57 m. ago Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Argentinian court sentences man to 10 years for attempted assassination

Court in Buenos Aires sentences Fernando Sabag Montiel and accomplice over 2022 incident in which gun was pointed at former president but did not go offA court in Argentina has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of attempting to kill former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.The court in Buenos Aires also sentenced the man’s accomplice to eight years in prison, capping a dramatic case that has captivated the country since 2022, when the main defendant, Fernando Sabag Montiel, squeezed through a crowd outside the ex-president’s home, thrust a loaded gun at her face and pulled the trigger. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute wins $700,000 settlement

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes on youth shelves has reached a $700,000 settlement with her former employer

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3 h. ago Wayne Thiebaud review – staggering still lifes to make your mouth water

Courtauld Gallery, LondonThe pop pioneer’s paintings of sweets and cakes offer up a succulent and incredibly moreish slice of a long-lost American dreamYou’re not allowed to lick paintings in museums, which is cruel when you’re faced with something as mouthwateringly tempting as Wayne Thiebaud’s art. The American pop pioneer dedicated his long career to cakes, sweets and gumball machines, a visual world of treats and candies laid out in American diners and on deli counters, tempting viewers to commit the ultimate crime and take a big, juicy bite.But he didn’t just paint for the sake of getting you salivating. His work (here at the Courtauld in his first ever UK museum show) is both an ultraserious take on the material history of painting, a sort of update on the long legacy of the still life, and a deep dive into burgeoning consumerism and the capitalistic euphoria of the mass-produced, mid-century American dream. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Victoria Beckham review – Netflix’s riches to riches story reveals a woman eternally plagued by dissatisfaction

The former pop star’s determination to succeed belies a desperate need to be liked in this three-part documentary

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4 h. ago Claudia's Celebrity Traitors fight for the best prize of all

What wouldn't you give to be a Traitor? Some of the stars jostling to stab each other in the back at Claudia Winkleman's Highlands castle are so eager, they might literally kill to take part.

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5 h. ago The Celebrity Traitors 5* review by CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Claudia's Traitors fight for the best prize of all

What wouldn't you give to be a Traitor? Some of the stars jostling to stab each other in the back at Claudia Winkleman's Highlands castle are so eager, they might literally kill to take part.

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5 h. ago The Celebrity Traitors review: It’s still the camp and menacing show we know and love – with a stonking all

The starry spin-off of the BBC hit stays faithful to the original formula – and it’s such a delight to be back at Ardross Castle

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5 h. ago The Celebrity Traitors, episode one on BBC One review: the ultimate celeb

Watching celebs reduced to sweaty, dirty messes in the name of television is great fun

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5 h. ago Celebrity Traitors has converted me to shows full of famous contestants – Strictly should try it

CELEBRITY Big Brother and I’m A Celebrity . . . introduced us gleefully to a whole new genre of star-spangled TV in the Noughties. But in the intervening 20 years it’s also inspired an endless stream of c**p. Celebs on the Farm, X Factor: Celebrity and, this year, celebrity shark swimming.  So a big-name spin-off from one of...

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6 h. ago Woman jailed after trying to abduct baby in pram outside shop

The moment Nicolette Goldrick took the child was caught on CCTV.

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6 h. ago Why Anna Kournikova swapped fame for family as tennis sex symbol falls pregnant with fourth child at age 44

She was once the most Googled woman on earth, but these days former tennis pro Anna Kournikova leads a quiet life away from the spotlight.

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6 h. ago Pensioner, 68, is 'lucky' to be alive after driver smashed into her stationery car leaving her with horrific facial injuries on eve of her father's funeral

Sheila Chatfield, 68, had been cleaning her car outside her house in Cossall, Nottinghamshire on August 25 when a Mini driver lost control and hurtled into the rear end of her parked vehicle.

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7 h. ago COLEEN: 'Daughter is my top priority and I don’t want to upset her by dating'

Agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a reader who feels ready to date again after her marriage break-up, but is worried about the impact on her 10-year-old girl

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7 h. ago Female teacher, 30, made video call to student while naked in shower to arrange sex

Krystal Sims, 30, is facing criminal charges after being arrested on suspicion of arranging to meet up with the boy to have sex during a video call in which her breasts were exposed

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7 h. ago Lenny Henry faces backlash after calling for slavery reparations for black Britons

In his new book The Big Payback, the comedian and actor argues that racism in modern Britain can be traced directly to the slave trade and calls for radical solutions to address its legacy

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8 h. ago Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip

The beats of the 1998 rom-com, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycatWatching, or rather enduring, Amazon-MGM’s charmless new romantic comedy Maintenance Required, I was so convinced it was an officially sanctioned re-imagining of You’ve Got Mail that I scoured the credits for confirmation. Surely, even in this cursed AI era of copyright erosion, no one would so shamelessly regurgitate the beats of that much-adored film without giving the requisite credit?But try as I might, I could not find a “based on” or even a “thanks to”, the film a copy of a film which was itself a (legally sound) remake of a film which had been inspired by a play (the script even, cheekily, refers to “a sweet little shop around the corner”). In a film that will hopefully be used as evidence in an upcoming lawsuit, a woman tries to keep her struggling local business alive as a big brand competitor opens over the street while she se...

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8 h. ago Early Europeans butchered elephants and made tools from their bones 400,000 years ago

Analysis of several sites near modern day Rome in central Italy shows “consistent” evidence that ancient humans regularly slaughtered the giant mammals for meat and raw materials

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8 h. ago Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page wants to ‘train as a sex therapist’

Telly comic and Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page has revealed her end goal after acting is to help folk with their troubled sex lives as she looks to move to the countryside

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9 h. ago Giustino review – sublime, and ridiculous, Handel rarity returns to Covent Garden

Giustino review – sublime, and ridiculous, Handel rarity returns to Covent Garden  The Guardian

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9 h. ago Manchester synagogue terrorist pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 999 call

Police say Jihad al-Shamie made call to emergency services during attack that resulted in the deaths of two worshippersThe Manchester synagogue terrorist rang 999 during his deadly attack pledging allegiance to the terror group Islamic State, police have said.Jihad al-Shamie, 35, made the call claiming responsibility for the attack after driving his car at worshippers outside Heaton Park synagogue in north Manchester on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur last week. Continue reading...

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