Our family dog used to have a rather noticeable extra eyelid that became especially apparent when he dozed off, usually upturned on the rug. This is the fleshy curtain seen at the corner of each eye, closest to the nose. It's also commonly called the nictitating (literally
Presidents of prominent US universities are facing retribution for weeks-long student encampments protesting Israel's war in Gaza.
At this point, any actor signing on for a Yorgos Lanthimos film knows they wont be resting on their laurels. Literally. One of his trademarks is a kind of heightened physicality — whether its Rachel Weisz and Joe Alwyn twerking in “The Favourite,” Emma Stone “furious jumping”
Local health director says cryptosporidium in Brixham ‘more or less dealt with’ but new cases likely because of delayed symptoms Health officials are expecting more cases of a waterborne disease in Devon, as an MP said “heads are going to roll” over the outbreak and that the
An AIPAC-affiliated political action committee has put $2 million into defeating progressive US House member Jamaal Bowman, a vocal critic of Israel.
Just eight months after filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone unveiled Poor Things at Venice, the duo are back on the festival circuit with Kinds of Kindness. The frequent collaborators faced the press at Cannes, where they tried to define the alchemy between their
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Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was only 7 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education case that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Before that, though, Green rode the bus from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Crestview, Fla., to go to school every day. “I can
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision to appear this week at former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan is sparking new blowback from some House Republicans, who are questioning why he would inject himself so prominently in a case involving an alleged affair with
The tens of thousands of primary votes cast in favor of Nikki Haley over the last several months are underscoring the apparent discontent many Republicans feel with former President Trump as their presumptive nominee, raising alarm for his campaign and fueling questions over
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching mobile billboards Saturday in Dallas targeting former President Trump for his rhetoric on gun violence and reform. The billboards, which accuse Trump of putting the gun lobby ahead of Texas families, were placed in the area
The Cannes Film Festival not only means much choice in terms of films, but also in terms of where to go, what to do and what not to do on and around the famed Croisette. Alice Vail, director of acquisitions and development at Protagonist Pictures, has experience and insight
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The Sunday Times Rich List has published that the personal wealth of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty has been estimated at £651m, up from £529m in 2023. This was mainly due to Ms. Murty's shares in Infosys, the Indian IT giant co-founded by her father.
Unspooling May 18 as part of an overall Swiss Focus at the Marché du Film, Solothurn Film Festival Goes to Cannes marks the first collaboration between the long-standing Swiss festival and the Cannes market, but also a first for many of the talents and producers carefully
Climate activists from Last Generation disrupted Munich airport by gluing themselves to a runway, leading to flight cancellations and delays over a busy weekend.
In this first look from “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare” — from the makers of slasher horror hit “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey” — Martin Portlock plays an evil, murderous and disfigured version of the children’s character. The Jagged Edge Productions film — being sold by
For their sixth displacement, the family of a retired public employee will split up – the women to an apartment in Deir al-Balah and he and his boys to a tent on the coast of Gaza. He calls the arrangement 'bourgeois,' saying others don't have money for travel, a tent or food
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Heavy clashes and bombardment Saturday rocked Gaza's southern city of Rafah, witnesses said, as the Israeli military announced the first 310 pallets of humanitarian aid had entered the besieged territory via a US-built pier. More than 10 days into what the Israeli military
Google made a big mistake recently. The company accidentally erased the private Google Cloud account of a $125 billion Australian pension fund, UniSuper. Read more...
One claimant unknowingly overpaid Carer's Allowance said the debts she incurred have brought 'considerable financial strain'.
Heavy rainfall and storms wreak havoc across northern Italy, France and Germany, whilst southern Italy endures an unseasonal heatwave.
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The Swiss group will transfer Nicolas Bos from Van Cleef & Arpels as part of a restructuring process.
Israeli aerial and artillery bombardment in the Gaza Strip has killed two Palestinians and injured dozens on Saturday, as it continues deadly Rafah assault.
Rothko's rare paper paintings in Norway, Francis Ford Coppola's mad 'Megalopolis' in Cannes, and a new Billie Eilish album: 'Hit Me Hard and Soft'. Here's what's good (and bizarre) in Europe this week.
In the Canadian cities of Montreal and Winnipeg, a futile tension exists between French and English speakers — doubly silly, since the country is officially bilingual. In his gently satirical “Universal Language,” writer-director Matthew Rankin imagines a rather fanciful
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The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, scientists warned Thursday.
