One week before Love Island debuts, Maya posted a loved-up photo of the couple on vacation in Italy. The pair recently officially signed to Instagram.
Maya Jama has finally confirmed her romance with footballer Ruben Dias after months of speculation, and fans couldn’t be happier for the glamorous couple. The Love Island host, 30, made things official with the Manchester City star, 28, during a sun-soaked trip to the Amalfi Coast just days before her return to ITV2 for the new series of the dating show on June 9.
Maya and Ruben shared a number of photos from their romantic Italian getaway, including a sweet mirror selfie of the couple in their hotel room and a video of herself diving into the sea.
Ruben Dias and Maya Jama’s new relationship have officially taken to Instagram.
One cheeky clip even had Ruben applying suncream with the caption “perv cam” on it. Malfi coasting, according to Maya’s caption. One fan gushed, “You two look so good together,” and another, “I’m sorry, Ruben must be special because I haven’t seen Maya hard launch anyone but one person.”
Let’s look back at how their romance began once the couple is officially together.
Maya and Ruben are believed to have first met at the European Music Awards (EMAs) in Manchester in November 2024. After the event, they followed each other on Instagram. By the end of the year, the pair were reportedly spotted ringing in New Year ’s Eve together.
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Maya was seen watching one of Ruben’s football matches in Portugal in March 2025, which only served to further escalate. At KSI’s Baller League football game at London’s Copper Box Arena, the pair were photographed kissing and cuddling a month later.
At the European Music Awards in November, it appears that the two have already met.
According to reports from The Sun, the relationship has become more serious in recent weeks. Maya is said to have introduced Ruben to her mum, Bernadette, and has been making an effort to learn her partner’s native language by taking Portuguese lessons.
Ruben Dias joined Manchester City in 2020 for a reported £57 million, and is one of the most respected defenders in the world. Before dating Maya he was in a relationship with Portuguese singer April Ivy, and has also previously been linked to former Love Island contestant Arabella Chi.
Maya’s love life has been in the spotlight ever since she dated Stormzy. The couple split up in 2019, which the rapper later called his “biggest regret”, and they reunited in 2023 to give things another try. However, they broke up again for good last summer, citing differences in what they wanted from their lives and for the future.
In an interview with the Evening Standard last November, which is around the time she met Ruben, Maya opened up about what she is currently looking for from a relationship.
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She said, “I’m feeling fussy right now, but the next person I meet wants to marry and have kids with me.” I don’t want anyone who isn’t going to improve the quality of my life because I’ve made it so good for myself alone.
I don’t want you unless you make me happy because I’m in this lovely bubble. I kind of don’t need you if you’re not. Maybe Ruben could be the person Maya needs because he became her partner and has now established a relationship with her.
Teodora Marcu, who was 26 weeks pregnant, was shot dead while holding her baby in her arms in the street.
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Pregnant reality star gunned down while holding toddler in shocking street attack(Image: Jam Press)
A reality star who was carrying her toddler daughter in her arms was shot dead in the street. Ex-boyfriend Teodora Marcu allegedly shot herself in the back when the police apprehended her in a car chase.
At the time of her death, she was 26 weeks pregnant. The suspected killer, identified as Robert Lupu, 49, allegedly shot the TV star, 23, at close range while she was carrying her three-year-old daughter.
According to reports, she left him after discovering that he had been lying about his marriage and that he had never accepted that the union had ended. On Saturday (May 31), the reality star was fatally shot outside the Cosmopolis residential complex in Bucharest, a city in Romania.
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Teodora and her children were invited to a children’s party at her cousin’s house, which became famous on a Love Island-style television program called Insula Iubirii in her native nation. Just before the attack, the pair immediately shared images of the party on social media.
When the victim reportedly received four shots in the chest and abdomen, they both left the party and went shopping for ice cream together. On the street, the relative tried to console her young daughter while offering her assistance.
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The suspect meanwhile, sat down and was later found by the police. According to what NeedToKnow reported, he allegedly shot himself when he was cornered.
Teodora found fame on a Love Island type show(Image: Jam Press)
The man used one of the two lethal firearms to end his life, according to the police. We are still looking into where the two weapons came from, according to experts from the Ilfov County Police Inspectorate’s Weapons Service.
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At the time of her death, Teodora and her partner Alexandru Marcu, who is a professional illusionist, were expecting their second child. A son would have been born to her.
The investigation into her alleged murder is still pending.
In a thrilling Isle of Man TT Superbike race that was reduced from six laps to four, Davey Todd held off a sustained charge from Michael Dunlop for the victory.
By the end of the race, the 29-year-old had a lead of just 1.2 seconds over Dunlop, and the 8TEN Racing BMW rider was able to claim the victory with his fastest lap of 135.327mph on his final circuit.
Todd won the Superstock and Senior races at the event in 2024, which is his third TT victory of his career.
