ROBBIE Williams has paid tribute to Liam Payne following his death aged 31.
The former Take That singer said he is overcome with “shock, sadness and confusion”.
Robbie has opened up about his own demons in the wake of Liam’s death on Wednesday.
The dad-of-one fell from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
FORMER Real Madrid defender Vinicius Tobias got his baby’s name tattooed on his arm… only to find out he is not the biological father.
Brazilian right-back Tobias, 20, and ex-wife Ingrid Lima welcomed daughter Maite into the world on October 8.
In honour of her birth, the footballer had “Maite, I love you,” tattooed onto his arm.
But influencer Ingrid has now revealed they had an on-off relationship during the time of Maite’s conception.
And she has confirmed a DNA test proved Tobias, who now plays for Shakhtar Donetsk, was not the biological father of the child.
Ingrid’s social media post reportedly read: “I came to give a statement about something that is getting annoying and that, unfortunately, I would have to come out on publicly to give you an explanation.
“Vinicius and I haven’t been together for a while. During that time, I was in a relationship with someone and so was he.
“We both moved on with our lives. In the meantime, Maite came along.
“We decided to do a DNA test, and Maite is not Vinicius’ daughter.”
Tobias has not yet commented on the result of the DNA test.
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Tobias was compared to Dani Alves and Trent Alexander-Arnold two years ago.
He first impressed fans with his swashbuckling displays in the U15 South American Championships in 2019 – scoring in the final against Brazil’s rivals Argentina.
Bayern Munich, Juventus, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid all registered an interest in Tobias.
However, it was Shakhtar Donetsk who won the race for his signature – paying £6million for his services.
Real Madrid then acquired him on loan in 2022 and he spent two years in the Spanish capital, making one appearance for the senior side.
He returned to Shakhtar for the start of this season and has played five times in the 2024/25 campaign.
PREMIER LEAGUE great Marco Gabbiadini revealed he had to stop exercising and watching football due to his heart condition.
Gabbiadini, 56, announced in May that he needs to undergo triple bypass surgery after discovering that his heart was “working at about 20 per cent” following a “slight issue” in his chest.
The Sunderland legend noticed the issue after feeling “heartburn” while exercising in the gym and found out his coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart, had an 80 per cent blockage.
The Derby great is still waiting for the operation and the doctors ordered him to avoid any type of exercise – from high-tempo sports like tennis to mundane chores like gardening.
The former striker also needs to avoid any situation that could cause him stress, which means no more live football on the telly.
Gabbiadini told The Mail: “I have had to stop exercising, so I am probably in the worst shape I have ever been in my life.
“Before May, I was still playing tennis a couple of times a week, cycling, gardening, helping the kids with their house renovations.
“But the surgeon said, ‘Stop tennis, no gardening and don’t watch any football on the telly’.
“So I have been watching Sunderland games this season in full on YouTube after they have finished, so I know the score and there is no stress involved.
“Having to have that mentality when you are only in your mid-50s has been a bit of a shock. But at the same time, you have got to count your lucky stars.
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“Reporting it early meant I was put on tablets. I am on blood thinners, statins – eight different tablets to give me the best chance of getting to the surgery.
“To anyone reading this story, if you do have any issues, report is as soon as you can.”
After hanging up his boots at the age of 35, Gabbiadini turned to hospitality and now runs a B&B in York.
The ex-England Under-21 international’s Bishops guest house, which he opened in 2003, is now recognised as one of the best B&Bs in the Yorkshire city.
NOTHING stays the same forever.
And that includes the Premier League, which is making a number of tweaks this season.
Team news will now be released 75 MINUTES before kick-off, 15 minutes earlier than had been the case before.
Things could get crowded on the touchline, with the number of substitutes permitted to warm-up boosted from three players per team to FIVE.
There’s also a change to how added time is calculated when a team scores a goal, an update to the ‘multiball’ system and the introduction of semi-automated offsides – but not straight away.
Go here to read about all the changes to the Premier League for 2024/25.
IF you missed out on Aldi’s wooden toy launch, don’t fret because Lidl has come to the rescue.
A savvy mum shared her hack for picking up the popular items at a reduced rate.
In her viral video, TikTok user Samantha (@samanthaproudmama) took her followers along as she purchased her haul.
She advised her audience to check out their local Lidl rather than buying wooden toys from reselleres for “triple the price.”
Samantha explained that she was looking for toys for her children for Christmas.
