6 h. ago ‘I’m hurting for my children’: Mom speaks out after video of dance coach hugging team

Six-year-old Shaniah was devastated, her mother said

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8 h. ago Disneyland rocked by fire as black smoke belches into sky over 'happiest place on Earth'

A large fire broke out at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California as the skies over the 'happiest place on Earth' were filled with black smoke.

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8 h. ago Jack Black surprises Tanner from Love On The Spectrum in heartwarming moment

Netflix’s Love On The Spectrum star Tanner Smith has fulfilled his life goal to meet Jack Black in a surprise encounter on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday, 3 April.

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13 h. ago Star snubbed by Gatland and Pivac taking game to next level as Wales call tipped

Keiran Williams has been a standout player at regional level

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13 h. ago Pierce Brosnan's incredibly supportive response after friends made jibe at his wife Keely's weight but now she's having last laugh after posing up a storm at MobLand premiere

Keely, who tied the knot with the actor in 2001, displayed her weight loss - estimated to be around 7stone - in a black, lace mini dress with three-quarter sleeves.

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13 h. ago A lucky rascal or a feral critter that ‘should be euthanised’? Hunt for Valerie the dachshund divides Kangaroo Island

Wildlife groups claim the resourceful miniature sausage dog was sighted again this week. But not everyone is on Team ValerieElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThere’s a roo carcass on the side of the road, near the turnoff to one of Kangaroo Island’s many excellent cellar doors. Black ravens lift sullenly from their feast as cars speed past.Some think this sort of roadkill is how Valerie, the miniature dachshund that has been missing for more than 500 days, has survived since running away from her owners. It’s hard to picture the 4kg, adorable, goofy-eared, big-eyed sausage dog choosing this particular meal, but that’s a prevailing theory.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Jennifer Lopez stuns on red carpet with gender neutral child Emme in man's tux as her 'date'

Jennifer Lopez looked dressed for revenge as she wowed in a black gown  with a floor-length cape while attending opening night of Good Night, and Good Luck.

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15 h. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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15 h. ago ‘If you want dystopia, look out your window!’ Black Mirror is back – and going beyond tech hell

After years of creating dark, disturbing, thought-provoking TV, Charlie Brooker is changing it up. The creator and star-studded cast of Black Mirror talk about why this season is the most moving and vulnerable yetCharlie Brooker has been contemplating the passing of time, and he’s not happy about it. We’re on set at Shepperton for USS Callister: Into Infinity, the sequel to the 2017 space opera from his terrifying tech anthology Black Mirror. “The cast don’t seem to have aged at all,” he grumbles, “whereas I am a wizened old gentleman.”There is a more reflective, almost nostalgic tone to this seventh season. The episode Plaything flashes back to Brooker’s early years as a gaming journalist in a Bandersnatch-adjacent slice of computer-induced madness; Eulogy immerses Paul Giamatti in his memories as he literally enters decades-old photos; gaslighting parable Bête Noire forces Siena Kelly’s chocolatier to reckon with youthful misdemeanours; Hotel Reverie stars Emma Corrin as a 19...

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16 h. ago What Ancient Rome can tell us about the fate of Trump’s tariffs

When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems, Peter Edwell writes

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19 h. ago ‘That’s it’: Jack Black squares up to Elton John in SNL promo clip

Comedian is hosting the late-night comedy show for the fourth time, with Elton John and Brandi Carlile appearing as its musical guests

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21 h. ago Your Friends & Neighbors to Black Mirror: the seven best shows to stream this week

Jon Hamm stars as a gentlemen thief in a very entertaining midlife-crisis satire. Plus: Charlie Brooker’s hit series is back with another sensational castManifesting his signature blend of unshakeable self-confidence and understated self-loathing, Jon Hamm stars in this midlife-crisis satire. Coop (Hamm) is a hedge fund manager who, after years gazing down at the world from an ivory tower, finds his life falling apart. His wife has gone, his kids are expensive, his sister’s mental health problems are getting worse and he’s lost his job. “Your biggest mistake,” his boss tells him, “was thinking any of this was ever yours.” At a barbecue hosted by friends, he has an idea: the people around him are awful and undeservedly rich – so why not rob them? Soon, everything is spiralling out of control in very entertaining fashion. Apple TV+, from Friday 11 April Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkThe actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiffTime has been kind to Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney’s sincere dramatization of the broadcaster Edward R Murrow’s on-air tangles with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Sleek, slim and reverent, the 2005 film recalled a time of both cultural panic and promise, before American attention splintered and television’s road forked toward cable news. In its own era, the movie played in implicit contrast to mainstream media’s failure to interrogate the Bush administration’s dubious justifications for the Iraq war. In 2025, well now, as in 1953, the lies run rampant. But in Clooney’s stark black-and-white drama, truth prevails.Wouldn’t that be nice. The ongoing lurch away from due process casts both a haunting pall and a self-congratulatory glow over New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where Clooney leads a profici...

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26 h. ago Jennifer Lopez shows Ben Affleck what he's missing while attending George Clooney's Broadway debut

Jennifer Lopez looked dressed for revenge as she wowed in a black gown  with a floor-length cape while attending opening night of Good Night, and Good Luck.

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30 h. ago 'I support Everton, not Liverpool': The Scottish rugby star bidding for one last trip to Goodison Park

Hooker will need Smith’s permission - and Glasgow Warriors coach is not fussed for football

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35 h. ago Usher moved by iconic Dublin statue: ‘I had no idea black artists were celebrated like this'

The Confessions singer opens up to The Standard about his trip to the Emerald Isle, where a bronze statue of an Irish rock legend had a profound impact on him

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35 h. ago Black Sabbath fans convinced they'd 'never have made it' if they stuck to original name

Black Sabbath are often hailed as the pioneers of heavy metal music, but they actually began their journey into the music industry under a completely different name - and some fans think it would've been an error to keep it

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36 h. ago 'I was having a laugh when I posted my town had record for most roundabouts

Google AI presented Welsh blogger Ben Black's April Fools' Day joke as true. It also ended up on legitimate news sites. The blogger now worries it might end up in a young student's homework

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37 h. ago Stirrings of lust and a ginger bush: the Jilly Cooper sentence that sent me down a rabbit hole

I quoted a single smutty line by the queen of bonkbusters in the manuscript for my debut novel. I never expected the strange yet heartwarming journey that followedGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“Wondering if she had a ginger bush, he felt the stirrings of lust.” It’s an electrifying sentence, penned by – who else? – the English novelist Dame Jilly Cooper in her 1985 novel Riders appearing during a charged encounter between a flame-haired socialite and bad-boy aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black.It’s a sentence I admire for many reasons. Starting in a ruminative, almost philosophical mood, it gains a thrilling momentum, before landing with erotic authority on that final, unholy syllable: lust. Impeccable stuff; classic Cooper. If you’ve watched Rivals, the recent TV adaptation of other Cooper books, you’ll be familiar with her world: puerile, horsey, abundantly filthy and terribly English.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the ...

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37 h. ago Valerie hitmaker Mark Ronson rushed to hospital after nasty injury on stage during gig

Music star Mark Ronson, who is behind mega hits like Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, has gone into hospital after a grisly injury during a show

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