At least two people have been killed after police in Kenya fired shots to disperse crowds of mourners gathered to view the body of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who died earlier this week in India.
The country’s head of police operations, Adamson Bungei, confirmed the shooting at the 60,000-capacity football stadium in the capital, Nairobi, where the viewing was to take place on Thursday ahead of the funeral over the weekend.
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“We have at least two deaths,” Bungei told The Associated Press news agency, describing the incident as a “confrontation.”
Local media outlets KTN News and Citizen TV later said the death toll had increased to four, with dozens of people injured. After security forces fired shots, police lobbed tear gas to disperse thousands of mourners, the two broadcasters showed, leaving the stadium deserted.
Thousands of Odinga’s supporters began gathering on Nairobi’s streets from early morning on Thursday, with crowds congregating at Nairobi’s Moi International Sports Centre for the viewing.
Tensions increased when some people breached a gate in the arena, with security forces firing shots and tear gas in response. As mourners fled, a stampede erupted near the stadium gates.
After the incident, President William Ruto arrived at the stadium with members of Odinga’s family to view the coffin. Ruto and Odinga’s family paid their respects in a side room of the stadium.
The public viewing took place hours later outside the stadium gates.
Tensions had began earlier in the day when thousands of mourners briefly stormed Nairobi’s international airport, interrupting a ceremony for Ruto and other officials to receive Odinga’s body with military honours.
The incident prompted a two-hour suspension of airport operations.
Crowds also gathered in Bondo, the family’s ancestral seat in western Kenya, where Odinga is due to be buried on Sunday.
Odinga, a key figure in African politics, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday during a trip to India for medical treatment, according to local police and hospital officials.
The former prime minister, who was affectionately known as “Baba” (father), ran five unsuccessful presidential campaigns between 1997 and 2022, but was seen as a major force for democratic reform.
“He fought tirelessly for multi-party democracy, and we are enjoying those freedoms today because of his struggle,” university student Felix Ambani Uneck told Reuters at the stadium.
Friday has been declared a public holiday and Kenyans are expected to gather at a different football stadium in Nairobi for a state funeral service.
Israel says Hamas is failing to meet commitments under Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, while Hamas says Israel’s destruction makes recovering captives’ bodies nearly impossible. With 11,000 Palestinians also still under rubble, Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh says tensions threaten the fragile truce.
Grassroots clubs have the power to “change the country” and address the on-going issue of extreme weather making it more difficult to be physically active, according to Sport England.
The latest figures from the funding agency shows nearly two-thirds of adults and children are doing less activity as a result of extreme weather in the past 12 months.
Since 2023, £47.5m worth funding has been made available to help sports clubs become more sustainable and adapt to climate-driven disruption.
“We know that 120,000 grassroots football matches were called off last year, simply because of flooded pitches. This problem is real, and our problem is our own adaptability,” Sport England’s chair Chris Boardman told BBC Sport.
Physical inactivity associated with one in six deaths in the UK, according to Government data.
“It’s absolutely huge for society,” Boardman adds.
“Both in financial terms, for the economy and people’s quality of life. A lot of that is exacerbated by extreme weather which we know is just getting worse.”
A recent report by the Met Office warned that extreme weather events are the ‘new normal’ for the UK.
Many clubs have already adopted an action plan as a result of climate impact.
Whalley Range Cricket Club in Manchester have planted native trees beyond the boundary rope to better soak up excess water caused by flooding, while Oxford Harlequins RFC were awarded a £15,000 grant from Sport England to enhance the resilience of their surroundings, ensuring players can continue playing rugby despite extreme weather.
Boardman said: “People have to believe that there’s something that they can do. And the beauty of sport is that there’s 150,000 local clubs and community groups spread across the country.
“If all of them take small actions then that aggregates into real change. That’s the superpower.”
Sport England is also announcing the introduction of a new Sustainability Rating System to help organisations track their progress and get from a ‘starting’ state, through a ‘sustainable’ phase and ultimately to a ‘regenerative’ position.
The singer looked back on her four marriages and what went wrong with them
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Jennifer Lopez gets candid about what she’s learned from her four divorces(Image: Variety via Getty Images)
Jennifer Lopez doesn’t think she’s ever been loved as she looks back on her failed marriage to Ben Affleck. The four-times married actress and singer mused over her relationship history in a candid interview.
Shifting the blame on to the men she has fallen in and out of love with, she said they had their own issues they were battling. It comes after her surprise divorce earlier this year. US chat show host Howard Stern asked “Have you ever been loved?’ “No,” Jennifer, 56, admitted.
She continued: “What I learned is that I’m not unloveable, it’s that they’re not capable. They don’t have it in them. They need to appreciate the little person inside of them. They gave me what they had. They gave me all of it all the time. They tried to give me the houses, the rings, all of it. But… ” “They didn’t love you?” prompted Stern. “They didn’t,” Jen answered. “And I didn’t love myself.”