The TikToker pointed out how much calmer and quieter the shop was compared to the Aldi sale.
Samantha joked about how she was able to pursue rather than “battle the trolleys.”
She picked up a variety og items for her children in the toy section, including “dollhouse bits,” and a wooden till set.
“I am actually glad that I got here for 8:00 am because they only had one pizza oven so I managed to pick that up,” she explained.
Samantha also selected a wooden train set for her son.
She panned her camera around to show her followers the wide range of toys, which included kitchen sets, dressing tables, and an ice cream cart.
After checking out, the TikToker noted that she bagged some bargains.
She revealed that she was able to shave 10% off her haul using the Lidl Plus app.
“I think I managed to pick up pretty much everything I wanted,” she concluded.
Before signing off, Samantha said she was “super happy” with her haul, praising the quality of the items as well as their affordable price tags.
She advised her audience to follow her lead if they’re thinking about Christmas wish lists.
TikTok users shared their thoughts on the wooden toys in the comments section.
IF you’ve ever shopped in Aldi or Lidl then you’ll probably have experienced its ultra-fast checkout staff.
Aldi’s speedy reputation is no mistake, in fact, the supermarket claims that its tills are 40 per cent quicker than rivals.
It’s all part of Aldi’s plan to be as efficient as possible – and this, the budget shop claims, helps keep costs low for shoppers.
Efficient barcodes on packaging means staff are able to scan items as quickly as possible, with the majority of products having multiple barcodes to speed up the process.
It also uses “shelf-ready” packaging which keeps costs low when it comes to replenishing stock.
“I’ve just got back for Lidl. I rushed after school run and there was really no need. I was the only person looking at it. Secured all I wanted,” wrote one viewer.
“I’m actually so gutted I didn’t get the Aldi coffee and hot chocolate set but went into Lidl today and absolute bargain!” said another follower.
“I went this morning and it was literally me and one other couple. So nice, so chilled, got everything I wanted,” commented a third person.
“I really want the ice cream trolley, hope they have it when I can go!” said another commenter.
“Oh, I need to go and have a look, looks [like] a good selection,” wrote one viewer.
BOSSES of a popular grocery chain are set to close another one of the retailer’s stores.
The Save-a-Lot location in Batavia, New York, which is about 35 miles from Rochester, will soon be gone.
Chiefs have called time on the outlet and its last day of business will be Saturday, according to The Daily News.
A note left on the store’s doors has informed shoppers about the pending closure.
Chiefs said the decision to close the outlet was made with a heavy heart, according to the poster shared on Video News Service.
Discount sales with items cut by up to 20% are being held today and tomorrow.
Chiefs thanked shoppers for their custom and said: “We are so grateful and hope we met your expectations.”
The note also thanked employees for their passion and hard work.
After opening its doors in 2011, the store has been a fixture in the community for more than a decade.
News of the pending shutdown has gone viral, leaving shoppers devastated.
Fans pointed out how the store was accessible to locals.
“This is sad because I know a lot of people who rely on walking to get from place to place,” one shopper said on Facebook.
“That is my grocery store,” another customer chimed.
Shoppers were puzzled that their favorite store was about to slam shut.
Regular customers admitted they were caught off guard while others slammed the decision, claiming it stunk.
The U.S. Sun has approached Save-a-Lot for comment.
The chain has over 900 stores in 32 states, but bosses have whittled down the chain’s portfolio.
Bosses closed the chain’s Lancaster, New York, outlet on August 31 – which was a week earlier than expected.
It had been a constant in the community for more than 20 years.
Shoppers admitted they were left baffled by the decision.
“I don’t understand,” one fan told the local NBC affiliate WGRZ-TV.
In June, The U.S. Sun reported how a Save-a-Lot establishment in Buffalo, New York, was set to close.
Discount sales with items cut by around 20% were held in the run-up to the closure.
In May, Save-a-Lot bosses closed an outlet in West Allis, Wisconsin, a 15–minute drive from Milwaukee.
Liquidation sales with items up to 30% off were held as bosses wanted to clear the last remaining stock.
And, a location in the Chicago suburb of Richton Park slammed shut after 17 years of business.
Earlier this year, a Save-a-Lot store in Memphis, Tennessee, closed its doors – and it wasn’t linked to financial underperformance.
Bosses admitted that the outlet closed due to crime, per the NBC affiliate WMC-TV.
