The British government is hoping a change in German law will help stop small boat crossings to the UK. The measures to criminalise the facilitation of migrant smuggling towards the UK, agreed more than a year ago, have now been passed by German legislators. British ministers say they mean gangs will no longer be able…
The Welsh Parliament stands in what was known as Tiger Bay – a multicultural melting pot during the 18-1900s, home to around 50 nationalities working the docks. The area remains diverse. Outside Togayo Cafe we get chatting to Somali-born friends Omar Mohammad and Abdiqadir Mohamoud, who settled in Cardiff in the 90s and early 2000s….
βYellowstoneβ and βThe New Worldβ actor Qβorianka Kilcher has taken legal action against filmmaker James Cameron, Disney and others she says used her likeness in the wildly lucrative βAvatarβ film franchise without her knowledge. Kilcher, 36, filed her complaint Tuesday in California Central District Court and is suing on numerous counts including misappropriation of likeness,…
Northern towns could be in line for a funding boost after complaints from MPs that a new system for allocating cash to councils favours London. Ministers have been holding talks with northwest MPs about making tweaks to the fair funding formula – which some MPs claim left them “absolutely shafted”. Politics Live: Trump says Starmer’s…
It’s normally Nigel Farage who seizes the megaphone, but his big Birmingham Reform UK party conference was metaphorically gatecrashed by Angela Rayner’s dramatic resignation, followed by Sir Keir Starmer’s shock reshuffle. The massive Westminster news on Friday meant Mr Farage had to move his speech to avoid a clash with the prime minister’s reshuffle, as…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Itβs 90 minutes before curtain on the opening night of βLes MisΓ©rablesβ at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Actors are arriving, signing in by the stage door and heading to their dressing rooms. Crew members in cargo pants prepare scenery on stage, the costume department steams dresses and hairstylists comb wigs in a basement…
Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three women in his Los Angeles neighborhood. Cruz β who portrayed the drug lord Tuco Salamanca on βBreaking Badβ β was washing his car on the street in front of his Silver Lake-area home when another car with…
We all need to stop getting mad about the fact that our favorite streaming series are now full of ads and focus on how awful those ads are. Yes, it is infuriating that streaming platforms sold a product they could not reasonably hope to sustain. The promise that, for a small fee, viewers would be…
Last year, women made up just 13% of directors working on the top 250 films. That level represents a 3-percentage-point decline from 2024, when women led 16% of the top-grossing movies, according to a San Diego State University study released Thursday. The troubling tabulation comes as Hollywood seeks to turn the page from a gut-punching…
Amber Pegler has been captivated by the βDemon Slayerβ anime franchise since first reading the manga years ago. Sheβs watched the whole series, which focuses on a young boy searching for a cure to save his sister, cursed by a demon that killed the rest of his family. The 32-year-old costume designer loves the art…