After lap one, the two-time British Superstock 1000cc champion jumped 7.9 seconds to take command, but his advantage came in just a little less after lap two, which was 7.1 seconds.
Todd’s advantage was overcome when the riders passed Glen Helen on the final lap, but Todd lost six seconds to his rival in the pits, which left him trailing by 43.5 seconds in third.
This sounds wonderful, I’m over the moon. After the race, Todd thanked the boys for their excellent work.
“I was more anxious than ever this morning, but I was aware that the pace was right and that we weren’t going to overdo it.”
Top two rivals engaged in thrilling combat
The other fancied riders, Todd, Dunlop, and Harrison, predictably set the pace at the front from the beginning as Peter Hickman was ruled out of the race as a result of a qualifying crash at Kerrowmoar on Friday.
Todd’s lead was significantly diminished when Rokit BMW-mounted Dunlop and him pulled a long way off Harrison’s timesheets before the setback in the pits.
The outcome hung in the balance as the two battled over the next two laps of the 37.73-mile Mountain Course’s stone walls, but Dunlop won the race to the chequered flag despite posting a 135.416 on his final circuit.
Nathan Harrison, a manx rider, came out in fourth place on his Honda, followed by Australian David Johnson in fifth place on a Kawasaki, James Hiller in sixth place, and John McGuinness in seventh.
Conor Cummins, James Hind, James Hind, and Mike Browne were the riders who were the riders who were retiring after lap one and the Mountain section at lap one.
When the volcano erupted, thousands of tourists were merely meters away from the crater of Mount Etna, Italy. Tour groups were seen escaping down the mountain as Europe’s most active volcano ejected a sizable column of rock and ash into the air.
Steven Pressley has been appointed as the Scottish Premiership club’s new head coach, replacing former Coventry City and Falkirk City manager.
The former Scotland international left Brentford last week after four years as the club’s head of individual player development, claiming it was time for a “new challenge.”
Only on Sunday did it become clear that Linfield had permission to speak with Dundee after his 10-year reign as the Irish Premiership side’s sixth league champion.
Former St Mirren assistant David Longwell has also joined the club as a technical manager with a focus on player development as part of a restructuring of the Dens Park football department. He left after the season as caretaker manager with National League side Fylde.
According to Dundee, Pressley “brings with him a shared core value of player development and a rounded approach to winning football” with managing director John Nelms adding that he “broughs a shared core value of player development and a rounded approach to winning football.”
At the end of the 2004-2005 season, Pressley took his first steps into management as caretaker for two games while he was still a player with Heart of Midlothian. In February 2008, he was appointed Scotland manager George Burley’s assistant.
In his first position as full-time manager, he suffered relegation with Falkirk, but he then helped Coventry avoid relegation in League One despite the club becoming a bankrupt.
After a poor run of form, he was eventually fired, and he held the positions of league two leaders Carlisle United, Fleetwood Town, and Pafos, a Cypriot top-flight club.
Nelms stated on his club website that Steven will be installing a framework that delivers on the message that the senior players and the development players make a cohesive unit.
David comes to us with a distinguished history of helping both players along the border develop as well as north.
With the amount of young emerging talent, it is crucial that the football department’s restructuring will emphasize this even more. “Player development has always been at the forefront of our club.
Working closely with technical director Gordon Strachan and head coach Steven Pressley will be his main priority, according to Pressley. Within the first team setup, David will also play additional roles.
Longwell has worked for St. Mirren, Orlando, New York, Shrewsbury Town, and Burnley as an academy manager.
He took over as caretaker manager for Shrewsbury and Fylde in February as they began to lose ground after five months as an assistant to St Mirren. From December 2014, he took over the position.
Kyiv, Ukraine – Any description of Ukraine’s attacks on Russia’s fleet of strategic bombers could leave one scrambling for superlatives.
Forty-one planes – including supersonic Tu-22M long-range bombers, Tu-95 flying fortresses and A-50 early warning warplanes – were hit and damaged on Sunday on four airfields, including ones in the Arctic and Siberia, Ukrainian authorities and intelligence said.
Moscow did not comment on the damage to the planes but confirmed that the airfields were hit by “Ukrainian terrorist attacks”.
Videos posted by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), which planned and carried out the operation, which was called The Spiderweb, showed only a handful of planes being hit.
The strategic bombers have been used to launch ballistic and cruise missiles from Russian airspace to hit targets across Ukraine, causing wide scale damage and casualties.
The bomber fleet is one-third of Moscow’s “nuclear triad”, which also consists of nuclear missiles and missile-carrying warships.
According to some observers, the attack shattered Russia’s image of a nuclear superpower with a global reach.
The attack inadvertently “helped the West because it targeted [Russia’s] nuclear potential”, Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy head of the Ukrainian military’s general staff, told Al Jazeera.
