3 d. ago Teen put knife to another child's neck in Cardiff school toilets

A teenager has admitted bringing a bladed object onto school premises on two occasions

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5 d. ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

Culture

7 d. ago Harry Potter actor Nick Moran reveals he's recovering at home after undergoing risky emergency surgery following a shock diagnosis

The actor, 55, who played Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, went under the knife for the risky operation after pain in his neck was discovered to be something more sinister

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8 d. ago Harry Potter actor Nick Moran 'left struggling to walk or talk' after being diagnosed with 'life threatening' condition and undergoing risky emergency surgery

The actor, 55, who played Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, went under the knife for the risky operation after pain in his neck was discovered to be something more sinister

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8 d. ago Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

The author recalls the attack that almost killed him in an honest, terrifying and life-affirming memoirOn 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was at a literary conference in Chautauqua, New York, about to deliver a lecture on keeping writers from harm, when a stranger rushed at him with a knife. Rushdie – who in 1989 had a fatwa issued against him by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his death, after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses – was stabbed in his neck, chest, hand and eye.Knife is Rushdie’s memoir of his “near-death” in which he recalls seeing his attacker and thinking to himself: “So it’s you. Here you are.” The attack lasted 27 seconds and, to this day, the author remains bewildered that he didn’t fight back. “Was I so feeble that I couldn’t make the slightest attempt to defend myself?” he asks. As baffling to him is that the man, a Lebanese-American whom he calls “The A” (short for “Assailant” or “Ass”), had never read The Satanic Verses. Instead, he had watc...

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9 d. ago Drug user left elderly dad, 82, fearing for his life as he held carving knife to his neck

Matthew Haywood, 45, was living with his elderly dad on July 26, last year when he launched into a number of vile attacks leaving the 82-year-old pleading for help

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