99 m. ago No Squid Game? Or Patrick Schwarzenegger? This year’s biggest Emmy surprises

While Severance, The Studio and Adolescence triumphed, this year’s TV nominees also saw some major snubsEmmy nominations 2025: the list of key categoriesI don’t know if you had the time or the energy to watch today’s Emmy nominations on YouTube, but if you did – and you followed along with the comments in real time – then you will know that there was one glaring omission that has sent the entire world into a screaming tailspin of panic and terror. I am talking, of course, about Thanos from Squid Game.For some, Thanos – a purple-haired Konglish-spewing drug-addicted rapper played by the Korean performer T.O.P – was the standout actor of the entire year, in any genre or format. But not only was this a bad result for Thanos, it was a bad result for Squid Game altogether. A show that comprehensively did the numbers for Netflix found itself being locked out of all categories. Still, at least it finds itself in decent company; Black Doves, Netflix’s other wildly entertaining genre series,...

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1 hour ago Trump to unveil $70bn AI and energy plan at summit with oil and tech bigwigs

Pittsburgh event angers climate groups as Trump ties AI expansion to oil and gas, sidelining renewable energyDonald Trump will join big oil and technology bosses on Tuesday at a major artificial intelligence and energy summit in Pittsburgh, outraging environmentalists and community organizations. The event comes weeks after the passage of a megabill that experts say could stymy AI growth with its attacks on renewable energy.The inaugural Pennsylvania energy and innovation summit, held at Carnegie Mellon University, will attempt to position the state as an AI leader, showcasing the technological innovation being developed in the city and the widespread availability of fossil fuel reserves to power them. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Rock singer Fish turns down honorary degree from University of Edinburgh amid Israel protests

Fish said he was in an ‘incredibly awkward’ position.

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1 hour ago Mike Waltz grilled over Signal chat during confirmation hearing for UN role

Ex-national security adviser questioned about controversy during a Senate hearing to be US ambassador to UNJust over two months after being ousted as national security adviser, Mike Waltz faced lawmakers on Tuesday during a confirmation hearing to be US ambassador to the UN, telling them that he planned to make the world body “great again”.“We should have one place in the world where everyone can talk – where China, Russia, Europe and the developing world can come together and resolve conflicts,” Waltz told the Senate foreign relations committee about the UN. “But after 80 years, it’s drifted from its core mission of peacemaking.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago EastEnders to reveal teen pregnancy twist in shocking new story

The storyline affects a character who has been involved in major storylines this year

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2 h. ago Swansea City officially launch new kit after Snoop Dogg reveal

The Swans have officially launched their new home kit for next season

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3 h. ago As Waltz faces UN post hearings, an update on the Signal situation that led to his initial ousting

Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing

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3 h. ago Emmy nominations 2025: Severance leads while Adolescence makes impressive showing

Apple shows dominated this year’s TV nominations while the British Netflix hit scored 13 nodsEmmy nominations 2025: the list of key categoriesSeverance and The Penguin lead this year’s Emmys nominations while the breakout drama Adolescence has also made an impressive showing.Apple’s chilly workplace thriller has received 27 nominations for its second season, leading the drama categories while the tech giant’s new comedy The Studio has broken Ted Lasso’s record for most nominations received by a freshman comedy series. The Seth Rogen-led Hollywood satire picked up 23 nods. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago John Torode to leave MasterChef after allegation of using racist language

BBC show’s producers Banijay UK say Torode’s contract will not be renewed after allegation, which he has deniedJohn Torode will not return to MasterChef after its producers confirmed his contract would not be renewed after an allegation of using racist language.The Australian-born chef, 59, confirmed on Monday evening he was the subject of an allegation that was upheld as part of an inquiry into the behaviour of his former co-presenter Gregg Wallace. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Joey Barton to pay more than £200k of Jeremy Vine's legal fees in libel case after calling BBC and Channel 5 star a 'big bike nonce' and a 'pedo defender'

Vine sued Barton for libel and harassment over several online posts, including one in which he falsely called the BBC Radio 2 presenter a 'pedo [sic] defender' on X, formerly Twitter.

