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The chatter aboutFormer PrinceAndrew'snew title as a "commander" is growing again after fresh relocation rumors in the Middle East. One aide says the label "amuses some and worries others". Still, a non-royal Commander rebrand is being framed as a status reset abroad.

For now, the claim is that he wants "Commander" on paperwork, not "Mr." A new source says he is weighing a move to the Gulf. The pitch is simple, drop royal styling, and lead with rank. The same source warns that the optics could backfire.

Ex-Prince Andrew using non-Royal title is a 'risk' and could 'backfire,' says source

As per aRadarOnline reportdated February 14, former Prince Andrew is "considering adopting a new identity abroad". The report said he may use his naval rank, "Commander," rather than "Mr." It also noted that the 65-year-old was stripped of royal and military titles. In addition, he was forced to leave Royal Lodge, Windsor. He has since been linked to a smaller property in Sandringham.

However, the publication said advisers have discussed "overseas options," including Bahrain orSaudi Arabia. That is where the former trade envoy is said to keep contacts. One source close to the palace called the shift a "reset in his life". They said he may style himself as "Commander Mountbatten-Windsor".

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Further, the palace aide added, "There's something about that title that makes him feel legitimate again." The person said it feels like proof that he is still someone of standing. They also said the name can "travel well".

Even so,ex-PrinceAndrew'stitle commander branding could trigger a fresh backlash. The above-mentioned report noted the fictional detective character "James Bond" was a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. "Andrew is well aware of the James Bond comparisons – and he leans into them."

The publication said a 2025 Defence Council ruling confirmed Andrew's rank as Commander (Retired). A Ministry of Defence spokesperson described an "immediate reversion". Still, a defense source warned, "The whole idea is fraught with risk". They added it could "backfire spectacularly" and look like "borrowed grandeur". Ultimately, they noted, "the world expects humility." For now, the palace will watch how far the commander pitch goes.

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Taylor SwiftandTravis Kelcehave been discreet about their wedding plans, but a new report claims Kelce has set a countdown in motion. It revolves around flowers, a thing Swift reportedly loves most. The couple started dating in late 2023 and announced their engagement on August 26, 2025. Reports have pointed to a June 2026 summer wedding, with ongoing rumors that Swift's Rhode Island estate could play a major role in the celebration.

Travis Kelce 'will have flower bouquets delivered to' Taylor Swift, per source

TheU.S. Sunexclusively reported that Travis Kelce wants the run-up to his wedding with Taylor Swift to feel just as memorable as the day itself. A "well-placed insider" laid out the reported plan in detail. They claimed, "Starting 100 days before the big day — then again at 50 days, 30 days, and every day during the final month — he will have flower bouquets delivered to her."

Moreover, the source said Swift will not get random arrangements. They claimed Kelce plans to stick to her favorites and make the deliveries feel personal. The insider told the outlet, "She'll receive all her favorite flowers: roses in many colors, hydrangeas, and orchids. He wants her to feel overwhelmed in the best possible way — surrounded by one of the things she loves most in life: flowers and their sweet scent."

Furthermore, the report fits with earlier wedding chatter around Swift's Rhode Island property. TheU.S. Sunpreviously claimed Swift wants the venue turned into a "floral wonderland," with major landscaping plans. Notably, neither Taylor Swift nor Travis Kelce has confirmed the wedding date or location.

Still, if the insider's account proves accurate, Kelce's approach cuts to the chase. In that, he reportedly does not want a single gift to mark the moment. Instead, he wants a trail of flowers that builds all the way to the big day, every day, right up to the altar.

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Kate Hudsonhas always been able to bring a fabulous dose of effortless drama to her look. She proved this by attending the Spirit Awards with a look that was equal parts playful and daring. For this occasion, she chose a barely there top, which was supremely risky. It was held up by 2 sleek, thin strings only.

