8 h. ago Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade review: Switch 2 gets a belter of an action revamp

Square Enix has given the fledgling console an absolute 90s classic of a game with a fresh design and new lease of life for fans of action role-play titles

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49 h. ago EastEnders teases huge show exit as Anthony Trueman murder plot thickens

EastEnders' recent episode teased an exit for a character who has been a part of huge storylines in the past year, and was expected to still play a major role in the coming months

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50 h. ago Sir Ian McKellen says it was ‘unexpected’ to play Hamlet in his 80s

The 86-year-old discussed taking on the titular role in Shakespeare’s famous play.

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58 h. ago Landman star teases return of show’s most controversial character in season 3

A controversial new addition to the second season of Landman could play an even bigger role when the drama returns

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59 h. ago The pet I’ll never forget: Bosko the great flying cat inspired my art – and delivered me from grief

He had youth, energy, a tiny purr and could jump 7ft in the air. I always knew when he was about to do it, because he would stare at me intensely before launching himself towards the ceilingMy animals play a big, crazy role in my life. I grew up with cats when I was a little kid but my love of black cats began when I moved from New York to LA in 1996 and found four feral black cats in my back yard. Almost immediately, two female cats got knocked up and had two litters at the same time. Suddenly, we had 13 black cats, the most I’d ever cared for at once.I’ve been an artist all my life and during the early 2000s my career really started to take off. I began creating a lot of merchandise toys and had my own TV series called Teacher’s Pet, which won five Emmys and a Bafta. My cat Blackie was the inspiration behind all my artwork at the time; he was a scholarly cat with a giant purr – I often drew him as my alter ego. When Blackie died from illness in 2020, I felt as though I’d lost a pa...

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2 d. ago Coronation Street legend given 'job for life' as contract extended

Coronation Street has been on the air for over 65 years - and Ken Barlow actor William Roache has been there since the very first episode. He is now due to continue to play the role as long as possible.

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7 d. ago Princess Kate's next major tiara moment 'just weeks away as huge event revealed'

King Charles and Queen Camilla will reportedly be hosting the first state visit of the year very soon, with the Princess of Wales likely to play a key role

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7 d. ago Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role

Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services in director Hikari’s silly and saccharine filmBrendan Fraser is a bland and ingratiating presence in this glib, silly and pointless film from Japanese actor turned director Hikari. It is bafflingly complacent in its sentimentality and its sheer, fatuous implausibility, which makes it valueless and meaningless as drama and comedy.Fraser plays Phillip, a hapless unemployed actor from the US who a few years previously came to Tokyo to do a goofy TV ad for toothpaste and, having no friends or family back home, simply stayed on. He lucks into a weird new source of income: working for a “rental family”, based on firms in Japan which really do offer bespoke therapeutic role-play services, such as errant spouses, deceased loved ones or unsatisfactory co-workers – people who can be chatted with, or mourned, or yelled at for cathartic purposes. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Michael Carrick has already rejected controversial approach Ruben Amorim took at Man Utd

The former Manchester United midfielder is expected to bring 4-2-3-1 formation and attacking philosophy to Old Trafford after the sacking of Ruben Amorim, with Kobbie Mainoo to play key role

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8 d. ago AI’s insatiable thirst for data centers will need $3 trillion in investment in next 4 years, report reveals

Banks and other institutional lenders will have to play a ‘prominent role’ to provide financing for the projects, according to Moody’s Ratings

Economics

1 week ago Kemi Badenoch backs US action to help overthrow Iran's regime amid widespread protests

More than a hundred people have been killed and thousands detained in the uprising against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's rule.

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1 week ago Man accused of killing Grindr date says choking messages were 'role play'

Michael Barron met Josh Baxter in person for sex after they connected on the dating app Grindr in January last year - but he was found dead in his date's flat in Manchester

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2 w. ago ‘This might be too hot to touch’: Gwyneth Paltrow says conscious uncoupling cost her a movie role

Actor thinks derisive response to her description of divorcing Chris Martin led to her being dropped from filmThe actor Gwyneth Paltrow has said she was fired from a film due to media interest in her divorce from Chris Martin in 2014.Speaking on Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Hang, Paltrow blamed negative headlines surrounding the separation – which the couple called “conscious uncoupling” in their announcement – for her losing a role she had been scheduled to play soon afterwards. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘It was overwhelming’: Katie Leung on Harry Potter, sudden fame, insecurity – and starring in Bridgerton

As a teenager, the actor landed her first ever job in the blockbuster film series. The experience was fun – but also led to horrendous online abuse. Now she’s back, playing a tough and surprising matriarch in the Regency smash hitSome actors might have been a little put out to audition for the role of the beautiful young romantic lead, and instead be cast as her mother, but not Katie Leung. “Absolutely not,” she says with a laugh. “I look young for my age – as most people in the west think Asians do – but I felt really seen to finally get to play the role of a mother.” She is a mother, she points out, and anyway, the role of Lady Araminta Gun, the steely aristo who is about to rock the new series of Netflix’s Regency behemoth Bridgerton, is so delicious, who could be insulted?Araminta, widowed, has seen off two husbands, and now she’s trying to marry off her two teenage daughters, ideally to a Bridgerton, while keeping her stepdaughter, Sophie, in her place – as a Cinderella-style s...

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2 w. ago Sigourney Weaver and Celia Imrie join cast of new Tomb Raider series

Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner will play the role of adventurer Lara Croft.

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2 w. ago Why some people find it harder to lose weight, according to science

Author Dr Giles Yeo tells The Independent why genetics play a major role in weight loss

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2 w. ago New crackdown on ads for ‘less healthy food’ to come into full effect

The ban applies to products that fall within 13 categories considered to play the most significant role in childhood obesity

Society

2 w. ago ‘Simple’ colour card for describing bodily fluids could improve patient outcomes

The colour of bodily fluids can play a key role in diagnosing, investigating and prescribing for a wide range of medical conditions.

Science

2 w. ago Inside BBC The Traitors star Rachel Duffy's life as she declares 'war'

The Traitors has returned for a fourth series with Rachel Duffy set to play a huge role in the contest

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3 w. ago French public broadcaster under fire as right sets up parliamentary inquiry

Investigation established by UDR party to look at ‘neutrality, workings and financing’ of state TV and radioThe French public broadcaster is at the centre of a political row as a parliamentary inquiry examines the “neutrality, workings and financing” of state TV and radio, while the media are expected to play a significant role ahead of the 2027 presidential election.The rightwing UDR party, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s far-right the National Rally (RN), set up the inquiry amid far-right claims that public TV and radio has a bias against them. Le Pen, whose party is expected to reach the final round of the presidential race, has said “there is a clear problem with neutrality in the public service broadcasting” and that she would like to privatise it. Continue reading...

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