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‘Very flattering’ White Stuff embroidered midi dress that ‘doesn’t crease’ axed to £38 from £75

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This embroidered midi dress from White Stuff is hailed as “ideal for summer” because of its flattering fit and endless styling potential. It’s now available for sale.

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‘Flattering’ White Stuff embroidered dress that ‘doesn’t crease’ gets £37 off(Image: White Stuff)

Look no further than this for your next go-to outfit to make you feel stylish through the spring and summer months without breaking the bank. Over 1600 customers gave this embroidered midi dress a glowing 5-star rating, making it the best choice of its kind.

This midi dress, which is billed as the ideal outfit for any occasion, is now available for £38, down from £75 during White Stuff’s spring sale. Smart shoppers should make a quick purchase before this delectable discount disappears because this item is still available in all sizes, from 6 to 24.

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This exact silky halterneck dress is still in stock and Meghan Markle wore it this spring.

Rua Embroidered Dress in Dusty Green
The Rua Embroidered Dress in Dusty Green is now £38 down from £75(Image: White Stuff)

The Rua dress is wearable in both regular and petite sizes and is timeless and elegant. It can be worn to work or a meal out at the office.

This ensemble features two hidden side pockets, making it fashionable and practical, and features a twist on the well-known Rua dress design. For a flattering, figure-hugging look, this dress has a relaxed fit and gathered waist. It’s made with a blend of Tencel Modal and organic cotton, making it both soft and comfortable to wear.

The dress has a button-up front and a sharp color that make it ideal for work settings, along with a retro-esque balloon long sleeve and a sharp front. The dress has a midi length and a flowy skirt that allows for breathability in warmer weather.

One 5-star reviewer exclaims, “Super colors, great petite fit, and super colors.” These dresses are all amazing, and I have several of them. Depending on the occasion, they can be dressed up or down.

Another gushes, “A lovely, well-fitting dress that is ideal for summer.”

This buyer, who also wears “Beautiful dress,” causes even more adoration. Excellent, soft fabric that hangs well and doesn’t crease. Very attractive design

Fourth note: “Lovely casual dress that is very comfortable to wear. Excellent quality and a fantastic value during the sale.

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This customer raves, “Extremely comfortable style and lovely material a practical dress for all occasions.”

Pope Francis’s funeral to be less costly than his predecessors’

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The Roman Catholic Church is preparing to lay him to rest as hundreds of thousands of mourners gather around the world to mark his passing, even though his funeral costs are likely to be significantly less than those of his predecessors.

The faithful can pay their respects by placing Francis’ body in St. Peter’s Basilica since Wednesday. Donald Trump’s funeral, which is scheduled for Saturday morning, is also expected to be attended by world leaders, including US President.

Francis requested a more modest burial than his predecessors. He made a change to the customary three-coffin burial customs of 2024, which included two made of cypress and oak and one made of lead, one inside the other. Popes can now be interred in a single coffin made of wood and lined with zinc in accordance with the new regulations. According to Francis’ wishes, the rule change also permits burial outside the Vatican.

He had requested a simple burial in the ground at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, a church outside the Vatican’s walls. Francis will be the first pope to be interred outside the Vatican since the 1600s and the first in more than 100 years.

Francis was renowned for adopting a modest lifestyle when he became papacy in 2013. The pope, who was born in Argentina, frequently traveled in modest vehicles and chose to reside in the Vatican guest house rather than the lavish Apostolic Palace.

He “always was more enthusiastic about visiting places where regular people lived, not the palaces, the halls of power, and so on.” That was very typical of him, according to Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

Francis stated in his final will and testament that an unnamed benefactor would pay for his burial and would send it to Santa Maria Maggiore’s Papal Basilica.

Because in Catholicism, symbols are very significant, and this is one of those situations, Faggioli continued.

The financial woes of Vatican loom large.

The Vatican has kept a tight-lipped about Francis’s funeral’s specific costs, but it has not responded to inquiries for information.

Papal funerals have historically cost millions of dollars. The Vatican lost $20 million in 1978, or more than $101 million today, as a result of the pope’s deaths and subsequent conclave. More recently, Pope Benedict XVI’s election and Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005 cost $9 million (roughly $14.7 million in current dollars).

The Church made $ 12.4 million in revenue that year from a tourist influx to its museums. Donations, stocks, bonds, real estate, and other investments are additional sources of income.

However, the Church has experienced significant financial strain in recent years. Just three days before his hospitalization in late February, Francis frequently fought with cardinals about church finances. He was the author of numerous financial reforms, some of which caused backlash, including slashing executive pay.

According to two sources with knowledge of the situation, the Church experienced a $87 million budget deficit just last year, according to Reuters news agency. Since 2022, the Vatican has not released a full budget.

Because this church is much bigger, the Vatican needs money, and it needs money. There are fewer Catholics in wealthy nations as a result of the service it provides to many more people in poor nations. And so the imbalance originates, according to Faggioli.

Rome is a city of crowds.

Due to Holy Week, which attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, the city of Rome and the Vatican in particular, was already crowded.

