2 h. ago BGT audience member proposes to girlfriend as part of magician’s semi

Magician Harry Moulding has been fast-tracked to the final after guest judge KSI hit the golden buzzer for his act.

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2 h. ago ITV Britain's Got Talent judge KSI booed by live audience after controversial statement

KSI has stood in as a judge for Bruno Tonioli and appeared in the last semi-final on Saturday, May 24

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3 h. ago Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist

Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassingPeople should confront their family members who read news from “nefarious” sources, suggests the environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee.“Challenge your friends and family and colleagues who are getting their information from sources that have got nefarious roots or a track record of being careless – or worse – with the truth, because we need to make this sort of thing socially embarrassing to be involved in,” said Berners-Lee, the brother of the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago BBC adding 'masterpiece' Western movie that's perfect for Yellowstone fans

The movie wowed audiences and critics alike upon release

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29 h. ago The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: a boon to the UK, as well as audiences elsewhere | Editorial

Britain would benefit from pledging more sustained and committed support in this age of disinformation and global turmoilTwo years ago, BBC Arabic radio left the airwaves after decades. Soon afterwards, Russia’s Sputnik service began broadcasting on the frequency left vacant in Lebanon. That detail illuminates a larger picture. China, Russia and others see global-facing media as central to their global ambitions and are investing accordingly – pumping out propaganda to muddle or drown out objective, independently minded journalism. These outlets are state-controlled as well as state-owned.Meanwhile, conspiracy theories and disinformation proliferate online, attacks on press freedom intensify and the Trump administration is dismantling media organisations including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia (RFA), which have been essential sources of information for audiences under repressive regimes. Official Chinese media were gleeful at what RFA’s president, Bay Fang, cal...

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36 h. ago AD FEATURE: Jason Derulo to stop off in Manchester on 2026 UK arena tour whilst Jade announces exciting solo shows

Popular artists like Wolf Alice and Red Rum Club are also set to wow audiences across the city

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37 h. ago BBC Question Time audience applauds as guest tells Tory MP he's 'bonkers' in scathing putdown

Hashi Mohamed, a barrister and author, took exception with Dr Kieran Mullan, the Shadow Minister for Justice

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37 h. ago A naked female dwarf Nazi, a lesbian orgy and explicit sex acts: Director whose last show left audience members needing medical attention shocks Germany with new play

Choreographer Florentina Holzinger is famous across the German-speaking world for her radical works, which usually feature dangerous stunts and unsimulated sex.

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39 h. ago 'I can't go on': Olly Murs sparks health concern as he walks off stage after just 20 minutes

In a video posted to Instagram stories, the 41-year-old offered his audience an apology ‘from the bottom of my heart’, and said he was ‘so sorry’

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40 h. ago Body language expert reveals the meaning behind Meghan Markle's uncomfortable 14 second encounter with audience at 'awkward' conference

Body language expert Judi James analyses Meghan Markle's gestures and movements, noting clear signs of discomfort during the 2016 Create and Cultivate blogger conference in Atlanta.

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46 h. ago Olly Murs walks off stage and cancels show after just 20 minutes as he declares 'I can't go on'

Olly Murs left fans in Glasgow shocked and disappointed after he walked off stage and cancelled his concert after just 20 minutes as he told the audience "I can't go on"

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47 h. ago BBC Question Time audience applauds at panelist's scathing put

Kieran Mullan, the Shadow Minister for Justice, was told he was "not helping anyone" amid a lively discussion during BBC's Question Time, which was this week held in Dulwich, south London

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48 h. ago Resurrection review – fascinating phantasmagoria is wild riddle about new China and an old universe

In Bi Gan’s ambitious alternate reality, where humans can live indefinitely, a reincarnating dissident dreamer travels through history in different guisesBi Gan’s new movie in Cannes is bold and ambitious, visually amazing, trippy and woozy in its embrace of hallucination and the heightened meaning of the unreal and the dreamlike. His last film Long Day’s Journey Into Night from 2018 was an extraordinary and almost extraterrestrial experience in the cinema which challenged the audience to examine what they thought about time and memory; this doesn’t have quite that power, being effectively a portmanteau movie, some of whose sections are better than others – though it climaxes with some gasp-inducing images and tracking shots and all the constituent parts contribute to the film’s aggregate effect.Resurrection is, perhaps, a long night’s journey to the enlightenment of daybreak; it finishes at a club called the Sunrise. It is also an episodic journey through Chinese history, finishing...

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52 h. ago Sir David Attenborough's new film Ocean earns a huge £2.5million at the global box office

The new production released on the British icon's 99th birthday on May 8 and has captivated audiences across the globe.

Economics

55 h. ago ‘People can't stop weeping!’ The family drama shattering audiences (and earning epic 19

This must-watch steals the spotlight - with help from an A-list cast, and a bit of stage fright

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60 h. ago Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

Cannes film festivalA young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death, in Simón’s distinctive dramaIs biology destiny? Spanish film-maker Carla Simón brings to Cannes her very personal and in fact auto-fictional project Romería (meaning “pilgrimage”) – about an 18-year-old girl, arriving in Vigo in Galicia on Spain’s bracing Atlantic coast. She is on a mission to find out more about her biological father who died here of Aids after he split from her mum, who has since died, too, and about her dad’s extended – and very wealthy – family.Romería returns Simón (and her audiences) to the complex and painful subject of her mother and father, which she first approached in her wonderful autobiographical debut Summer 1993 although for me the more conventionally enclosed fictional transformation of the material there might have given that film a sharper arrowhead of storytelling power. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Diddy trial live: Who is George Kaplan? What to know about mogul's ex

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs has continued to put on the charisma for the audience in the courtroom during his federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

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3 d. ago Diddy trial live: Amber Heard expert offers heartrending testimony on what Cassie Ventura 'endured'

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs has continued to put on the charisma for the audience in the courtroom during his federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

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3 d. ago Diddy trial live: Amber Heard trial expert offers heartrending testimony on what Cassie Ventura 'endured'

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs has continued to put on the charisma for the audience in the courtroom during his federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial.

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on social cohesion: too many of us are still ‘bowling alone’ | Editorial

Three decades on from Robert Putnam’s account of fraying social ties in the US, new research in Britain identifies similar dangersThirty years after writing Bowling Alone, the famous essay in which he diagnosed a dangerous crisis of social cohesion in the United States, Robert Putnam has a right to feel vindicated. In a lecture this spring, Prof Putnam, now 84, warned his audience that, amid levels of polarisation and distrust higher than at any time since the civil war, the US was “in danger of going to hell in a handcart”.Britain is still, thankfully, a long way from the poisonous toxicity of Trump-era America, notwithstanding the ominous rise of Reform and Nigel Farage. But research published this week by the More in Common polling group paints a worrying portrait of communities in which there is a widespread sense of social disconnection, high levels of distrust among the young and a felt loss of shared spaces and rituals.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in ...

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