30 m. ago Killer, 88, wrote note asking for forgiveness after smothering ‘wonderful’ wife to death

He told a fire service watch manager his wife was ‘very ill’

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37 m. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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43 m. ago A House of Dynamite, Venice review – The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and Tracy Letts are among the many recognisable names adding gravitas to this punchy Netflix thriller

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71 m. ago Netflix's Money Heist fans urged to watch twisty thriller dubbed 'next global hit'

Netflix viewers won’t want to miss the tense new series from the creators of La Casa de Papel, also known as Money Heist.

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1 hour ago Gunman who assassinated prison officer after he exposed his relationship with female guard is jailed for 45 years

Elias Morgan, 35, (pictured) gunned down father-of-three Lenny Scott in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, on February 8, 2024 as revenge for exposing his relationship with a female officer.

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1 hour ago Trump’s use of the National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal, a judge rules

A judge has ruled the Trump administration’s use of National Guard troops during Southern California immigration enforcement protests is illegal

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2 h. ago Total Lunar Eclipse 2025 in Scotland: Here's how to watch the phenomenon in Scottish skies this weekend

The moon will be looking a little different this Sunday.

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2 h. ago How to watch Donald Trump's special announcement after health speculation

President Donald Trump will make a special announcement in a matter of hours as frantic speculation about the US leader's health continues to grow

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2 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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2 h. ago Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in California

Ruling says government violated law banning US military from enforcing domestic law

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2 h. ago Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California

Ruling says government violated legislation banning US military from enforcing domestic law

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2 h. ago Man jailed for murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher to have conviction reviewed

Benjamin Field was jailed in October 2019 after being convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar

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2 h. ago Gunman who assassinated prison officer who exposed his relationship with female guard is jailed for 45 years

A criminal who shot dead the prison officer who found an illicit phone in his jail cell has been jailed for life with a minimum 45 years before parole.

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2 h. ago Seattle border agents seize $500,000 worth of fake Labubu dolls

Over 11,000 knock-off Labubu dolls were seized at the U.S.-Canada border near Seattle.

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2 h. ago ‘Trump loses again’: California governor reacts to judge ruling that national guard in LA violated federal law – live

Democratic governor Gavin Newsom takes shot at Trump after ‘the courts agree’ that deployment of national guard during LA immigration protests was illegalTrump illegally deployed national guard during LA Ice protests, judge rulesDonald Trump’s “exciting announcement” expected at 2pm ET will be “related to the Department of Defense”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna plan to hold a news conference tomorrow with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse as the political fallout from the saga continues to engage Congress on several fronts. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Biggest Loser star who shed whopping 120lbs reveals how she looks now, as Netflix controversy grows: 'It was hard to watch'

Hannah Curlee Young, 46, appeared on season 11 of the reality contest in 2011, shedding an astonishing 120lbs and finishing runner-up to her sister Olivia Ward, who took home the $250,000 prize.

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3 h. ago Nespresso Vertuo Next review: I've tested the Veruto Plus, Pop and Evoluo, here's why this one is my favourite from the brand's pod machine line up

The Nespresso Vertuo Next is a competent pod coffee machine from the brand's Vertuo line. It's compatible with the larger Vertuo pods and is able to make coffee in seven different sizes.

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3 h. ago GP suspended after rubbing woman’s breasts and nipple with stethoscope during thyroid exam

Dr Manish Tripathi cannot practice medicine for 10 months, pending a review

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4 h. ago Trump illegally sent National Guard to Los Angeles, federal judge rules

Trump’s plan for ‘creating a national police force’ violates 140-year-old law blocking military from domestic law enforcement

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4 h. ago Specsavers director is suspended for wrongfully billing £80k on expenses including Secret Santa gift and hotel stays

Mark Edgar, 45, used the multinational optician's money to pay for taxis, car repairs, meals and hotel stays when tensions were high at home with his partner and baby.

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