The U.S. Sun has reported how a slew of major retailers have been impacted by store closures.
In recent years, execs of the renowned department store chain Macy’s have announced hundreds of stores would close.
A total of 150 will be closing over the coming three years.
The bosses of Conn’s Home Plus are closing hundreds of outlets after the beleaguered chain filed for bankruptcy.
A whopping 400 7-Eleven stores across the US are to close, while TGI Fridays’ chiefs shuttered 12 locations in a month.
A HEAVILY pregnant woman and her baby have died following a crash with an unmarked police car.
The incident happened on the A20, near the junction with Kidbrooke Park Road in Eltham, south-east London, at around 6.15pm on Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police.
London Ambulance Service, London Fire Brigade and London’s Air Ambulance all attended the scene.
A pregnant 38-year-old woman and her unborn baby died as a result of their injuries.
The next of kin have been informed, and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, the Met said.
Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry, in charge of policing in Greenwich, said: “My heart goes out to the woman’s family and friends who have lost their loved ones in these tragic circumstances.
“An investigation into the circumstances of this collision is under way by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and we will assist with their inquiries in any way we can.
“A road closure will remain at the scene today and I am grateful for the patience of the local motorists, who will need to use alternative routes.”
Two officers who were in the unmarked car were also taken to hospital following the collision.
They have since been discharged.
ANDREY RUBLEV has revealed that he nearly lost his testicle following his US Open exit.
The Russian tennis star, 26, was beaten in five gruelling sets by Grigor Dimitrov in New York.
He subsequently withdrew from his next scheduled tournament in Hangzhou, China, citing “illness”.
Having since played in Beijing and Shanghai, Rublev is back in Europe for this week’s ATP 250 event in Stockholm.
Following his comfortable second round victory over Alexandre Muller last night, Rublev publicly revealed for the first time that he’d been hours away from needing his testicle amputated, having undergone emergency surgery.
“I don’t know how to call it in a smart way but I can call it in a funny way,” he began. “I almost lost my ball.
“I was super lucky because they say you have only five or six hours if the blood stops going there and then it’s amputation.
“I was lucky. I don’t know why I said, ‘let’s go to hospital just to check why I feel a weird feeling’.
“They checked straight away and they took me as an emergency to do the surgery and then they were able to do the surgery in three or four hours after the first feeling I felt.
“So they were able to do everything good and in the end everything is great.”
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He then incredibly revealed: “The last thing before they made me sleep, I signed the paper saying they were allowed to amputate my ball – that was the last thing before the surgery that I saw.”
Rublev returned from his ordeal in Beijing more than three weeks later, beating Pablo Carreno Busta and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina before losing to Bu Yunchaokete in the quarter-finals.
He then lost to teenager Jakub Mensik in his Shanghai opener before returning to Europe.
Rublev is in action in Sweden this week, aiming to bolster his chances of qualifying for next month’s ATP Finals in Turin.
He currently occupies the eighth and final place ahead of what is set to be a sprint to the finish.
The world No7 will meet 39-year-old Stan Wawrinka in the Nordic Open quarter-finals later today.
He is then scheduled to play in Basel, and at the Masters 1000 in Paris the following week.
STARVATION started to set in four days after 11-year-old Fawzia Amin Saydo was brutally kidnapped by ISIS fighters.
Handed plates of meat, she and dozens of other desperate women and children realised something was wrong as soon as they started eating.
Having been barbarically left without food for days, they had little choice but to accept it.
As a feeling of sickness consumed them, murderous ISIS thugs revealed the truth: they had been eating the meat of slaughtered babies.
But that was just the beginning of the unimaginable suffering and inhumane conditions Fawzia was forced to endure for a decade.
Ten years of hell saw her being kidnapped from her home in Iraq, being bought and sold as a slave in Syria, and then ending up held captive in the Gaza Strip.
And she was finally rescued earlier this month after issuing a desperate cry for help online – with activists successfully lobbying for her release in a secret operation overseen by the Israelis.
After being held as a slave in one of the world’s deadliest war zones – brave Fawzia revealed her harrowing ordeal to The Sun in an interview with documentarian Alan Duncan.
She spoke of being held prisoner by Hamas – just like she was by ISIS – and said there was “no difference” between the two terror groups.
And she described the horrific conditions in Gaza, telling how she saw hospitals being used as Hamas bases by armed fighters and how she was beaten, abused and held captive.
