3 h. ago Bill Murray, 74, admits fame 'makes you do a lot of stupid things' as he candidly reflects on his 50 years of acting in new  interview

The twice Golden Globe winner and Oscar-nominated, 74, opened up about his first approach to fame when he was younger, where he claimed to 'have lost control for a year or two'.

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3 h. ago ‘They were inseparable’: family’s anguish at wait to bring Air India victims home

Relatives of Pooja and Harshit Patel, who were visiting from Leicester, want to cremate them together but have faced painful wait for identificationIn the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian city of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what none of their relatives or neighbours had managed to achieve before; they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati diaspora community in the British city of Leicester.Their lives in Leicester, where the couple had moved so Pooja could complete her business masters degree – later getting a job at Amazon alongside Harshit – seemed unimaginably glamorous to their relatives and close-knit community back in India. Pooja would call her mother, 58-year-old Chandra Mate, at least three times a day with tales of British life and to show off her latest outfits, spinning in front of the mirror. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Gavin and Stacey's Laura Aikman was told to give up acting career due to mystery illness

Gavin and Stacey star Laura Aikman revealed she was advised to change her job after she was diagnosed with an illness that made her 'very unwell'

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3 h. ago Rory McIlroy’s indifference is understandable after achieving his dream | Ewan Murray

Golfer has seemed irritated by elements of the media since completing the career grand slam but is that really a big deal?A snapshot of Rory McIlroy’s new normal arrived the day before the US PGA Championship began. McIlroy’s practice round at Quail Hollow was watched by more than 50, inside the ropes. Journalists, content creators, wannabe content creators everyone wanted not just a glimpse – you can get that from the bleachers – but a piece of golf’s latest grand slam man. McIlroy played a hole while being interviewed for the tournament’s main preview show. All soft, knock-around stuff but inevitably a distraction.It was difficult to shake the notion that Tiger Woods would never have tolerated such a scenario. It is also thankfully a truism that McIlroy is not Tiger Woods. The Northern Irishman’s chatty, warm personality endears him to so many. In a non-tribal sport people root for Rory, none more so than at Augusta National when more that a decade of frustration ended amid euphor...

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4 h. ago Tatjana Maria crowned queen of Queen’s as women’s tournament celebrates triumphant return

A resoundingly successful opening week for the new women’s tournament was capped off by Maria winning the biggest title of her career

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4 h. ago Former Rangers star appointed new head coach of Italian national team

47 y/o ‘symbol of Italian football’ handed top job

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4 h. ago 12 of the best pictures as thousands take part in Barry Island's biggest ever 10k

More than 4,300 runners signed up to take part in the popular race

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4 h. ago ‘We’re so big we could do a gig on the moon’: tribute acts on fame, money and what it takes to make it

Dave Grohl is Bjorn Again’s ‘biggest fan’. Kelly O’Brien took out a loan to buy boobs to match Dolly Parton’s. Four tribute acts reflect on ‘the best job in the world’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailPink Floyd, Queen, AC/DC and, of course, Elvis play every weekend around Australia, often to sell-out crowds. Sure, they might not be the real thing – but they’re close enough.Tribute acts – the artists who make their living performing covers of well-known musicians – are not new. But in the past few years they’ve surged in popularity – even while Australia’s live music industry has struggled – as audiences embrace nostalgia more than ever before. RSLs and regional towns might be the stomping ground for tribute acts but today the best in the business can charge more than $100 a ticket.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Man Utd made Victor Osimhen transfer decision hours before Viktor Gyokeres answer

Manchester United are keen to sign a new No.9 this summer to add more firepower to their frontline, and the Red Devils have been linked with moves for Victor Osimhen and Viktor Gyokeres in recent weeks

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6 h. ago Israel hits Iran’s energy industry and defence ministry as conflict escalates

Iranian missiles evade Israeli air defences to hit refinery and apartment block south of Tel AvivMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael attacked Iran’s energy industry and defence ministry on the third day of an escalating conflict, as several Iranian missiles evaded Israeli air defences to hit a refinery and rip through a high-rise apartment block south of Tel Aviv.As fuel depots outside Tehran blazed, Donald Trump presided over the US’s biggest military parade in decades. He later said the arsenal on display could be deployed against Iran if it targeted American assets. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago 'Amazon gave me a baby thanks to walking 30,000 steps a day doing deliveries'

Joanna Forrester credited walking around 30,000 steps each day for her delivery job with Amazon helped her become a first-time-mum at 44 years old

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6 h. ago Right back at ya! Trump’s crude but effective rhetorical standby | Chris Taylor

The president has spent the past decade employing a familiar tactic. Accusing protesters of ‘insurrection’ is just the latest exampleDonald Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy – particularly the vindictive kind – spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”. JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.It didn’t escape notice that an insurrection was exactly what the president was accused of instigating on 6 January 2021, when the flag being paraded through the Capitol was that of the Confederate secessionists. And that Trump hadn’t shown quite the same enthusiasm for sending in the troops then.Chris Taylor is a subeditor at the Guardian US and author of The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the ...

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7 h. ago ‘It is a better programmer than me’: The harsh reality of being laid off because of AI

“I’m really convinced that anybody whose job is done on a computer all day is over. It’s just a matter of time,” one engineer told Michelle Del Rey

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7 h. ago Victor Osimhen to Man United transfer decision made hours before Viktor Gyokeres answer

Manchester United have been linked with moves for Victor Osimhen and Viktor Gyokeres.

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8 h. ago Nico Raskin sees Rangers pal publicly demand a new deal as star man told 'sign the contract'

He's arguably the Light Blues' biggest asset and fans are desperate for him to remain beyond 2027 when his deal expires

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8 h. ago ‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown

Budding scholars pursue overseas jobs amid attacks on education and research, prompting fears of an American brain drainEric Schuster was over the moon when he landed a lab assistant position in a coral reef biology lab at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO). The 23-year-old had recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nanoengineering from the University of California, San Diego, into a fiercely competitive job market. He felt like he’d struck gold.But the relentless cuts to scientific research and attacks on higher education by the Trump administration have turned what felt like a promising academic future into unstable ground. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Why nuclear war, not the climate crisis, is humanity’s biggest threat, according to one author

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat Climate breakdown is usually held up as the biggest, most urgent threat humans pose to the future of the planet today.But what if there was another, greater, human-made threat that could snuff out not only human civilisation, but practically the entire biosphere, in the blink of an eye? Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Where is Dido now? How iconic Noughties singer, 53, who raked in £1M a MONTH vanished from the spotlight amid family tragedy and swapped fame for a 'very ordinary life'

The songstress, now 53, duetted with Eminem on his iconic hit Stan , won numerous awards, sold a whopping 40M records and briefly became the world's biggest female pop star.

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11 h. ago LIV Golf star famous for his temper tantrums spots his own weakness amid push to win US Open

English star bang in the mix as he hunts Major and Ryder Cup success

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11 h. ago 'My 30k steps a day at Amazon delivery job led to successful IVF at 44'

The couple began the process to freeze embryos and start IVF - but as lockdown hit, they were forced to pause their plans.

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