1 day agoUSA UpdateComments Off on KFC launches $5 chicken meal deal to rival McDonald’s and customers scream it’s a ‘deal for real’
KFC is adding a brand new recipe box to its line-up – and foodies are seriously happy.
It comes after the Louisville-based chain has spent 2024 bringing out deals that give customers more bang for their buck, including a new $20 family value meal.
GettyKFC has launched a brand new value meal for just a few bucks[/caption]
The eatery has also released individual value meals, with options spanning chicken nuggets, bowls and its classic bone-in fried chicken.
Fast forward to now, KFC bosses have unveiled a new value box for just $5.
For the tasty figure, you can nab an Original Tenders Box.
The meal deal includes three tenders, a portion of seasoned fries and two dipping sauces.
Among the dipping sauce options are the signature KFC sauce, Sticky Chicky and the all-new Comeback sauce,
Last month, KFC bosses announced a makeover to its popular chicken tenders.
The strips are now double hand-breaded and coated in the “finger licking good” signature 11 spices and herbs.
The new Original Tenders Box has been designed to showcase the transformation.
The only catch is that KFC’s value meals don’t include a drink, so you’ll have to purchase that separately.
Foodie Stacey Harmon took to Facebook to alert fellow Americans to the deal.
“To all my peeps, KFC got a great deal going on right now,” she wrote.
“A three piece tender box with fries for five bucks – that is a deal for real.”
Tucking into a KFC takeaway is a treat enjoyed by many, but often our eyes are bigger than our stomachs.
Here are some of the current value meals offered by popular fast food joints.
Taco Bell’s $7 Luxe Cravings Box:
Chalupa Supreme
Beefy Five-Layer Burrito
Double Stacked Taco
Chips and nacho cheese sauce
Medium drink
McDonald’s $5 Meal Deal:
McDouble or McChicken sandwich
Four-piece Chicken McNuggets
Small fries
Small soft drink
Wendy’s $5 Biggie Bag:
Junior Bacon Cheeseburger or Crispy Chicken Sandwich
Four-piece chicken nuggets
Junior fries
Small soft drink
Burger King’s $5 Your Way Meal:
Whopper Junior, Chicken Junior, or Bacon Cheeseburger
Fries
Four-piece chicken nuggets
Soft drink
If you realise that you have way too much chicken in your bucket, simply put it in a container and store it in your fridge.
As long as your takeaway is stored the right way, it is safe to reheat it the next day.
Ideally, you should reheat it in the oven or air-fryer for 10 to 15 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.
We do not advise reheating your KFC in the microwave though.
This is because the quality of the chicken coating will not remain the same — it will become soggy and soft, and the chicken might also turn rubbery.
But if you’re at work and a microwave is all that’s available, a two to three minute blasting (depending on watts and the size of your portion) should do the trick.
1 day agoUSA UpdateComments Off on World Darts Championship set for major change with Ally Pally tournament extended and more matches
THE PDC World Darts Championship is set to be expanded to 128 players within the next few years.
A field of 96 players will be involved in the 2025 tournament, which starts at Alexandra Palace on Sunday, December 15.
THE PDC World Darts Championship is set to be expanded to 128 playersPAA field of 96 players will be involved in the 2025 tournament[/caption]
Yet the Professional Darts Corporation has been boosted by the speed in which tickets were hoovered up by the public for the 16-day event.
And there are plans, perhaps for 2026 onwards, to make the event even bigger by bumping up the number of tungsten throwers at world level by 32.
This would create a flat 128-player draw which, like the Wimbledon singles competitions, would mean one player would have to win SEVEN matches to become the overall champion.
PDC CEO Matthew Porter said: “Yeah, we are close to that (128). It’s not there yet but we are quite close to that.”
Asked by the Online Darts Youtube channel if 2026 was the goal, Porter replied: “Hopefully, yeah.”
In December 2018, the event saw one of its biggest changes when the number of participants increased from 72 to 96.
Only 24 people took part in the first ever PDC Worlds, which were staged at the Circus Tavern in Essex across 1993/94.
Each Ally Pally session has a capacity of 3,300 and the increased demand this time is down to the ‘Luke Littler effect’.
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Many more fans, particularly a younger demographic, have been drawn to the sport following the incredible exploits of the 17-year-old oche wonderkid.
Told that many fans had been left disappointed by a failure to nab tickets online, Porter said: “You look at it recently with Oasis. This isn’t a darts problem, this is an industry problem.