It was clear that she leaned into bold styling without losing her signature charm, and it made Hudson look like a queen. The result was a red carpet outfit that felt easy, breezy, modern, and just clearly impossible to ignore.

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Kate Hudson has always been able to turn heads in some simply spectacular looks. She recently chose to wear a black lace top from Chloe, which looked amazing on her. The sleeveless top, with sleek straps, also had an alluring deep neckline, adding a hot twist to the outfit.

The fitted top, with a skirt-like layered hemline, accentuated her curves, helping her show off her frame. This was paired with matching black pants with a relaxed silhouette. The whole look was wrapped up with matching strappy heels, adding a touch of pure sass.

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Palmerston, the black and white feline who rose from the streets of London to the hallowed halls of Britain's Foreign Office, has died in Bermuda, London's foreign ministrysaid Monday.

The former 'Chief Mouser' of the Foreign Office retired from Whitehall in 2020 but returned to the spotlight in 2025 when he joined the new Governor of Bermuda Andrew Murdoch in the overseas territory, according to an Instagram post.

The cat's X accountsaid the "diplocat extraordinaire" passed peacefully on February 12.

Affectionately known as 'Palmy,' the feline was a "special member of the Government House team in Bermuda, and a much loved family member," the post said.

"He was a wonderful companion, with a gentle nature, and will be sorely missed."

Palmerston was rescued from the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and joined the Foreign Office in 2016 during a turbulent time in British politics, just months before the UK voted to withdraw from the European Union.

Named after the 19th-Century Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Viscount Palmerston, the cat quickly garnered a large online fanbase, boasting nearly 100,000 followers as of Tuesday who closely tracked his adventures across Westminster.

Palmerston enjoyed a friendly rivalry with Britain's most famous cat, 10 Downing Street's Larry, whojust celebrated 15 years in his post.

"Farewell old friend x," Larry said on X.

Among Palmerston's many contributions to the UK public service was pest control. Just weeks into his post, Palmerston caught his first mouse, according to acongratulatory X postfrom the former Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Simon McDonald.

He was also a philanthropist and raised more than 3,000 British pounds ($4,082) for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

Palmerston retired in 2020 during the Covid pandemic to "spend more time relaxing away from the limelight," according to aletter pawed by the catand addressed to McDonald.

"I will miss hearing the footsteps of an Ambassador and sprinting to my hideout to see who it is," Palmerston wrote, adding that his departure would be a "major loss for our intelligence gathering" but it was time to "enjoy some me-time."

In 2025, "a purr-fect role" lured Palmerston out of retirement, the beloved cat said on X.

Palmerston ditched London's grey skies and rain for the white sandy beaches and clear waters of Bermuda, where in his final days he could be seen playing with giant avocados, welcoming foreign dignitaries and handing out poppies ahead of Remembrance Day, according to his X account.

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ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen's closest friends were his stepfather's sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied at school for his fair hair — an inheritance fromthe mainland Danish father he never knew— the dogs came to him.

He first went out to fish on the ice with them alone when he was 9 years old. They nurtured the beginning of a life-long love affair and Kristensen's career as a five-time Greenlandic dog sled champion.

"I was just a small child. But many years later, I started thinking about why I love dogs so much," Kristensen, 62, told The Associated Press.

"The dogs were a great support," he said. "They lifted me up when I was sad."

For more than a thousand years, dogs have pulled sleds across the Arctic for Inuit seal hunters and fishermen. But this winter, in the town of Ilulissat, around 300km (186 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, that's not possible.

Instead of gliding over snow and ice, Kristensen's sled bounces over earth and rock. Gesturing to the hills, he said it's the first time he can remember when there has been no snow — or ice in the bay — in January.

The rising temperatures in Ilulissat are causing the permafrost to melt, buildings to sink and pipes to crack but they also have consequences that ripple across the rest of the world.

