An ex-convict wanted by the FBI in connection with two deadly New York City robberies had an unusual message for the public after NYPD officers arrested him Saturday.

“God is good, God is great,” 31-year-old parolee Jesus Acosta said as he was led in handcuffs to Bronx Criminal Court to face charges tied to the fatal incidents.

Acosta had been the focus of a joint FBI and NYPD manhunt after authorities said he fatally shot a married father of two who worked at a wings restaurant in Brooklyn on Aug. 23, then later fired a fatal shot at a customer inside a Bronx deli.

Investigators have not indicated that either killing stemmed from anything other than robbery, police said.

Police said officers with the NYPD arrested Acosta at a Bronx park over the weekend.

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Acosta was still on parole after being released from state prison April 23 following 10 years behind bars on assault and felony gun possession charges, according to online records.

His deadly killing spree began when he shot beloved hard-working wings-eatery employee MD Yousef, 44, in the head during a heist. Yousef died at the hospital, police said.

Within 48 hours, Acosta pulled off another armed robbery at a bodega on 149th Street, where he shot and killed 33-year-old Tayvon Shuler, cops said..

The FBI posted a $25,000 reward for the accused career criminal, while United Bodegas of America, a Big Apple-based advocacy group for small food retailers, put up another $10,000, and Acosta was nabbed in the park Saturday.

He was led out of the 43rd Precinct in The Bronx in cuffs hours later, ignoring questions from reporters outside the stationhouse before he blurted out his bizarre first public comments.

A heartbroken British husband searching for his new wife in Nepal has shared the last message she sent before the deadly flood swept through the region: “I love you so much.”

Pramod Poudel, 34, who was born in Nepal, has returned to the disaster-hit country in a desperate effort to find his 25-year-old wife, Sumitra, who has not been seen since Wednesday.

The newlyweds had spoken just hours before a glacier collapse unleashed torrents of water down the mountainside and into nearby villages, leaving devastation across the Nepal-Tibet border area.

Authorities have so far confirmed 734 deaths, while another 2,498 people remain missing. Among the 48 British nationals believed to be unaccounted for are two teenagers: a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy.

Pramod, who runs a food truck business, flew to Nepal on Friday to search not only for Sumitra but also for his mother, brother and uncle, all of whom vanished after their entire village was wiped out.

Mr Poudel and his wife only married in June. She had been staying with his family in the village of Sole as he returned home for work. 

He told The Sun: ‘When I last spoke to her, she said to me, ‘how are you? I love you so much’.

‘I have not had contact with her since then. It’s devastating – I don’t even know how to explain how I’m feeling right now. 

‘I’m so worried about her and all my family. I work so hard for them and they are my world.’ 

Pramod, from Uckfield, East Sussex, moved to Britain when he was 18 after being raised in Nepal.

He is one of many Brits who have been left in agony as a result of the Asian country’s ‘tsunami from the sky’.  

The monster mudslide swept away roads, bridges and homes in seconds, while also knocking out power lines and mobile phone masts.

The discovery of a group of 31 tourists, none of whom are British, alive in the district of Rasuwa, raised hopes that all is not lost.

But the death toll this morning rose to 734, with the families of those who remain unaccounted for desperately jetting to Nepal to begin a search for them.  

Among them is the wife of 54-year-old Pravin Atmakur, who was leading a group of 77 pilgrims to Mount Kailash in Tibet when the floods struck.

Manjula Atmakur arrived in Kathmandu on Friday morning after travelling from Britain to search for her husband, who has not been heard from since the disaster.

The couple both work as consultant psychiatrists for the NHS, while their son studies at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mrs Atmakur told the Telegraph in Nepal: ‘I am emotionally broken. I don’t know how my husband is. In which situation. I want him back.’

She added: ‘I came here with the only agenda that I want to take Pravin back home alive.’ 

Mrs Atmakur last spoke to her husband on August 15, when he began the pilgrimage.

She believes he had completed the pilgrimage and was returning from Tibet into Nepal when the floods struck at around 9am on Wednesday.

Nepal is now facing what officials described as a scene of ‘devastation beyond imagination’ after a glacier collapse unleashed a ‘tsunami from the sky’, sending torrents of water crashing through villages and tourist hotspots.

Footage showed the mudslide racing down the Trishuli River valley and through Gyirong Port, a major border crossing between Nepal and Tibet used by thousands of pilgrims travelling to Mount Kailash each year.

Mrs Atmakur learnt of the disaster from her brother-in-law and immediately began preparing to travel to Nepal.

Her 19-year-old son Nalin, who studies engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, was travelling at the time. She waited for him to return so they could fly out together.