J.Lo finalised her divorce with Affleck, 53, in January after just two and half years of marriage. The Hollywood power couple surprised the world when they announced they were marrying almost twenty years after first falling in love. They reunited in 2021, married at a Las Vegas chapel in July 2022, followed by a second ceremony in Georgia the following month. But it wasn’t to be, with the Jenny From The Block singer filing for divorce on their second wedding anniversary.
Their marriage was unravelling as the pair worked on a musical remake of the 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Woman together but the pair but their differences to one side for the premiere this month, proving they were the friendliest of exes, and even sparkling speculation there could be a reconciliation on the cards.
If there was, J-Lo says she’ll be keeping her cards close to her chest this time and vowed not play out her love life in public. “I feel that I live my life very out loud even though I was in the public eye,” she told Stern on his Sirius XM show. “And I wanted to share my life with someone. I want someone to be there when I’m having my big important moments on my red carpet. Or if we’re going to the store. I didn’t hide from it, I spoke about it. What’s happened over the past few years to me and my children I feel like I want to keep that part so much more quiet in my life.”
A self-confessed romantic, Jennifer has been married and divorced four times and engaged twice more. She married to Cuban actor Ojani Noa in 1997 but it was short-lived, with the pair divorcing the following year. Then she was married to dancer Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003. Good Will Hunting star Ben met singer Jen in 2002 on the set of their movie, Gigli. Married to Judd at the time, Jennifer said she felt sparks immediately with Ben. They soon got engaged but postponed their wedding in 2003 and split the following year.
Both moved on, with Ben marrying another Jen, 13 Going On 30 actress Jennifer Garner. They have children Violet, 19, Fin, 16, and Sam, 13. In the meantime, J-Lo walked down the aisle with singer Marc Anthony. They had twins Max and Emma, now 17. They divorced in 2014 three years after departing. J-Lo was engaged to baseball player Alex Rodriguez in 2019 before they called it quits in 2021. Ben and Jen married a year later.
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Accepting some responsibility for the breakdown in her relationships. Jen says she’s learnt how to love herself through it all. “There’s a trade off,” she explained. “You have to learn how to navigate your personal life and my personal life has suffered because of that. And it took time for me to learn this. I kept thinking, I can do this and that. And now I realise you have to change your behaviour to have a successful relationship in your life.
“I think the work of my life is about self love. It’s about knowing I’m worthy of love and people. Paying attention to me and not leaving. That’s the work of my love, to know I’m whole on my own.”
Former Love Island star Molly-Mae Hague is gearing up for the release of her second Amazon Prime docuseries and has teased that there could be some drama in store between her and her sister Zoe
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Molly-Mae Hague teases ‘savage’ rows with sister Zoe in new Amazon Prime series(Image: INSTAGRAM)
Molly-Mae Hague has teased some tension with her older sister Zoe ahead of the launch of her Amazon Prime series titled Molly-Mae: Behind It All.
The former Love Island star, 26, is returning to screens this weekend with three new episodes of Behind It All, after the first series won an NTA award earlier this year. At a launch event today at London’s Selfridges, Molly-Mae teased that there could be some drama in store for viewers when it comes to her and her sister Zoe, 28.
The sisters famously clashed in the last series of the Amazon Prime show over Molly-Mae’s relationship with professional boxer Tommy Fury. During the filming for the first series, mum-of-one Molly-Mae found herself heartbroken and longing for better days following her split with Tommy, also 26.
The couple split for a number of months due to Tommy’s alcohol issues, but they have since rekindled their romance and seem happier than ever as they co-parent their two-year-old daughter, Bambi.
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However, during their break-up, Zoe was the one to give Molly-Mae some reality checks amid her concern for her younger sister and her emotional wellbeing after the sudden split. Viewers watched at the time as the sisters bickered with one another, with Molly-Mae claiming Zoe was being too harsh and too protective, while Zoe told her younger sister that she would be silly to get back with Tommy.
Fast-forward a year and Molly-Mae and Tommy are very much in love again following Tommy’s dedication to sorting his alcohol issues out. But according to Molly, there will still be some drama between herself and Zoe in the new series – despite herself and Tommy being back on track.
Speaking at the screening of the first episode today, Molly-Mae said: “I think Zoe is, like, one of the closest people to me, and it’s actually been really nice, kind of, especially in the last series, they’re showing the highs and lows of also a sister relationship.
“Because I think if anyone has a sister, you know, like, it can be savage at times, and then my sister is literally, like, the most honest person of me ever,” Molly-Mae added.
“Like, I’ve said this before, but I still send her all my Instagram photos before I post them, being like, honestly. Like, what do you think. my sister’s my rock, and also with family. Like she’s literally got me through motherhood. She’s incredible, and I wouldn’t want to do this without her, like she’s a massive part of my life,” she shared.