Her lawyer Zemfira Dlovani told The Sun how Fawzia, now 21, has been left so traumatised, she can only recall around 15 per cent of her plight from the past 10 years.
She put the captive Fawzia in touch with ex-Brit squaddie-turned-filmmaker Duncan – who helped lobby for the rescue mission.
Fawzia contacted him over WhatsApp saying: “I am not safe. I am very afraid. What should I do?”
Duncan, who has spent years investigating ISIS’s crimes – speaking to both perpetrators and victims, said: “There were times she had given up hope she would ever be free.”
But now Fawzia can tell her story – giving a candid account of her ordeal, and compelling testimony about the crimes of both Hamas and ISIS – while still living in fear of terrorists.
Fawzia was one of thousands of the Yazidi people who were subjected to genocide by ISIS, with an estimated 5,000 murdered and more than 10,000 kidnapped.
She was just 11 years old when barbaric Islamic State fighters stormed her hometown of Sinjar, northern Iraq, in August 2014.
Men were slaughtered while thousands of women and children were abducted by bloodthirsty extremists.
Fawzia’s two brothers, aged seven and ten, were banished to a camp to be indoctrinated and trained as child soldiers.
Though they managed to escape, Fawzia endured years of violence and rape at the hands of vicious ISIS fighters.
She and dozens of other helpless women and girls were dragged to Tal Afar before being sent to Syria.
Fawzia revealed how they were starved for four days before heartless terrorists finally gave them something to eat when they made it to the city in northwest Iraq.
I always did what I was told because I was so young and very scared.
Fawzia
Speaking just after her release, she told The Sun: “They cooked rice and also meat and brought it to us.
“Because we were so hungry, we just ate what was on the table.
“While we were eating we knew something was wrong because the taste was weird but we just ate because we were hungry.
“After, we all had stomach ache and felt sick.”
Ruthless IS brutes then revealed their heinous act.
“When we were done, they told us that the meat was from the babies,” Fawzia said.
“There was a woman who had a heart attack at that moment and died.
“They showed us pictures of the beheaded kids and babies and said ‘these are the kids you ate’.
“It is very hard but it was not our fault, they forced us but of course it is very hard for us that this happened. Nothing was in our hands.”
Inconsolable mothers wept and screamed, realising why in Tal Afar they had been so callously separated from their babies.
One mother recognised her baby by their hand in photos they were shown, Fawzia recalled.
Enslaved by brutal IS thugs, Fawzia was hauled to the Syrian city of Raqqa in early 2015.
She was imprisoned for nine months in an underground prison with around 200 others in vile conditions.
“We were held in the dark the whole time. We never saw the sunlight,” she said.
“We were in a prison, we didn’t do anything, we couldn’t go outside.
“We had to drink dirty water, some children died. It was a very tough time.
“These men came in and if they liked a girl they took them with them.”
Fawzia was bought and sold five times by remorseless IS fighters in the several years she was held in Syria.
The fifth man who bought her was a Palestinian ISIS militant more than ten years her senior.
The thug, 24, used drugs to rape a then very young Fawzia.
She said: “At the beginning, I would hide in the bathroom until he was asleep because I didn’t know what he wanted from me. I was scared. I didn’t want him to do anything.
“When he noticed I was hiding, one day he gave me drugs and I fell asleep and he raped me.”
He repeatedly physically and sexually abused Fawzia, and by the tender age of 15, she had given birth to a son and a daughter.
Fawzia became a devoted mum to her two children – despite still being a child herself.
In 2018, ISIS was finally driven out of its final territory Syria and she lost contact with her captor.
The young mum was then sent to Al-Hawl camp, which by early December 2018 held 10,000 people – later swelling to more than 60,000.
Notoriously grim Al-Hawl, which sits in the desert of northeast Syria, was also home to merciless ISIS terrorists and their families – including Westerners who went to join the caliphate.
When I was in Israel and I knew there was no Hamas anymore and I was free, I was very happy. I could breathe again.
Fawzia
Fawzia said: “ISIS women were very bad to me, they forced me to work for them.
“I always did what I was told because I was so young and very scared. They also tried to force me to be Muslim.”
Eight months after she was taken to the camp, Fawzia said she received word her Palestinian captor was in prison in Idlib, Syria.
Fearing for her children’s future as they would likely be rejected from her community, Fawzia went to Gaza to live with his family.
