15 h. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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16 h. ago Back my assisted dying bill or face another decade of death without dignity, Kim Leadbeater warns MPs

Kim Leadbeater said she is confident the assisted dying bill will pass on Friday

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36 h. ago Michael Barrymore, 73, 'could earn £250k a year' after rebranding as an unlikely TikTok star and Gen Z icon

Michael, 73, was previously one of the UK's top stars but his decades long career ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at his Essex home.

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37 h. ago Michael Barrymore, 73, 'could be earning £250k a year' after becoming unlikely TikTok star in shock comeback

Michael, 73, was previously one of the UK's top stars but his decades long career ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at his Essex home.

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3 d. ago Man, 92, was charged after police found DNA match almost 60 years on, jury told

Ryland Headley, who raped two women a decade after the death of Louisa Dunne, denies the charges against him.

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3 d. ago I was Princess Diana's fitness trainer for years. Some of the things she told me were so personal I had to ask her to stop...

Nealy three decades after the death of her most famous client and friend, Princess Diana's personal trainer Jenni Rivett reveals what Diana told her following her divorce and before that Paris getaway.

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4 d. ago I was Princess Diana's personal trainer and I've kept her secrets for decades. Here's what she told me after her marriage ended...

Nealy three decades after the death of her most famous client and friend, Princess Diana's personal trainer Jenni Rivett reveals what Diana told her following her divorce and before that Paris getaway.

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7 d. ago Assisted dying: UK doctor says helping patients die in Australia is a ‘privilege’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is due to return to the House of Commons for debate on Friday

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8 d. ago Assisted dying: UK doctor says helping patients die in Australia is ‘privilege’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is due to return to the House of Commons for debate and more votes on amendments on Friday.

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8 d. ago Three decades after a woman was found stabbed to death in her Texas apartment cops say they arrested her neighbor

Darryl Patrick Goggans, 61, is charged with capital murder in the 1994 slaying of 29-year-old Megan Johns

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8 d. ago Peter Tatchell on LGBT+ rights being under fresh threat: ‘I might retire from protest when I’m 95’

Across six decades of activism, Britain’s leading LGBT+ rights campaigner has faced death threats and even had a bullet through his front door. He talks to Emma Henderson about police who won’t apologise for past wrongs and why Hungary should face sanctions over its Pride ban

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9 d. ago Stella McCartney gets tested for killer disease with sister on same day

Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella has spoken out about the pain of losing her mum Linda, nearly three decades after her tragic death.

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9 d. ago Teaching assistant killed in knife attack at school in north

Fifteen-year-old suspect arrested and Emmanuel Macron condemns ‘senseless violence’ after stabbing in NogentEmmanuel Macron has condemned what he called a “senseless wave of violence” after a 15-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant at a school.The 31-year-old woman died in hospital after she was stabbed during a bag search at the start of the school day outside a middle school in Nogent, in the Haute-Marne department in north-east France. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Teaching assistant fatally stabbed by pupil at school in north

Fifteen-year-old suspect arrested and Emmanuel Macron condemns ‘senseless violence’ after stabbing in NogentEmmanuel Macron has condemned what he called a “senseless wave of violence” after a 15-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a teaching assistant at a school.The 31-year-old woman died in hospital after she was stabbed during a bag search at the start of the school day outside a middle school in Nogent, in the Haute-Marne department in north-east France. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 11th hour bid to ban ‘death pods’ as MPs gear up for final votes on assisted dying

Exclusive: The move by Tory MP Greg Stafford to ban the Sarco suicide pod comes as 1,000 NHS doctors warn that Kim Leadbeater’s bill is ‘deeply flawed’

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2 w. ago My mother died of assisted suicide and now I'm doing the same for a heartbreaking reason

Price Carter, 68, from Kelowna, British Columbia, has chosen to die on his own terms, utlizing Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.

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2 w. ago Suicide pod activist who 'brought capsule to Switzerland' dies by assisted suicide

In a statement following the announcement of his death, suicide pod creator Philip Nitschke claimed Florian Willet had been "broken" by allegations made against him

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2 w. ago 'I saved the NHS thousands of pounds as a carer for 33 years, now the DWP is telling me to just get a job'

Tracy Hailwood is reckoning with the death of her child, nursing a broken body from decades of caring, and trying to enter a workforce that doesn’t want her – the DWP is telling her to 'just get a job'. Helena Vesty reports.

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2 w. ago 'I'm grieving for my child, but the DWP have just told me to sign on and get a job'

Tracy Hailwood is reckoning with the death of her child, nursing a broken body from decades of caring, and trying to enter a workforce that doesn’t want her – the DWP is telling her to 'just get a job'. Helena Vesty reports.

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3 w. ago Tragic tot's death after rare epilepsy syndrome diagnosis remembered by family a decade on

"I could not believe she would not wake up - we still tried to look for a positive. You do not believe the worst will happen until it does."

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