4 h. ago GTA 6 fans all say same thing about Pope Francis as they go 500 days without new trailer

GTA 6 fans have been through the emotional wringer, but they're keeping a dry sense of humour — noting we got a new Pope before we got Rockstar's latest crime epic

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20 h. ago Memorable conversation with Pope Francis showed his moral courage and sense of humour

The Very Revd Dr Derek Browning, a former Kirk Moderator, recalls how what could have been a five-minute chat with Pope Francis turned into a conversation lasting 90 minutes

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3 d. ago Award winner whose face was seen by millions in Sainsbury's and Morrisons adverts across Britain dies aged 77

His family paid an emotional tribute to him: 'He will be missed for his sense of humour, his kindness, his love of his family and the Fens, his level-headedness and his ability to work with others.'

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2 w. ago ‘A meditative practice’: the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships 2025

Tasmanian artist Meg Murray won the top prize with Screech of the Sea, a creation with ‘undeniable villainy’They say life’s a beach, but whoever coined that phrase probably wasn’t looking at today’s economic and political landscape – or they had an incredible sense of humour. Much like the artists at this year’s Australian Sand Sculpting Championships, which returned to Frankston foreshore, just south of Melbourne, for the first time since 2019.This year’s event had a playful take on our polarising times; its theme is “The Villains of Storytime”, and sculptors responded with giant sand-made depictions of familiar witches and wolves from fairytales and Disney movies. Looking around, visitors can see a big bad wolf, Ursula from The Little Mermaid and a mythical siren calling to unsuspecting sailors. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Feeding the soul: Laurie Woolever on food, addiction – and working with Anthony Bourdain

Working alongside NY’s hottest chefs took its toll on Laurie Woolever, but in a new memoir she opens up about her battles with drinking, drugs – and losing her friendLaurie Woolever is an expert on indulgence. The first time we met was in a dimly lit omakase restaurant in downtown Tokyo, in the summer of 2017. We were both in Japan on respective work trips. Woolever was researching a travel book she was writing with her boss, the chef Anthony Bourdain, and I was filming a CNN digital spin-off series from his Parts Unknown show. We were introduced through mutual friends in New York, where I had been living that year, and where her reputation preceded her. She was known to be private, tough, with a wickedly dry sense of humour. I was a little intimidated.As she expertly navigated a seven-course tasting menu of wagyu beef with her chopsticks, she casually mentioned that she’d recently stopped drinking, alluding to the fact it had become out of control. I self-consciously sipped my own ...

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2 w. ago Man locked up after killing pensioner with walking stick in random attack

Bernard Fowler, 87, was described by his family as a kind and caring man with a raw sense of humour.

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3 w. ago Misericordia review – waking dream of a movie is one of the strangest films of the year

A man moves in with his employer’s widow in this playful but dreamlike and inscrutable drama from Alain Guiraudie, the director of Stranger By the LakeWriter-director Alain Guiraudie must surely now be said to match Quentin Dupieux for the weirdest sense of humour in French cinema. But is comedy exactly what is happening here? Because this has to be one of the strangest films of the year – or the most deadpan of deadpan in-jokes. At one point, I thought I saw the performer playing a police officer almost laugh, but perhaps every single actor here was on the verge of cracking up throughout the shoot. It could be that every time Guiraudie yelled “Cut” everyone burst out laughing.You could also call Misericordia queer cinema, with the word “queer” also working in its non-sexual sense. Guiraudie made his international breakthrough with his 2013 film Stranger By the Lake, but it’s now clear that the seriousness and vehemence of that psychosexual drama are atypical of the director’s real ...

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