in two areas of the border Sumy region hit by overnight Russian attacks. Repairs to power were also proceeding in the neighbouring Chernihiv region, where more than 300,000 consumers had been left without electricity after Russian strikes on Wednesday.
The Trump administration’s desire to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine may not be viable because current inventories are committed to the United States Navy and other uses, a US official and three sources have told the Reuters news agency.
President Putin warned any decision by the US to supply the missiles to Ukraine would trigger a major new escalation with Washington, but would not change the situation on the battlefield.
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 185 service personnel and 20 civilians in the latest prisoner swap.
Regional security
Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, southern Russia, Putin said Moscow would carry out a nuclear test if another nuclear power did so after saying that he had seen signs a country, which he did not name, was preparing to conduct tests.
Putin repeated his offer to the US of voluntarily rolling over an agreement capping the number of nuclear warheads in Russia’s arsenal when a key arms control treaty expires next year, if Washington agrees to do the same.
Putin said Moscow never had any issues with Sweden or Finland and that their decision to join the NATO military alliance was therefore “stupid”.
France’s detention of a tanker vessel suspected of operating for Russia’s “shadow fleet” is part of a new European strategy to block revenue funding Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said.
The Kremlin said France’s boarding of the tanker was “hysteria” that could create problems for global energy transportation routes, while Putin condemned it as an act of piracy.
Putin said the global economy would suffer without Russian oil, warning that prices would jump to more than $100 per barrel if its supplies were cut off.
Politics and diplomacy
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he saw great agreement among European leaders on supporting the use of frozen Russian assets to provide loans for Ukraine – to be repaid eventually using war reparations from Moscow – adding that he expects a concrete decision on the matter within three weeks.
Russia said the European Union’s idea was “delusional” and would prompt it to retaliate very harshly.
Maxim Kruglov, the deputy leader of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, has been charged with spreading lies about the Russian army and could face up to 10 years in jail if found guilty.
Kruglov’s lawyer said her client had been charged over two posts he had made on the Telegram messaging app: One post referred to UN data about the number of people killed in the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, which Russia took control of in May 2022, and another to events in Bucha, a town north of Kyiv, in March 2022.
Voters in the Czech Republic are likely to oust their centre-right government in an election on Friday and Saturday, with polls favouring populist billionaire Andrej Babis to return to power on pledges to raise wages and lift growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.
Venezuela’s government has blasted an “illegal incursion” near its borders by United States warplanes and accused the US of “military harassment” and threatening the “security of the nation”.
Venezuelan Defence Minister General Vladimir Padrino said on Thursday that at least five F-35 fighter jets had been detected, in what he describes as a threat that “US imperialism has dared to bring close to the Venezuelan coast”.
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“We’re watching them, I want you to know. And I want you to know that this doesn’t intimidate us. It doesn’t intimidate the people of Venezuela,” Padrino said, speaking from an airbase, according to the Agencia Venezuela news outlet.
“The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation,” Padrino said.
“I denounce before the world the military harassment, the military threat by the US government against the people of Venezuela, who want peace, work and happiness,” he said.
The presence of the US combat planes was detected by the country’s air defences, air traffic control systems at Maiquetia international airport, which serves the capital Caracas, as well as a commercial airliner, Venezuelan authorities said.
In a joint statement, Venezuela’s foreign and defence ministries said the US combat planes were detected 75km (46.6 miles) “from our shores”. If the planes came no closer than the distance mentioned by Venezuelan authorities, then they would not have violated the country’s airspace, which extends about 12 nautical miles, or 22km, off the coast.
Still, the ministries accused the US of flouting international law and jeopardising civil aviation in the Caribbean Sea.
Venezuela “urges US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth to immediately cease his reckless, thrill-seeking and warmongering posture”, which is disturbing the peace of the Caribbean, the statement added.
Venezuela denuncia incursión ilegal de aviones de combate de EEUU en sus costas: «Provocación que amenaza la soberanía nacional» (+Comunicado)https://t.co/GnR4wLRDzz
The Pentagon has yet to respond to requests for comment from media organisations.
US media reported earlier on Thursday that President Donald Trump has notified Congress that the US is now engaged in “non-international armed conflict” against drug cartels, members of which would now be considered “unlawful combatants”.
Trump’s move to a more formal war footing follows on from the US administration’s rebranding of Latin American drug cartels as “narco-terrorists” who are seeking to destabilise the US by trafficking illegal drugs across US borders.
The move follows weeks of tension with Venezuela after Trump dispatched US F-35 stealth fighter jets to Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean, as part of the biggest military deployment in Latin America in decades and which has already seen air attacks on boats off the Venezuelan coast that the US president alleged were involved in drug trafficking.
