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Will there be Hostage season 2? Renewal possibilities and more
While the first season delivered an action-packed viewing experience, hopes for Hostage season 2 are rising among the global audience. Following the complex situation of the British Prime Minister, Abigail Dalton, the series delved deep into all...

‘Rivers Of Fate’ Ending Explained & Finale Recap: Did Janalice Go Back To Her Parents?
Rivers of Fate’s ending showed Mariangel rescuing Janalice from the clutches of both Philippe Soutin and Prea and taking her back to her mother, Lizete. Why did Mariangel undertake such a task? A classmate of Janalice had leaked an explicit video...

Junior Lady Jags honoured at award ceremony following strong CFU U14 campaign
Aug 25, 2025 Sports Kaieteur Sports – The Junior Lady Jags returned home to a warm welcome and an award ceremony held at the National Training Centre, where parents, coaching staff, and Guyana Football Federation (GFF) officials gathered to...

Australia tops new list of most expensive passports in the world - but here's the list of countries it will get you into without a visa
By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 | Updated: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 The Australian passport has been revealed as the most expensive in the world for the second year in a row, but research suggests...

Does Alex die in Hostage season 1? Details explored
Hostage season 1 tells the story of the kidnapping of Alex Dalton (Ashley Thomas), the husband of Prime Minister Abigail Dalton, during a political crisis that puts both the family and the government under a lot of stress. The series follows Alex...

Europe launches first next-generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG A1, to boost forecast accuracy
CU1 Fairing at EFA. 08-02-2025.Europe’s first next-generation meteorological satellite, MetOp-SG A1, was successfully launched on 13 August 2025 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Built by Airbus for the European Space Agency...
VI beat Grenada 6-0 in CFU U14 Girls Challenge Series in T&T
MALABAR, Arima, T&T- After being edged by French Guiana in their opening game on Friday, August 15, 2025, the Virgin Islands bounced back in emphatic fashion in the Caribbean Football Union (CF) U-14 Girls Challenge Series in Trinidad and Tobago,...

Hostage season 1 cast and characters: Meet the stars behind the show and the roles they play
Directed by Isabelle Sieb and Amy Neil, Hostage season 1 is a British political thriller that premiered exclusively on Netflix on August 21, 2025. The series revolves around British Prime Minister Abigail Dalton and French President Vivienne...

Where was Netflix's Hostage filmed? All the locations revealed for Surrane Jones' new thriller
Hostage is Netflix's latest thriller, starring Suranne Jones as the British Prime Minister, Abigail Dalton. The five-part series centres on Dalton, whose world is turned upside down when her husband, Dr. Alex Anderson (Ashley Thomas), a...

Satellite to track climate change from space with help from Scots scientists
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh are celebrating the successful launch of a new satellite set to transform the way the world monitors carbon dioxide. MicroCarb – a landmark UK-France mission – has soared into orbit aboard the 35-metre...

Europe launches MetOp-SG A1 meteorological satellite
Source | 2025 ESA/CNES/ArianeSpace On Aug. 13, Europe’s next-gen meteorological satellites, MetOp-Second Generation (MetOp-SG) A1, successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on board an Ariane 6 rocket. The...

James Webb Telescope Fuels European Innovation in AI and Space Tech
In the vast expanse of space exploration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) stands as a beacon of human ingenuity, with significant European fingerprints all over its design and operations. Launched in 2021 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from...

New European satellite launch lifts weather forecasting to new heights
Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) lifted off on an Ariane-62 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August. It is the first of the next generation of European polar-orbiting weather satellites and also hosts the new...

Kazakhstan aims to revive Cold War-era Baikonur spaceport for the new rocket race
Baikonur, KAZAKHSTAN – Before every Soviet rocket launch, cosmonauts would kick the launcher before clambering into their ride to space. Today, out in the dusty steppes of Central Asia, Kazakhstan's government is trying to kick-start its own space...

Hostage's Ashley Thomas: "I want things that I do to be seminal and meaningful, have an impact"
The body of work – which is a compelling tribute to his upbringing in North West London – went on to be widely critically acclaimed, with Thomas himself being nominated for an Ivor Novello award and then bagging both the Album of the Year and Best...

‘Hostage’: Inside the filming locations behind the Netflix abduction thriller
Like a nerve-shredding mix of 24, London Has Fallen and your favourite soap, Hostage is a new Netflix political thriller that asks: what would happen if the British prime minister’s husband was captured by? And what would happen if the French...

Netflix fans ‘already hooked’ on new Suranne Jones thriller as all episodes drop
Suranne Jones stars in Hostage on Netflix (Picture: Netflix/AP) Suranne Jones has stepped into Keir Starmer’s shoes as the British Prime Minister in Netflix’s new thriller Hostage. The new five-part drama – which dropped on Netflix today ahead of...

Where was Netflix's Hostage filmed?
08:01, 21 Aug 2025 Hostage is Netflix’s heart-stopping new thriller series starring Suranne Jones, Julie Delpy, Lucian Msamati, Ashley Thomas, and Corey Mylchreest. The five-part Netflix series follows fictional British Prime Minister Abigail...

Arianespace’s Ariane 6 successfully launches Metop-SGA1 weather satellite “This is the beginning of an exciting new chapter”
On August 12, 2025 at 9:37 p.m. local time in Kourou, French Guiana (00:37 a.m. UTC, 2:37 a.m. CEST, on August 13), Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport carrying EUMETSAT’s Metop-SGA1 satellite. With this second commercial flight, Ariane 6,...

Europe says it leads the world in Earth Observation. But what is it?
Published on 13/08/2025 - 16:10 GMT+2 •Updated 16:11 The heavy-lift launcher, developed over a decade by the European Space Agency (ESA) and ArianeGroup, was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana this Tuesday. After just over...