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The Belfast star also spoke to The Standard about teaming up with Rami Malek in spy-thriller The Amateur

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3 d. ago Sky Sports presenter shares update after undergoing surgery for ‘debilitating’ condition

Presenter opened up about ‘long, emotional and painful’ diagnosis process

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1 week ago Outlander's Caitriona Balfe teases Fanny's new role in season 8 after Faith revelation

Caitríona Balfe has teased what's ahead for Fanny

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2 w. ago Outlander star Caitriona Balfe's reaction to 'nasty' Claire Fraser scenes

Outlander has featured some pretty gruesome scenes over the years

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2 w. ago Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe share exciting Outlander update but fans divided over detail

Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe have shared an update

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3 w. ago The kindness of strangers: I thought I’d lost my flute for ever, then a chance to play Greensleeves returned it to me

I had no ID to show the station guards. Desperate and scrambling, I said: ‘What if I play you a tune?’Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesI was 21, living in Sydney, working as a glassie at a local pub and feeling a bit lost. I didn’t know what to do in life – the one thing I had going for me was playing the flute.I’d saved for two years to buy my flute when I was 16 and earning $2.35 an hour at the supermarket. Every day I would come home and play it. It would help me process my emotions. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Outlander's Caitriona Balfe shares selfie with her sisters and fans all say the same thing

Catriona and her two sisters Anne-Marie and Deirdre took part in the 'Semi De Paris' at the weekend.

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4 w. ago ‘An ideal tool’: prisons are using virtual reality to help people in solitary confinement

Participants view scenes of daily life as well as travel adventures – then process the emotions they trigger through artOne Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first time in three weeks. Correctional officers escorted her to the common area of the Central California Women’s Facility and chained her hands and feet to a metal table, on top of which sat a virtual reality headset. Two and a half years into a five-year prison sentence, Royal was about to see Thailand for the first time.When she first put on the headset, Royal immediately had an aerial view of a cove. Soon after, her view switched to a boat moving fairly fast with buildings on either side of the water. In the boat was a man with a backpack, and it was as if she were sitting beside him. With accompanying meditative music and narration, the four-minute scene took Royal across a crowded Thai market, through ancient ruins, on a tuk-tuk (a three-wheeled rickshaw) and into an elepha...

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