So far, 14 people have been killed in the US attacks off Venezuela that officials in Caracas and several independent experts have described as extrajudicial killings.
More than 30 legal experts have called on the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to bar Israel and its clubs from competitions over the atrocities in Gaza.
The letter, addressed to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Thursday, said banning Israel is “imperative”, citing a report by United Nations investigators that confirmed Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians.
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It urged the football governing body and its members to “fulfil their legal and moral obligations to uphold international law, and move forward with an immediate and complete ban of Israeli football”.
The letter highlighted the damage that Israel is inflicting on the sport in Gaza. At least 421 Palestinian footballers have been killed since Israel began its military offensive in October 2023, and the letter explained that Israel’s bombing campaign is “systematically destroying Gaza’s football infrastructure”.
“These acts have decimated an entire generation of athletes, eroding the fabric of Palestinian sport,” it read.
“The failure of the Israel Football Association (IFA) to challenge these violations implicates it in this system of oppression, rendering its participation in UEFA competitions untenable.”
The letter’s signatories included Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, the executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, as well as several former UN experts and scholars in international law.
“UEFA must not be complicit in sports-washing such flagrant breaches of international law, including but not limited to the act of genocide,” the statement said.
It comes amid growing international outrage at Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, where the Israeli military has killed more than 66,000 people and turned most of the enclave into rubble.
A blockade on humanitarian aid in the territory has also sparked deadly hunger, leading to a declaration of famine in August for more than half a million people in Gaza.
Swift action against Russia
Craig Mokhiber, a former director for the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said allowing a country that commits genocide to participate in sports allows for its “normalisation”. That, in turn, “is an act of complicity”.
“We remember well the situation in apartheid South Africa, where the world unified to isolate the regime in order to change its behaviour, and that included – very importantly – sports boycotts and cultural boycotts,” Mokhiber told Al Jazeera.
The international football governing body FIFA suspended South Africa in 1961 due to the country’s apartheid regime. The move was seen as a historic triumph for the global movement to end the violence and segregation.
More recently, in 2022, both FIFA and UEFA suspended Russia within days of it launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“It’s a stunning level of hypocrisy and double standards that they reacted so quickly and so forcefully with regard to Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine, and yet have been dragging their feet in trying to avoid action when it comes to a full-blown genocide by a regime that has been certified as practising apartheid,” said Mokhiber.
Palestinian rights advocates have been calling to ban Israel from world football competitions for decades, in part because Israel has professional teams based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
FIFA’s rules unambiguously state that “member associations and their clubs may not play on the territory of another member association without the latter’s approval”.
Yet, Israel’s clubs and national teams continue to participate in international competitions through FIFA and UEFA.
Although based in West Asia, Israel joined UEFA in 1994 amid Arab and Muslim boycotts of its teams.
Growing push to ban Israel
As the attacks on Gaza continue, Israel’s national team is participating in the European World Cup qualifiers, and its clubs are competing in UEFA’s continental tournaments, with Maccabi Tel Aviv FC featured in this season’s Europa League.
But calls for ostracising Israel from world football have been gaining momentum in recent months.
Football fans from Glasgow to Paris to Rome to Bilbao have been flying Palestinian flags to show solidarity with Gaza, despite restrictions against such displays.
After Israel killed Palestinian football legend Suleiman al-Obeid in an August air strike, there were also appeals for the violence to end.
One such call came from UEFA itself. The federation published the late footballer’s photo on the social media platform X with the caption: “Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the ‘Palestinian Pele’. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.”
But Liverpool star Mohamed Salah criticised UEFA for failing to mention who killed him. “Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?” Salah wrote in a response.
Days later, the pre-game presentation of the UEFA Super Cup featured a banner that said: “Stop killing civilians. Stop killing children.”
The UEFA Foundation also included two Palestinian refugee children in the medal ceremony.
According to multiple news reports from Europe, UEFA was going to vote to suspend Israel soon, but the move was postponed after United States President Donald Trump released a ceasefire plan for Gaza.
Thursday’s letter warned UEFA that Trump’s proposal does not absolve the federation of its responsibility to ban Israel.
“This is because, while the plan purports to offer a pathway to peace, in reality it undermines international law, Palestinian sovereignty, and the principles of self-determination,” it read.
“It does not impose any obligations on the State of Israel, as the occupying power in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It also fails to address the legal consequences of the genocide in Gaza or make any demands of Israel to provide reparations to the Palestinians. Peace cannot be achieved without justice and accountability.”
Human rights nonprofit weighs in
On Wednesday, Amnesty International also called on FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israel.
