22 h. ago Pharmacist 'grateful to be alive' after measles horror issues warning to parents

A 42-year-old NHS worker was left fighting for her life after what she thought was just a sore throat turned out to be a Victorian-era virus

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35 h. ago The Stuttgart survival thriller Michael Wimmer does NOT want to repeat as Motherwell amid Fir Park relegation fears

Well boss has had enough of great escapes and is determined to give his nerves a break over the next few weeks.

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50 h. ago Who will play Voldemort in the new Harry Potter TV Series? Here are 11 actors tipped to play the Dark Lord

There have been a series of cast announcements for the new show - but one of the biggest, and baddest, parts is still to be filled.

Culture

54 h. ago Meghan Markle reveals the real reason why she didn't film her Netflix series inside her Montecito home

The Duchess of Sussex chose not to film in her Montecito-based home to protect her children's needs, according to Variety.

Politics

3 d. ago Michael Wimmer throws down Motherwell future gauntlet to Fir Park troops

A number of Fir Park players are out of contract in the summer and their top flight status is currently on the line

Politics

3 d. ago ‘I like pushing boundaries’: Yinka Shonibare on his landmark art show in Madagascar

The British-Nigerian artist explores colonialism and connection in his first major solo exhibition in Africa. Plus, a grime MC goes oyster farmingHello and welcome to The Long Wave. Earlier this month I was in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where I checked out the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo exhibition in Africa. For this week’s newsletter I caught up with him about the landmark show, and learned a lot about the growing Malagasy art scene.Madagascar is not a country that figures prominently in media – western or otherwise (beyond the children’s film) – and as such it was difficult to know what to expect. I hadn’t imagined an opportunity to visit, and so Fondation H’s invitation to the capital to explore the art scene felt once in a lifetime. It was certainly a long way to travel for an exhibition: from London, with a stopover in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the journey topped 15 hours, though as soon as I landed in Madagascar I was instantly taken by its lush, gr...

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3 d. ago ‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

Julie Keeps Quiet casts real-life tennis ace Tessa Van den Broeck as a teenage player facing peril ignored by adults. The director explains how telling the story well required a care the sport itself neglectsLeonardo Van Dijl smiles: “If you told me a year ago that I’d be speaking to the Guardian, I’d have asked: ‘What about?’” Last May, the 34-year-old from Belgium took his debut film Julie Keeps Quiet to Cannes. (Where, he says, everyone was much friendlier after a four-star review in the Guardian.) Ever since, he has been living out of a suitcase, grabbing five or six hours’ sleep. It’s not just media interviews and Q&As keeping him busy: “We are a small movie. I’m the in-house graphic designer. I do the social media ” He stops, looks down at my phone, recording. “But I don’t really want to talk about that. I’m grateful, and it’s not that interesting.”What Van Dijl really does want to talk about is the urgent issue his film raises about safe spaces for children. Julie Keeps Q...

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3 d. ago Bluey's Big Play Edinburgh and Glasgow Ticket Presales and Prices: How to see the children's show in Scotland

The live version of one of the most popular children’s television shows of recent years is heading off on tour.

Economics

3 d. ago Arizona parents' horror after boy, 2, wandered out of home into remote desert... until 'miracle' dog showed up

A parents' horrifying nightmare came to a miraculous end when a dog saved their toddler who had vanished nearly 16 hours before.

Society

4 d. ago Israel shark attack: Predator swims between kids' legs in horror clip moments before mauling man

Beachgoers filmed the frightening moment a huge shark swam very near screaming children in the waters of Hadera, Israel just before the predator attacked a man

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4 d. ago Rare chance to play at the home of golf in Scotland for just £42.50 instead of £340

Golfers play one of the world's most iconic courses at a major discount

Economics

4 d. ago St Andrews: How to play a round at the Old Course for just £42.50 as new discount launched

Hundreds of tee times will be available at the iconic golf courses in St Andrews - for a fraction of the cost

Economics

6 d. ago World Championship finalist turned to Stephen Hendry after criticism from 'social media clowns'

EXCLUSIVE: World Championship star Jak Jones consulted Scottish snooker legend Stephen Hendry after being accused of slow play during the 2024 tournament

Sport

7 d. ago Pray that this outlandish new social policy will fail to take flight | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Ghosts is a fiercely witty reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s tale of incest and love

As the play’s sulky heir, Callum Scott Howells delivers a tour-de-force performance

Politics

9 d. ago Ghosts at the Lyric Hammersmith review: horribly funny and dark tale of incest

Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells star in this scorching update to Henrik Ibsen’s play

Politics

1 week ago Mother of two died while heroically saving her children from holiday park caravan blaze sparked by faulty fire alarm, inquest hears

'Utterly devoted' Ruth Pingree, 42, helped her children escape before succumbing to the fumes on the family holiday in Suffolk. She died after becoming overwhelmed by the raging fire.

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1 week ago The Legend of Ochi review – visually dazzling throwback kids movie

There’s an 80s vibe to this ET-adjacent family adventure with Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson, relying on impressive practical effectsThe Legend of Ochi creates such a complete visual experience that studio heads who have led countless multimillion-dollar trips to the green-screen warehouse should hang their heads in shame when they see it.It’s not that writer-director Isaiah Saxon and his collaborators have abstained, monk-like, from modern technology in assembling this children’s fantasy film; though it consciously throws back to puppetry, matte paintings and other practical effects that were more common in live-action family films of the 1980s, The Legend of Ochi clearly makes use of digital tricks, too. (When its trailer first dropped, online hordes were even convinced – wholly incorrectly – that its relatively low-budget world-building must be the product of generative AI tech.) But all of these non-AI techniques, as well as vivid location shooting in Romania, have been pulled to...

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1 week ago Young student loses her doctor parents and both her siblings in horror private plane crash that killed six

A high school senior lost her entire immediate family in a horror private jet crash that killed six in upstate New York.

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