Molly-Mae also teased that she’s set to open up about struggles she has never publicly spoken about before. Of the new series, she said: “I was able to kind of trust the crew a little bit more and just to sort of let go a little bit, which I definitely have done in this season.
“I think you’ll see there’s bits that maybe I would have held back or wanted to sort of shy away from sharing, or topics that I feel like I didn’t maybe put the trust in the crew to talk about last time, because there’s just new territory for me.
“But this time around, I’m like, You know what? This isn’t our first rodeo. Now, we’ve done this before. I can really put my trust in them and just know that they’ve got my best interest and just more of a leap of faith with this one.
“I do feel really nervous about them, because we do talk about things in there that I haven’t spoken about before, but yeah, kind of just trusting the crew,” Molly-Mae admitted.
The social media superstar went on to admit that fans will see a whole new side to her in the new series, and they will be in for a shock.
Mum-of-one Molly-Mae revealed: “It’s definitely a new way to share my story. I feel like maybe Instagram is like that polished highlight reel where we keep it kind of like just in one lane, and YouTube is also where I can share a bit more, but never as much as I felt like I’ve shared in the doc, especially this time around.
“I’ve really spoken about things that I especially in two and three, that I just haven’t really delved into before. And just it’s been really nice to actually just speak a bit more. I feel like, over the few past few years, I kind of don’t speak as much, but having this show has been has enabled me to kind of just, yeah, be a bit more like ‘this is me’.”
While the whole second series shows a different side to Molly-Mae, she revealed that there’s one episode in particular that she’s incredibly anxious about.
“Episode three, I’m probably most nervous for. I mean, honestly, I’m definitely more nervous for this season than I was the first because I think it just delves into me more,” she admitted.
“And I think because obviously, last time, there was a lot going on and there was a lot of different storylines, and I felt like it was, it was about me and it was about other things at the same time, yeah. But with episode three, we definitely share things that in a dream world, maybe I’ve been like ‘CUT’. yeah.
“But I think also that’s just me at the start, because I was like, we’re gonna do it. Let’s just do it. Go for it. Like, show the good, bad, the ugly. Like, not every day goes smooth. But yeah, episode three is the drama.”
Kate Cassidy, the girlfriend of Liam Payne, has shared an emotional tribute to the late One Direction star on the first anniversary of his death. Liam tragically died aged 31, after falling from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires.
Sharing a black and white picture of the two of them to Instagram, she captioned it: “Today marks a full year without you here. I will forever hate goodbyes. I miss you Liam.”
In the photograph, Kate is smiling with her eyes closed and lies on top of Liam, who has his arm around her and is kissing her cheek. She also posted a picture to her Stories. That one was also black and white and had Liam beaming at the camera while Kate, wrapped up in a coat, hat and scarf, hugs him from the side.
Kate Cassidy shared a photo of her and Liam to her Instagram ( INSTAGRAM)
The comments of the first post were flooded with people sharing in her grief. One wrote: “We miss him too. Thinking of you today.” Another wrote: “Sending so much love today, he’s always looking down on you.”
Kate has been very open about her grief since Liam’s death, and felt the need to speak out after some fans criticised her for finding comfort in AI-generated photos of her and the singer.
Created using generative AI, Kate shared some realistic photos fans had posted of her and Liam smiling together. Some fans pointed out the dangers of using AI in this way, and one of Liam’s former colleagues even described her decision to share them as ‘distasteful’.
She shared another pic to her stories ( INSTAGRAM)
But Kate hopped on TikTok to tell her followers to “stop judging people for how they grieve”. She said: “Over the last few days, I’ve seen so many posts and so many news articles kind of bashing me for finding comfort and peace in seeing pictures of me and Liam created with AI.
“None of you have ever been in my position and hopefully you never will be, so please, please please, kindly stop telling me how to grieve and how I should be finding comfort and what I shouldn’t be finding comfort in.”
Kate shared realistic photos of her and Liam created by AI ( Instagram/kateecass)
Earlier this week, Kate also shared her plans for the anniversary of Liam’s death. She said she was spending the lead-up on a brand trip to “keep her mind positive”.
She said: “I am getting ready to go on a trip. I’m obviously transparent and open about my life on social media. I have been for a while now. This week hasn’t been the easiest week and it’s not going to be the easiest week.
“I have so many mixed emotions and my grief comes in so many waves. No matter what I do, I get commentary so if I make this video, people are going to be like, ‘Of course she had to make this video’, but if I didn’t make this video and just went on a trip, people would be like ‘What is she doing? How is she not in bed crying?’
“For those who might now know, October 16th, which is in two days, is the date my late partner passed away I have said this so many times in the past, I like to stay busy. It keeps my mind positive and keeps my mind active.”
Liam died on 16 October 2024 after falling from the balcony of a hotel in Argentina. The singer had been on holiday with Kate, as they were seeing his former bandmate, Niall Horan, perform. However, while she returned home, he chose to stay on a few days and she was not with him when he died.
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