15 h. ago Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death

A veteran who died in Chicago without any recollection of their life has been memorialized in a funeral service with military honors

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5 d. ago Less death, more social media: Formula One films decades apart reveal a changed world | Emma John

The new Brad Pitt F1 movie offers a glossy exhilarating ride but its 1960s predecessor Grand Prix goes beneath the bonnet‘Let’s try to get the season off to a good start, shall we? Drive the car. Don’t try to stand it on its bloody ear.”Have you watched the movie? It’s about a rule-breaking American Formula One driver, the kind who blows past blue flags and crashes into his own teammate. You must have heard of it. They shot it in real race cars, across some of the most prestigious circuits in the world. It even had contemporary world championship drivers making notable cameos on the track. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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2 w. ago Back my assisted dying bill or face another decade of death without dignity, Kim Leadbeater warns MPs

Kim Leadbeater said she is confident the assisted dying bill will pass on Friday

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2 w. ago Michael Barrymore, 73, 'could earn £250k a year' after rebranding as an unlikely TikTok star and Gen Z icon

Michael, 73, was previously one of the UK's top stars but his decades long career ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at his Essex home.

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2 w. ago Michael Barrymore, 73, 'could be earning £250k a year' after becoming unlikely TikTok star in shock comeback

Michael, 73, was previously one of the UK's top stars but his decades long career ended after the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001 following a party at his Essex home.

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2 w. ago Man, 92, was charged after police found DNA match almost 60 years on, jury told

Ryland Headley, who raped two women a decade after the death of Louisa Dunne, denies the charges against him.

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2 w. ago I was Princess Diana's fitness trainer for years. Some of the things she told me were so personal I had to ask her to stop...

Nealy three decades after the death of her most famous client and friend, Princess Diana's personal trainer Jenni Rivett reveals what Diana told her following her divorce and before that Paris getaway.

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2 w. ago I was Princess Diana's personal trainer and I've kept her secrets for decades. Here's what she told me after her marriage ended...

Nealy three decades after the death of her most famous client and friend, Princess Diana's personal trainer Jenni Rivett reveals what Diana told her following her divorce and before that Paris getaway.

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3 w. ago Three decades after a woman was found stabbed to death in her Texas apartment cops say they arrested her neighbor

Darryl Patrick Goggans, 61, is charged with capital murder in the 1994 slaying of 29-year-old Megan Johns

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3 w. ago Peter Tatchell on LGBT+ rights being under fresh threat: ‘I might retire from protest when I’m 95’

Across six decades of activism, Britain’s leading LGBT+ rights campaigner has faced death threats and even had a bullet through his front door. He talks to Emma Henderson about police who won’t apologise for past wrongs and why Hungary should face sanctions over its Pride ban

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3 w. ago Stella McCartney gets tested for killer disease with sister on same day

Sir Paul McCartney’s daughter Stella has spoken out about the pain of losing her mum Linda, nearly three decades after her tragic death.

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