38 m. ago Harry Potter TV series confirms cast as one former star will make Hogwarts comeback with new role

Harry Potter fans have been waiting 14 years for more magical content and it seems the wait has been worth it as the new HBO original series has just confirmed more huge stars for the casting - and one of them has already previously starred in the movies.

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81 m. ago PSG will not be intimidated by hostile atmosphere at Aston Villa – Luis Enrique

The Ligue 1 champions travel to Birmingham with a 3-1 advantage from last week’s first leg in Paris.

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2 h. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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3 h. ago Watch: Katy Perry pays tearful tribute to daughter Daisy and kisses ground after Blue Origin space mission

The Firework singer fought back tears as she was told about four-year-old Daisy’s ‘proud’ expression while watching her mother go into space

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3 h. ago Katy Perry will write a song about her experience after returning from space

The 40-year-old sung Louis Armstrong’s What A Wonderful World as she entered space.

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3 h. ago Katy Perry reveals reason she brought a daisy on Blue Origin space mission

Pop star was seen kissing a daisy flower as she exited the spacecraft

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3 h. ago Social media users SLAM Katy Perry and Blue Origin crew and dub launch a 'joyride for the super

Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez have completed the world's first all-female mission to space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket - but the mission has been slammed on social media.

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3 h. ago Katy Perry reveals which poignant song she sang in space and true meaning behind daisy

Singing sensation Katy Perry blasted off into space today as part of a historic all-female Blue Origin mission - the first of its kind in over 60 years

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3 h. ago Katy Perry reveals why she sang certain song in space after successful Blue Origin mission

The pop singer said she feels "super connected to love" after returning to Earth

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3 h. ago So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent? | Zoe Williams

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut materialI am broadly of the view that Katy Perry should do whatever she likes, and wear whatever she likes, and if she wants to be shot into space for no obvious purpose looking like one of Charlie’s Angels, then that falls squarely into those categories. So why am I so bothered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which has just made a suborbital flight to the edge of space and back? OK, it’s partly the outfits (see Angels, Charlie’s, above), but it’s mainly the flight manifest: Perry joined Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; film producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. I cannot help but notice that only two of these women had anything to do with astronauting (Nguyen studied astrophysics and interned at Nasa before becoming an activist).Obviously it’s very staid...

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3 h. ago Oprah cries as she sees best friend Gayle King go into space on Blue Origin flight

Oprah Winfrey cried as she witnessed her best friend Gayle King fly into space on an all-female Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry on Monday, 14 April.

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4 h. ago Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sanchez and four others arrive back on Earth after space flight – live

The Amazon founder’s Blue Origin lands minutes after liftoff at 9.30am ETIt’s a clear, crisp morning in Texas. There’s a crackle of anticipation among the supporters gathered to watch the big launch.A lot at stake here. This launch could be the defining moment for Blue Origin’s reputation in space travel. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight

All-female crew led by Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez lands in Texas after reaching the edge of outer spaceKaty Perry’s space flight – latest updatesSix women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King – safely completed a trip to the edge of outer space and back from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur.The women, who also included Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Jeff Bezos FACEPLANTS as he scrambles to find the door to his celeb

Blue Origin 's New Shepard rocket has just taken an all-female crew of celebrity astronauts to space in a history-making event not seen in 60 years.

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4 h. ago Katy Perry 'pees her pants' in space as she as she makes three

Katy Perry, 40, made history this afternoon when she joined the first all-female crew to fly to space on board the Blue Origin.

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4 h. ago Katy Perry kisses ground as Blue Origin flight returns to Earth

Katy Perry kissed the ground as she landed back on Earth following the all-female Blue Origin flight to space on Monday, 14 April.

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4 h. ago Katy Perry sang ‘What a Wonderful World’ in space, Gayle King reveals

‘I gotta sing in space,’ Perry told followers on Instagram ahead of the launch

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4 h. ago Cara Delevingne puts on a leggy display in shorts while glam Paris Hilton wows in a sheer dress as they arrive at Coachella music festival

British model Cara, 32, cut a relaxed figure for the event as she stepped out in long denim shorts, which she paired with a white T-shirt.

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4 h. ago Watch in full: Katy Perry launched into space on Blue Origin rocket

Watch as Katy Perry is launched into space on board an all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday, 14 April.

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4 h. ago France considers response after Algeria expels 12 embassy staff

Move by Algiers follows arrest of Algerian consular official in Paris over alleged involvement in kidnap of influencerFrance is considering its response after Algeria ordered the expulsion of 12 embassy staff over the arrest of an Algerian consulate official in Paris over alleged involvement in the kidnap of a TikTok influencer.Algiers has given the French representatives 48 hours to leave the country in a move that has stretched already strained relations between the two countries to breaking point. The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has warned that if the expulsions go ahead Paris would be forced to respond immediately. Continue reading...

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