20 h. ago His victim had no idea what had happened until she became aware of the videos

"Rowlands' actions were truly horrifying but thanks to the strength and resilience of his victims he is facing the consequence"

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4 d. ago ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell

He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius?Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his increasingly elaborate and expensively produced videos, has 400 million subscribers – more than the population of the United States of America and equivalent to the total number of native English speakers currently alive. It’s close to twice as many subscribers as Elon Musk has X followers, and over 100 million more than Taylor Swift has Instagram followers. And that number, 400 million, does not account for the people who watch MrBeast’s videos in passing, or who are aware of his cultural presence because of their children, or who just sort of know who he is but don’t ha...

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5 d. ago ‘We need new numbers’: Comedian David Cross cracks jokes to spread climate crisis awareness

The Emmy award winning comic teams up with renowed scientist Michael Oppenheimer for a new video campaignDavid Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times bestseller. But he is not a climate scientist.That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago EastEnders' Diane Parish teases fans British Soap Awards behind

EastEnders icon Diane Parish took to social media over the weekend to share a fun-fuelled video of highlights from the 2025 British Soap Awards - which did not give away any of the winners

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9 d. ago Patriots say they will handle Stefon Diggs pink substance video internally

Video shows Diggs partying with unknown substancePatriots’ Vrabel says team is ‘aware’ of viral footageDiggs absent from OTAs as he rehabs torn ACL injuryStefon Diggs is making headlines before even taking an official snap for the New England Patriots.A video showing Diggs handling an unknown powder-like substance while partying on a yacht with three bikini-clad women in Miami over the weekend has made the rounds on social media. Diggs reportedly has been romantically linked to rapper Cardi B, who was present on the yacht. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Len Pennie: Poet who posted daily Scots word videos during Covid wins top literary award

Scots poet Len Pennie has won a major literary award.

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