4 hours ago Jean Rather, artist and wife of former CBS anchor Dan Rather, dies aged 89 after cancer battle

The Rathers were married for 67 years

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6 hours ago ‘Don’t call me Shirley’: Watch five classic moments from Jim Abrahams comedies

Writer-director was involved with a string of hits, including Airplane!, Hot Shots! and The Naked Gun. Here are some of the most famous scenesJim Abrahams, the writer-director involved with the hit comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 80.Here we take a look at the funniest moments from his most popular film and TV comedies. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Dawn Hollyoak Great British Bake Off tribute in end credits leaves some viewers having a 'moment'

Dawn Hollyoak, who appeared on the 2022 season of the Channel 4 series, died at the age of 61 and there was a special tribute to her in the credits at the end of the 2024 series final, won by Georgie Grasso

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15 hours ago "Every community needs a Dena": Tributes to selfless charity champion who's died aged 96

'An inspiration to so many people'

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24 hours ago Liam Payne's final heartbreaking texts to friend in full hours before tragic death

One Direction star Liam Payne, who died last month, texted his friend several times before his death at the CasaSur Hotel where he died at the age of 31

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24 hours ago Fugitive wanted by FBI for 20 years after US bombings arrested in Wales

Daniel Andreas San Diego was detained by officers from the National Crime Agency, supported by Counter Terrorism Policing and North Wales Police.

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25 hours ago A fugitive wanted in the US on terror charges is arrested in the UK after 20 years on the run

Authorities say a suspect wanted in the U.S. for two bombings in the San Francisco area in 2003 has appeared in a London courtroom after being captured in the U.K. The National Crime Agency says Daniel Andreas San Diego was arrested Monday in a rural area of Wales

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25 hours ago From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

The writer and director, who died this week, helped to define what big screen spoofs would look like in the decades afterJim Abrahams, co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, dies aged 80Very few people can honestly claim to have changed the direction of comedy, but Jim Abrahams – who died this week – is one of them. Thanks to the procession of spoof movies he made, both alone and with his fellow writer-directors David and Jerry Zucker, Abrahams helped to carve out a brand new genre of comedy; equal parts straight-faced and scattergun.The most enduring Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (ZAZ) film remains Airplane! After leveraging the show they honed at University of Wisconsin–Madison into the entertaining if directionless sketch film The Kentucky Fried Movie, the trio came across the 1957...

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25 hours ago FBI 'most wanted' San Francisco bombing suspect arrested in North Wales

Daniel Andreas San Diego was one of the agency's ‘most wanted fugitives’ after two bombings in the San Francisco area of California in 2003

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