The nearby Sermeq Kujalleq glacier is one of the fastest-moving and most active on the planet, sending more icebergs into the sea than any other glacier outside Antarctica, according to the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO. As the climate has warmed, the glacier has retreated and carved off chunks of ice faster than ever before — significantly contributing to sea levels that are rising from Europe to the Pacific Islands, according to NASA.

The melting ice could revealuntapped deposits of critical minerals.Many Greenlanders believethat's why U.S. President Donald Trump turned their island intoa geopolitical hotspotwith his demands to own it and previous suggestions thatthe U.S. could take it by force.

In the 1980s, winter temperatures in Ilulissat regularly hovered around -25 Celsius (-13 Fahrenheit) in winter, Kristensen said.

But nowadays, he said, there are many days when the temperature is above freezing — sometimes it can be as warm as 10 Celsius (50 Fahrenheit.)

Kristensen said he now has to collect snow for the dogs to drink during a journey because there isn't any along the route.

Although Greenlanders have always adapted — and could make dog sleds with wheels in future — the loss of the ice is affecting them deeply, said Kristensen, who now runs his own company showing tourists his Arctic homeland.

"If we lose the dog sledding, we have large parts of our culture that we're losing. That scares me," he told AP, pressing his lips together and becoming tearful.

The sea ice is disappearing

In winter, hunters should be able to take their dogs far out on the sea ice, Kristensen told AP. The ice sheets act like "big bridges," connecting Greenlanders to hunting grounds but also to other Inuit communities across the Arctic in Canada, the United States and Russia.

"When the sea ice used to come, we felt completely open along the entire coast and we could decide where to go," Kristensen said.

This January, there was no ice at all.

Driving a dog sled on ice is like being "completely without boundaries — like on the world's longest and widest highway," he said. Not having that is "a very great loss."

Several years ago, Greenland's government had to provide financial support to many families in the far north of the island after the sea ice did not freeze hard enough for hunting, said Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents Inuit people from across Arctic nations.

The warming weather also makes life more dangerous for fishermen who have swapped their dog sleds for boats, because there is more rain instead of snow, said Morgan Angaju Josefsen Røjkjær, Kristensen's business partner.

When snow falls and is compressed, air is trapped between the flakes, giving the ice its brilliant white color. But when rain freezes, the ice that forms contains little air and looks more like glass.

A fisherman can see the white ice and try to avoid it, but the ice formed from rain takes on the color of the sea – and that's dangerous because "it can sink you or throw you off your boat," said Røjkjær.

Climate change, Olsvig said, "is affecting us deeply," and is amplified in the Arctic, which is "warming three to four times faster than the global average."

The glaciers are melting

Over the course of his lifetime, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has retreated by about 40 kilometers (25 miles) said Karl Sandgreen, 46, the head of Ilulissat's Icefjord Center which is dedicated to documenting the glacier and its icebergs.

Looking out of the window at hills which would normally be covered with snow, Sandgreen described mountain rock revealed by melting ice and a previously ice-covered valley inside the fjord where "there's nothing now."

Pollution is also speeding up the ice melt, Sandgreen said, describing how Sermeq Kujalleq is melting from the top down, unlike glaciers in Antarctica which largely melt from the bottom up as sea temperatures rise.

This is exacerbated by two things:black carbon, or soot spewed from ship engines, and debris from volcanic eruptions. They blanket the snow and ice with dark material and reduce reflection of sunlight, instead absorbing more heat and speeding up melting. Black carbon has increased in recent decades with more ship traffic in the Arctic, and nearby Iceland has periodic volcanic eruptions.

Many Greenlanders told AP they believe the melting ice is the reason Trump — a leader who has called climate change"the greatest con job ever"— wants to own the island.

"His agenda is toget the minerals," Sandgreen said.

Since Trump returned to office, fewer climate scientists from the U.S. have visited Ilulissat, Sandgreen said. The U.S president needs to "listen to the scientists," who are documenting the impact of global warming, he said.

