5 h. ago Doja Cat grosses out fans with bizarre act on the 2025 MTV VMAs red carpet

Rocking a funky 80s-inspired look, the Grammy Award-winning hitmaker, 29, undoubtedly turned heads upon her arrival at the starry event in New York City.

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7 h. ago Labour’s ruling body to draw up plans for race to replace Rayner

The National Executive Committee will hold talks on Monday aimed at deciding on a timeline and rules for the contest.

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7 h. ago Jade: That’s Showbiz Baby! review – former Little Mix star thrives in chaos on an idiosyncratic debut

(Sony)Jade Thirlwall offers a wild ride through electroclash, Eurovision drama and emotive synth-pop – albeit one she can’t quite maintain for a whole albumLast month, the indefatigable Vice magazine published a piece on the “summer of British chaos”, documenting a scene of deranged social media provocateurs existing at the crispiest fringes of our nation’s cooked identity. Writer Clive Martin defined these graven images of the algorithm as being regionally specific, lurid, rowdy, funny and hedonistic. As a former member of Little Mix, a girl band put together via public vote on The X Factor, Jade Thirlwall might not seem like the likeliest bedfellow of this unhinged movement. But the South Shields pop star’s debut solo single, last year’s Angel of My Dreams, dodged focus-grouped smoothness to present a sublimely whacked-out, thoroughly British pop vision that felt like spinning through someone else’s for you page and realising they exist in a markedly different universe from your o...

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8 h. ago London city council, former mayor asked for records as state auditor opens ‘review’

London city council, former mayor asked for records as state auditor opens ‘review’  FOX 56 News

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8 h. ago Storm Amy to bring trio of torment for Brits as UK blasted by 65mph gales and 20ft waves

The UK is heading for a stormy Autumn as Amy looks set to make the summer sun a distant memory with gales and rain giving us a soggy and windy week in September

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9 h. ago Revealed: British woman's cause of death after body is found one month on from disappearance

Michele Bourda, 59, suddenly disappeared from Ofrynio beach, in the Greek city of Kavala on August 1 and left all her belongings on a sun lounger while her husband slept.

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10 h. ago EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

Toronto film festival: the bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incompleteBaz Luhrmann now has two Elvis movies under his bedazzled belt. The first is his epic biopic starring Austin Butler and now he has unleashed another called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, remixing archival material with never-before-seen footage from the singer’s residency in Las Vegas. What’s remarkable about them both, apart from the director’s obvious affinity for his subject’s showmanship, is his refusal across so many hours of jiggling and swivelling to meaningfully hold Elvis to account.Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 film acknowledged Elvis’s cultural appropriation: how his phenomenal success owed so much to the R&B, gospel and rock he grew up around and the racist institutions that put him on a pedestal while holding down the Black artists that birthed and gave that music its soul. The movie also painted Elvis as a ...

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11 h. ago Best UK places to see lunar eclipse 'blood moon' tonight according to Met Office

A rare total lunar eclipse “blood moon” is taking place night for the first time since 2022 where the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon - making it turn red

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12 h. ago Blood moon lunar eclipse in UK visible for Brits tonight from 7.30pm

The moon is set to turn a deep, dark red as the Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow across the lunar surface, for the first time since 2022.

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13 h. ago What channel is Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz on? US Open 2025 final start time and live stream

Jannik Sinner will face Carlos Alcaraz in Sunday's US Open final in New York with both players aiming to win the final Grand Slam tournament of 2025

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13 h. ago Lunar eclipse 2025: What time to see red blood moon tonight in UK

A rare total lunar eclipse “blood moon” will take place on Sunday night for the first time since 2022 where the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon - making it turn red

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13 h. ago Best times to see lunar eclipse 'blood moon' in the UK tonight

A rare total lunar eclipse “blood moon” will take place on Sunday night for the first time since 2022 where the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon - making it turn red

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13 h. ago Good Fortune review – Aziz Ansari’s big comeback comedy struggles to find big laughs

Toronto film festival: The multi-hyphenate’s directorial debut has noble intentions in its timely class commentary but his brand of humour makes for an awkward fitThe absence of big-screen comedies, once an almost weekly occurrence, has become such a widely complained-about issue that the rare novelty of one actually being made has turned into a marketing tool. Last month’s remake of The Naked Gun employed a campaign that directly addressed this problem, with an ad that played like a PSA about such a lack and why supporting one was of societal importance (the plea only mildly worked, with the film finishing with decent, but not quite decent enough, box office). At the Toronto premiere of Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, festival chief Cameron Bailey made reference to the now unusual sensation of laughing with an audience, and the actor-writer-director himself has been impressing upon people his desire to make a theatrical comedy in the billion-dollar wake of Barbie. He believes in its im...

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14 h. ago Watchdog fails wrongly convicted owing to lack of forensic expertise, experts say

Criminal Cases Review Commission faces criticism over its handling of several high-profile casesThe miscarriage of justice watchdog is failing prisoners appealing against wrongful convictions because it does not have forensic expertise and will not engage with third parties who do, experts have claimed.Advisers to Inside Justice, a miscarriage of justice charity, say that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) relies on legal professionals without a proper understanding of the science that underpins many convictions and appeals. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Tube strikes LIVE: Latest as London Underground walkouts begin with thousands hit by travel chaos

Tube strikes LIVE: Latest as London Underground walkouts begin with thousands hit by travel chaos  The Sun

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15 h. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago White House's review of Smithsonian content could reach into classrooms nationwide

Some history teachers are concerned about what may come of a White House review of the Smithsonian's public-facing content

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16 h. ago California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Toronto film festival: the actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be AmericanAt the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually the hoax was revealed, and one of them released a memoir about the charade. That wild story has now been adapted into a film, California Schemin’, which marks the alternately confident and unsteady directorial debut of actor James McAvoy.McAvoy is a son of Scotland himself, and perhaps feels some kinship with rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who found the cultural tastemakers of the south to be indifferent or even hostile to Scottish artists. Though McAvoy has fared just fine as an actor, Bain and Boyd – who would come to be known as Silibil N’ Brains – had a much tougher go...

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16 h. ago Lando Norris labels Max Verstappen an ‘idiot’ over controversial move at Italian Grand Prix

The McLaren driver was left angry at the world champion’s move during a lively start at Monza, with the Briton aiming to trim teammate Oscar Piastri’s world championship lead

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17 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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