She was taken via Turkey and Egypt with a fake passport before being driven into Gaza in 2020.
Fawzia said: “The underground tunnel from Idlib was so tight, there was no air. Some people died. We then walked 31 hours to the next place in Turkey.”
But once in Gaza, Fawzia was subjected to vile treatment from her dead husband’s family.
She was regularly beaten and – under Hamas’ reign – was virtually imprisoned in their home.
Fawzia dismissed reports she had remarried her dead husband’s brother while in Gaza and told how she was kept under Hamas’ boot.
She said: “I was never free to do what I wanted. If I was, I would have gone out of Gaza earlier.
“I could not do that, I always had to stay under their control.
“There was one time Hamas held a gun to my head and to my side when I went outside with her friend.
“They said it was not allowed.”
By Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter
IT was a complex operation several months in the making.
Having suffered at the hands of terrorists for a decade, Fawzia Amin Saydo was desperate to get home to the family she had been cruelly snatched from as a child.
After nine years of abuse, Fawzia managed to send out a TikTok video begging for help after Israel invaded Gaza following the October 7 atrocity.
In the video, in which she wore a hijab and covered part of her face with a crying emoji, she said: “I hope you can rescue me from this place.
“If anyone comes and enters Palestine, no matter the location, I will go to them.”
Her lawyer, Zemfira Dlovani, told The Sun how after she told of Fawzia’s ordeal by a Yazidi activist Ronai Chaker in June she instantly contacted her directly.
Dlovani said: “She [Fawzia] said do whatever you need to do to get me out of here because I am very scared and I’m in a very bad situation here.”
The attorney contacted squaddie turned documentarian Alan Duncan, who helped free slave Naveen Rasho from Al-Hawl compound.
Duncan made contact with Fawzia – and began to help rallying support for a rescue mission.
Dlovani added: “We all spoke a lot to Fawzia to try and give her hope and told her to stay calm. She was scared and wanted to get out of Gaza as soon as possible.
“It took three months, it was a very intense time. She was very, very scared.”
The secret mission involved Israel, the US, and Iraq – including undercover agents.
Dlovani, Duncan, Chaker, activist Hussein Baadre, Israel-based journalist Jonathan Spyer and businessman Steve Maman all helped lobby for the rescue.
But The Sun understands that the final decision to launch the mission came from the Israeli Defence Force – who planned the operation alongside Cogat, the Israeli agency that works in Gaza and the West Bank.
On October 1, after weeks of meticulous planning – Fawzia received a phone call.
It was time to leave.
A vehicle was sent to collect Fawzia from close to the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Drones were used to keep a watchful eye on the vehicle before it arrived at the crossing and she was transferred into a UN ambulance to be taken into Israel.
Anxious Fawzia was then taken to Allenby Bridge crossing by US embassy officials, which connects with Jordan.
Fawzia was taken into the care of the Iraqi consulate before being flown to Baghdad and then Erbil the following day.
The final stint of the journey back to Sinjar was taken by car, when she was tearfully reunited with her family.
Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded British troops in Afghanistan, acted as a mediator during Fawzia’s rescue.
He told The Sun: “Alan provided intelligence to the IDF which allowed them to mount an operation to bring her out of Gaza.
“It would have been secretly, with some sort of communication between Fawzia and the IDF. There are big risks involved there for Fawzia in particular.
“Gaza is obviously a warzone, so there is always a hazard. The IDF is very strong there.
“The critical thing I rescuing her was to ensure secrecy in the process so Hamas didn’t get wind of what was going on and couldn’t have taken action to prevent it.
“I’m sure they would have [tried to stop the rescue] if they knew, I think they would have done all they could to prevent her getting away.
“They probably would have killed her if they suspected anything, if they suspected any communication between her and the IDF.”
Fawzia told how she was treated as a “sabaya” – or slave – by Hamas.
After Hamas’ atrocious massacre in Israel on October 7 and abduction of hundreds of hostages sparked Israel to invade Gaza, Fawzia was sent to work as a slave in a hospital.
She said: “All hospitals were being used as Hamas bases.
“They all had weapons, everyone had weapons everywhere.”
Fawzia’s rescue from Gaza was months in the making in a complex operation orchestrated by several individuals as well as authorities in Israel, the US, and Iraq – risking her life by communicating with them while locked in a terrorist state.
On October 1, she was finally freed from terrorists’ chains and eventually reunited with her family in Iraq.
