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TWO BIG Brother stars seemingly broke the rules in an unaired live stream moment.

A television news and fan account on X has revealed that two of the housemates broke Big Brother‘s rules by using code names to talk about who they wanted booted out next.

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One of the biggest rules in the Big Brother house is talking about nominations.

In a livestream which aired this weekend, Sam and Nancy were the two housemates to break the rules.

Using code names, the pair said that one of their fellow co-stars was “fake” while using a code name to describe her.

The TV news and fan account said on X: “So I’m just catching up on what’s gone down on the first hour of live streaming…

“Sam and Nancy broke the rules using code names, and they said they want Jenny evicted next, and that she’s fake – all of which Big Brother read back to the house.

“Jenny has then been left ‘so angry’ that she cried, and that she knew she’d get nominated if the house is split in two or something.

“Also Tate was involved in a convo with Nancy slagging off Jenny and Nancy got caught lying about it literally on the live stream????

“And to top it off, Elsa is jealous that Jenny confided in Marcus about it all.”

Fans reacted to the revelation, with one saying: “First and only time I want Jenny to face eviction. She would be iconic in the secret room.”

Another added: “Jenny is a threat, that’s my only explanation for the Jenny slander.”

While a third said: “I don’t understand why contestants break the rules. The rules were explained to them. If they’ve seen past seasons they know housemates get in trouble for rule breaking.”

And a fourth penned: “Ew nancy is so bitter, why is she being like this ??”

This comes after three housemates – Richard, Elsa and Cameron B – faced possible elimination in Friday’s episode.

Cameron B ultimately became the third housemate to be evicted this series.

The 25-year-old from Bolton entered the House on Day Two, alongside three other newcomers.

Axed star George Gilbert, 23, had also been on the chopping block before his shock exit.

The Sun revealed how the parish councillor was removed after ‘unacceptable language and behaviour’.

Sources told The Sun that George left his co-stars horrified after making offensive comments which could be interpreted as antisemitic and was immediately called to the Diary Room and ejected from the house. 

“Everyone was absolutely disgusted,” an insider said.

“Nobody could believe what he said – he was clearly out to shock people.”

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It may come down to a matter of style in the race between Assemblymen Scott Wildman and Jack Scott, who are vying for the Democratic nomination to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Adam Schiff.

Do voters want Scott, the genteel former college president with a soft Texas twang, or do they want Wildman, the hyperkinetic, attention-grabbing former fourth-grade teacher?

The winner of the March 7 Democratic primary for the 21st state Senate district will probably face a tough fight against well-funded Republican Paul Zee.

The race is widely viewed as a significant contest because it is one of just five open Senate seats this year that are up for grabs by either party. Democrats currently hold the Senate majority in Sacramento with 25 seats, while the Republicans have 15.

South Pasadena’s Councilman Zee is the GOP front-runner in the traditionally swing district, according to political observers. He is running against engineer Dave Wallis.

The 21st Senate district includes parts of the east San Fernando Valley, Burbank, Glendale, the Los Angeles communities of Los Feliz, Eagle Rock, Silver Lake and Griffith Park, and the city of Pasadena.

After three years, Schiff is leaving the state Senate to run against incumbent Rep. James Rogan (R-Glendale) in a hotly contested battle for the 27th congressional district seat, which includes some of the same areas.

Zee, a businessman who emigrated from Hong Kong in 1977, has raised $512,000 to date–almost as much as Scott, who has raised about $570,000, and significantly more than Wildman, who has raised about $400,000.

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The 21st district was once a Republican stronghold, but a recent influx of Latino and Asian voters has contributed to a decrease in GOP registration of six percentage points since Schiff’s win in 1994. Democrats now comprise 44% of the 393,882 registered voters in the district, to the Republicans’ 36%.

In such a tight race, victory could hinge on factors as seemingly inconsequential as voter turnout, the candidates’ ability to take advantage of the district’s recent demographic changes, and the number of moderate and crossover votes up for grabs in an open presidential primary, political observers said.

The candidate who can woo the growing Latino vote could have an edge, said Alan Heslop, the director of Claremont McKenna College’s Rose Institute, which analyzes local politics and demographics.

“I think it’s really a style difference,” said Rick Taylor, a political consultant, who believes a Democrat will win the race in November.

“Scott is a more soft-spoken leader, doing things quietly,” Taylor said. “Wildman is more of a wild man–loud and good at grabbing the headlines and creating media opportunities. Both have been very effective.”

Scott and Wildman’s voting records and legislation are similar, and their issues–both centered on education–often overlap.

Both Democratic candidates have basked in the public spotlight this last year–Scott for successful gun control legislation, and Wildman for voicing loud opposition against finishing the $200-million Belmont Learning Complex, which the Los Angeles Unified school board scrapped last week.

But a day on the campaign trail with each illuminates their disparate styles.

On a recent Saturday the 67-year-old Scott headed over to Los Feliz with his wife, Lacreta, to introduce himself to voters in Wildman’s Assembly district. He drove a clean, gold Buick LeSabre, and dressed like an escaped academic, wearing comfortable walking shoes, khakis and a plaid shirt.