Tens of thousands have already paid their respects to Francis’s passing or to attend the public viewing of his body, though it is still unknown how many will do so.

The crowds have been sizable in the past. In 1978, an estimated 100, 000 people gathered to mourn Paul VI. Pope John Paul II’s funeral service in Rome in 2005 reportedly attracted four million mourners. In contrast, Pope Benedict’s funeral was attended by an estimated 50, 000 people in St. Peter’s Square in January 2023, with more than 136, 000 people watching it on the Vatican’s YouTube livestream as the Church added the option for recent papal funerals for those who won’t be in Rome.

Glasgow’s Williamson fronts up as Bulls promise charge

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URC: Glasgow Bulls vs. Warriors

Glasgow’s Scotsoun Stadium Date: Friday, April 25; Time: 19:35 BST

You wouldn’t be able to disagree when big Max Williamson refers to Friday night’s encounter between the Glasgow Warriors and the Bulls as a “massive battle” even though he wasn’t the size of a large tower block.

It doesn’t get much bigger until Williamson, who is recovering from four months of injury-related illness in Glasgow’s second row, wins. It’s a repeat of last year’s final and a clash of second and third places in the table this year.

Both the rhetoric and the stakes are high. When the fixtures were released, Bulls head coach Jake White claimed this week that everyone on his team’s wall had the game’s date printed on it.

It made reference to the anxiety Glasgow had over them in Pretoria last summer, when the Bulls took a 13-0 lead in the United Rugby Championship Grand Final only for the underdogs to retaliate and defeat them.

From the beginning of the pre-season, White of Friday night says, “I can promise you, 25 April was always going to be the game we were going to work hard for.”

They have thrown some gasoline on the fire themselves, to be fair to Glasgow. Prior to the start of the week, Franco Smith’s operation’s key coach, Nigel Carolan, compared Scotstoun to a slaughterhouse, spoke about the arrival of the Bulls.

That will provide the South Africans with more grist for their money than the last three URC finals. To be honest, Eddie Hearn couldn’t have done a better job of promoting this game at his most outrageously bad.

Williamson weighed in on Friday’s significance in a speech on the BBC Scotland Rugby Podcast. The margins are tight with only three league games remaining and only four points between Glasgow in second and the Bulls in third.

We are aware that this will be a battle.

The Warriors are in a difficult position right now. Up to eight players from their magnificent side, which won the title last year, will miss this game for various reasons, most notably injury.

Williamson has been back on the field for a while, even from the bench, so Smith needed that. Williamson specifically desired this, too. He had a fantastic autumn of playing for Scotland against South Africa at Murrayfield, but he injured himself. Without him, the Six Nations came and went.

He claims that while it was obviously difficult, it also gave me a good opportunity to hurt myself in January.

I’ve played a lot of rugby in the past year, so it was a good opportunity to develop a little. That’s how I attempted to spin it, to be honest. Being injured gives me the benefit of feeling completely unaffected.

Then, what about these enraged Bulls? Williamson says, “Yeah, huge.” It’s enormous, you know, looking at the table. We are aware that they will be arriving in light of what transpired last year. This is the game for them, they’ve said it before. We’re also prepared for that.

We are aware that Friday night will be a battle. That is what it will be. They are well aware that they are visiting for a physical contest. We want to play rugby with them in a physical conflict.

“It will undoubtedly be a feisty game,” he declared. We won’t stand back and let them do it because they always bring their physicality.

More clean breaks, more turnovers won, and more bonus points are all statistically higher for and against, as well as more tries for and fewer tries against.

You can’t put a price on aggression and rage for victory, but all the statistics indicate that they are the favorites to win. No information exists that can demonstrate the kind of unadulterated desire that White has described.

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Korda struggles at Chevron as Hall in contention

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The first-round leaderboard for the Chevron Championship

-7 Y Lui (Chn), H Ryu (Kor), -5 H Kim (Kor), -4 B Matthews, M de Roey (Bel), A Jutanugarn (Tha), H Choi (Kor), C Ciganda (Spa), L Li (US)

Selected: -3 G Hall (Eng), E G Dryburgh (Sco), + 3 C Hull (Eng), L Woad (Eng), + 4 L Maguire (Ire), + 5 N Korda (US)

After the opening round of the first women’s golf major of the year, world number one Nelly Korda shot a 77 at the Chevron Championship, Georgia Hall in England is four shots off the lead.

After a disappointing opening round, Hall finished with a three-under-par 69 in Texas, while defending champion Korda is one shot further back than leaders Haeran Ryu and Yan Liu.

Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea and Liu from China each shot a seven under par round to take the lead by two.

A late storm prevented play and 24 players from finishing.

Korda won the contest last year at The Club at Carlton Woods, earning her a fifth straight LPGA Tour victory.

The 26-year-old American was four over par after six holes, but she made bogeys on four consecutive holes instead of returning to that form on Thursday.

Hall finished the round strong with three more birdies in her final eight holes, finishing with a high after a third bogey of the day on the first, her 10th.

Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland shot a double-bogey seven at the par-five eighth, which was her penultimest hole, to post a level-par 72.

England’s top-ranked player, Charley Hull, had four holes to play, but a triple-bogey seven at her final hole enabled her to post a 75.

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Yemen’s Houthi fighters down $200m worth of US drones in under six weeks

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In recent weeks, Yemen’s Houthi-backed group has shot down seven US Reaper drones worth more than $200 million, making this the most significant material loss Washington has ever suffered from its fight against the rebels.

As the Houthis intensify their efforts to target American aircraft over Yemen, drones were destroyed between March 31 and April 22 according to defense officials.

Three drones were lost in just one week, which suggests that the Houthis’ ability to strike high-altitude US aircraft has improved.

When they crashed into water or land, the drones, each costing about $30 million, were engaged in surveillance or attack missions. According to The Associated Press news agency, the strikes took place on March 31 and on April 3rd, 9, 13, 18, 19, and 22, according to a defense official.

Since March 15, when US President Donald Trump imposed daily strikes against the group, hundreds of civilians have been reported killed in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled areas.

According to Dave Eastburn, a spokesman for Central Command, US forces have struck more than 800 targets, destroying command centers, weapons depots, and air defenses, and killing hundreds of Houthi leaders and leaders. This assertion was not subject to independent investigation.

The drone losses are being looked into but are likely the result of hostile fire, according to another US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In protest of Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the Houthis have primarily targeted Israeli, US, and British ships through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. If Israel consented to a permanent ceasefire, the organization claimed the attacks would stop.

Toll of civilian deaths rising

The Houthi movement’s leaders appear to have deliberately targeted targets in the Trump administration, shifting from focusing on just infrastructure to intentionally striking people.

According to Airwars, a monitoring organization with headquarters in the UK, the strategic change comes as the US-led campaign is causing more civilian casualties.

According to Airwars, between 27 and 55 civilians have died as a result of US strikes in March. Although full figures are unknown, the group holds up the belief that the toll will be significantly higher in April.

At least 80 people were killed and more than 150 were hurt in a US air strike that targeted the Ras Isa port, which is located in Hodeidah earlier this month.

In Yemen’s capital Sanaa, an additional attack on Monday that left 12 dead and more than 30 others injured.

Washington is becoming more concerned about the campaign’s human costs.

Senators Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, and Tim Kaine have written to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ask whether the administration is giving in to reducing civilian harm, especially in light of reports about the Ras Isa fuel terminal’s high civilian death toll.

Arctic Monkeys’ ‘true meaning’ of iconic song that fans are still trying to work out

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One Reddit user claims they have finally cracked the code behind one of the band’s most famous songs, while Arctic Monkeys fans are still trying to figure out what the meaning behind one of their most well-known songs.

Fans were left scratching their heads at the potential meaning of the song (file)(Image: Samir Hussein, Samir Hussein/WireImagevia Getty Images)

Fans of Arctic Monkeys are still unsure as to what the meaning of one of the band’s biggest hits is. The indie rock legends are renowned for their numerous well-known songs, with tracks like Fluorescent Adolescent still eliciting fan debate even after more than a decade have passed.

Attention has now turned to Alex Turner, the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys’ most lucrative album. Fans have shared their various interpretations of a song from 2013’s AM album, which was released when the band was playing at the Glastonbury Festival, in a post on the r/ArcticMonkeys subreddit.

Do I Wanna Know, a song that fans are still trying to understand, is still being questioned. which was a part of the album from 2013?

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What is the “Do I Wanna Know” interpretation of AM? The best way to enjoy this song, in my opinion, is through the music video. Many people find the AM persona irksome and uncomfortable. Never stopping pursuing this girl and telling us about his fantasies about her, he is constantly pursuing her.

However, I find it to be quite fascinating. In the video, the personas clearly spiral into madness as s**t just keeps getting weirder and weirder, indicating the character’s feelings.

The video begins with the statement “black and white (either true or false), but then color creeps in,” which suggests how the persona begins to question what he knows and believes about this girl.

This culminates in a full-blown explosion of color and confusion. The truths the character once knew are ultimately questioned and perhaps ignored. Other users have suggested different interpretations of the song, which watching the music video has helped.

The original poster has since been thanked by another because the music video has given the song a new meaning. They remarked, “Thanks, I’ve never watched the music video before.

“It’s the song that made me want to listen to it,” she said. However, I also believe the video could represent him losing control over the situation and his feelings as he distances himself from the girl.

“Like things started out simple and straightforward between them, black and white, and gradually became more confusing as they got more and more confusing until he’s not even sure what’s happening between them or if there was anything to begin with.” “

However, some fans have suggested that this bizarre track is merely meant as a superficial song. That’s an interesting perspective, a user responded.

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It was never intended to be as shallow as some people believed it to be, I’m pretty sure. People only assumed it would turn out to be a stupid song because it became so popular.

Another joker made a more straightforward claim to the song than the original poster had. Do I Wanna Know, the song? appears on the 2013 album AM, which was debated by Arctic Monkeys.