She reached Kathmandu on Friday and went directly to the British embassy, but said she had received little help.

Mrs Atmakur said her husband had devoted much of his life to helping others and that she now wanted authorities to help bring him home.

A millionaire family-of-four from Surrey including a former Mrs India UK are also among Britons missing in Nepal.

Ex-banker and beauty pageant winner Surabhi Sahu, 44, her businessman husband Santosh, 46, their son Spandan, 18, and daughter Syna, 13, had been on an adventure trek across the Nepal-China border.

Mr and Mrs Sahu ran a successful technology company in London together before he set up a thriving pharmaceutical business. The family live in a £1.3million six-bedroom house in Cobham, Surrey. 

They travelled to India last week and then on to the Nepalese-Tibetan trek. They were due to return in ten days before the start of the new school year.

A poignant final photograph of the family with their tour group, mostly made up of Britons, shows them smiling beside their bus against the peaks of the Himalayas.

The Alpine Eco Tours group was last heard from as they crossed the frontier from Nepal into Tibet, around the time on Wednesday that a horrifying torrent of ice, mud and rocks engulfed the Gyirong border crossing.

CCTV footage showed people running for their lives as the disaster struck.

Tour organisers have been frantically trying to reach the group ever since. There are hopes the tourists are alive and waiting to be rescued, but phone lines are down and the military has struggled to reach the mountainous area.

The Sahu family were well-travelled and on a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, a religious site for Hindus and Buddhists in Tibet.

Mrs Sahu is a chemistry graduate from Mumbai who became a banker before moving to Ireland to work for Dell Computers.

Her husband Santosh is an Irish citizen, and the family moved to Surrey where they became beacons of their community.

In 2018, Mrs Sahu won the Mrs India UK beauty contest – after being encouraged to enter it by her family – which she described as ‘a dream come true’.

She added it showcased ‘the best in women… not just in respect of physical beauty but in the many other capacities in which they are not always acknowledged or appreciated’.

As well as her successful business career, Mrs Sahu is an avid reader who promotes literature to her legion of Instagram followers. She has posted photos of herself visiting favourite spots of England, including the Cotswolds.

Her former banker husband Santosh has gone from strength to strength and is the founder and chief executive of Charac, a digital platform helping pharmacies improve deliveries to patients.

Their son Spandan is due to start a law degree at Durham University.

A former grammar school pupil and her NHS worker mother are also among those missing after travelling to the region on a pilgrimage.

Nelly Chhetri, 18, and her mother Yashika Basnet, 56, had joined a tour group and have not been heard from since.

Nepalese authorities have declared them missing, and their worried family said they have received no contact from the UK Foreign Office.

Nelly, an ‘ambitious’ former pupil of the Invicta Grammar School for girls, in Maidstone, Kent, hopes to go to university next year, her cousin Nickie Chhetri told the Daily Mail.

She has just completed a sixth-form course in health and social care at Uxbridge College, in London.

Sunil Amin, from Croydon, described the ‘horrible, horrible feeling’ of repeatedly trying to phone his wife, Hema Amin, 63, who was on a pilgrimage with Alpine Eco trek from Nepal to Tibet with her sister.  

‘I keep trying to call her. I’ve been trying, trying, trying,’ he said. ‘It just rings out or doesn’t get through. I’m devastated.’

Sarada Simkhada, 55, was also on a pilgrimage, following in the footsteps of thousands of other Hindus up Mount Kailash.

The mountain is a sacred site for both Hindus and Buddhists, and is believed to be the cosmic home of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati.

Sarada, a senior nurse who lives in Dartford, had travelled to Nepal on Saturday before she joined other pilgrims.

Her childhood friend Rajendra Pudasaini said she is known for taking part in the community and always ‘working incredibly hard’ at Darent Valley Hospital.

Sarada trained as a nurse in Kathmandu, before moving to London. Her relatives were last in contact with her when she was staying at the Kailash Hotel in Timure on the Nepal-China border, where she was waiting for Chinese customs officers to approve her visa.

Roshan Panday, owner of Fishtail Tours and Travels Group, had a tour group of 27 including Briton Leena Bector, 53, from Slough, and he said ‘no one is answering their phones’.

He said they had sent a video just nine minutes before the disaster struck, adding: ‘Absolutely everything’s under the mud. We tried calling the drivers. We tried calling the guides. We tried calling them all, but no one was answering.’

Ms Bector’s husband, Bhupesh Bector, told The Times he was frantically checking his iPhone to check her location but it had not changed for more than seven hours.

