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After finishing third on the latest season of I'm A Celeb , Coleen Rooney might seem as though she walked the series. But now Coleen has revealed that early on in the show she had been left questioning her decision to appear on it. Coleen revealed that she had missed her family so much on the show that she had been left sobbing. She said she was reminded of Wayne and her sons, as their faces were on her pillow. Speaking to the Mirror after only barely losing to Danny Jones on the iconic show, she said: “In that first week, I did wake up one morning and I looked at the pillow and I saw on it obviously Wayne and the kids, and I had a little cry and I thought I don’t know whether I can go all this way." READ MORE: ITV I'm A Celebrity's Coleen Rooney names her two 'biggest fears' in jungle - and it wasn't trials or critters But despite a little wobble at the start, Coleen said that she "soon snapped out of it" by keeping busy with her chores, including doing the washing up. “I went off and did the washing up and collected the wood and did whatever I had to do,” she says. “I just got on with it.” Missing her family was not the only thing that Coleen said she found difficult either. She shared that she had also worried that she was not a big enough personality like some of her campmates, and too quiet. Coleen Rooney (Image: James Gourley/ITV/REX/Shutterstock) “In the first week I just thought I can’t see me going all the way because I was just me,” she says. “We had loads of personalities in there who were great and I got on with, but they were performers and I felt like I was, at times, just sat there thinking, ‘what do I bring?’ “It wasn’t uncomfortable. They made it comfortable. It was just me sitting back and looking at that camp and thinking I was more quieter than everyone else. “But obviously people enjoyed it and wanted me to stay in there longer and see a bit more of me. I don’t know why but they did.” Coleen Rooney with her two youngest sons in the I'm A Celebrity jungle (Image: ITV) She added that she quickly realised that she had signed up for the show without properly giving it enough consideration. She says: “I think my head before I went in was just to get everything sorted for the kids and get everything done for Christmas . “I wanted to get out of here so I could just enjoy it. But then I didn’t actually think about going in. "It wasn’t until I was in there that I thought, ‘what have I signed myself up for? What am I doing in here?’” ITV I'm A Celebrity Coleen Rooney (Image: ITV) Coleen - who says she got terrible headaches after detoxing from caffeine and sugar - said the first few days were “tough before it started getting better.” But she adds: “As it got better, the weather got worse. And then that was tough.” The weather was the worst in the show’s history with the camp battered by endless storms. “There was one night where we got all got woken up in the early hours in the morning to go into the Bush Telegraph because of a storm” she says. “I was asleep in there, Alan was asleep. You think this isn’t what we thought the jungle would be.” Viewers watched with tears in their eyes as she was reunited with mum Colette, and her two boys Kit, eight, and Cass, six, in camp. Coleen was seen sobbing in her mum’s arms in what she says was a rare show of emotion. “I do snap myself out of things really quickly, and I’m not a crier, bur when my mum came in that really surprised me,” she says. “You know, when I think back to that moment, it was like someone had told me someone had died. “And I don’t think I’ve been shocked more than that in my whole life. That is the biggest shock I’ve ever had.” Saying goodbye to her mum again was tough - and it reminded her of the isolation when she was in America for Wayne’s job. “I was like ‘you’re here now, I’m not going to let you leave.’ My mum said ‘do you feel like you are in America now?’ When I was in America, I was homesick and whenever we got together, we didn’t want to leave. And the only other time she said that to me was during COVID, when we couldn’t see each other.” Seeing her `boys, she says, gave her the “urge to then battle through the next few days” to the final. After coming out of the jungle, the first thing she did was phone home, where Wayne and the elder boys Kai, 15, Klay, 11, had thrown a family party to celebrate her in the final. And she laughed as she said her two eldest had given themselves the day off school yesterday (Mon) as it was such a late night. “I spoke to Wayne as soon as he got in the car,” she says. “They all had a gathering in the house and watched it together. “Wayne and my two older ones were at home as it harder for them to come out to school. The little ones, obviously it’s easier. The (two eldest) did say they weren’t going to school tomorrow because their mum was in the final. I am not sure what the school has to say about that but obviously they haven’t gone all the way to Australia so maybe they do deserve a day off.” She said she was moved by Wayne’s reaction. “He just said how proud he was. In the letter I got in camp, he said he’s never missed me as much and I can understand that, because we’ve been apart for weeks and weeks on end, but we speak a number of times a day. We FaceTime. “So to not have that communication has been tough and not knowing or keeping up to date on the kids’ school and football. I’m so involved in all that back home that was hard.” Coleen also laughed after learning that he had been mobilising his millions of followers to try and get her to do trials. After one plea on social media, she was voted the next day to do a trial She added: “So I heard but you know what? I’m so glad he did, because I was desperate to do a trial. And at that time, I thought, What’s the point in coming here if I’m not doing any trials? After one trial, a cockroach got stuck in her ear. “I could just feel it going round, and I could see people’s faces, and they were like: ‘that’s not right’ But I didn’t panic, and they squirted the water up there and it was all ok,” she says. Viewers, as well as her campmates, were also impressed by her willingness to muck in and do chores. But Coleen says that’s part of everyday life for her and she’s always got stuck in. “I might not have camped that much but I used to clean chalets at Pontins when I was younger,” she says. “ I don’t mind getting my hands dirty, that doesn’t bother me. I’ve got four boys.”Uruguay's voters choose their next president in a close runoff with low stakes but much suspense