Economics

4 h. ago DWP makes major Universal Credit change with UK households given £725 boost

The Department for Work and Pensions has announced that the Universal Credit standard allowance will permanently rise above inflation, amounting to £725 by 2029/30 in cash terms for a single person aged 25 or over

Economics

4 h. ago BBC University Challenge viewers witness 'best comeback ever' in show's history

The new series of University Challenge kicked off with a dramatic showdown between students from Sheffield and Warwick - and viewers were left stunned by the result

Culture

4 h. ago Sycamore Gap vandals reveal reason they chopped down famous UK landmark

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have been jailed over the felling of the popular UK landmark, the Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland - they offered a pathetic excuse

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5 h. ago Why Ethan Chapin's mother is GRATEFUL Bryan Kohberger will never face trial... as her two remaining triplets graduate from the same Idaho school

Ethan Chapin's surviving siblings, triplets Maizie and and Hunter, 23, chose to continue their studies and graduate from the University of Idaho despite their brother's horrifying murder in November 2022.

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5 h. ago ‘I wish I’d enjoyed my fame a bit more’: Jim Sturgess on regrets, romance and the art of the mix tape

He broke Hollywood in his early 20s, and found it all extremely scary. Now starring in a beautiful TV romance, Sturgess talks love, Walkmans – and why he might have just found his forever screen partnerLike all good love stories, this one starts with a chance meeting and ends with a reunion. It was 2008, pre-Hardy and Hiddleston, post-Bale and Grant; Jim Sturgess was a rising star and the latest handsome young Brit to break Hollywood. Having landed the lead role in casino thriller 21, Sturgess needed a love interest: cue a slew of chemistry tests with a roll call of beautiful young women, a process Sturgess remembers now as “the most exposed blind date you could ever possibly put yourself through, with five producers watching you from afar”.Kate Bosworth got the role, but one actor lingered in Sturgess’s mind: an effervescent Australian called Teresa Palmer. “When you do those chemistry tests, they put you through it, so we spent the whole day together,” Sturgess says. “I was really...

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5 h. ago Too busy to tend to your garden? Experts reveal their top time

Experts share some handy shortcuts so you can spend more time enjoying your garden

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6 h. ago PM wants fewer jobless foreign nationals on benefits as first

The vast majority of people on universal credit are British and Irish nationals and those who live or work in the UK without immigration restrictions.

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6 h. ago Where Oasis, the Killers and Noddy Holder raised hell: Britpop’s debauched HQ, the Columbia hotel

Noel Gallagher named a song after it, Marc Almond practically moved in and the Killers had a bathtub reserved for puking in – but was it rock’n’roll, or just a bit tragic?In the early 2000s, a member of the New York dance-punk band Radio 4 was walking upstairs when he realised he’d forgotten the key to his room at London’s Columbia hotel. Rather than walk back down the several flights he’d already climbed, he drunkenly decided to jump all the way down to the reception level. When he regained consciousness, a bemused Courtney Love was staring down at his prone body. As was an irate hotel manager, who swiftly barred the band from staying there for years, before the crumpled musician was scooped up to go and spend a few days in hospital.It was not easy to get barred from the Columbia hotel, but Radio 4 were not the only ones who managed it. Once, at 6am, members of Oasis decided to throw all the furniture in the bar out of the window, piece by piece. When items landed on the hotel mana...

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6 h. ago Mike Waltz to be grilled over Signal chat saga at hearing for UN ambassador

Waltz was removed after he added a journalist to a Signal chat about military plans

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6 h. ago Sam Thompson is dating a holistic nutritionist two weeks after saying he wasn't 'ready' for romance and needed to 'work on himself'

Sam Thompson is dating an American holistic nutritionist, MailOnline can reveal.

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