“As Israel’s national football team gears up for World Cup qualifiers against Norway and Italy, Israel continues to perpetrate genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” the group’s chief, Agnes Callamard, said in a statement.
“At the same time, Israel is brutally expanding its illegal settlements and legitimizing illegal outposts in the West Bank as part of its unlawful occupation of Palestinian Territory.”
Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, no country or club in Europe has withdrawn outright in protest from a game against Israeli teams despite the growing international pleas to shun the country.
A boycott of a match against Israel would give Israel an automatic 3-0 victory.
Ashish Prashar – a campaign director at Game Over Israel, the group that helped organise Thursday’s letter – highlighted football’s role in building a global community, as the most popular sport in the world by far.
“Culture is the way to normalise that in a way that is more valuable to the perpetrators of the genocide than even having a seat at the UN,” Prashar told Al Jazeera.
“So, it is imperative to follow the model that was put before us with apartheid South Africa, of knocking Israel out of culture, but specifically sports and starting with football.”
Game Over Israel has been leading a media campaign underscoring the genocide in Gaza and calling for a football boycott of the country.
Last month, the group sponsored a billboard in New York City’s bustling Times Square that said, “Israel is committing genocide. Soccer federations: Boycott Israel.”
US President Donald Trump stands next to FIFA president Gianni Infantino after Chelsea won against Paris St Germain in the FIFA Club World Cup final in New Jersey on July 13 [File: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters]
‘FIFA cannot solve geopolitical problems’
Israel’s top ally, the US, is co-hosting the World Cup next year, and President Trump has been chummy with FIFA chief Gianni Infantino.
In light of the leaders’ warm relationship, Prashar said he is not optimistic that the international federation will make a move against Israel. But he added that individual countries can force FIFA’s hand if they announce boycotts of Israel.
On Thursday, Infantino suggested that FIFA is not ready to penalise the US ally.
“FIFA cannot solve geopolitical problems, but it can and must promote football around the world by harnessing its unifying, educational, cultural and humanitarian values,” he said in a statement.
Mokhiber, the former UN expert, said football should bring people together around positive values, not around a country committing a genocide.
“We know very well how close Infantino is to Donald Trump,” Mokhiber said. “I’m not surprised at all he would make that kind of a statement. I would ask him to look at his history books and see that bans and boycotts in football have been a part of FIFA since the very beginning.”
Prashar also noted the historical precedents and questioned where FIFA would draw the line.
“Gianni Infantino is normalising genocide,” he told Al Jazeera. “Would he have let Nazi Germany play while they were committing the genocide? That is the question I would ask him.”
After Rangers’ opening-day draw at Motherwell, Russell Martin contended that what was undermining his team was “not really tactical, it’s a mentality problem”.
That was two months ago. Yet when he spoke following the haphazard 2-1 Europa League defeat on Thursday, there was a enervating familiarity about how the Rangers head coach explained away the outcome.
“It’s mentality, not a technical or tactical problem,” Martin said.
Another game, another Groundhog Day for Rangers.
What unfolds on the pitch is predictable, while Martin’s assessment has a sense of the inevitable about it too.
There is nothing to be said about the slow start and shoddy defending that allowed Sturm Graz to take command of this Europa League tie that hasn’t already been exhausted by players, pundits and punters alike.
The common denominator is that there is a problem at Ibrox. The weekly protests point to that. The five wins in 16 games make it even more obvious.
‘We hurt ourselves’ – Martin
Besides the small step on the road to recovery that was the Scottish Premiership win at Livingston at the weekend, Rangers haven’t managed to lose sight of the starting blocks.
In Austria, they had an opportunity to build a bit of momentum and make a case for their head coach, who remains under huge pressure.
Instead, a poor throw-in from James Tavernier was lofted forward by Dimitri Lavalee, controlled by Maurice Malone, and finished by Tomi Horvat. Seven minutes had elapsed.
If that was a defensive mishap, the second goal was a defensive calamity.
A high line at a deep free-kick was sliced open with one delightful daisy-cutter, and a scrambling Jack Butland was left blushing for a second time in the first half.
“Schoolboy stuff,” said former Rangers right-back Alan Hutton.
Two mistakes due to the Ibrox side’s mentality, according to Martin. Nothing to do with their set-up, system or style.
“The difference from the first half-hour to the next 60 minutes was too far apart really,” the head coach said. “It’s concentration, it’s mentality.
“I’m frustrated because we give away two poor goals, soft goals. We did so much work on them recently we were just not alive.
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‘I don’t know what problem is’ – Cornelius
Rangers hirpled on until half-time. Then things changed.
Jayden Meghoma and Oliver Antman were swapped for Max Aarons and Bojan Miovski in what were far from like-for-like changes.