Teaching children about climate change

Kristensen said he tries to explain the consequences of global warming to the tourists who he takes out on dog sled rides or on visits to the icebergs. He said he tells them how Greenland's glaciers are as important as the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

International summits, such as theUnited Nations climate talksin November in the Amazon gateway city of Belem, play a role, but it's just as important to "teach children all over the world" about the importance of ice and oceans, alongside subjects like math, Kristensen said

"If we don't start with the children, we can't really do anything to help nature. We can only destroy it," Kristensen said.

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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Japan wants to ship carbon emissions to Malaysia in a first-of-its-kind project in Southeast Asia for carbon capture and storage, awidely debated processthat critics say is more symbolic than effective in curbing climate change.

Despite such doubts, Malaysia is positioning itself as Southeast Asia's hub for thealternative technology, a three-step process that captures, transports and buries carbon dioxide which contributes toclimate change. With about 81% of Malaysia's electricity generated from fossil fuels, climate activists say carbon capture is an expensive distraction from proven emissions-reducing actions such as transitioning to renewable energy.

Japan, one of the world's top carbon emitters, plans to ship emissions from its heavily polluting industries –– spanning electric power, oil refining, cement, shipping and steel –– to Malaysia within the next few years. If the project succeeds, experts say it may blaze a path for other Southeast Asian nations with carbon storage potential, like Indonesia and Thailand.

Detractors say it will slow progress of alreadyoff-track global effortsto curb emissions.

The plan "dangerously shifts the burden of climate change onto Malaysia rather than onto Japan," said Rachel Kennerley, a carbon capture specialist with the Washington-based Center for International Environmental Law.

Doubts about carbon capture

The debated process starts with capturing emissions directly from a polluting source, like a refinery or power station. This can be done in different ways, such as retrofitting a facility to emit directly into a storage location or by building vacuumlike structures to suck up emissions.

While Japan and Malaysia have yet to share detailed plans, the carbon dioxide will likely then need to be separated from the other captured gasses emitted during industrial processes.

The carbon will then be liquefied and later transported in specially designed ships to burial sites, likely in depleted gas fields off the coast of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

After the liquefied carbon is injected into the ground the site will have to be monitored for leaks.

Some governments and fossil fuel giants likeExxon MobilandShellpromote the strategy as a climate solution that buys time for countries and industries to transition to cleaner energy.

The European Union'sfirst offshore carbon storage facility, taking emissions from Denmark and injecting them into the seabed below the North Sea, is due tostart operatingby mid-2026. A Norwegian facility launched last year is testing cross-border carbon shipments.

There is "an almost fantastical theoretical uptick" in carbon capture interest, said Grant Hauber, with the U.S.-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. He said it "offers a tantalizing promise that just won't deliver."

While the International Energy Agency considers carbon capture, utilization and storage a tool for curbing climate change, the IEA's latest Net Zero Emissions scenario forecasts it will contribute less than 5% of emission reductions by 2050.

Malaysia pushes for carbon capture

Malaysia passed a bill last year promoting the carbon capture industry. Without providing details, the Ministry of Economy, which declined to comment, projected the fledgling sector could add up to $250 billion to the economy within 30 years.

Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas company, Petronas, is leading the $1.1 billion construction of what will be world's largest offshore carbon storage facility, slated to begin operations by the end of the decade. Petronas declined to comment.

Rather than investing in proven decarbonization actions, like solar energy rollouts or grid development, Eqram Mustaqeem, who campaigned against carbon capture in Malaysia, said "we're spending high amounts of money on a technology that is under-delivering and unproven."

Japan pilots cross-border project

Fossil fuels generate the lion's share of energy in Japan, which is among the world's top five highest carbon emitters.

Japan is investing in nine carbon storage sites, three of them in Malaysia, to try tocut its net emissions. It estimates that by 2030, the sites will store 20 million tons of carbon annually, roughly 2% of Japan's yearly emissions.

