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It was a star-studded celebration to wrap up weeks of filming on one of the most dramatic and remote islands in the Mediterranean.

But a post-production party thrown on the volcanic island of Stromboli forSir Mick Jagger, Dakota Johnson, Josh O’Connor and a host of other British and American celebrities has fallen foul of local bylaws and zealous officials. It was unceremoniously broken up by Italian police on Wednesday night.

The officers were sent in on the orders of the mayor of Lipari, a neighbouring island, which is the administrative centre of theAeolian archipelago, a scatter of impressive outcrops which lie between Calabria and Sicily.

He said the party contravened noise control regulations.

The intervention of the police was met, according to local media, with “perplexity mixed with hilarity” by 82-year-old Sir Mick and his co-stars, who included the Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley, Saoirse Ronan, and Hollywood actressIsabella Rossellini.

Rossellini has a close personal connection to the island – her father Roberto directed the 1950 cult film Stromboli, which was shot on the island, and had an affair with its leading lady, the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, whom he later married.

Sir Mick and the cast and crew have spent the past few weeks filming an adaptation of an illustrated book called Three Incestuous Sisters by the American writerAudrey Niffenegger.

The book is about three sisters who live together in a house by the sea and vie for the romantic attentions of the lighthouse keeper’s son.

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Sir Mick plays the lighthouse keeper in the gothic drama, which is directed by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher. His son is played by O’Connor, who received plaudits for his portrayal of Prince Charles in the Netflix drama The Crown.

While on Stromboli, Sir Mick reportedly stayed in a villa where Roberto Rossellini began his affair with Bergman.

Row between the two islands

The break-up of the film party this week prompted a row between thetwo islands.

Rosa Oliva, the head of the tourist office on Stromboli, said it was a mean-spirited decision by Riccardo Gullo, the mayor of Lipari.

Rather than being “valued and supported” after a tough winter of bad weather and suspended ferry services, Stromboli had been “penalised”.

The celebrities should have been welcomed with open arms, rather than subjected to a “punitive intervention”, she said.

“From the mayor of Lipari, one would have expected a welcome to the guests, or at least a greeting and a thank you for their crucial contribution to the Aeolian economy and their visibility. Our islands live off tourism,” she said.

It is not known whether the reaction of the Rolling Stones’ frontman was annoyance or amusement.

Either way, he left the island on Thursday by private helicopter.

What willStephen Colbert's legacy be?

The story of the quintessentially American comedian did not end on May 21, in spite of the funerary pomp and circumstance surroundingthe finale episode of "The Late Show" on CBS, which Colbert has hosted since 2015. There are miles yet before the 62-year-old Colbert sleeps,even if this act of his career has come to a close. It's already his second or third act to date, depending on how you count.

But inthe long story of Stephen Colbertthere will be an incendiary chapter aboutthis moment in cultural history,which started almost a year ago when he announced CBS had canceled "Late Show" and thus his daily tenure on our screens. That move threw an industry into confusion, drew both political backlash and celebration and has resulted in a monthlong last hurrah fromColbert and his many friendsthat has the country's zeitgeist on tenterhooks like it's the series finale of "Game of Thrones."

Colbert stepped out on the stage for his May 21 finale bearing the weight of a divided nation, tongue-wagging internet haters andpresidents former (Barack Obama) on his couchand current (Donald Trump) tweeting down his neck. He managed the finale with aplomb, ever the showman and professional.

The comedian started with ashort farewell acknowledging his crew, followed by a pretty typical monologue poking at the regular news (like sinkholes at airports) and his own news (even dolphins know he got canceled). He pivoted to his hyperactive regular segment "Meanwhile," which contained no less than one attempt to get CBS sued, two celebrity interruptions and one cackle-worthy sushi joke.

The final "Late Show" guest wasn't actually Pope Leo XIV as jokingly teased, butBeatles legend Paul McCartney, a major part of the history ofNew York's Ed Sullivan Theaterwhere "The Late Show" has taped for 34 years. Other hosts may have used an icon like McCartney to further shine the spotlights on themselves, but Colbert chatted with McCartney like it was any other night. The musician talked about his new album, his childhood and reminisced about performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964, where he got his first impressions of America, the great democracy. McCartney told Colbert he hopes that the country will remain so.