“We had the same number of people trying to access World Championship tickets which had tried to buy Glastonbury tickets.
“Glastonbury are selling 300,000 tickets. We are selling 80,000 or whatever. It is so difficult to get that process exactly right.”
World No1 Luke Humphries beat Littler 7-4 in the 2024 final on January 3 to bank the £500,000 top prize.
The current Sky Sports TV deal with the PDC runs out in November 2025 and only includes coverage of one more World Championship.
1 day agoUSA UpdateComments Off on I was left in agony with horror burns all over my face after ‘botched’ acne treatment – and the clinic blamed ME
A WOMAN claims she suffered second degree burns on her face after getting microneedling to treat her acne – only to be blamed by the clinic.
Melia Nielsen had been visiting a clinic for months to receive chemical peels while battling spots and decided to have a £75 microneedling treatment to treat her acne scars in July.
Kennedy NewsMelia Nielsen, 24, claims to have been left with chemical burns after a microneedling gone wrong[/caption]
Kennedy NewsThe finance worker got microneedling to feel ‘confident’ without makeup[/caption]
Kennedy NewsMelia claims her clinician ignored her and then tried to turn the blame on her[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe went to A&E and was told she’d sustained a chemical burn[/caption]
But the 24-year-old claims her clinician started ignoring her messages when the “entirety” of her left cheek swelled up and became “horrible” and “purple” – so was forced to dash to A&E.
Doctors reportedly confirmed it was a chemical burn and Melia, a payroll officer, was forced to endure months of “soreness”.
She first underwent the microneedling treatment to feel more confident without makeup and has now been left with a “huge scar”.
Microneedling is a cosmetic procedure that uses tiny, sterile needles to puncture the skin and to stimulate the production of collagen and help reduce the appearance of acne scars or wrinkles.
Screenshots of messages appear to show the clinician, who had allegedly only completed a two-day training course, blaming Melia for the burn and asking “you haven’t gone on any medication or changed any products at home?”.
Melia shared the horrifying photos documenting her ordeal on social media and claimed the burns were the result of “incorrect methods by the practitioner”.
She is now speaking out to urge others to “to thoroughly research, have consultations and choose your skincare wisely” – in the hopes that no one else will suffer the same consequences.
Melia, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said: “I wanted to feel confident without makeup.
“Now I’m in an even worse position because I’ve got a huge scar across my face instead of just a few spots.”
Melia said she’d been getting chemical peels at the clinic to help clear her acne and had moved onto microneedling to address scarring.
“I’d already had one session of it before that was perfectly fine. When I went for the second one, that was when it happened.
“While she was doing it she was going over and over that same area to a point that it actually wore away the first one or two layers of my skin. So then it was essentially raw skin.
“At the time she never said anything about it but I was actually bleeding.
“She only said five or six days later over a message that she’d noticed that I was bleeding quite a bit.
“Because I was bleeding she was cleaning the area with, I don’t know if it was a toner or something, but it burned that brand new, raw skin.
“At the time it was stinging quite bad and she kept asking ‘are you okay’. Now I understand why she was asking that.
Kennedy NewsMelia clinician told her over text that she’d noticed her skin bleeding during treatment[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe said her skin was weeping, purple and swollen the day after her procedure[/caption]
“Afterwards there was a little patch in the middle where it wasn’t red, it was white.
“She just said to me to keep an eye on it and don’t use anything harsh on it.
“By the time I’d driven home, that patch of my face was weeping. I was like ‘surely this isn’t normal’.
“I was panicking the night that it happened. I washed it with water and didn’t put anything on it.”
Melia messaged her practitioner and sent her pictures of her skin, but claims she was ignored until she said she was going to A&E.
It was wet to touch. It was really, really swollen. It was pretty much the entirety of my cheek all the way up to near my eye
Melia Nielsen
“She was completely ignoring my messages, until the next day when I said I was going to A&E because I think I’ve got a chemical burn,” the 24-yearold said.
“When I mentioned A&E she replied straight away.”
Melia took herself to A&E the morning after her treatment was told she had a chemical burn.
She recalled: “When I woke up the next morning the whole thing looked bruised. It had gone all horrible and purple.
“It had stopped weeping but it was wet to touch. It was really, really swollen. It was pretty much the entirety of my cheek all the way up to near my eye.