Malaysia will likely be paid an undetermined amount per ton of emissions stored. Japan could then subtract those emissions from its total carbon output.

Officials from Japan's state agencies leading the project, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security, or JOGMEC, did not respond to requests for comment.

Government documents show a range of Japanese companies intend to ship emissions to Malaysia.

Carbon capture or 'climate colonialism'

Ayumi Fukakusa, of the advocacy group, Friends of the Earth Japan, called the idea of exporting emissions to other countries "carbon colonialism."

Apart from the doubts about the effectiveness of carbon capture, critics also object to the idea of managing emissions rather than reducing them.

"Japan gets to keep polluting and driving climate change, while claiming to 'clean up' its emissions by shipping the carbon to Malaysia," said Kennerley of the Center for International Environmental Law. She said that will make Malaysia "a carbon dumping ground for industrial pollution" and detract fromclimate action.

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NEED TO KNOW

• Jerry Kennedy, a Nashville producer who also played guitar for Tammy Wynette and Roy Orbison, has died at age 85

• The late musician spent a few weeks in a Franklin comfort center before he died after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure, according to his son, Gordon Kennedy

• "You just have to turn on the radio and you'll hear his fingerprints everywhere," Gordon said of his late father

Jerry Kennedy, a Nashville producer who also played guitar forTammy WynetteandRoy Orbison, has died. He was 85.

"The musician sits on one side of the glass. The producer sits on the other. My father sat on both in this world," Jerry's son,Gordon Kennedy, wrote in a Sunday, Feb. 15,Instagram tributealongside a throwback photo of his late father. "Scripture tells us we only see through a smoky glass this side of heaven. I imagine my father sitting on this side and last Wednesday, hearing a voice on the other side saying 'come on in and listen.' "

Gordon, who is a multi-Grammy Award-winning songwriter and record producer himself, confirmed toThe New York Timesthat his father died after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He also toldThe Tennesseanthat Jerry spent a few weeks in a Franklin comfort care facility before he died on Wednesday, Feb. 11.

In the days after his father's death, Gordon recalled toThe Tennesseanthat someone approached him at a funeral home, offering to make him a piece of jewelry with his father's fingerprint to ensure his legacy would be preserved.

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"I just said, 'You just have to turn on the radio and you'll hear his fingerprints everywhere,' " he remembered responding. "And they'll be there forever. We've got them in a much more significant way than a necklace. You can hear his fingerprints."

Indeed, Jerry played a role in shaping the music made in Nashville throughout the 1960s and 1970s, featuring his iconic fretwork in hits by Tammy Wynette, Roy Orbison, Roger Miller and many more. He also co-wroteEric Clapton's Grammy Award-winning single, "Change the World," in 1996.

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Even in the days leading up to his father's death, Gordon recalled someone in the facility turning on the classic country music channel, where Jerry's music was often featured.

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"There were days where I remember walking towards his room and I hear music coming out of his room and it was Tom T. Hall's 'Fox on the Run,' from the bluegrass album they did," he toldThe Tennessean. "It was a different song every day. We would hear 'I'll Go To My Grave Loving You' by the Statler Brothers or a Tammy Wynette song he played on. I was just amazed at how frequent it was."

Beyond working on hit songs likeElvis Presley's "Good Luck Charm" and Leroy Van Dyke's "Walk on By," Jerry, who signed a recording contract with RCA as a child, later went on to start his own company: JK Productions.

In addition to Gordon, the late musician is survived by his wife, Dolores Dea-Kennedy, and his two younger sons, Bryan and Shelby. He also has three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and his two sisters, Barbara Blaylock and Kathy Price.

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Noting that all of Jerry's children were with him on the day that he died, Gordon went on to recall hearing Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 song "Harper Valley PTA," on which Jerry played dobro, in the hours before his death.

"That was on the day he passed away," he said. "There was just a constant reminder even while we were sitting with him for this handful of weeks, that this stuff is going to stay on a loop forever."

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