There were bits about CBS and equal time. There were spit takes and more celebrity cameos than you could count. There was a wormhole. Colbert quoted his great literary love, "The Lord of the Rings." Former bandleader Jon Batiste returned to sing alongside Colbert (and current bandleader Louis Cato and Elvis Costello). There was great joy, which Colbert spoke about championing everyday with his crew and colleagues.

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And mostly there was Colbert, with his awkward, goofy, endearing self. His brand of comedy – from his early career with improv group Second City and his "Daily Show" correspondent days to getting his own show "The Colbert Report" to a decade on network TV – was never about charm or fluff or flash.

Colbert's strength has always been his point of view, cutting satire, geekiness and heart. Anyone watching could feel the emotion radiating from the host all night, even as he pretended to be sucked into the abyss.

It was a silly, funny and affecting episode of television. By the time Colbert was singing "Hello, Goodbye" with McCartney, Costello, Cato and Batiste, he didn't need to say anything else.

You shouldn't expect anything less than confidence and grace from Colbert. He's the man who stayed in character as a conservative blowhard for over a decade, who made "Strangers with Candy" one of the weirdest and most-fun comedy shows on TV, and who told off yet another president (George W. Bush) to his face at Washington, D.C.'s biggest fête.

So no, Stephen Colbert is not done. "The Late Show" is done. Late-night TV might be done soon. But voices like Colbert don't disappear into the wind without a shiny wooden desk in front of them and a broadcast company behind them.

This chapter is over. Another one begins.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:'The Late Show' finale proves Stephen Colbert isn't done

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A renownedMount Everestguide who this week scaled the peak a record 32nd time urged authorities on Friday to limit climbers on the summit.

Nepal Everest

The number of climbers making the ascent on the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak from the Nepalese side is higher this season because China has closed the route from Tibet. Everest can be scaled from either the southern side in Nepal or the northern side in China.

On Wednesday, 274 climbers reached the summit, the highest number on a single day from the Nepal side. A total of 494 climbers have been issued permits by Nepal’s mountaineering authorities and an equal number Sherpa guides are accompanying them.

“It was very crowded this year compared to last year because there was more clients,”Kami Rita Sherpatold reporters at Kathmandu airport after flying back from the mountain. “There is a need for authorities to control this number.”

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Climbers only get a few windows of good weather to make their attempt on the summit. A large number of people waiting in a fixed rope line they are all clipped into increases the risks of a traffic jam and exposes the climbers to increased hours of harsh weather.

Kami Rita's closest competitor,Pasang Dawa Sherpa, scaled the peak for the 31st time on Friday, which was his second successful ascent this week

Kami Rita, 56, first climbed Everest in 1994, and has been making the trip nearly every year since. He is one of many Sherpa guides whose expertise and skills are vital to the safety and success of foreign climbers aspiring to stand on top of the mountain each year.

His father was among the first Sherpa guides. In addition to Everest, Kami Rita has climbed other peaks that are among the world’s highest, including K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse.

When it feels appropriate, and certainly when it helps their immediate argument,the Smugs among uswill say something along the lines of, “Well, they don’t do it that way in Europe.”

Ah, Europe, where ice cubes are doled out like gem stones. Where gas is priced in liters in order to lessen the shock of paying 8-plus bucks a gallon to fill that toaster you call a car. Just kidding … it's actuallylitres.

America’s Europhiles, over time, have let their infatuation wander intothe sporting world, and roughly a generation ago, you began hearing cohorts, passersby and maybe even friends (dear Lord!) join conversations about the next morning’s big “football” game (oops …match) in Manchester.

Soon thereafter, their Euro sporting eyes began wandering from the pitches to the paddocks, and you needn’t go far to overhear chatter about that morning’s Formula One race in Germany, England, Spain, etc. Even in the early-Sunday waiting room we call a NASCAR media center, a few of the typists and talkers would gather around a laptop to watch the live feed from Silverstone or Monza.

I never heard any of them say, “We’re better and smarter than you,” but vibes, you know? And this was long before Netflix brought us the hit docuseries — “Drive to Survive” — that made household names of so many current F1 racers, each more handsome than the next, which didn’t hurt the cause.