Kennedy NewsMelia was told her skin could have gotten infected[/caption]
Kennedy NewsShe’s been left with a scar following the procedure[/caption]
“I was seen within half an hour of getting to A&E.
“They took me in and said they’d seen me that quick because of the nature of the burn and the fact it was on my face and how bad it must’ve looked to everyone else.
“They confirmed it was a chemical burn. They gave me this water-based cream that I had to apply every hour for 10 days.
“Thankfully it didn’t get infected but they did say if the swelling hadn’t gone down after a couple of days I’d have to go back.
“They said what should’ve happened at the time is if she thought something wasn’t right she shouldn’t have carried on doing what she was doing.
“She shouldn’t have let me leave with my skin the way it was.”
‘No accountability’
The payroll officer, who had been visiting the clinic since November 2023, admitted she was “upset” by the clinician’s lack of “accountability” for her injury.
Melia said: “The thing that upset me the most was that I’d been going to her for seven to eight months and gotten to know her really well.
“As soon as she eventually did reply she was just trying to basically say that it must have been something that I’ve done.
“It absolutely wasn’t anything I’d done. I’d not changed anything that I used.
Kennedy NewsMelia regrets getting the treatment and is urging others to do their own research[/caption]
Kennedy News‘If I rub my finger over [my scar] it’s a completely different texture to the rest of my face,’ she said[/caption]
“All of the skincare products that I was using were what she’d recommended for me to use. I’d not had any problem at all with any of the other treatments I’d had.
“The way it was handled didn’t seem right.
“I asked her if she was insured in case I needed any help paying for treatment elsewhere to rectify it.
“She just brushed it off and just offered me complementary treatments to try and help it.
“I was just like ‘um, it’s okay, I’m booked in with someone esle who’s medically trained. I’m okay thanks’. There was no accountability.”
How to ease acne
Acne is a common skin condition that ranges from a few spots on the face, neck, back and chest, to a more severe problem with solid painful lumps under the skin. It may cause scarring.
Spots often pop up during puberty and most people will experience some form of acne during their lifetime.
In most cases, it goes away by the time you reach your early to mid-twenties.
For others, it can go on for longer.
At present, there isn’t a ‘cure’ for acne but treatments can be very effective, preventing the formation of new spots and reducing scarring.
The first step is to use skincare products suitable for blemish-prone skin, which may be labelled as ‘non-comedogenic’ or ‘oil-free’.
Active topical treatments (those applied directly to the skin) can be bought over the counter without a prescription.
These include benzoyl peroxide, azelaic acid and nicotinamide – speak to your pharmacist for advice about these.
Most treatments take two to four months to produce their full effect.
If you have acne but have had no success with over-the-counter products, then it’s worth visiting a healthcare professional.
Acne treatments fall into the following categories:
Topical treatments, i.e. those that are applied directly to the skin
Oral antibiotics, i.e. tablets taken by mouth
Oral contraceptive pills
Isotretinoin capsules
Spironolactone tablets
You can also try other treatments like light and laser therapy for inflammatory acne and to reduce scarring – only go to experienced practitioners for these.
Other techniques may include steroid injections, chemical peels and microneedling, but these aren’t available on the NHS.
Melia admitted she regrets getting the £75 cosmetic procedure as she “didn’t really need it”.
Now she fears the scar will “never fully go away”, leaving her struggling to apply makeup.
Melia said: “It’s made me realise that I actually didn’t really need it and I’ve first hand seen how things can go wrong.
“I wouldn’t ever want to risk going through that again.
“I suffered from hormonal acne. I just wanted to get to a point where it was clear and I didn’t have to keep piling makeup on to try and cover it. I wanted to feel confident without it.”
Instead, Melia was left in agony for weeks and her skin may never be the same.
“It was painful. It was so sore for weeks. It was itchy, it was swollen, it was horrible,” she said.
“Even now if I rub my finger over it now it’s a completely different texture to the rest of my face. It’s never fully going away.
“The first time I put makeup on was only about a month ago. Because it’s such a sensitive area now, even wearing makeup for a day really made it flare up.”
Do your research
The ordeal has permanently put her off cosmetic procedures and she now urges other people to do their research first.
Melia said: “I’ve been going to somebody who has helped me with the journey of trying to heal it. I’ve been going there every month for a rejuvenation peel to try and help it fade as much as it can.
“Other than that I don’t think I’ll really ever put anything harsh on my skin again.
“I just want people to actually look into the background of who is doing things like that.
