Russia’s original space program nearly killed cosmonauts with crazy blunders and amateur tech

Stephen Mee's life of crime started small. As a child growing up as one of nine siblings in 1970s Newton Heath he would go shoplifting just to help put food on the table.

Ant McPartlin and his wife Anne-Marie were the picture of happiness as they enjoyed a leisurely stroll with their baby son Wilder. The 48 year old Britain's Got Talent star was spotted looking more content than ever while walking his adorable Maltipoo dogs, Milo and Bumble, on Saturday, 29 June. Dressed down in black shorts paired with a black top and sunnies, Ant took some time out to bask in the joys of fatherhood – not to mention the warm summer sunshine.The couple, who have been married for three years, shared smiles and laughter, clearly relishing their new life as parents during the outing.

Bride-to-be Gemma Collins says she has ditched the designer shopping and five-star lifestyle – and is all about “mother nature” now. In this exclusive chat with OK! , the reality TV legend, 43, spills the beans on her dream woodland wedding to Rami Hawash, her thoughts on “The GC” and her special bond with stepson Tristan, six. But in true GC style, there’s something even more personal that Gemma wants to share with us too… Hi, Gemma! You’re trying to get rid of the stigma around bladder leaks – loud and proud as ever! Yes, people just really need to be their true authentic selves.

There are very few people who can claim to have enjoyed a deeply close bond with Queen Elizabeth II - but her niece, Lady Sarah Chatto, tops the list. As Princess Margaret's daughter, Lady Sarah was "adored" by her aunt and spent countless hours at Buckingham Palace during her childhood. She also holds the unique distinction of being the only Royal invited to join the Queen at her preferred Scottish hideaway, Craigowan Lodge.

The iconic Los Angeles punk band X is issuing what it is calling its final album, Smoke & Fiction, and has detailed plans for a U.S. tour. 

Yesterday saw scorching weather across much of the UK as the summer heatwave went up a gear - with 31C temperatures delivering the hottest day of the year so far.The village of Wisley in Surrey took the prize as Britain's warmest village as Brits were left scrambling for their fans and ice-cold drinks. But as BBC weather forecaster Stav Danaos has warned, things are about to change.The temperatures will take a dive as the warm and humid air that left people stampeding to their local parks is pushed out to continental Europe - and winds start blowing in.

Neil Young has some sad news for fans.

A punter who is set to lose more than £800 on an election date says it will “stick in the throat” if Tories are found to have cheated.

Finally, Britney Spears‘ estrangement from her sons Jayden James, 17, and Sean Preston, 18, is OVER!

Callum Jones has made his new relationship Instagram official this week as he jetted off for a sun-soaked getaway to Mykonos with model and TikTok star Myna Amor.The reality star, 28, who recently had a stint on Love Island: All-Stars, shared a series of snaps from the trip with his new girlfriend - showing only the back of her head and her hand in a bid to 'soft launch' the romance. While Myna, 23, confirmed that she is the beauty in the pictures by sharing her own snaps from the same location.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic During Dead & Company’s current run of 30 shows at Las Vegas’ Sphere, no one is exercising the gift of gab on stage. As is typical for the Grateful Dead spinoff group, the music does all the talking, for three and a half hours — with additional non-verbal help from the world’s most advanced concert video design on the dome’s wrap-around screen.