It meant Derek Cornelius was shunted to left-back, with Tavernier at centre-back. Eye-popping on paper, positive on the pitch.
With a new lease of life about them – though not quite the domination Martin suggested – Djeidi Gassama deservedly hauled one back for Rangers.
But as has been the case so often this season, the architects of their own downfall didn’t attempt to recover until the damage was done.
“We were naive and found ourselves down at 2-0, then we were chasing the game,” Cornelius told TNT Sports.
“We didn’t start well, I don’t know what the problem is. It seems like there’s moments where everyone is switched on and tuned in and then it can switch, I don’t know why.
‘It’s become the norm’ – what the fans say
David: Just go. It’s just absolute drivel every time Martin opens his mouth. He must be watching different games to everyone else. Totally delusional.
Steve: There is clearly a disconnect between the manager and the players. If they can’t implement simple tactics such as how to correctly defend a throw-in, then something is badly wrong.
Robert: Martin has to go before this is allowed to get any worse. I don’t even get surprised anymore at Rangers losing, its becoming the norm. Next home match attendance will be interesting.
Stewart: Real leaders don’t blame their men. For too long Martin has ignored his very open tactics when looking at a match. He has to leave. Defending is part of football. He clearly does not coach it.
After Rangers’ opening-day draw at Motherwell, Russell Martin contended that what was undermining his team was “not really tactical, it’s a mentality problem”.
That was two months ago. Yet when he spoke following the haphazard 2-1 Europa League defeat on Thursday, there was a enervating familiarity about how the Rangers head coach explained away the outcome.
“It’s mentality, not a technical or tactical problem,” Martin said.
Another game, another Groundhog Day for Rangers.
What unfolds on the pitch is predictable, while Martin’s assessment has a sense of the inevitable about it too.
There is nothing to be said about the slow start and shoddy defending that allowed Sturm Graz to take command of this Europa League tie that hasn’t already been exhausted by players, pundits and punters alike.
The common denominator is that there is a problem at Ibrox. The weekly protests point to that. The five wins in 16 games make it even more obvious.
‘We hurt ourselves’ – Martin
Besides the small step on the road to recovery that was the Scottish Premiership win at Livingston at the weekend, Rangers haven’t managed to lose sight of the starting blocks.
In Austria, they had an opportunity to build a bit of momentum and make a case for their head coach, who remains under huge pressure.
Instead, a poor throw-in from James Tavernier was lofted forward by Dimitri Lavalee, controlled by Maurice Malone, and finished by Tomi Horvat. Seven minutes had elapsed.
If that was a defensive mishap, the second goal was a defensive calamity.
A high line at a deep free-kick was sliced open with one delightful daisy-cutter, and a scrambling Jack Butland was left blushing for a second time in the first half.
“Schoolboy stuff,” said former Rangers right-back Alan Hutton.
Two mistakes due to the Ibrox side’s mentality, according to Martin. Nothing to do with their set-up, system or style.
“The difference from the first half-hour to the next 60 minutes was too far apart really,” the head coach said. “It’s concentration, it’s mentality.
“I’m frustrated because we give away two poor goals, soft goals. We did so much work on them recently we were just not alive.
SNS
‘I don’t know what problem is’ – Cornelius
Rangers hirpled on until half-time. Then things changed.
Jayden Meghoma and Oliver Antman were swapped for Max Aarons and Bojan Miovski in what were far from like-for-like changes.
It meant Derek Cornelius was shunted to left-back, with Tavernier at centre-back. Eye-popping on paper, positive on the pitch.
With a new lease of life about them – though not quite the domination Martin suggested – Djeidi Gassama deservedly hauled one back for Rangers.
But as has been the case so often this season, the architects of their own downfall didn’t attempt to recover until the damage was done.
“We were naive and found ourselves down at 2-0, then we were chasing the game,” Cornelius told TNT Sports.
“We didn’t start well, I don’t know what the problem is. It seems like there’s moments where everyone is switched on and tuned in and then it can switch, I don’t know why.
‘It’s become the norm’ – what the fans say
David: Just go. It’s just absolute drivel every time Martin opens his mouth. He must be watching different games to everyone else. Totally delusional.
Steve: There is clearly a disconnect between the manager and the players. If they can’t implement simple tactics such as how to correctly defend a throw-in, then something is badly wrong.
Robert: Martin has to go before this is allowed to get any worse. I don’t even get surprised anymore at Rangers losing, its becoming the norm. Next home match attendance will be interesting.
Stewart: Real leaders don’t blame their men. For too long Martin has ignored his very open tactics when looking at a match. He has to leave. Defending is part of football. He clearly does not coach it.