“The girl who did it to me did two days of training. She did a two day training course and was allowed to put needling tools and chemicals on people’s faces.
“I just want people to go to somebody who might have a little bit more experience or even actually have proper thorough consultations and stuff to avoid anything like that happening.”
1 day agoUSA UpdateComments Off on Putin’s ‘murdered’ arch-foe Navalny’s final diary entry penned in ‘Polar Wolf’ gulag warns Vlad’s days are numbered
THE final diary entry of Vladimir Putin’s arch-foe Alexei Navalny vows “victory is inevitable”.
The persecuted freedom fighter wrote the brave words inside the sadistic “Polar Wolf” gulag where some claim the Russian tyrant had him murdered just days later.
APRussian freedom fighter Alexei Navalny died in a Gulag in February[/caption]
ReutersNavalny in a court appearance six days before he wrote his final diary entry[/caption]
APThe final entry comes in his posthumous memoir Patriot[/caption]
AFPNavalny addresses supporters during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally in 2018[/caption]
ReutersWestern leaders accused Vladimir Putin of having Navalny killed[/caption]
Navalny, 47, died in the Siberian prison on February 16 after he was reportedly poisoned on Putin’s orders.
His final diary entry has been revealed in a new book – Patriot – a posthumous memoir released Tuesday.
The entry, dated January 17, 2024, vows that Putin will be defeated and his rule built on “nothing but lies” will “crumble and collapse”.
The jailed opposition leader writes: “The Putinist state is not sustainable. One day, we will look at it, and it won’t be there.
“Victory is inevitable.”
The entry also calls on the reader to never give up their principles and to be willing to face consequences for them – just as Navalny did.
He writes: “And if you’re not prepared to do that, you have no convictions. You just think you do.
“But those are not convictions and principles; they’re only thoughts in your head.”
His final words in the entry ask the reader to fight for what they believe.
Navalny writes: “But for now, we must not give up and we must stand by our beliefs.”
The resistance leader stood up for his beliefs and was poisoned by Putin with the feared nerve agent Novichok for them.
When he returned to Russia, he was then imprisoned for 19 years on trumped up extremism charges as Putin sought to cement his iron grip.
Navalny denied the charges but was dumped in the hellhole gulag in the brutal act of political repression.
Prison authorities claimed that he felt unwell after a walk, then lost consciousness and died.
APNavalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya in 2013[/caption]
GettyNavalny was poisoned by Putin using Novichok in 2020[/caption]
Gulagu.net – which is headed by Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin – claimed: “The forensic expert was pressured to conceal the discovery of blood clots….in the calf muscles and arms”.
Those blood clots imply a disruption of his normal circulation.
A source told the organisation that the forensic physician concluded “that four to five hours before the onset of biological death, the prisoner was tied up and his arms and legs”.
His limbs “were tightly tied just so that the blood stagnated and blood clots formed in it, which then clogged the pulmonary artery and blood vessels of the brain”, said a statement from the organisation.
But those findings have been hidden by Russian spies looking to cover up the death, the site claims.
Tragically, his death came just before he was poised to be freed in a prisoner swap his aide claimed.
Maria Pevchikh said he was ready to be handed over for FSB killer Vadim Krasikov, before Putin changed his mind.
Footage from the scene showed a large crowd of people clapping and shouting Navalny’s name as the hearse transporting his body arrived at the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows.
Mourners were heard chanting: “Putin is a killer”, “We won’t forget”, “Freedom for political prisoners”, and “Russia without Putin”.
His wife Yulia Navalnaya has now vowed in an interview with the BBC to return to Russia and run for president.
Who was Alexei Navalny?
PUTIN’S best known opponent Alexei Navalny, 47, has died in prison.
Here is a timeline that took the leader of the opposition from the face of freedom in Russia and the Kremlin’s biggest foe to a hellhole Siberian prison and onto an early grave.
June 4, 1976 — Navalny is born in a western part of the Moscow region.
1997 — Graduates from Russia’s RUDN university, where he majored in law.
2004 — Forms a movement against rampant over-development in Moscow.
2008 — Gains notoriety for calling out corruption in state-run corporation.
December 2011 — Participates in mass protests sparked by reports of widespread rigging of Russia’s election, and is arrested and jailed for 15 days for “defying a government official”.
March 2012 – Further mass protests break out and Navalny accuses key Kremlin cronies of corruption.