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguayans on Sunday voted in the second round of the country's presidential election , with the conservative governing party and a left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff following level-headed campaigns widely seen as emblematic of the country's strong democracy. As polls closed Sunday evening, turnout stood at 89.4% — around the same as during the first round last month in which the two moderate coalitions both failed to win an outright majority. Voting in Uruguay is compulsory. Depending on how tight the vote turns out to be, electoral officials may not call the race for days — as happened in the contentious 2019 runoff that brought center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou to office and ended 15 years of rule by Uruguay’s left-leaning Broad Front by a razor-thin margin. Álvaro Delgado, the incumbent party’s candidate who won nearly 27% in the first round of voting on Oct. 27, has campaigned under the slogan “re-elect a good government." Other conservative parties that make up the government coalition — in particular, the Colorado Party that came in third place last month — notched 20% of the vote collectively, enough to give Delgado an edge over his challenger. Yamandú Orsi from the Broad Front, who took 44% of the vote in the general election, is promising to forge a “new left” in Uruguay that draws on the memory of stability and economic growth under his Broad Front coalition, which presided over pioneering social reforms that won widespread international acclaim from 2005-2020, including the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and sale of marijuana . With inflation easing and the economy expected to expand by some 3.2% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, surveys show that Uruguayans remain largely satisfied with the administration of Lacalle Pou, who constitutionally cannot run for a second consecutive term. But persistent complaints about sluggish growth, stagnant wages and an upsurge in violent crime could just as easily add the small South American nation to a long list of places this year where frustrated voters have punished incumbents in elections around the world. With most polls showing a virtual tie between Delgado and Orsi, analysts say the vote may hinge on a small group of undecided voters — roughly 10% of registered voters in the nation of 3.4 million people. “Neither candidate convinced me and I feel that there are many in my same situation,” said Vanesa Gelezoglo, 31, in the capital, Montevideo, adding she would make up her mind at “the last minute.” Analysts say the candidates’ lackluster campaigns and broad consensus on key issues have generated extraordinary indecision and apathy in an election dominated by discussions about social spending and concerns over income inequality but largely free of the anti-establishment rage that has vaulted populist outsiders to power in neighboring Argentina and the United States. “The question of whether Frente Amplio (the Broad Front) raises taxes is not an existential question, unlike what we saw in the U.S. with Trump and Kamala framing each other as threats to democracy," said Nicolás Saldías, a Latin America and Caribbean senior analyst for the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit. “That doesn't exist in Uruguay.” Both candidates are also appealing to voter angst over the current government's struggle to stem the rise in violent crime that has shaken a nation long regarded as one of the region’s safest, with Delgado promising tough-on-crime policies and Orsi advocating a more community-oriented approach. Delgado, 55, a rural veterinarian with a long career in the National Party, served most recently as Secretary of the Presidency for Lacalle Pou and promises to pursue his predecessor’s pro-business policies. He would continue pushing for a trade deal with China that has raised hackles in Mercosur, an alliance of South American countries promoting regional commerce. "We have to give the government coalition a chance to consolidate its proposals,” said Ramiro Pérez, a street vendor voting for Delgado on Sunday. Orsi, 57, a former history teacher and two-time mayor from a working-class background, is widely seen as the political heir to former President José “Pepe” Mujica , an ex-Marxist guerilla who became a global icon for helping transform Uruguay into one of the region's most socially liberal and environmentally sustainable nations. “He's my candidate, not only for my sake but also for my children's,” Yeny Varone, a nurse at a polling station, said of Orsi. “In the future they'll have better working conditions, health and salaries.” Mujica, now 89 and recovering from esophageal cancer , turned up at his local polling station before balloting even began, praising Orsi's humility and Uruguay’s famous stability. “This is no small feat,” he said of Uruguay's “citizenry that respects formal institutions.” Orsi planned no dramatic changes, and, despite his call for a revitalized left-wing, his platform continues the Broad Front's traditional mix of market-friendly policies and welfare programs. He proposes tax incentives to lure investment and social security reforms that would lower the retirement age but fall short of a radical overhaul sought by Uruguay's unions. The contentious plebiscite on whether to boost pension payouts failed to pass in October, with Uruguayans rejecting generous pensions in favor of fiscal constraint. Both candidates pledged full cooperation with each other if elected. “I want (Orsi) to know that my idea is to form a government of national unity,” Delgado told reporters after casting his vote in the capital's upscale Pocitos neighborhood. He said that if he won, he and Orsi would chat on Monday over some yerba mate, the traditional herbal drink beloved by Uruguayans. Orsi described Sunday's democratic exercise as “an incredible experience" as he voted in Canelones, the sprawling town of beaches and cattle ranches just north of Montevideo where he served as mayor for a decade. “The essence of politics is agreements,” he said. “You never end up completely satisfied.” Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Villa Tunari, Bolivia, contributed to this report.

