47 h. 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...

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4 d. ago IDF unit involved in killing of Palestinian paramedics led by general with ‘contempt for human life’

Golani troops were under command of reservist Armoured 14th Brigade, part of division led by Brig Gen Yehuda VachThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit involved in the killings of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers in the Gaza Strip last month was under the command of a brigade led by a notorious Israeli general previously accused by some of his own troops of having “contempt for human life”.The IDF has confirmed that troops from Golani, one of the army’s five infantry brigades, opened fire on two convoys of ambulances in Rafah on 23 March and dug a mass grave to cover the bodies of those killed until the corpses could be retrieved by a UN team six days later. It has disputed allegations from two witnesses who exhumed the bodies and newly released postmortem results that found several of those killed had close-range gunshot wounds to the head and chest and were discovered with their hands or legs tied. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago IDF unit involved in Gaza paramedics’ killing was under command of brigade led by notorious Israeli general

Golani troops were under command of reservist Armoured 14th Brigade, part of division led by Brig Gen Yehuda VachThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit involved in the killings of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers in the Gaza Strip last month was under the command of a brigade led by a notorious Israeli general previously accused by some of his own troops of having “contempt for human life”.The IDF has confirmed that troops from Golani, one of the army’s five infantry brigades, opened fire on two convoys of ambulances in Rafah on 23 March and dug a mass grave to cover the bodies of those killed until the corpses could be retrieved by a UN team six days later. It has disputed allegations from two witnesses who exhumed the bodies and newly released postmortem results that found several of those killed had close-range gunshot wounds to the head and chest and were discovered with their hands or legs tied. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Did dismembered British scientist unwittingly fall prey to Colombian 'vigilantes'? THIRTEEN people have been horrifically tortured and mutilated in region in a year, experts reveal

Alessandro Coatti, 42, was dismembered after he was killed, with his head and arms found in a black suitcase, investigators in Santa Marta, a port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast, said.

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7 d. ago Fears murdered UK scientist may have been lured into a honey trap before being dismembered and dumped in a suitcase

Alessandro Coatti, 42, was dismembered after he was killed, with his head and arms found in a black suitcase, investigators in Santa Marta, a port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast, said.

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7 d. ago High Brit played Russian roulette and lost but bullet in head hasn't killed him

A Brit on holiday in Thailand was left in intensive care after playing a risky game while high on a deadly mixture of cannabis and laughing gas – before shooting himself

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1 week ago Man who drove wrong way on M6 would have been charged over four deaths – inquest

RAF pilot Richard Woods, 40, killed a family in a head-on collision near Tebay, Cumbria, last October.

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2 w. ago Tragic final text from dad to killer son before head was chopped off in despicable act

Chandler Halderson's web of fabricated lies started to unravel and with that followed his unimaginable final act that resulted in the vicious murders of both his parents

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2 w. ago NTSB chairwoman says reviewing the data after midair crash may prevent the next aviation accident

The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes

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2 w. ago Killer mum boiled husband's head and tried to serve him to kids for dinner

Katherine Knight was dubbed Australia's "female Hannibal Lector" and with good reason - she stabbed her partner John Price to death and then tried to serve his remains as dinner to his children

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3 w. ago US appears to confirm fresh strikes on Yemen; Israel issues fresh calls to evacuate northern Gaza – Middle East crisis live

US attacks target Houthis in a bid to regain control of international shipping lanes; IDF tells people to head towards ‘known shelters’ At least five people have been killed in Israeli shelling of the southern Syrian province of Daraa, local authorities said.In a post on Telegram, provincial authorities reported a provisional toll of “five people killed in the Israeli bombardment of the town of Kuwayya... west of Daraa”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man shot in the head and killed during London attack is named

Police rushed to Waverley Road, Tottenham, at 8.45pm on Thursday, March 20, following reports that two men had been shot.

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3 w. ago 'Scissor Sisters' killers chopped mum's boyfriend's head and penis off

Sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall launched the horror attack on their mother Kathleen's boyfriend, Farah Swaleh Noor, 40.

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3 w. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby executed

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection nearly two decades after he shot Amber Dawn Matthews in the head as she shielded her friends newborn baby

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3 w. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

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3 w. ago 'Scissor Sisters' cut off mum's boyfriend's head and penis in 'most grotesque killing ever'

Sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall launched the horror attack 20 years ago on Farah Swaleh Noor - whose body was found floating in a canal with his head and penis chopped off and never recovered

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4 w. ago Stuart Everett killed after suffering 'very severe' head injuries in attack before being dismembered, jury told

A pathologist said 'severe force' had been inflicted

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