A New York City real estate broker allegedly sent a racist text about prospective tenants to a property owner, only to accidentally include one of the would-be renters in the conversation. 

The couple has since sued the broker, identified as Helen Tzelios, real estate giant Douglas Elliman and several property owners over the encounter. 

The incident unfolded before the pair even stepped inside the Queens apartment they hoped to rent, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Mail.

'Ugh they are black,' read the message allegedly sent by the agent, who had spotted the couple arriving for a viewing in Flushing.

Lisa Renee Olaso and her fiancé, Cyril Christopher, had relocated from Delaware in June after Olaso landed a new job and were excited about moving into an apartment on 26th Avenue.

They had arranged to meet a Douglas Elliman broker at the property, but the agent allegedly saw them from a distance and sent the text before ever introducing herself.

Olaso was mistakenly included in the exchange, which she said was intended for the property owner.

'As we were getting out of the car, I

Viewers have criticised presenters on BBC Breakfast after they did not wear poppies on the first day of the remembrance appeal.

Hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty fronted this morning's programme but did not don the red flower synonymous with the Royal British Legion's annual appeal.

Elsewhere Richard Madeley and Ranvir Singh wore poppies on ITV's Good Morning Britain while Anna Jones also supported the appeal on Sky's breakfast show.

Irritated viewers expressed their disappointment in the national broadcaster on social media, with one asking: 'Why are the BBC breakfast presenters not wearing poppies? All the other UK news are.'

Another added: 'Anyone else noticed that BBC News channels are not wearing poppies. All other channels are. Shame on you BBC.'

Ian Ward, a councillor in Sandown on the Isle of Wight, said: 'Just watching the morning news I see ITV presenters have Poppies on, same with Sky News including their guests.

A gay father will not face charges for attacking a MAGA influencer who falsely accused him of being a pedophile. 

In April, conservative influencer Ryley Niemi approached David Vulin, 32, and his husband, Anthony, while they were walking around with their son, Ante, in West Hollywood. 

After confirming that the pair were a couple and the baby they were with was theirs, Niemi said: 'Cool. Have you ever heard about the statistics coming out that gay men are statistically much more likely to commit child molestation?' 

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A little over 20 years ago, Ken Paxton, then in the Texas House of Representatives, was asked by the Dallas Morning News to name his crowning achievement in office.

Paxton at the time was an unremarkable lawyer, elected three years previously on predictable pledges to promote education and lower taxes. So, his answer was somewhat surprising – and revealing.

'I am most proud of House Bill 137,' replied the ambitious and crafty chameleon.

That bill, signed into law by Governor Rick Perry in May 2005, ordered that all major highways display a sign: 'Welcome to Texas - Proud Home of President George W Bush.'

Paxton, with an eye on his political future, wanted the world to know just how committed to the cause he was.

Yet fast forward two decades and that warm welcome has shifted to a distinctly cold shoulder. Indeed, both Paxton and the Bushes have come to the conclusion that the Lone Star State ain't big enough for the both of them.

Paxton, the 63-year-old attorney general, has had a dramatic change of heart – calling on his supporters in recent years to 'end the Bush dynasty' once and for all. He is now

Smartly dressed in a suit with his hair smoothed back as he addressed the Lord's Public Services Committee, Simon Hunter said he was 'hugely proud' of the 'modernisation journey' on which he was taking the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).

The director of the government agency told the peers sitting in front of him that the high-tech improvements he had introduced were making it 'slick and more usable' and 'incredibly accessible through the digital channels'.

His upbeat assessment last year prompted utter disbelief from parents who had suffered huge financial hardships after a string of failings by the CMS so severe that some have branded it the 'new Post Office scandal'.

As our damning exposé last month revealed, suspected computer glitches and staffing problems at the government agency have led to parents – the majority of them fathers – being financially crippled, losing homes, suffering mental breakdowns and even being driven to suicide.

Some have been plunged into poverty and forced to survive off food banks after long-running problems with the service led to tens of thousands of parents being overcharged – some by vast amounts.

The CMS was launched in 2012 after widespread problems with its predecessor,

Animal lovers have condemned the decision to shoot dead a stag after it injured a man having a picnic while 'looking for food'. 

The animal approached the man's group in London's Richmond Park at around 6pm on Saturday afternoon. 

The man, in his 60s, was taken to hospital with chest injuries described as 'not life-threatening' after emergency services were called to the scene. 

The Royal Parks said the stag's 'behaviour' meant it had to be 'put down' after it was 'deemed to be a danger to visitors'.

The incident came after visitors were warned against approaching the park's resident wild deer and feeding them due to a 'real risk of serious injury'.

Dozens of people have now come to the stag's defence, arguing an animal should never be put down because humans cannot follow simple rules. 

'That was wrong. The stag learned to do that because of people feeding it. Not the animal's fault,' one wrote on social media. 

'Sad but I think inevitable,' another said. 'We walked the whole way around Richmond Park yesterday and saw several family groups - including kids no older than three or four - walking right

No longer do mountain lairs exclusively belong to the cat-stroking and eyepatch-wearing villains of spy novels. 

Now, you too can buy an ultra-high security vault that lies more than 330ft beneath a Swiss mountain range – as long as you have nearly half a million pounds spare. 