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No — it’s a drone! Or — no, wait, maybe it’s a plane. Actually, hang on ... The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security cast doubt Thursday on the reports of mysterious drones flying at night over New York and New Jersey in recent weeks. Federal authorities said many of the more than 3,000 drone reports received by the FBI were “actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.” So, how do you tell the difference between a drone and a plane? It can be challenging to differentiate between the two, experts say. Particularly from a distance or at night, a craft’s blinking lights are sometimes all that can be picked out as it moves across the night sky. And both drones and planes can appear to have similar lights. But there are ways to tell them apart, according to Ian Petchenik, communications director for the live flight tracker Flightradar24. NJ Advance Media spoke to Petchenik and Pramod Abichandani, an associate professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the director of its Advanced Air Mobility Lab, about how to tell a drone and a plane apart in the night sky. Here are their tips: Objects is the air may be larger than they appear. When it comes to aircraft, size matters. On the ground, it’s clear: Airplanes are larger than drones. “One thing we know is that humans, when they see something in the sky, they’re really bad at telling how far away it is,” Petchenik said. “Our depth perception is awful, particularly at night.” So what appears as a tiny, battery-powered drone a couple hundred feet up in the air might just be a commercial jet airliner cruising at 32,000 feet. “Widen your perspective, widen your field of view,” Petchenik advised. “Things you’re seeing are often further away than you think.” Listen closely. Many multi-rotor drones produce a distinct buzzing or humming noise that makes them distinguishable from the louder jet engines of planes. “Their propellers are directly connected to their motors, which is what produces the noise,” Abichandani said. Some unmanned aerial vehicles, such as fixed-wing drones, which are designed to fly longer distances and carry heavier loads, are generally quieter than multi-rotor drones. But based on the videos and eyewitness accounts he’s seen, Abichandani said many of the drones spotted are multi-rotor — and therefore distinctly noisy. Look closely at the lights. A drone will often have a simple set of anti-collision lights positioned around its body. These lights can be red, green or white, and are usually displayed in pairs. So, look for two, four or six lights close together, Abichandani said. Meanwhile, fixed-wing aircraft like airplanes have lights that are “more spaced out and a little more sophisticated,” he said. While they also sport anti-collision lights, planes will typically have uniform navigation lights: red on the left wing, green on the right wing, and white on the tail. These colors are the key to decoding a craft’s direction. For example, if you see a white light on the left and a green light on the right, that means the plane is moving from left to right from your perspective. If you see all three lights in a row, on the other hand, it means that the plane is moving directly away from you. Watch how the aircraft moves. Observing the way the unknown aircraft moves will help narrow down whether it’s a drone or a plane, according to both Petchenik and Abichandani. Multi-rotor drones can perform more aggressive maneuvers thanks to their propellers, often making tight controlled turns. They have what’s known as “six degrees of freedom,” a term that refers to an object that can move and rotate up, down, left, right, forward and backward. Fixed-wing airplanes do not have the same freedom of movement. A plane cannot hover, move sideways, or perform vertical takeoff and landing maneuvers, the way a drone can. “Planes have a non-zero turning radius,” Abichandani said. “If its nose is pointing in a certain direction, that is generally the direction it will move in.” Consider your proximity to an airport. Just because an object in the sky is far away from where you might usually see an airplane — miles away from the usual flight paths into Newark Liberty International Airport, for instance — doesn’t mean that it isn’t a plane up there. “There are all sorts of fairly benign reasons a plane might be outside of its usual environment,” Petchenik said. “Bad weather, holding patterns, loitering for traffic.” Use flight-tracking apps. Consult flight tracking websites and apps, including FlightAware or Flightradar24 , to determine whether you’re looking at an airplane. If you see the aircraft turn at any point, you can also compare that to any movement reflected on your screen, Petchenik suggested. Trust the experts. It’s entirely possible that the glut of drone sightings in more recent days is being boosted by confirmation bias, which is the human tendency to seek out information that confirms our existing views, experts say That’s why it’s so important to rely on those with expertise in aviation and drone technology, particularly those who have devoted years to studying them up close and from afar. Abichandani, who started working with drones around 2007, said he would love for members of the public, particularly those unfamiliar with the craft, to exercise caution and leave the identification work up to the specialists. “If you see something, don’t chase it or shoot it down to identify it,” he said. “Open-source it. Take good photos and videos, zoom in, post it online. Let us help you figure out what it is.” How to file a report with the FBI: Note the time and location, and take any photographs or video you can. The FBI has encouraged the public to report any information related to recent sightings of possible drones. To report information, you can: • Call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) • Submit it online at tips.fbi.gov . Residents can also upload videos directly through the FBI’s online portal.None