The whole McLaren, Red Bull, Max and Lewis theatrics were suddenly conversation fodder for some who, five minutes ago, didn’t know a pastrami sub from a Rubens Barrichello.

Suddenly, casual onlookers were new Formula One fans and feeling quite happy with themselves. Some, wearing this new aura as they would an Edinburgh bonnet, took the added pleasure of looking down their noses at North America’s motorsport offerings, particularly NASCAR, of course.

“My oh my, the technology Ferrari and Mercedes are bringing to the grid this season is otherworldly. And just a fortnight ago, I believe we witnessed a pass for the lead …”

Kidding again, of course. It wasn’t a pass. It was anovertaking.

Deep breath, now let’s move along because, as sometimes happens, I say all that to say this: Even your beloved European and British intelligentsia can screw it up.

And while it’s not as big a blunder as some of their historical and even modern doozies, it does make you wonder.

Why did F1 swap the Monaco and Canada dates?

What, exactly, were they thinking when they moved their Monaco Grand Prix off the fourth weekend of May and totally monkey-wrenched the natural flow of this coming Sunday — the Sunday circled by race fans all over, but particularly North America, which has become a humming ATM machine for the F1 movers and shakers.

F1 has a nearly 60-year history in Canada, but its U.S. footprint has come and gone over the decades. It was usually just one visit, often none, then one again, and now THREE — Austin, Miami and, of course, Las Vegas.

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The three races are spread about from early-May (Miami) to mid-late October (Austin) to pre-Thanksgiving weekend (Vegas). Canada was traditionally run the first or second week of June, but has now swapped dates with the gem of F1 playgrounds, Monaco.

Why do this? Unless you included “carbon footprint” and/or “net zero” among your explanations, you haven’t been paying attention to that side of the Atlantic. They’re aiming to streamline the season and keep segments of the schedule relegated, as much as possible, to specific continents. You burn less jet fuel that way.

After Miami in early May, the next scheduled race is now Canada in late May. Back to back in North America fits the new narrative. But no, that uber-conscious F1 crowd didn’t spend the ensuing three weeks hunkered down in a Plattsburgh KOA, turning wrenches under the birch trees by day and swapping Nurburgring war stories by night.

Nope, they went back to Europe. And not by sailboat.

And a few weeks later they loaded the cargo planes again for a return to the New World, before heading home to prep for, yes, the Monaco Grand Prix two weeks later.

Will it rain on our Sunday parade of racing at Indy, Charlotte?

The upshot for us is a truncated day of revs this coming Sunday. For nearly this entire century, and for 20 straight years through last season, Monaco fell on the Sunday morning preceding all thepomp and circumstance of Indianapolis, which eventually would deliver 200 hectic laps before a late-afternoon lull leading into NASCAR’s 600-miler in Charlotte.

F1 has erased the wiggle room this year. Indy’s green flag is 12:45 p.m., F1’s Canadian GP starts at 4, and Charlotte starts turning laps at 6.

If all goes well, Indy will end a little before Canada, which will probably end around 5:30 but certainly no later than 6, given F1’s two-hour time limit. Then it's the Charlotte marathon.

Also, if all goes well, it’ll be a minor climatic miracle. While rain won’t halt an F1 race, it certainly can ruin things on the big ovals at Indy and Charlotte. And by the looks of things, it just might.

On the bright side, if an Indy rain delay bleeds into or completely blankets the Canadian GP time window, hopefully it’ll convince the lords of F1, who have become infatuated with their U.S. attention, to go back to the Monaco-Indy-Charlotte routine.

To assuage a guilty conscience, they can always buy some offsets and plant a few elms.

—Email Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal:NASCAR, Indy 500 get new Canadian F1 partner for busy Sunday race day

Sheryl Crow recalled getting her breast cancer diagnosis the "same week" she and Lance Armstrong split

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• The singer-songwriter also said during that time she discovered the former professional cyclist was seeing a "really famous actress"

• Crow and Armstrong split in 2006

Sheryl Crowrecalled a difficult time in her life.