But after her rescue was confirmed, Hamas concocted a statement claiming Fawzia had been willingly living in Gaza – and only wanted to leave because of the war.
Fawzia said: “What Hamas says is wrong, it is an absolute lie. I was never free, I was forced to stay in the house.
“When I was in Israel and I knew there was no Hamas anymore and I was free, I was very happy. I could breathe again.
“They were very bad, they forced us, they killed people, they forced me to be there. Why would I be there until now if I wasn’t forced to.
“These people who say it’s not true, it’s lies, that these things never happened to me, they should have been there instead of me, in my place, then they could talk about that.
“There is no difference between Hamas and ISIS.
“I didn’t believe I would get rescued until I did.”
But a heartbroken Fawzia declines to speak of her children, now five and six, who she has not seen for several months.
By Henry Holloway, Deputy Foreign Editor
FEW people suffered more under the vicious boot of ISIS than the Yazidis.
Thousands of women and girls from the Kurdish minority group were forced into sexual slavery by the vicious terror group.
And the terrorists simply killed all the group’s men they could get their blood-stained hands on.
It is estimated at least 5,000 Yazidis were killed, at least 10,000 kidnapped, and some 500,000 were forced to leave their homes.
The United Nations recognises the barbarity as nothing short of genocide.
ISIS first attacked the Yazidis during their bloody rise to power in 2014, butchering their way through their communities in northern Iraq.
Massacres were widespread – with victims being gunned down, beheaded or even buried alive.
Disturbing accounts detail atrocities such as a mother being forced to eat pieces of her own baby, or women being burned alive for refusing to have sex with ISIS fighters.
Mass graves are still being discovered from this period – with 30 more bodies discovered this month in Hamadan.
But those who weren’t killed were forced into slavery by ISIS.
Yazidi women and children were bought, sold and subjected to forced conversation to ISIS’s warped version of Islam.
They were turned into slaves – sold, raped and abused,
Yazidi women who were pregnant were given forced abortions – and then raped by ISIS fighters so they could give birth to “Muslim babies”.
ISIS considered Yazidis “devil worshippers” because of their religious beliefs.
The survivors are still reeling from the horrors inflicted upon them by ISIS – and they want justice.
Germany has managed to convict ISIS fighters of genocide for their crimes against the Yazidis – and meanwhile, probes are also being carried out by the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.
Britain however – for whatever reason – appears to not be pursuing ISIS fighters for their complicity in the crimes against the Yazidis.
Fawzia’s rescue from Gaza – and her heartbreaking story – shows there are still Yazidis out there who had been snatched from their homes.
It is estimated some 2,700 Yazidis remain missing across the Middle East.
Many families remain desperate that loved ones they lost may one day return to them – just like Fawzia.
Her lawyer Zemfira Dlovani told The Sun: “When she was in Gaza, she didn’t have her kids with her anymore.
“They were taken, she didn’t have control over that any way long time before she left Gaza. They were not with her.
“We don’t talk a lot about her kids. She doesn’t want to talk about that, she is not comfortable.
“It hurt her of course, every mother knows how it feels to not with with their children.
“That was not her choice. It is not an option for them to be reunited.”
Dlovani said Fawzia is grappling with a mix of emotions after so long in captivity.
She said: ” When she came back [to Iraq], she wasn’t feeling well.
“You have to imagine, she came back to the place where she was taken from ten years ago.
“She came back, her father died three months ago and she was very sad about not being able to see him.
“The first week she was feeling good because she was free and could be with her family, but on the other hand, she was also very sad.
“She also doesn’t feel comfortable there still because this is the place she was taken from. And she is still in fear it could happen again. No one feels safe there.
“She has hopes to build a new life – but she knows that life will not be in Iraq.”
Dlovani said it will take a long time for Fawzia to recover from her ordeal and process her trauma.
She added: “She was a very strong little girl. She realised very fast, okay if I do what they tell me, I will survive.
“She needs time to rest and time to clarify in her own mind what happened.
“This is only about 15-20 per cent of the whole truth of what she went through.
“She needs lots of time.”
Half of her life a slave of ISIS and Hamas – how can you recover from that? But I know she can.
Alan Duncan
Duncan told The Sun: “I had to say to Fawzia, ‘no promises’ – it was really really hard at times.
“Being ex-forces, I very much understood there were security concerns – we feared it could even be a set up by Hamas as an ambush.