He carried his campaign literature neatly in a bag and had carefully mapped out the neighborhood he will canvass.

Scott said his issues are public education, gun control and consumer and patient rights.

The avuncular assemblyman, who attended Yale University and Claremont Graduate School, said seven years as president of Pasadena City College taught him to be fiscally responsible. Earlier in his education career he served as president of Cypress College and was dean of instruction at Orange Coast College.

Scott, whose 27-year-old son Adam was killed when a gun went off accidentally at a party in 1993, has had seven firearms bills signed into law since he was elected in 1996.

He helped author and pass legislation to ban assault weapons, and require trigger locks. He is working to require a safety course and license for handgun buyers. He has also worked to reduce class sizes, improve the training and recruitment of teachers and expand charter schools.

Scott also wrote the first HMO reform bill signed into California law.

Wildman does his campaigning on the fly, between meetings, squeezing it in when he has time. During the week, he works the phones from Sacramento, calling long distance back to his home district, trying to win votes.

On a recent Sunday afternoon he went out for an hour with a staff member. He wore scuffed cowboy boots, jeans and a jacket. The sunroof was open on his dirt-flecked Mitsubishi sedan. Precarious piles of campaign literature balanced in the driver’s seat. The radio blared the pop music of Matchbox 20.

He headed for a Burbank neighborhood where he said his support wasn’t as strong as it should have been in the last election.

Unlike Scott, who knocked only on the doors of registered Democrats in an effort to cover more ground, Wildman marched to the door of every registered voter, regardless of party affiliation.

Wildman said his issues are education, patients rights, law enforcement and preserving local jobs.

Wildman, 49, spent his early career in the printing business. He later became a fourth-grade bilingual teacher and was a leader with United Teachers-Los Angeles. He continues to have strong ties with the union group.

In the Assembly he has written laws to increase school safety and expand teacher training. He has been outspoken in the fight to keep the film industry from fleeing to cheaper locations, proposing a 10% tax rebate for companies that keep production in California.

He has served as chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee since 1997–initially churning out so many press releases his Democrat colleagues asked him to calm down. He is questioning the planned expansion of the Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills.

Wildman explains the difference between him and his colleagues like this: “It’s more than a difference in style, I have a different level of activity.”

Scott has the backing of nine state legislators, while Wildman has garnered union support from the state level down–a factor observers say could help him in a race with low voter turnout.

India post 387 to match England’s first innings in the third Test but tempers flare before stumps on third day.

KL Rahul scored a century while Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant pitched in with crucial fifties as India posted 387, equalling England’s first innings, on a heated third day on and off the field at Lord’s

An injury to Shoaib Bashir blunted England’s pace-spin attack strategy when India looked vulnerable with five wickets down after losing Pant and Rahul in quick succession, before Jadeja steadied their innings with his third fifty-plus knock in a row.

England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett, who played a single over from Jasprit Bumrah before stumps, remained unbeaten at 2-0 as the five-match series remains tied as both sides look to go 2-1 up with a win in the third Test.

With two overs scheduled to be bowled before stumps, tempers started to flare when Crawley pulled out of his stance four times – and later in the over called for the physio in what would be the only over of England’s second innings.

The tourists were irate with Mohammed Siraj displaying a thunderous look, before Bumrah slow handclapped and India skipper Shubman Gill confronted Crawley, pointing a finger in the opener’s face.

India started well from an overnight score of 145-3 as left-handed batter Pant, who scored twin centuries in the first test, battled through an injured finger on his left hand as he hooked England captain Stokes for six to bring up his fifty.

The 27-year-old survived when an awkward hook on a short ball from Stokes almost got him caught near the fine leg boundary, but a diving Crawley could only lob the ball back inside to prevent a six.

But Pant was run out for 74 on the last ball before lunch as he tried to take a quick single after playing Bashir towards cover point, where Stokes made a quick turn to hit the stumps on the non-striker’s end with a swift, direct throw.

Opener Rahul was the next to fall, edging Bashir’s flighted ball to Harry Brook in the slip on his very next ball after reaching 100, leaving India on shaky ground at 254-5 under a warm London sun.

But Bashir had to leave the ground when he injured a finger on his non-bowling left hand while attempting a low catch from his own delivery as Jadeja shot down the wicket, with commentators saying the 21-year-old might need extra treatment in the evening.

Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy, new to the crease, looked unsteady as England’s bowlers piled on the pressure. Mix-ups between the batters put Reddy at risk of getting run out on two occasions, but Ollie Pope’s direct throws missed the target both times.

However, as England returned to using two pacers soon after Bashir’s injury, the pair put together a 72-run partnership before Stokes claimed his second wicket of the match, getting Reddy to nick it to keeper Jamie Smith for 30.

Jadeja drove Joe Root down long off for four to complete his half-century, while Washington Sundar took a slow, cautious approach on the other end.