Duringthe Tuesday, May 19 episodeofThe Bobbycast, the "Soak Up the Sun" hitmaker reflected on receiving her breast cancer diagnosis and going through heartbreak.

Crow, now 64, reflected on being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2026 and splitting with her then-fiancéLance Armstrongthe same week.

"I was engaged. I had three beautiful step-children. I wanted to have kids with this person. We split. In the same week that we split, I got diagnosed with breast cancer, and I found out he was seeing a really famous actress," she recalled.

At the time, Crow said she went through "about nine months of radiation and grieving and anger."

"I had a really stoic oncologist who literally looked like my grandmother, but one of the things that she said to me was, 'I've had a thousand women come in with cancer, don't miss out on the lesson,'" she said.

Crow realized, amid her breast cancer diagnosis, that she was "a caretaker," which made her realize she was the last person she took care of at the end of the day.

"It took my life screeching to a halt to get to a place to go, 'Okay, who am I? And why am I doing what I'm doing? Do I love what I'm doing? What am I supposed to be doing?" she asked herself.

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PEOPLE reached out to a rep for Armstrong for comment.

Crow and Armstrong got engaged in October 2005 and split in February 2006.

The Texas-born athlete, now 54, has since remarried,tying the knot with Anna Hansen Armstrongin August 2022. They share two children, son Max and daughter Olivia. He shares three children,son Lukeand twin daughters Grace and Isabelle, with his first wife, Kristin Richard.

Crow has two sons whom she adopted: Wyatt, 19, and Levi, 15.

In a 2019interview with PEOPLE, Crow reflected on ending her engagement to Armstrong amid her breast cancer diagnosis.

“When I was diagnosed and my relationship fell apart, people were camped outside trying to get that picture of Sheryl Crow at her lowest moment. I just lost all faith in humankind,” she said at the time.

Crow continued, “But I licked my wounds. I started feeling like, ‘I'm at a point in my life where I need to manifest something more realistic.'”

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By William Schomberg

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - British companies are suffering their most widespread drop in activity in over a year due to the economic fallout from the ‌Iran war and political uncertainty at home, a survey showed on Thursday.

Data company S&P ‌Global's preliminary UK Composite Purchasing Managers' Index for May tumbled to 48.5 from 52.6 in April, its first reading ​below the 50.0 growth threshold since April 2025 and far below the 51.6 median in a Reuters poll.

A measure of activity among services firms plunged particularly sharply to its lowest since January 2021 when Britain was in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manufacturing firms reported a rush of orders ‌but the increase was largely due ⁠to clients trying to get ahead of possible further price increases or supply chain problems linked to the Iran war.

As well as the hit from ⁠higher energy prices and shipping delays caused by the conflict in the Middle East, businesses said uncertainty about the future of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and who might succeed him were hurting confidence.

"The ​UK ​economy is facing a perfect storm as rising political ​uncertainty adds to the growing impact ‌from the war in the Middle East," Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said.

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Williamson said the reading suggested Britain's economy was on course to contract by a quarterly 0.2% in contrast to an unexpectedly strong start to the year.

Businesses faced another hefty increase in their bills - only slightly below April's jump, which was the biggest in more than three ‌years - led by greater energy costs caused by the ​Iran war and higher wages.

While the survey's overall measure of ​businesses' selling prices also rose by ​slightly less than in April, manufacturers increased their prices by the most since ‌July 2022.

Companies scaled back their hiring plans ​for the 20th month ​in a row and expectations for future business were the lowest since April 2025.

Williamson said the combination of weakening activity and still strong inflation pressures left the Bank of ​England in a quandary.

Financial markets ‌expect the BoE to raise interest rates twice over the remainder of 2026 but ​most economists polled by Reuters earlier this month thought it will stay on ​hold.

(Writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Toby Chopra)

MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russian ‌Foreign ‌Ministry spokeswoman Maria ​Zakharova said on Thursday that ‌Moscow ⁠is concerned about ⁠the Ebola outbreak ​in ​the ​Democratic of ‌the Congo and Uganda and that it ‌was ​ready ​to ​help ‌resolve the crisis.

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(Reporting ​by ​Reuters, Writing by ​Felix ‌Lightl editing ​by Vladimir ​Soldatkin)