He flew out last night, saying: ‘I know that she’s in Nepal for sure, so even if they find her today or tomorrow, I need to be there.’ 

Another missing Briton is Nabhi Das, from Streatham in south London, family members confirmed. The University of Kent graduate, originally from Kenya and thought to work in finance, has not been heard from.

The flooding was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists.

That may have led to the backed-up water surging downstream with enormous force a few hours later, they suggested.

Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood.

The US Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a magnitude 5.2 glacier collapse that sent debris flowing downstream with catastrophic impact on communities.

Nepal’s Chitwan district became the site of mass burials for dozens of unidentified victims on the weekend. 

Authorities have dug hundreds of graves at the site – around 200 kilometres from where the floods began – though many bodies are said to be too badly decomposed to be identified.  

‘We were left with no other option and had to take this step. Our concern was the risk to public health posed by the rapid decomposition of the bodies,’ said Ganesh Arya, chief district officer of Baratpur, Chitwan.

Authorities buried 96 unidentified bodies in the forest on Saturday and planned to bury more than 100 others on Sunday, as recovery teams continue to retrieve victims from rivers and piles of debris.

A Colorado municipal leader died Friday after collapsing during a hike on one of the state’s well-known 14,000-foot peaks, where nearby hikers attempted to save him until emergency crews reached the mountain, officials said.

Englewood Mayor Pro Tem Joe Anderson, 45, died Friday morning while climbing Quandary Peak in Summit County, city and county officials confirmed.

Summit County sheriff’s deputies were called at about 6:45 a.m. after receiving a report that a hiker had collapsed and was not breathing on the lower portion of Quandary Peak, Summit Daily reported. The mountain reaches 14,271 feet and is the tallest point in Colorado’s Tenmile Range, which is part of the Rocky Mountains.

Sgt. Mike Schilling told the outlet that other hikers began CPR before first responders arrived and continued lifesaving efforts.

An official cause of death has yet to be determined.

“We are all shocked and saddened at the sudden passing of our friend and council member, Joe Anderson,” Englewood Mayor Othoniel Sierra said in a statement.

“Joe was always there to lend a hand, whether it was in his role as friend, neighbor, pastor or council member,” Sierra said. “This is a tremendous loss for our city and our heart goes out to his family and friends during this time of loss.”

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Anderson was elected to represent District 3 on the Englewood City Council in 2019 and won a second four-year term in 2023. His fellow council members elected him mayor pro tem that December.

Before taking office, Anderson served in pastoral roles at local churches and helped found Change the Trend, a coalition focused on homelessness. He also spent years coordinating a community service project that helped seniors and people with disabilities with home repairs.

On the council, Anderson focused on homelessness, affordable housing, infrastructure, economic development and pedestrian and bicycle safety.

He helped guide efforts to repair and expand Englewood’s aging stormwater system after deadly flooding in 2018, and pushed the city to balance the cost of those improvements with what residents and businesses could afford.

Anderson also supported changes to the city’s development rules aimed at lowering housing costs and homelessness, including streamlined regulations and smaller housing units.

Outgoing City Manager Shawn Lewis remembered Anderson as someone who encouraged city employees while also pushing them to improve.

“Mayor Pro Tem Anderson was this rare combination of a constant encourager behind the scenes while simultaneously challenging us as staff to think bigger and do better,” Lewis said.

Lewis called him “one of the most effective, productive and positive council members I’ve ever worked with,” and recalled Anderson offering to pray for him when his parents were hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He cared for me and other staff members as people,” Lewis said. “I’ll never forget the kindness and care he showed to me and I know so many others throughout his time on council.”

The new “it guy” isn’t hiding behind an air of mystery. He isn’t waiting 14 hours to text back just to look unavailable, and he’s definitely not acting like your date slipped his mind.

He is, as Gen Z might put it, chalant.

The viral dating term — basically the opposite of nonchalant — is gaining momentum in modern dating culture, as more women say they’re looking for men who show clear interest, communicate openly and aren’t afraid to be emotionally present. Even enthusiastic.

Put simply: the era of playing it cool is losing its grip. New Yorkers want men who make it obvious they care.

Picture Travis Kelce proudly cheering on Taylor Swift at her concerts, or Tom Holland openly praising Zendaya at film premieres — men who appear entirely comfortable being visibly, publicly devoted to the women they love.

For New Yorker Jason Henley, 34, being openly obsessed is kind of the point.

Henley has been with his girlfriend, Hannah Alderman, 32, for nearly four years — and has happily abandoned the idea that romance should be kept under wraps.

“I absolutely identify as a ‘chalant’ man,’” Henley told The Post.