While the assault decreases Russia’s potential to launch missiles on Ukraine, it will not affect the grinding ground hostilities along the crescent-shaped, 1,200km (745-mile) front line, he said.
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Romanenko compared The Spiderweb’s scope and inventiveness to a string of 2023 Ukrainian attacks against Russia’s Black Sea fleet that was mostly concentrated in annexed Crimea.
Although Ukraine’s navy consisted of a handful of small, decades-old warships that fit into a football field-sized harbour, Kyiv reinvented naval warfare by hitting and drowning Russian warships and submarines with missiles and air and sea drones.
Moscow hastily relocated the decimated Black Sea fleet eastwards to the port of Novorossiysk and no longer uses it to intercept Ukrainian civilian vessels loaded with grain and steel.
The Spiderweb caught Russia’s military strategists off-guard because they had designed air defences to thwart attacks by missiles or heavier, long-range strike drones.
Instead, the SBU used 117 toy-like first-person-view (FPV) drones, each costing just hundreds of dollars, that were hidden in wooden crates loaded onto trucks, it said.
Their unsuspecting drivers took them right next to the airfields – and were shocked to see them fly out and cause the damage that amounted to $7bn, the SBU said.
“The driver is running around in panic,” said a Russian man who filmed thick black smoke rising from the Olenegorsk airbase in Russia’s Arctic region of Murmansk, which borders Norway.
Other videos released by the SBU were filmed by drones as they were hitting the planes, causing thundering explosions and sky-high plumes of black smoke.
Russia’s air defence systems guarding the airfields were not designed to detect and hit the tiny FPV drones while radio jamming equipment that could have caused them to stray off course wasn’t on or malfunctioned.
The SBU added a humiliating detail – The Spiderweb’s command centre was located in an undisclosed location in Russia near an office of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Moscow’s main intelligence agency, which Russian President Vladimir Putin once headed.
“This is a slap on the face for Russia, for FSB, for Putin,” Romanenko said.
However, Kyiv didn’t specifically target the pillar of Russia’s nuclear triad.
“They are destroying Russian strategic aviation not because it’s capable of carrying missiles with nuclear warheads but because of its use to launch … nonnuclear [missiles],” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera.
The operation, which took 18 months to plan and execute, damaged a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
“This is our most far-reaching operation. Ukraine’s actions will definitely be in history textbooks,” he wrote on Telegram late on Sunday. “We’re doing everything to make Russia feel the necessity to end this war.”
The SBU used artificial intelligence algorithms to train the drones to recognise Soviet-era aircraft by using the planes displayed at an aviation museum in central Ukraine, the Clash Report military blogger said on Monday.
‘The very logic of the negotiations process won’t change’
The attack took place a day before Ukrainian and Russian diplomats convened in Istanbul to resume long-stalled peace talks.
But it will not affect the “logic” of the negotiations, a Kyiv-based political analyst said.
“Emotionally, psychologically and politically, the operation strengthens the positions of Ukrainian negotiators,” Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Penta think tank, told Al Jazeera. “But the very logic of the negotiations process won’t change.”
“Both sides will consider [US President] Donald Trump an arbiter, and whoever is first to leave the talks loses, ruins its negotiation positions with the United States,” Fesenko said.
Once again, the talks will likely show that the sides are not ready to settle as Russia is hoping to carve out more Ukrainian territory for itself and Ukraine is not going to throw in the towel.
“Russia wants to finish off Ukraine, and we’re showing that we will resist, we won’t give up, won’t capitulate,” Fesenko said.
By Monday, analysts using satellite imagery confirmed that 13 planes – eight Tu-95s, four Tu-22Ms and one An-12 – have been destroyed or damaged.
“What a remarkable success in a well-executed operation,” Chris Biggers, a military analyst based in Washington, DC, wrote on X next to a map showing the destruction of eight planes at the Belaya airbase in the Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia.
Five more planes have been destroyed at the Murmansk base, according to Oko Hora, a group of Ukrainian analysts.
The Spiderweb targeted three more airfields, two in western regions and one near Russia’s Pacific coast, according to a photo that the SBU posted showing its leader, Vasyl Malyuk, looking at a map of the strikes.
But so far, no damage to the airfields or the planes on them has been reported.
Russia is likely to respond to The Spiderweb with more massive drone and missile attacks on civilian sites.
“I’m afraid they’ll use Oreshnik again,” Fesenko said, referring to Russia’s most advanced ballistic missile, which can speed up to 12,300 kilometres per hour (7,610 miles per hour), or 10 times the speed of sound, and was used in November to strike a plant in eastern Ukraine.
Local resident Lyudmila Tsinkush leaves her house that was damaged in a Russian drone strike, in Zaporizhzhia on June 1, 2025 [Thomas Peter/Reuters]
