1 hour ago Loose Women star 'nearly died' from horror illness and is now leaving the UK

One Loose Women panellist is said to be packing up her life and moving abroad while recovering from a recent health scare, which happened over a "tough couple of years"

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2 h. ago The damning evidence that blows a hole in FBI's claims that Jeffrey Epstein didn't blackmail powerful friends

Dozens of CDs, binders, and mystery hard drives found at Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion have cast doubt on the Trump administration's controversial memo about their review.

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4 h. ago Man United confirm major milestone towards new stadium as key appointment made

Manchester United are hopeful of moving into their new stadium by the start of the 2030/31 season after plans were released earlier this year

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4 h. ago Kendrick Lamar &SZA, Glasgow review: 'Two and a half hour epic relay race'

Lamar inviting his Super Bowl wingwoman SZA along for the ride only added value, spice, warmth and a touch more spectacle, writes Fiona Shepherd

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5 h. ago Small screen, big investment: TV episodes have become way too long

Episodes of The Bear, Stranger Things and Lena Dunham’s new show Too Much are stretching the limits of television and reducing our enjoyment in the processThe big debate over The Bear – apart from the one about whether it’s still any good or not, which is another matter entirely – regards its genre. Once the darling of the Emmys, The Bear initially called itself a comedy, despite not really having any jokes or levity or fun in it. And this was down to some bad maths about its duration. The Bear was a half-hour show, and sitcoms are half-hour shows, therefore The Bear must be a sitcom.However, in its fourth season, The Bear was no longer a half-hour show. Of its 10 new episodes, none are less than 30 minutes long. True, one is 31 minutes and three more scrape in under 35 minutes. But one is 38 minutes long, two more stretch on for 40 or more, and one somehow manages to be one hour and 11 minutes long. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago ‘Message to America’: US tourists invited to explore Afghanistan in surreal video featuring a ‘comedy’ hostage scene

The dark production, which is reminiscent of Taliban hostage beheading videos, has emerged on its social media accounts, but it’s not clear if the group made it

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6 h. ago Americans invited to explore Afghanistan in surreal tourist video featuring a ‘comedy’ hostage scene

The promotional video has emerged on Taliban-linked social media accounts, but it’s not clear if the group made it

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7 h. ago Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam says Trump ‘destroyed’ major art form

The director claims the re-election of President Trump ‘killed’ his new movie ‘The Carnival at the End of Days’

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7 h. ago Kendrick Lamar & SZA review – a pyrotechnic party of dark and light

Hampden Park, GlasgowHe’s icy, she’s all sunshine – but the rapper and R&B star’s talents prove perfectly complementary in a historic two-handerHe’s icy and controlled, she’s a beam of sunshine. Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National stadium tour has already broken records as the biggest co-headline tour in history, and they’ve still got five months left on the road. This yin-yang spectacle is a rare chance for fans to see the world’s most influential figures in rap and R&B in one night, and to bask in their chemistry as storied collaborators.Their sets weave together over three hours, welcoming us first into Lamar’s incisive (and enjoyably irritable) state-of-the-artform address, filmed austerely in black and white, before blossoming into full colour for SZA’s tactile songwriting about exes, bad habits and heart-leaping, interplanetary hope. The contrast is abrupt but high-energy, and when they overlap for duets, everything changes again: Lamar permits himself a broad grin...

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7 h. ago Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi

The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the stripOmer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian and one of the foremost scholars on genocide in the world. He has spent over 25 years teaching a class on the subject. He deals with atrocities for a living, analyzing some of the very worst things that human beings are capable of. And yet even Bartov has said he can’t bear looking at some of the excruciating images coming out of Gaza any more.What’s happening, Bartov says, is unprecedented in the 21st century. “I don’t know of any comparable situation. Recent estimates show that about 70% of the structures in Gaza are either completely destroyed or severely damaged,” Bartov says. “The argument that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is conducting a war in Gaza is simply cynical, there is no war in Gaza. What the IDF is doing in Gaza is demolishing it. Hundreds of buildings are being bulldozed every we...

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7 h. ago Katy Perry and ex Orlando Bloom pose for RARE family photo with both his kids after breaking engagement

Katy Perry and her ex-fiancé Orlando Bloom are continuing to put on an amicable front following their breakup.

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8 h. ago The Rock's version of a legendary action movie 'with a twist' streaming on Netflix

The actor is one of the biggest movie stars of the past decade

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8 h. ago American lists five huge culture differences he's noticed since moving to the UK

An American man who moved to the UK has shared the things he wishes he knew before swapping the US for London - and they include the most annoying thing about British people

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8 h. ago New Superman movie struggles to soar as critics voice disappointment and director sparks debate

The first reviews are in with some calling the latest incarnation of the Man of Steel ‘woke’ and ‘pointless’

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9 h. ago BBC adds 'best comedy since Only Fools & Horses' that has viewers in tears of laughter

A beloved BBC sitcom starring several telly legends has left fans in tears of laughter

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9 h. ago 'Truly iconic' Disney musical is heading to Lowry theatre in UK first

Based on the hit Disney TV movie and featuring mega-hits like Breaking Free and We're All In This Together, High School Musical is heading to Greater Manchester

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9 h. ago Meet Scarlett Johansson's rarely seen twin: Movie star has a handsome brother who works at a nonprofit

She's one of the most popular stars of her generation and recently was crowned the highest-grossing actor of all time after the blockbuster opening of her latest film, Jurassic World Rebirth

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9 h. ago Embeth Davidtz drew on her childhood in Africa to adapt Alexandra Fuller’s memoir

Actor Embeth Davidtz is a familiar presence in Hollywood movies and television shows

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10 h. ago Netflix's new French drama surrounding 'mysterious death' set to be of the shows of the summer

The series boasts a star of one of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time

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10 h. ago My Dad just died again! A close inspection of TV’s most shocking plot

A character just got bumped off for the second time in And Just Like That – but it’s far from the first show to mess up in this way. Just look at Friends!Now in its third season, it’s safe to say that HBO’s Sex and the City revival And Just Like That has struggled to capture the zeitgeist in the same way as its mother series. But that all changes now because, in its most recent episode, shrugged off its tired old premise to become something new. Now it is nothing less than a show about the miracle of human reanimation.The most recent episode was entitled Silent Mode. In it, Nicole Ari Parker’s character Lisa learned that her 90-year-old father had died. As she prepared to deliver a moving eulogy, sharp-eyed And Just Like That loyalists were all grabbed by the same sudden thought: wait, hadn’t he already died once before? Continue reading...

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