It started out as promo for an insurance company and ended up powering an entire industry. As the Opry strikes out for London, can it stay relevant for another century?

It’s the only American radio show that’s been on the air for 100 years, an institution that launched the country music industry as we know it and a stage production that made country fans flock to Nashville in the first place – and keeps them coming for a singular experience today. “I somehow understood the weight of what I was stepping into,” says Marty Stuart of the Grand Ole Opry, specifically the first night he played in 1972 as a mandolin-playing prodigy sitting in with bluegrass star Lester Flatt’s band.

Stuart went on to become a country star, and Opry member, himself, and has now embraced the role of elder on the show: on 26 September, he along with Luke Combs, Darius Rucker, Ashley McBryde and Carly Pearce will take part in the Opry’s first-ever overseas broadcast at the Royal Albert Hall, as part of a year-long 100th birthday celebration. “A hundred years of anything, especially in show business, it’s just unheard of,” he marvels.

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One resident heard a bang before she saw the vehicle stuck in the roof

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"Donald Trump is the Scottie Scheffler of American politics and foreign diplomacy," said Graham, referring to the champion golfer of the year.

Martin Frizell has share a sad update on his wife Fiona Phillips’ dementia diagnosis as he admitted every day is either “bad or wretched”.

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The 1.2tn yuan project breaks ground in Tibet, premier says despite fears of downstream India and Bangladesh

Construction of the world’s biggest hydropower megadam has begun, China’s premier has said, calling it the “project of the century”.

The huge structure is being built on the Yarlung Tsangpo river, in Tibetan territory.

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Stellantis, the maker of Jeep and Ram vehicles, says its preliminary financial figures show an estimated 2.3 billion euros ($2.68 billion) net loss in the first half of the year partly due to U.S. tariffs and some hefty charges

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Leaked information included names, passport details, addresses and email addresses as well as phone numbers

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Mike Shinoda addressed the fan backlash to Emily Armstrong replacing Chester Bennington after he died by suicide.

Director says he wasn’t informed and found out through social media

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Another 164 injured when training jet had technical problem after takeoff, with pilot said to be among the dead

At least 19 people were killed and 164 injured after a Bangladesh air force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in the capital, Dhaka, on Monday after experiencing a technical problem shortly after takeoff.

The F-7 BGI jet took off at 1.06 pm (08.06 BST) from the Bangladesh air force base in Kurmitola, Dhaka, as part of a routine training mission, but encountered a mechanical failure, said the military spokesperson Lt Col Sami Ud Dowla Chowdhury.

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Move announced as government appoints commission to look at boosting retirement savings

Former NYPD commissioner and FBI agent Tom Donlon plans to sue Mayor Eric Adams and his ex-top spokesperson for claiming he was an old man with cognitive issues. Donlon filed the notice of claim Monday morning, seeking $10 million in damages for defamation, according to his attorney John Scola. Former NYPD commissioner Tom Donlon plans...

A leaked audio recording of an internal CBC disciplinary meeting for a national news anchor reveals the public broadcaster’s tension over its policies on journalistic standards and freedom clashing with protecting its corporate image. Read More

The plans include a new 8,000-seat stadium on the grounds of the former Wimbledon Park Golf Club

Shedeur Sanders is doing his part early in training camp for the Cleveland Browns, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's gaining ground on the starting role.

An alleged anti-Israel menace accused of torching nearly a dozen NYPD cars was arrested by the feds Monday after a month-long manhunt, law enforcement sources told The Post. Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, 21, turned himself in to authorities after cops alleged the “Free Palestine” protester set fire to 11 squad cars in a Brooklyn parking lot on June...

The revolving door of Liz Truss and Boris Johnson’s governments cost the taxpayer more than £3 million in severance payoffs

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Younger women and those with children are more likely to be affected

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Eric Flores enters race for Texas' 34th Congressional District, a battleground that President Donald Trump won by five points, challenging Democratic incumbent Vicente Gonzalez.

You never know what's going to happen in the Bravo Clubhouse.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pays hospital visit to off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer who allegedly was shot in NYC over the weekend.

There is no better time to give cricket a try than this week during India vs. England at Old Trafford.

The US vice-president has chosen to holiday among the Chipping Norton set, which includes Boris Johnson and Jeremy Clarkson, in a country he says has gone to the dogs. It feels like he is trolling the UK …

You have to let politicians go on holiday, I guess. You have to accept the existence of world leaders with whose views you disagree, especially now that it’s almost all of them. So why does it feel like a particular provocation for JD Vance to be planning a trip to the Cotswolds? His itinerary isn’t yet known, but its bare bones are that, sometime in August, the Vances will visit London, Oxfordshire and Scotland.

For a recap on what, exactly, is wrong with the US vice-president, there is nothing more evocative than February’s press conference with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Of course, many of Vance’s more extreme views – calling Democratic politicians a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives”, claiming that staying in an abusive relationship was preferable to getting divorced, and saying that abortion should be banned – were already well known, from a combination of his voting record and his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. But Republicans say a lot of things, particularly while seeking election. You may have been able to infer Vance’s drive to dominate and control others, but it wasn’t until that exchange with the Ukrainian president that you could witness it.

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