3 h. ago Thierry Henry shares advice for young players after winning BBC SPOTY lifetime achievement award

Thierry Henry reflected on winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award as he encouraged people to “believe in yourself”.

Sport

14 h. ago BBC SPOTY: Thierry Henry reflects on career after lifetime achievement honour

Thierry Henry reflected on winning the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award as he encouraged people to “believe in yourself”.

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34 h. ago Alan Cumming ‘excited’ to be announced as Bafta film awards host

The Scottish actor, 60, will host the awards ceremony next year.

Events

50 h. ago Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year revealed

Thierry Henry, Arsenal’s record goalscorer and Premier League legend, to be recognised at Sports Personality of the Year

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60 h. ago Lucky customer scoops £2m from scratchcard and changes shopkeeper's life

Shopkeeper John Evans, of The Paper Shop in Prestatyn, North Wales, received a life-changing sum of money after one of his customers purchased a scratchcard and won £2m

Economics

68 h. ago The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American

Phillip Noyce’s political drama is a searing critique of American interventionism that feels all too pertinent todayGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAlden Pyle (Brendan Fraser) was a “quiet American”, says Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) to a French policeman. “A friend,” he adds, as the lifeless corpse of Pyle stares back at him with a wretched expression.This is the scene that opens Phillip Noyce’s Vietnam-set political drama before the film flashes back a few months earlier to 1952 Saigon, where Fowler, an ageing Englishman, lives leisurely as a journalist reporting on the first Indochina war. When Pyle, a young American aid worker advocating for US intervention, falls for Fowler’s 20-year-old Vietnamese lover, Phượng (Đỗ Thị Hải Yến), the jaded reporter’s tranquil existence begins to unravel.Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Heartache behind Rob Reiner's row at Conan O'Brien's home with 'distressed' son hours before tragedy

Following the double murder of American film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, disturbing details have emerged of a loud argument between his son Nick and guests at a party the night before

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3 d. ago Heartbreak behind Rob Reiner's party row with 'distressed' son hours before tragedy

Following the shocking double murder of American film director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, disturbing details have emerged of a loud argument between his son Nick and guests at a party the night before

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3 d. ago North Lanarkshire Council hosts breakfast event to highlight businesses support

The businesses have all achieved the local authority’s Employer Charter Award.

Politics

3 d. ago Europe’s New Faces review – a punishing immersion in the migrant journey

A four-hour documentary observes life in a Paris squat and perilous Mediterranean crossings – but its non-narrative structure tests the limits of endurance and empathyEgyptian-American film-maker Sam Abbas’s experimental documentary was made over four years and shows footage of African and South Asian immigrants making the treacherous journey up through Libya and across the Mediterranean to a Parisian squat. That’s a misleadingly linear description of the film; it’s actually cleaved into two parts which would seem back to front if we were following the stories of specific people. The first section observes life in the squat where the residents support each other as they face eviction threats and the bureaucracy of asylum-seeking, while the second part looks on as other people make the rough sea passage. Time is also spent aboard boats run by organisations such as Doctors Without Borders who seek to help the migrants.All that might make this sound like any number of 21st-century docu...

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3 d. ago Gary Lineker's podcast company 'is set to make £14million in Netflix World Cup deal'

Goalhanger, founded by the former England forward, has agreed an eight-figure deal with the American streaming giant to film The Rest Is Football podcast - working out at more than £2m a week.

Economics

3 d. ago Machado suffered vertebra fracture on secret trip from Venezuela to Norway

Opposition leader and Nobel peace prize laureate’s injury was reportedly sustained during high-risk sea crossingVenezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize laureate María Corina Machado suffered a vertebra fracture during her secret journey from Venezuela to Norway last week, her spokesperson has confirmed.Machado previously said she feared for her life during the perilous voyage to receive her award in Oslo. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘He was struggling with his breath. I sat beside him and sang’: the choir who sing to people on their deathbeds

Just as lullabies send babies to sleep, so songs can help those at the other end of life on their way. The leader of a threshold choir reveals what they do – and the personal tragedies that convinced her we need to get better at dealing with deathIt’s a brisk November afternoon in the village of South Brent in Devon and, in a daffodil yellow cottage, two women are singing me lullabies. But these aren’t the sort of lullabies that parents sing to their children. They are songs written and sung for terminally ill people, to ease them towards what will hopefully be a peaceful and painless death.We are at the home of Nickie Aven, singer and leader of a threshold choir. Aven and her friend are giving me a glimpse of what happens when they sing for people receiving end-of-life care. These patients are usually in hospices or in their own homes being supported by relatives, which is why 67-year-old Aven – who is softly spoken and radiates warmth and kindness – has asked me to lie down on the...

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8 d. ago 'Gaza doctor murdered Israeli hostage by injecting air into her veins... before her father received video of her dying and begging for her life' 

In the footage, Avi Marciano said the medical worker can be seen injecting air into his 19-year-old daughter's veins as she lies on a bed inside Gaza's Shifa Hospital, begging for her life.

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8 d. ago Millennial American Pie fans are left in shock as they discover how old Stifler's mom was in the iconic film

Jennifer Coolidge portrayed the memorable character in the 1999 sex comedy where she was seen as an object of desire by her teen son Stifler's friends.

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9 d. ago Daniel Craig reveals how James Bond franchise affected which roles he took

The Knives Out star played 007 in five films from Casino Royale in 2006 to No Time To Die in 2021.

Politics

9 d. ago Preparation for the Next Life review – deeply felt story of love among the marginalised in New York

Bing Liu’s film is an unflinching portrait of an undocumented Uyghur immigrant and a traumatised US veteran whose fragile connection is strained by their pastsChinese-American film-maker Bing Liu made an impression with the poignant documentary Minding the Gap about people from his home town in Illinois; now he pivots to features with this sad and sombre study of romance and life choices among those on the margins of US society, adapted from the prize-winning novel of the same name by Atticus Lish.The scene is the no-questions-asked world of New York’s Chinatown; newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar plays Aishe, a Chinese Uyghur Muslim undocumented immigrant. One day she catches the eye of Skinner, played by Fred Hechinger, a young military veteran who impulsively starts to talk to her. There is a spark between them and then something more. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK premiere of James McAvoy’s directorial debut to close Glasgow Film Festival

California Schemin’ will be shown at the event next year.

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1 week ago Donald Trump awards British sitcom legend Michael Crawford a lifetime achievement award alongside Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and rock legends Kiss

Crawford, 83, is widely remembered in Britain for his slapstick performance as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.

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1 week ago Killer beauty queen weeps before she receives LIFE SENTENCE for beating another woman's baby to death in college dorm

Trinity Madison Poague, 20, was found guilty of felony murder and aggravated battery for the death of 18-month-old Romeo 'JD' Angeles at Georgia Southwestern State University.

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