Swiss security firm Brünig Mega Safe is working to dig out up to 25 caverns from the limestone that makes up the Brünig massif. 

It is selling access to these vaults – which are intended to store valuable artwork, cars, wine, safety deposit boxes and other valuable assets – with the promise of near total security. 

The firm claims it is breaking ground in Brünig in January and it claims its vaults will be 'comparable to that of the Swiss National Bank'.

Thomas Gasser, chairman of Brünig Mega Safe, said: 'You'll first have to drive through a special checkpoint and get out of your vehicle: there will be several security checks, which obviously won't be disclosed to the public.'

Thanks to the depth of the vaults, they will have a natural temperature of 13C, which is ideal for storing wine and art. 

But in a world that has seen increased instability

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has said that allowing 'lifelong welfare users to vote is garbage' and even floated a prospective ban on repeat recipients.

Call me a radical but if we want America to be exceptional, then taxpayers who fund all the welfare should have more of a say in our elections than lifelong welfare users. Call me whatever you want but I think it’s nuts to give these two groups the same voting power. One group…

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 17, 2026

Letting lifelong welfare users have an equal vote to the people who work hard and fund everything with their taxes is like running a home by giving your kids equal say in the financial decisions you and your spouse make. It’s dumb and if you do it, you can’t blame your kids for…

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 17, 2026

'The inevitable result is always more debt, more taxes, more division, more resentment, more anger, more spending, more fraud and a less functional country,' Starbuck said.     

'Call me a radical but if we want America to be exceptional, then taxpayers who fund all the welfare should have more

Andy Burnham was left red-faced yesterday after he was fooled by an imposter posing as Donald Trump's chief of staff.

An international hunt is under way for the hoaxer who targeted the Prime Minister as he took office last month.

Mr Burnham thought he was swapping phone messages with Susie Wiles, the US President's no-nonsense 'enforcer', in the days before and after entering Downing Street.

But in an embarrassing debacle, which has left the PM 'looking like a chump', according to US officials, the British embassy in Washington was forced to flag to the White House that Mr Burnham had been duped.

No 10 refused to answer any questions yesterday amid concern at the ease with which security protocols were breached.

Security experts said the tactic could have been copied from Tehran's playbook, but Whitehall sources suggested it was orchestrated in the US.

Downing Street officials were asked why the Prime Minister was not more circumspect about the contact given that Ms Wiles' devices had previously been targeted by Iran. A spokesman would say only: 'We do

Labour has been accused of watering down standards for traveller sites and making it easier for new camps to be set up.

In a major update to national planning laws, Angela Rayner's department removed a series of earlier proposals to limit the impact of the encampments.

Concerns about 'long-distance travelling' and the 'potential environmental damage caused by unauthorised encampment' were deleted from the final version of the blueprint published on Monday.

The new National Planning Policy Framework also omitted references in last year's draft version to 'minimising adverse impacts from local environmental factors (such as noise and air quality) on the health and wellbeing of travellers that may locate there'.

Another sentence about making sure travellers and their sites are not 'isolated from the rest of the community' was also removed.

The updated document also included a new suggestion that 'locations not well-related to existing settlements may be appropriate'.

An accompanying report explaining changes to the framework following a public consultation stated: 'References to health and wellbeing impacts have been removed to ensure that traveller site proposals are considered consistently with other forms of development under the wider Framework, including in relation

A disabled passenger has described the humiliation of being 'kicked off' a packed Virgin Australia flight because of his wheelchair.

Shane Hryhorec, who was paralysed in a swimming accident in 2007, and his service dog Whitney boarded a flight between Adelaide and Sydney on Monday.

As usual, the frequent flyer had a detachable SmartDrive battery with him that he uses to power his wheelchair. He said he has flown more than 300 times and usually stores it in the overhead locker.

However, the airline has implemented new rules that ban lithium batteries from going in overhead lockers due to the fire risk. They must be kept under the seat in front where passengers can watch them in case they overheat.

The 41-year-old said he was in the centre seat and his service dog had to ride on the floor of the window seat next to him, and that he couldn't put the heavy 6kg device on the floor because of the danger it could injure the dog in turbulence.

The problem sparked a heated argument with cabin crew, which held up the flight for half an hour before

A wind farm tycoon was caught with indecent images of children after he asked a computer repair shop to wipe his hard drives.

Alexander Hensher, 48, the company director of a renewables business, told the member of staff at the shop in Bournemouth, Dorset, that he was being investigated by police.

But the employee he approached was in fact a police special constable, who contacted his superiors so Hensher's hard drives could be seized and analysed.

They were found to contain one Category A image, one Category B image and two Category C images.

Hensher, a father of three who lives in a £2million townhouse in Chelsea, appeared at Weymouth Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to three counts of making indecent images of a child.

The court heard he went into Bites in Bournemouth in October 2024 to seek help with wiping his three hard drives.

Susan Fellows, prosecuting, said: 'Mr Hensher attended a computer shop in Bournemouth on October 10, 2024 and he produced three hard drives and a phone to the member of staff and paid for them to be wiped.

'During the exchange with that member of staff, he mentioned he