3 h. ago Max Verstappen makes telling Red Bull test prediction ahead of 2026 F1 season

The four-time world champion is eyeing a fifth title amid new rules and regulations this year

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22 h. ago Love Island All Stars launch date finally confirmed after wildfires and villa evacuation

The third series of Love Island All Stars was postponed after wildfires tore through South Africa, but now ITV have announced that the 2026 season will be starting sooner than you think...

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29 h. ago From Ralph Fiennes to Jeffrey Wright: the most overlooked performances this awards season

Jessie Buckley and Timothée Chalamet might be winning all of the awards but as Oscar voting begins, these actors also deserve inclusionEvery January, if not earlier, awards narratives leading up to the Oscars take shape. While the specifics of the Academy Award nominations are never known in advance, and can always be counted on for some surprises when they’re actually unveiled, critics and pundits and fans all enter into that final stretch with a pretty good idea of who won’t be nominated.Some of this is because of the endless spitballing. But the “won’t” list is also easy to compile because it ultimately houses almost everyone who acted in a movie over the past year. Twenty performances are selected for the Oscars annually, and given the other high-profile awards bodies with additional preferences, category numbers and a never-complete overlap with the Academy, let’s say about 40 are in the broader competition of real possibilities. But there are so many more great performances ev...

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34 h. ago Hijack season two review – Idris Elba is back with the most effortlessly bingeable show of them all

Sam Nelson is ready to beat some more bad guys – and this time he’s on the Berlin metro. Shenanigans will ensue!Do you remember the lazy, hazy days of summer 2023, when Idris Elba got on a plane and it was hijacked? It was in a programme called Hijack. For seven effortlessly bingeable hours supposedly showing the adventure in real time, our man on the pressurised inside deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men’s phones, saved lives, averted disasters, and got Kingdom Flight 29 landed safely by Holly Aird so that he could return to his family, even though viewers agreed the scenes with them in between the plane bits were very boring indeed.And he wasn’t even a policeman like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or a counter-terrorist federal agent like Kiefer Sutherland in 24! Or a pilot, which might also have been useful. He was Sam Nelson, a business negotiator. He had extreme business negotiating skills and he beat the bad guys. W...

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45 h. ago F1 driver looks unrecognisable as he shares new look ahead of 2026 season

One Formula One driver has undergone a stunning transformation thanks to their off-season antics

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50 h. ago Frustrated Raducanu held up by rain with match suspended overnight in Hobart

Top seed was leading Osorio 6-3, 2-4 when play called offVenus Williams lost 6-4, 6-3 to Tatjana Maria in TasmaniaEmma Raducanu cut a frustrated figure on Tuesday at the Hobart International as her first round match was suspended for the night due to rain with the Briton struggling to hold on to her precarious 6-3, 2-4 lead.Raducanu, the top seed in Hobart, will return to the court on Wednesday afternoon hoping to close out her first win of the season. She lost her only match of 2026 to Maria Sakkari at the United Cup mixed-team competition last week. Afterwards, Raducanu explained how her pre-season had been badly disrupted by the foot injury she had been struggling with since she prematurely ended her 2025 season in October. The 22-year-old only began to play points and move properly in her training sessions once she arrived in Australia at the end of December. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Tim Henman sets target for Emma Raducanu ahead of Australian Open and 2026 season

Meanwhile, Raducanu’s first-round match against Camila Osorio at the Hobart International was suspended due to rain

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59 h. ago Berry nice to meet you: bumper fruit crop could lead to huge mating season for NZ’s endangered kākāpō

After a four-year wait, the abundant fruiting of the rimu tree could inspire the world’s heaviest parrots to boost their population It has been four long years, but the world’s heaviest parrots, the kākāpō, are finally about to get it on again. The mass fruiting of a native New Zealand tree has triggered breeding season – a rare event conservationists hope will lead to a record number of chicks for the critically endangered bird.Kākāpō, the world’s only nocturnal and flightless parrot, were once abundant across New Zealand. But their population plummeted after the introduction of predators such as cats and stoats, and by the 1900s they were nearly extinct. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Call of Duty Mobile Season 1 release date, time and all new content

Activision is kicking off 2026 with a bang as Call of Duty Mobile Season 1, titled Frozen Abyss, is just days away from going live with boatloads of new content.

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3 d. ago Golden Globes 2026 best dressed: Charli xcx, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lawrence

If the Globes are anything to go by, we’re in for an extremely chic awards season in 2026

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3 d. ago Xavi's Man Utd job conditions revealed for permanent role with interim decision imminent

Manchester United are expected to appoint an interim head coach for the remainder of the season before eventually naming a permanent manager from the 2026/27 season, with Xavi Hernandez a contender

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3 d. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 16, makes history with Golden Globes win but Wicked is snubbed as winners list is revealed

THE Golden Globes took place on Sunday night, kicking off the 2026 awards season. But who won what, and which movies and stars were brutally snubbed? From Wicked: For Good being completely left out of the mix, to a British actor being the youngest ever winner of a Golden Globes category - it's safe to...

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3 d. ago Macaulay Culkin jokes it's 'weird' to see him 'outside the holiday season' in Golden Globes 2026 comeback with fiancée Brenda Song

Culkin, 45, who played Kevin McCallister in the 1990 mega-hitand its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, marked his first appearance at the event in 35 years.

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3 d. ago The Latest: Golden Globes to kick off Hollywood's 2026 awards season

Hollywood’s awards season is kicking off with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards at 8 p.m. Eastern/5 p.m. Pacific

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4 d. ago ‘There’s nothing better on TV’: behind the scenes of Industry, the high

Created by two uni mates whose last gig was a David Hasselhoff comedy, the series has become a star-making transatlantic hit. Now it’s back for an intense fourth season that heads everywhere from Ghana to SunderlandSpoiler alert: this article contains references to major events in the previous three series of IndustryIndustry is not for everyone. Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s drama about young City bankers is zeitgeisty, iconoclastic and slightly inaccessible. “It is niche,” says Down. “We don’t write to any kind of brief. We don’t write what we think is going to be interesting to other people – or commercial.” For every 10 people that don’t understand a “reference or the thing we’re trying to do with the costume or the subtle hint we’re making about someone’s class, there’ll be one person that gets it. The show’s for that one person.”And for that one person, Industry is hard to beat. “Not to toot my own horn,” says Myha’la, the mononymous 29-year-old who co-stars as daredevil A...

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6 d. ago LIV Golf to be shown on new UK TV channel after 'historic' deal for 2026 season

LIV Golf had low-key coverage of last season's events on ITV X, but TNT Sports have now agreed a deal to show all 14 events of the upcoming 2026 season

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6 d. ago Early birds can begin filing their taxes on Jan. 26 this year

The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season

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7 d. ago Adolescence's Owen Cooper, Jessie Buckley and Aimee Lou Wood lead the British and Irish hopes at the 2026 SAG Awards as nominations are announced

Owen Cooper and the cast of Adolescence are once again leading the British and Irish hopes during the 2026 awards season.

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7 d. ago Lewis Hamilton makes pledge to fans on 41st birthday: ‘The time for change is now’

Hamilton endured, by his own account, a ‘very draining’ 2025 and is eyeing improvement at Ferrari this year

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7 d. ago Man Utd transfer news: Serious Manuel Ugarte plan emerges as PSG star eyed for next manager

Manchester United could trigger one January transfer exit under their new interim boss and a new wide attacker is being identified ahead of the 2026/27 season

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