“There was one night in particular – Hamas turned up and threatened her, her and the other girls were taken to hospital, and we feared they would kill her.”
Duncan went on: “But the main thing is she is now free to start living her life. Having dealings with survivors – I understand this is a step-by-step process.
“She is back with her family, back with the Yazidi community – and she can start rebuilding her life.
“Half of her life a slave of ISIS and Hamas – how can you recover from that? But I know she can.”
He added: “The Israelis saw her no different to one of their hostages, they said this was about humanity, and she was just another victim of Hamas – I can’t thank them enough.”
Duncan formerly served with the Queen’s Own Highlanders and Royal Irish Regiment.
He then fought alongside the Kurdish Peshmergas as a sniper to battle against ISIS.
And after the war was over, he decided to use his camera as his new weapon in exposing the depravity of the jihadi cult’s crimes.
His most famous story was the rescue of Naveen Rasho – a Yazidi woman who was held as a slave by ISIS in Syria.
One of Naveen’s captors – an ISIS bride known as Nadine K – has since been jailed in Germany for her role in the genocide.
ALIEN life could be lurking under frozen water to survive on Mars, Nasa scientists have suggested.
Living on the Red Planet is near impossible on the surface because of extreme ultraviolet radiation.
Earth is protected by harmful radiation thanks to the magnetic field – which Mars does not have.
But scientists have proposed that staying beneath thick ice could shield microbial life from this danger.
Experts haven’t uncovered any evidence that aliens are there – the study outlines such spots as a possibility worth exploring for clues.
They say that the amount of sunlight that can shine through dusty ice could be enough for photosynthesis to occur in shallow pools of meltwater below the surface of that ice without high levels of radiation getting through.
It’s plausible because back home on Earth similar pools of water that form within ice are known to be teeming with life, including algae, fungi, and microscopic cyanobacteria.
Nasa’s Aditya Khuller, who led the study, said: “If we’re trying to find life anywhere in the universe today, Martian ice exposures are probably one of the most accessible places we should be looking.”
Using computer modeling, scientists looked at water ice, most of which formed from snow mixed with dust that fell on the surface during a series of Martian ice ages in the past million years.
If there is dust within ice it can create something known as cryoconite holes, Nasa explains.
These are small holes that form in ice when particles of windblown dust fall there.
They take in sunlight and melt farther into the ice each summer on Earth.
Over time, they lower further down but eventually reach a point where they stop sinking.
However, they still generate enough warmth which creates a pocket of meltwater around them, which life can feed off.
“This is a common phenomenon on Earth,” explained co-author Phil Christensen, from Arizona State University in Tempe.
“Dense snow and ice can melt from the inside out, letting in sunlight that warms it like a greenhouse, rather than melting from the top down.”
The full study was published in the Nature journal Communications Earth & Environment.
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RODNEY Alcala was a terrifying serial murderer known as the Dating Game Killer, who is thought to have killed more than eight women.
He is featured in Netflix’s Woman of the Hour, which dramatises Cheryl Bradshaw’s brush-in with the killer on a dating show.
The murderer committed many heinous crimes while he was at large, both in the state of California and New York.
But signs that Rodney was dangerous began to emerge when he was young.
Rodney was born on August 23, 1943, in San Antonio, Texas, to a Mexican American couple named Raul and Anna.
His father Raul left the family when Rodney was young, so Anna decided to move her children to California.
Rodney was reportedly popular at school and was academically gifted, with an estimated IQ of 135 (a score that would have landed him a spot in Mensa).
At age 17, he joined the United States Army as a paratrooper, though the darker aspects of Rodney’s personality soon began to emerge.
His commanding officer described him as manipulative and Rodney was disciplined several times for harassing women.
After a nervous breakdown, Rodney fled from the army and hiked to his mother’s house in an incident that saw him diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder.
He was discharged from the army and decided to study film at UCLA and NYU under Roman Polanski.
Rodney’s criminal activities began before his move to New York, as left an eight-year-old girl in a coma after beating her with a steel bar.
His move to New York was motivated by a need to escape the authorities, so he adopted the name “John Berger” and, later, “John Burger” when he moved.
Once in New York, he worked in an office with Richard Cottingham who was nicknamed the Times Square Ripper.
Neither Richard nor Rodney have claimed to be aware of the other.
Shortly after arriving in New York, Rodney murdered flight attendant Cornelia Crilley with a pair of her nylon stockings.