Henley said he once felt pressure to play it cool because modern dating can make genuine affection feel “cringe.”

“I’ve felt pressure to play it cool when dating as a man. I think it’s hard not to when everything is labeled ‘cringe’ nowadays,” he said.

But after nearly four years with Alderman, he has little interest in pretending not to care.

“But I’m also 34 and 4 years into the best relationship of my life so I’ve given way to all that comes with ‘corny’ and romance and the softness of being tender in public and on social media,” he said.

“It feels good to be proud of the person I’m with and to let the world know it from the top of the mountain that my heart is hers to have,” he said.

His Gothamite girlfriend is very much on board.

Alderman said she had dated nonchalant partners in the past and never stopped wanting the kind of passionate romance she grew up watching.

“I find it ironic that as young girls, we grow up watching Disney movies or rom coms where women are quite literally treated as princesses. Then, as we grow up and get older, some of that whimsy starts to fade and we settle for mediocre love along the way,” Alderman told The Post.

These days, she knows exactly what she wants.

“A ‘chalant’ partner looks like someone who gives a damn. He shows up no matter what. He loves me out loud and isn’t afraid to be perceived as corny,” Alderman told The Post.

For her, that openness translates into security.

“It means feeling absolutely secure in the relationship and having a solid foundation of trust. We talk through things, make each other feel celebrated, and can admit when we are wrong,” she said.

Henley believes ‘chalant’ dating also requires being comfortable with vulnerability — not simply showering someone with attention.

“I think being ‘chalant’ comes from being in touch with a more feminine energy in yourself, a side that is softer and more lighthearted, a more whimsical, je ne sais quoi energy that grounds you in your ability to be unafraid of your emotions and your softness,” he said.

For Henley, that is a far cry from the situationship-heavy dating culture he encountered before meeting Alderman.

“I’ve always felt like the modern situationship environment that dating is feels so toned down and lacking in any kind of substance,” he said.

And the couple isn’t alone in wanting to retire the dating games.

NYC dating coach Niko Emanuilidis, who has built a following teaching men how to cultivate what he calls “daddy energy,” is firmly on Team Chalant.

As Emanuilidis previously told The Post, “Daddy energy is all about being your most authentic self.”

Now, he thinks the era of deliberately withholding affection has officially run its course.

In a recent TikTok, Emanuilidis declared that “The nonchalant dating approach needs to end in 2026.”

The distinction, he argues, is that showing interest is only unattractive when it comes from insecurity and neediness. A confident man, by contrast, can tell a woman he likes her because he’s not terrified of what happens if she doesn’t feel the same way.

He later summed up the trend even more simply: “We need less nonchalantness in dating and more ‘chalantness.’”

Dr. Sabrina Romanoff, a Harvard-trained clinical psychologist and relationship expert at Hily Dating App, thinks that an appetite for open affection is a reaction to years of defensive dating.

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“Chalant dating is resonating with so many young daters right now because people are fed up with the defensive and withholding dating cultural standard,” Romanoff told The Post.

“Without taking a risk, showing your interest or care, it’s impossible to truly make a connection.”

And in a dating world where potential matches are only a swipe away, playing hard to get may actually make you easier to forget.

“With the ease of access for potential new connections, playing hard to get is no longer effective, and in fact may make it easier for a partner to overlook you,” she said.

There’s also a psychological payoff to knowing exactly where you stand.

“The most important benefit of dating someone who is ‘chalant’ is that it’s emotionally safe and calming,” Romanoff said.

“Someone who is ‘chalant’ tells you where they stand, makes their interest in you known, and in turn, doesn’t keep you constantly guessing or on your toes.”

Because sure, the romantic rollercoaster can be thrilling. But eventually, you’re going to want to get off.

“Having to guess if they’re in or out may seem exciting initially, but that rollercoaster gets old quickly, and eventually you’ll want off that ride,” Romanoff said.

Still, there is a line between chalant and please-call-my-mother-I-have-lost-the-plot.

Romanoff cautioned that too much enthusiasm too quickly can cross into love-bombing or boundary-pushing. Her prescription for early dating? Show interest without abandoning your own life.

Her advice is simple: Don’t manufacture delayed texts or pretend you’re too busy to care. Tell someone you enjoy spending time with them — then see what they do with that information.

“Do they get turned off? Good! This saves you so much time. Do they meet your ‘chalant’ with their own? Good, now you know you’re on the same page,” Romanoff said.

For fellow New Yorker Jae Marie, 31, the appeal of ‘chalant’ dating is less about bouquets and more about whether a man is actually paying attention.

