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A nun who became a singing sensation after winning Italy’s version of The Voice has stunned TV viewers again after announcing that she has kicked the habit and is now a waitress in Spain.

Sister Cristina Scuccia, from Sicily, shocked judges, including the late Raffaella Carrà, during her blind audition for the show in 2014, giving a rapturous performance of the Alicia Keys’ hit song No One. After realising the incredible voice belonged to a nun, Carrà, who died last year, said: “I couldn’t speak for several minutes.”

The Toronto Police Services Board says the renowned gunsmith who died in a police raid just over a year ago “was the author of his own misfortune” in a recently filed statement of defence.

The statement, filed on Sept. 2, is in response to a $23 million lawsuit filed by Rodger Kotanko’s family, which alleges an “unlawful” raid led to his “wrongful death.”

An officer shot the 70-year-old while executing a search warrant on Nov. 3, 2021 at his gunsmithing workshop in Ontario’s Norfolk County.

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For more than a decade, a prankster spun a web of deception about the inventor of the electric toaster. His lies fooled newspapers, teachers and officials. Then a teenager flagged up something that everyone else had missed.

“I read through Wikipedia a lot when I’m bored in class,” says Adam, aged 15, who studies photography and ICT at a school in Kent.

One day last July, one of his teachers mentioned the online encyclopaedia’s entry about Alan MacMasters, who it said was a Scottish scientist from the late 1800s and had invented “the first electric bread toaster”.

Neil Young: ‘I sound like an old hippy, right? Well, that’s who I am!’

Neil Young’s new album, World Record, begins with a gentle lullaby of a song called Love Earth. “We can bring the seasons back,” sings Young in a reedy tenor as his on-off backing band Crazy Horse do their loose, shuffling thing. “Can you imagine that?” It is a vision of a return to an ecological Eden, and like the rest of World Record it addresses the two big concerns Young has been singing about his entire career: the environment and war. It is, I say to the singer, activist and self-described rich hippy, a rare glimpse of positivity when generally conversations on the environment are overwhelmingly negative.

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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 19, 2022

“I am like a broken record, I know. But when you are right, and desperate to fill up those time slots Ed Morrissey keeps assigning me to fill, you have to keep churning out the content. Besides, I think I churn out pretty darn good content that is worth reading. So there.”

A Colchester man who goes by the name ‘the Gimp Man of Essex’ has criticised his Somerset doppelganger for giving the “whole gimp community a bad reputation”. The social media personality is well-known in his local area where he is seen doing his weekly shop in Tesco, clad head-to-toe in black latex.

Under the handle @GimpManofEssex, he even posted images of his travels and shared them with surprised bystanders on social media. He has been visiting his village harmlessly for the past nine years the Mirror reports. He has to appear as “normal as possible” when he is out, but other gimps haven’t always abided by the same standards.

Michelle Obama put up with a lot from a “downright mean” country she never could be proud of until it elected her husband POTUS. But we’re still learning how hellish her eight years in the White House really was.

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres about her new book The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama said, “As black women we deal with it, the whole thing about do you show up with your natural hair? … As First Lady, I did not wear braids. Being the first – yeah, we had to ease up on the people … I was like, it would be easier. Nope, nope. They’re not ready.”

A library in the multicultural city of Malmo, Sweden claims to have received death threats following a story time performance by a pair of drag queens that took place last month.

An unnamed city library employee received the alleged death threat after a drag queen storytime performance by the drag queens ‘Lady Busty’ and ‘Miss Shameless’ at the end of last month.