That murder went unsolved until 2011.
Rodney was identified by two children, in 1971, who saw a picture of him while they were at an art camp.
That was enough evidence to extradite Rodney to California, where he could stand trial.
However, Tali Shapiro’s parents did not want their daughter to appear in court which made prosecuting the future Dating Game Killer difficult.
He was charged and convicted of child molestation, which saw him be sentenced to three years.
After 17 months in prison, he was granted parole though he assaulted a 13 year-old-girl and soon spent two more years in jail.
Unusually, Rodney was allowed to return to New York City in 1977, where he began to go by John Berger again.
He murdered 23-year-old Jane Hover, who was the goddaughter of Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin.
Her body was found near a site where a model said “John Berger” had photographed her.
Rodney soon returned to Los Angeles, where he began to work as a typesetter at the Los Angeles Times.
During this time, he convinced hundreds of young people that he had connections with high flyers in the fashion industry.
He took photos of the teenage boys and girls naked, claiming the pictures were for his “portfolio”.
Since Rodney’s conviction years later, police forces are concerned that many of the people featured in the pictures are victims of cold cases.
Rodney appeared on the TV game show The Dating Game in 1978 and the Netflix film Woman of the Hour is based on this terrifying incident.
Many of the contestants found Rodney to be strange and the woman who was matched up with him, Cheryl Bradshaw, refused to go on a date with him.
He made strange comments throughout the show, but his response to “What’s your best time?” was his most chilling.
Rodney replied: “The best time is at night, night time. Because that’s the only time there is.”
When asked about why he disliked morning and afternoon, he gave an equally sinister answer: “Well, they’re ok, but night time is when it really gets good, then you’re really ready.”
He also made several sexual innuendos during the show, including a bizarre joke about bananas.
Rodney said that he is “called the banana” and then invited the contestants to “peel me”.
Eventually, Cheryl felt his behaviour had become too strange for her to continue taking part in the show.
She told one of the show’s producers: “There’s weird vibes that are coming off of him.
“He’s very strange.
“I am not comfortable.
“Is that going to be a problem?”
When asked about Cheryl choosing not to date him, Rodney said: “She played me; she played hard to get”.
Rodney took the rejection personally and killed at least three people after his appearance on the show.
Rodney continued to kill women across the state of California, after his appearance on The Dating Game.
One murder, that of a 12-year-old girl named Robin Christine Samsoe, however, led to Rodney finally getting caught.
Robin and her friends had been approached by Rodney, as he asked to take their picture, which meant they could draw a picture of the killer for the police.
Rodney’s parole officer recognized him and a police search of his mother’s house led them to a storage locker, thanks to a receipt he had left there.
The storage locker in Seattle contained 31-year-old Charlotte Lee Lamb’s earrings, which allowed police to build a case that Rodney was a serial murderer.
Rodney was sentenced to death for his crimes in June 1980, though the verdict was overturned since the jury was improperly informed of his sex crimes.
An increasing amount of evidence began to surface, during this time, that linked Rodney to more sex crimes.
His court appearances became as bizarre as Ted Bundy’s.
Rodney chose to act as his own attorney at one of his trials, which saw him take on a new persona.
While acting as the attorney, he would lower his voice and address himself as Mr Alcala.
Rodney even claimed that Charlotte Lee Lamb’s earrings were actually his own and that he had worn them on The Dating Game Show.
His competitor on the show, an actor named Jed Mills, disputed this by saying that he would have noticed Rodney wearing earrings since that was unusual in the 1970s.
The prosecutor, Matt Murphy, said that Rodney had been “hunting through California, looking for people to kill because he enjoys it.”
The trial dragged on but Rodney was sentenced to death for a third time in 2010.
Rodney was extradited to New York City, where there is no death penalty so 25 years were added to his sentence.
The killer eventually died from natural causes on July 24, 2021, in California.
It was reported that he was being housed in a prison in Corcoran so he could receive 24-hour medical care but the reasons for this have not been disclosed.
Coincidentally, he died on the anniversary of his apprehension years earlier in 1979.
Netflix’s Woman of the Hour focuses on Rodney’s appearance on The Dating Game and Cheryl Bradshaw’s narrow escape from the killer.
Anna Kendrick, known for her roles in Twilight, plays Cheryl, and Danny Zovatto, known for roles in It Follows and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, plays Rodney.
The film is available on Netflix for streaming on October 18.