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The Sun
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Britain's Got Talent 2025 Updates: Favourite contestant to win final revealed as the show ends tonight
BRITAIN'S Got Talent will culminate tonight with ten contestants battling it out for this year's No1 spot. The winner will receive a massive cash prize of £250,000, as well as the opportunity to perform at the Royal Variety Performance. Two acts are currently fans' favourites to win the competition - the Hear Our Voice choir and The Blackouts. Viewers will have a chance to vote for their pick throughout the night as the show will be running for a whopping two hours and 45 minutes. Judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli will also be on hand to give their verdicts. YouTube superstar KSI will also make an appearance tonight after proving popular amongst fans during his short stint as a judge. The sensational spectacle will kick off at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Myersville fifth grader wins History Bee for second time
Myersville Elementary School fifth grader Anneliese Stieg studied hard to become a two-time first place winner of the FNP History Bee on Thursday. 'I'm just so unbelievably proud,' her father, Brian Stieg, said. 'She studied a lot.' Anneliese Stieg faced plenty of competition, with around 170 third, fourth, and fifth graders from 22 schools across Frederick County competing at Woodsboro Bank Arena at Hood College. This was the 28th time the competition was held. It pits third through fifth graders against each other to test their history knowledge. The Frederick News-Post organizes the event. Publisher Geordie Wilson, the event emcee, said this year was one of largest iterations of the History Bee he has seen. Organizer Samantha Bangh said it was the largest in her 14 years of organizing the event. She said her favorite part of organizing the event was 'seeing how excited the kids are about participating and hearing from the schools how many students are interested.' Bangh said Stieg was the first repeat winner she knows of. Last year, 20 schools and around 140 students competed. For her final question, Stieg was asked what body of water split the colony of Maryland in half and provided a route to the sea. 'The Chesapeake Bay,' she correctly answered. Carmelo Baran from Middletown Elementary won second place in the competition, and Owen King from Deer Crossing Elementary finished third. Archer Coleman, a third grader from Deer Crossing, was fourth. 'I feel proud,' he said. He spent many hours studying, and said he wants to improve next year. 'I'm going to keep getting better,' he said. The first-, second- and third-place winners each received a glass trophy. The top 12 students won medals. Students first competed in a qualifying round, which significantly whittled down the pool of contestants. Michael and Paul Majalca, brothers who go to Yellow Springs Elementary, both competed in this year's competition. Their mother, Christine, said Michael also competed last year. After the first round, many kids flew to their parents' arms in the bleachers with tears or smiles. Tansy Loughry, a 9-year-old fourth grader from Thurmont Elementary School, made it through the first round. She said she competed last year, too. Her mother, Katlyn Loughry, said that this year, they were 'much less nervous' about her performance. 'I like learning about the wars,' Tansy Loughry said. Students were asked to answer what does it mean to be civically engaged, to name a Native American tribe that lived in Frederick County, and to name the foreign mercenaries hired by the British in the Revolutionary War. The second round whittled down the pool further, to 12 finalists. Loughry did not make it past the second round. The best part of the History Bee for her, she said, was meeting new friends. The final round focused on local history. Each student had to take turns answering a question. If they got it wrong, they were eliminated. One student was asked what year the Maryland School for the Deaf was incorporated in Frederick. Another was asked how many enslaved people worked at Catoctin Furnace. Stieg said some of the questions asked of people before and after her she would not have been able to get. 'It was the luck of the draw,' she said. Stieg made her own online quizzes to help herself study, said her mother, Kaelyn. This was her last time competing in the History Bee, as after this she will be in sixth grade. She wished future competitors luck, especially the third graders.
Daily Mail
4 hours ago
- General
- Daily Mail
DEAR CAROLINE: My friend is tight with money, notoriously late, always asks for favours but never returns them, and exaggerates being ill. Should I give up on her?
Q I have always had a difficult relationship with a friend who now seems to be seriously ill. However, she has claimed to be ill before so often and I can't help feeling that this was exaggerated. On one occasion, she said she had had a serious fall and arrived at our pilates class on crutches – but when she saw someone she wanted to talk to she walked across the room without them. We became friends through our husbands more than 25 years ago. We had similar interests, got on well and took up dance and pilates together. However, after a while I noticed she was competitive. She has alienated several people through being tight with money and notoriously late. Her husband left her many years ago.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Bridge contest draws engineering students from across the country to Iowa State
AMES, Iowa — How well can a student-made bridge withstand 2,500 pounds? 43 college engineering groups from across the country are all gathered at Iowa State for the Student Steel Bridge Competition to find out. The Student Steel Bridge Competition was founded in Michigan in 1987 and eventually grew into a national competition that hosts engineering students and companies from around the world. The American Institute of Steel Construction, AISC, says it's a way for students to turn ideas into infrastructure. 'They're designing something on paper or on the computer, but then actually getting to put together the pieces and get to see how things fit up, how things interact. They get to also experience how a bridge and the structure performs under real-world loads,' said Christi Stattler, AISC Education Manager. Local team set to compete in Red Bull Soapbox Race Iowa and raise money for charity Following strict competition regulations, student groups must design, fabricate, and build a 20-foot bridge able to withstand 2,500 pounds. During the timed finale, students are judged on speed of construction, estimated cost, aesthetics, and durability. Iowa State is hosting the competition this year, so their 25-student group had to build a bridge and plan the competition. The group says they're excited to see a year's worth of work come to a close. 'We have a design team that goes in and designs the entire bridge. We use experience like from past years and then we go to these competitions and it's a great time to look around and get new ideas,' said Iowa State Senior, Sydney Hyzy. 'Then our fabrication team, then works with design later, and then they are the ones that are cutting steel, welding it all together, making the bridge.' 'For engineers, this is like the Friday Night Lights,' said Carson Fischer, 2025 Iowa State graduate. 'It's like the big, big moment to show exactly what you've done. Show all these other schools how good you are, how big your club is and it's a lot of pressure on the guys and gals' abilities, and they step up.' Iowa State will kick off the finals Saturday at 8 a.m. in the Lied Recreation Center. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
8 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Chase on the fence about Olympic flag football
Who from NFL will want to compete in the Olympics? Mike Florio and Chris Simms shed light on how there's a possibility old-school NFL coaches could try to deter players from competing in the Olympics, as well as why retired NFL players could be a good fit.