July 2012 — Russia’s Investigative Committee charges Navalny with embezzlement. He rejects the claims and says they are politically motivated.
2013 — Navalny runs for mayor in Moscow.
July 2013 — A court in Kirov convicts Navalny of embezzlement in the Kirovles case, sentencing him to five years in prison – he appeals and is allowed to continue campaign.
September 2013 — Official results show Navalny finishes second in the mayor’s race.
February 2014 — Navalny is placed under house arrest.
December 2014 — Navalny and his brother, Oleg, are found guilty of fraud.
February 2016 — The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia violated Navalny’s right to a fair trial.
November 2016 — Russia’s Supreme Court overturns Navalny’s sentence.
December 2016 — Navalny announces he will run in Russia’s 2018 presidential election.
February 2017 — The Kirov court retries Navalny and upholds his five-year suspended sentence from 2013.
April 2017 – Survives an assassination attempt he blames on Kremlin.
December 2017 — Russia’s Central Electoral Commission bars him from running for president.
August, 2020 – Navalny falls into a coma on a flight and his team suspects he was poisoned. German authorities confirm he was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent.
Jan 2021 — After five months in Germany, Navalny is arrested upon his return to Russia.
Feb 2021 — A Moscow court orders Navalny to serve 2 ½ years in prison.
June 2021 — A Moscow court shuts down Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption and his extended political network.
Feb 2022 — Russia invades Ukraine.
March 2022 — Navalny is sentenced to an additional nine-year term for embezzlement and contempt of court.
2023 — Over 400 Russian doctors sign an open letter to Putin, urging an end to what it calls abuse of Navalny, following reports that he was denied basic medication & suffering from slow poisoning.
April, 2023 — Navalny from inside prison says he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
Aug 2023 – A court in Russia extends Navalny’s prison sentence by 19 years.
Dec 2023 – He disappears from his prison as his team fear he could be assassination. He then reappears weeks later in one of Siberia’s toughest prisons – the ‘Polar Wolf’ colony.
ReutersRussians walk towards Navalny’s grave against Putin’s wishes[/caption]
ReutersPortraits of Navalny and journalist Anna Politkovskaya[/caption]
The remains were only recently identified thanks to DNA technology that wasn’t available then, the Cook County Sheriff’s Department announced.
John was known as the Killer Clown due to performing as a children’s clownAlamy
At the time of John’s arrest, he had claimed to investigators that the total number of murder victims could be as high as 45.
However, only 33 victims were ever linked to John.
Investigators excavated the grounds of his property until they had exposed the substratum of clay beneath the foundations, finding 29 bodies.
How was John Wayne Gacy caught?
Police were investigating the disappearance of teenager Robert Piest with John, the last person thought to have been with the 15-year-old.
After securing a search warrant to John’s home, police discovered the bodies of 29 boys and young men while four other bodies were found in the Des Plaines River.
The smell of the bodies had been building up for years but John dismissed the questions by saying it was just a build-up of dampness.
During the trial, John tried to persuade doctors that he suffered from multiple personality disorder.
John was eventually caught during an investigation into a missing teenGetty images
He claimed to have four distinct personalities: a hard-working, civic-minded contractor, a clown, an active politician, and a policeman named Jack Hanley, whom he called “Bad Jack.”
The defence portrayed John as a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, presenting several psychiatric experts who had evaluated him.
Three of these experts testified that John was a paranoid schizophrenic with multiple personalities.
However, prosecutors contended that John was fully sane and in complete control of his actions.
Prosecuting attorney Terry Sullivan stated: “John Gacy has accounted for more human devastation than many earthly catastrophes… I tremble when thinking about just how close he came to getting away with it all.”
John was found guilty of 33 charges of murder.
He was also found guilty of sexual assault and taking indecent liberties with a child.
At the time, his conviction for 33 murders was the most for which any person in US history had been convicted.
The inhuman murderer was imprisoned for 14 years, before being put to death by lethal injection in 1994.
Now, three experts trained in exposing the lies behind serial killer’s public persona examine the crimes of “The Killer Crown” in a new Channel 5 documentary.
Watch The Killer Clown: 33 Murders & Counting on Channel 5 at 10 p.m. on Sunday, October 27.
1 day agoUSA UpdateComments Off on How Laura Fernández Espeso Is Taking Mediapro Studio Global
The CEO of the Spanish media giant, one of THR's 2024 Most Powerful Women in International TV, will outline her plans for global domination at this year's Mipcom.