Marie said that when she was younger, “going with the flow” seemed like the default dating strategy. But that laissez-faire approach eventually became synonymous with endless situationships and men who had no idea what they wanted.

Now, she wants intentionality.

Her definition of a ‘chalant’ man is perhaps the most Big Apple-specific test of all: If he can memorize sports statistics, he can remember your java order.

“If you can tell me what the score was for the Giants game week 2 last year and how many yards whoever rushed, you should be able to remember what my coffee order is,” Marie said.

She’s not asking for a private jet or a reservation at Eleven Madison Park.

She wants someone who watches the reels she sends, waits to watch a show together, comes to her open mic night and remembers that she hates coconut.

NYC denizen Alexis R. Posey, 40, learned that lesson after years of dating emotionally unavailable partners.

For a long time, she “didn’t even recognize nonchalance as a pattern.”

When she finally met someone direct and intentional online, her first instinct was to wonder if it was too good to be true.

Then he did something she considered remarkable: He sent her a photo of his ID before they met in person, so someone could check on her if needed.

“That is what chalant looks like to me. Not grand gestures. Just someone who thought about me before I got there,” Posey said.

Ilana Schachter, 25, said she spent years navigating people who treated emotional detachment as a dating strategy, leaving her wondering where she stood and feeling like she was doing the emotional heavy lifting.

Now she wants consistency over coolness.

She also thinks celebrity couples like Swift and Kelce have helped make visible affection feel less embarrassing.

“For a long time, dating culture often suggested that whoever cared less had more power,” Schachter said.

“Now, I think more people are realizing that genuine confidence comes from being emotionally available and intentional, not from pretending you don’t care.”

A forgotten vintage Swiss watch discovered in a late mother’s jewellery box has stunned auction watchers after selling for £59,000.

The 1930s Patek Philippe wristwatch far exceeded its pre-sale estimate, with specialists initially placing its value at around £5,000.

The rare timepiece came to light during a house clearance at a property in Camborne, Cornwall, and went under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers in Penzance on Tuesday.

Made from stainless steel, the luxury watch had spent years tucked away among old jewellery, its significance seemingly overlooked.

The seller, the owner’s daughter, said she recalled her mother mentioning that she owned a valuable watch, but she had no idea it could command such an extraordinary price.

She added nobody expected the treasured family heirloom to be worth almost 12 times its estimate.

Darren Ashley, senior valuer at Hansons Cornwall, said: ‘When I finally had the watch in my hands and was able to examine it properly, I knew we had something extremely rare.

‘Patek Philippe produced very few stainless steel watches during this period and that rarity makes surviving examples incredibly desirable to collectors.

‘But one of the things I loved most was its mechanical perfection.

‘This was a watch dating back around 90 years which had spent decades within the same Cornish family and, when it was placed in my hands, it was still finely ticking away.

‘Combined with its wonderful provenance, it was an absolute pleasure to be entrusted with selling such an incredible timepiece.’

The rare Patek Philippe & Co Calatrava Reference 448 belonged to the vendor’s grandfather who passed it to his daughter.

It is believed their grandmother, who had a love for designer clothes and luxury items, bought it as a gift for her husband decades ago.

Potential buyers emerged from America, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia and the UK before the watch was sold to a phone bidder in Hong Kong.

Mr Ashley added: ‘The pre-sale interest was phenomenal. We had interest from serious collectors across the world, but nothing quite prepares you for watching that level of bidding unfold in the room.

‘Having three members of the family there made it even more special. They were absolutely thrilled, while other members of their family were following the auction live from work on their laptops and phones and couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

‘The final battle between Japan and China was incredibly exciting. To see the hammer finally fall at £59,000 was a fantastic moment for the family and for Hansons Cornwall.

‘It is one of those results that reminds you why this business is so exciting.

‘Something extraordinary can still be sitting quietly in a jewellery box just a few miles away.

‘Never overlook what is tucked away at home.’

Charles Hanson, owner of Hansons Auctioneers, said: ‘What a wonderful result and a wonderful story.

‘This little watch had passed quietly through generations of a Cornish family, its late owner knowing she had something valuable but perhaps never imagining quite how sought-after it would become.

‘Then, decades later, it emerged from a jewellery box in Camborne and attracted collectors from across the globe.

‘To see bidders in America, Japan and China competing for something discovered in a Cornish family home is the magic of auction.

‘Patek Philippe represents the pinnacle of fine watchmaking and, when rarity, quality and provenance come together, the results can be spectacular.

‘A watch which had been treasured in Cornwall for generations will now begin an entirely new chapter thousands of miles away in Hong Kong.’