Beef season two have already begun, and it has been reported that the second instalment might see a reunion between two former co-stars.The A24/Netflix series about a road rage argument that escalates into a full-blown feud, received high critical acclaim for its first series, winning eight Emmys and three Golden Globes.It was announced earlier this year that a second season might be on the cards, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Priscilla’s Cailee Spaeny all originally rumoured to be involved.Now, according to Deadline, two more Hollywood A-listers are potentially set to join the cast, with sources sharing that Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan might be starring in the second season.This would mark another reunion for the two actors who starred alongside Ryan Gosling and Bryan Cranston in the 2011 action thriller film Drive, as well as the 2013 biopic, Inside Llewyn Davis.Inside sources have reportedly told Deadline that the pair are “in negotiations to star” in season two and that the roles Mulligan and Isaac are up for were the ones originally intended for Hathaway and Gyllenhaal.While it was reported to Deadline that the second season hasn’t officially been given the green light, inside sources have shared that the plot is set to centre around two feuding couples.The rumours come after a busy year for Mulligan, who played the eccentric friend of Rosamund Pike’s character in Saltburn, earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal as Felicia Montealegre, wife of Leonard Bernstein, in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, and starred opposite Adam Sandler in the Netflix sci-fi movie Spaceman.Isaac, whose past projects include Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, the Star Wars sequel trilogy and playing the eponymous role in Inside Llewyn

Katie Price has opened up about her blossoming romance with new partner JJ Slater amid swirling speculation of marriage.

Emily Atack has been flooded with messages of love and support from her celebrity pals as she announced she has given birth to a baby boy. The 34-year-old actress took to social media to announce the arrival of her first child.

England defeated Serbia in Sunday’s UEFA European Championship Group Stage match, which drew an audience of 1.8M on Fox.

Stunning bombshell Grace Jackson has caused a stir since entering the Love Island villa.The 25-year-old model revealed she has a history with TOWIE star Joey Essex, with the two quick to pick up where they left off. It's left Joey's former flame Samantha, who he has been coupled up with for the last two weeks, devastated, as Joey vowed to make it work after rekindling his relationship with Grace. Outside the villa, Grace already lives a lavish lifestyle in Manchester, having built up an impressive 80,000 fans on Instagram with famous followers including celebs like Molly-Mae Hague and Conor McGregor.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Griffin Dunne‘s family has done so many larger-than-life, unbelievable things that when the actor-director-producer started to write his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Memoir of Family,” he realized it wasn’t enough to start the story with his complex writer father Dominick Dunne. In fact, it was impossible to understand the forces that shaped the Dunnes, including his uncle John Gregory Dunne and sister Dominique Dunne — without understanding his father’s abusive upbringing in an Irish Catholic family, his mother’s Mexican heritage and all great love stories, clandestine affairs, celebrity encounters and tragedies that seem to surround them, buffeted with lots of pitch-black mordant humor.

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, The Picture Company, Entertainment 360 & Zaftig Films are out to buyers on a TV series based on the acclaimed 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo, about how a crumbling painting depicting Christy in the Renaissance called The Salvador Mundi was restored and found to possibly be the final work of Leonardo Da Vinci around the time the master painter did the Mona Lisa. Juliane Moore will star as Dianne Modestini, an art restorer who saw something special in the painting, and painstakingly restored it. She and everyone else were surprised to watch it go from a $1000 estate sale item to the priciest painting ever bought, fetching $450 million by the time the auctioneer banged the gavel at the New York auction house Christie’s.  

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from the Season 2 premiere of HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” After closing Season 1 with the swift and shocking death of a child — Rhaenyra Targaryen’s (Emma D’Arcy) son Lucerys Velaryon — “House of the Dragon” opened its second with a series of grief-driven choices and insidious plans that led to the most gruesome murder of another child: Jaehaerys Targaryen, the grandson of Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). The toddler Jaehaerys, the son of King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Queen Helaena (Phia Saban), is killed in his bed by two men nicknamed “Blood and Cheese,” one a hulking former member of the City Watch and the other the royal rat catcher.

England captain Harry Kane is gearing up to win it all for England, but the hardest battle in his life was off the pitch when his three children were rushed to hospital after a car crash earlier this year. The three eldest children of the 30-year old football star, Ivy, seven, Vivienne, five, and Louis, three, were being driven by their nanny in Germany when a young driver cut across them into a junction.This caused the Kanes’ car to slam into its front, and send both cars hurtling towards an oncoming Land Rover.The Kanes’ nanny was hailed as a hero as she miraculously remained calm and steered the car out of the path of the Land Rover just in time.The children were taken to hospital, but were found to be ok, just very shaken up.