Their 50-run partnership for the eighth wicket got India within 11 runs of England’s total, before Chris Woakes dismissed Jadeja for 72 as the batter’s attempt to send the ball down fine leg only took a thin edge and landed in Smith’s gloves.

Akash Deep, in at number nine, was given out leg before wicket twice by umpire Sharfuddoula Saikat during the same over, but Hawk-Eye showed the ball was missing the stumps when the batter reviewed them, overturning both decisions.

But Deep fell soon after to Brydon Carse for seven, with Brook trapping him at third slip with a low dive.

Sundar brought the scores level with a flick to the mid-wicket, before Woakes dismissed Jaspreet Bumrah for a duck in the very next ball to bag his third wicket.

Jofra Archer got Sundar out for 23 to bring an end to India’s innings, leaving the match finely poised going into the final two days.

Kuwait City is one of the hottest places on Earth and the scorching heat is causing chaos for both humans and wildlife as our planet continues to face the realities of climate change

Kuwait City, once known as a blissful “Marseilles of the Gulf”, is now witnessing heat so extreme that animals are being cooked alive.

The Middle Eastern metropolis has become a clear indicator of the harrowing effects of climate change, with birds dropping dead from the scorching heavens and fish boiling in the water.

Back in the halcyon days, Kuwait City thrived as a bustling hub with a flourishing fishing industry and idyllic beaches that lured in basking holidaymakers. But now, it’s gripped by an overwhelming problem of potentially uninhabitable temperatures.

A staggering 54C (129F) was recorded on 21 July 2016 at Mitribah weather station, placing Kuwait third in the solar frying stakes with one of the globe’s most torrid temperatures. Even Europe’s former Cerberus Heatwave pales in comparison, trailing behind Kuwait’s zenith by a whole 10 degrees Celsius.

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An ominous forecast looms as climate experts project that this desert country may blaze ahead with a temperature increase of up to 5.5C (10F) by century’s end relative to figures from the early 2000s. In 2023, the mercury spiked past 50C (122F) on nineteen occasions, a tally that’s feared might just be a starting point.

Urban development has transformed Kuwait City into a sweltering expanse of relentless concrete and asphalt, regions that are fast turning too fiery for safe habitation come summertime.

In further alarm, scientific records trace a downturn in annual precipitation, amplifying fierce dust storms that whip through the increasingly arid nation. The scorching heatwave has led to harrowing scenes with birds dropping dead from the sky and seahorses cooked alive in the bay, as even robust pigeons seek respite from the sun’s relentless blaze.

With temperatures soaring to a life-threatening 50C, which is a staggering 13C above human body temperature, the risks of heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion and cardiac complications escalate dramatically.

In an unprecedented move, Kuwait has permitted nocturnal funerals due to the unbearable heat, while the wealthy retreat into their air-conditioned sanctuaries, be it homes, offices, or malls.

This extreme weather has spurred the creation of futuristic structures like an indoor shopping avenue, complete with palm trees and European-style boutiques, offering shoppers an escape from the brutal climate.

A 2020 study revealed that a massive two-thirds of domestic electricity consumption is attributed to the relentless use of air conditioning.

Writing for ExpatsExchange, Joshua Wood praised Kuwait for its “high quality of life” in a “modern, luxurious and safe” environment but cautioned about the intense heat, describing it as “very hot from May through September” and reaching “insanely hot” levels during the peak summer months of June to August.

Despite the sweltering heat, the streets are far from deserted. Migrant workers, predominantly from Arab, South and South East Asian nations, constitute about 70% of the country’s population.

Many people are enticed to move to Kuwait and work in sectors like construction or household services. These workers populate the steaming public buses of the capital city and crowd the streets.

Research conducted in 2023 by the Institute of Physics indicated that migrant workers can be particularly vulnerable to adverse health effects due to exposure to severe temperatures. The study suggests that by the end of the century, climate change could lead to a rise in heat-related deaths by 5.1% to 11.7% across the entire population, and even up to 15% among non-Kuwaiti individuals.

Warnings about the planet are often overlooked, yet in Kuwait where the devastating effects of climate change are already evident – the carbon footprint is enormous – only Bahrain and Qatar’s is higher.

While neighbouring countries have committed to significant reductions in emissions, Kuwait’s pledges seem insignificant in comparison. At COP26, the country announced it would only reduce emissions slightly (7.4%) by 2035.

Kuwaiti government officials predict that energy demand will triple by 2030. This is largely due to the anticipated increase in the use of indoor cooling systems.

The government footing a large portion of the electricity bill has led to a lack of incentive for people to curb their usage. Water consumption follows a similar pattern due to energy-intensive processes.

Environmental expert Salman Zafar highlighted the potential consequences of global warming for Kuwait, stating: “Kuwait could be potentially facing serious impacts of global warming in the form of floods, droughts, depletion of aquifers, inundation of coastal areas, frequent sandstorms, loss of biodiversity, significant damage to ecosystem, threat to agricultural production and outbreak of diseases.”