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007: First Light was originally going to be less about James Bond and more of ‘an ensemble piece’, with ‘all the 00s working together, as they do in Slovakia’
“You had the different agents working together.”
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8 Great Crime Shows Overshadowed by ‘Breaking Bad’
Collider has published a list highlighting eight critically acclaimed crime television series that, despite their own merits, have often been overshadowed by the enduring cultural dominance of Breaking Bad. The article argues that AMC’s series, which followed chemistry teacher Walter White’s descent into the drug trade, set such a high bar for the genre that…
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How to survive being attacked by Britain’s most dangerous spider: Venomous false widows are spreading in the UK – and a single bite can trigger agonising flesh-eating infections…
False widow spiders, considered Britain’s most dangerous arachnid, are continuing to spread across the UK, with health experts warning that their bite can in rare cases trigger serious flesh-eating infections. The report highlights growing concern among medical professionals about the spider’s expanding range and the potential for bites to cause severe secondary bacterial infections if…
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Fifa gives fraud ‘an open door’ with betting, says Council of Europe chief
The Council of Europe’s secretary general, Alain Berset, has launched an unusually sharp public attack on Fifa, accusing it of leaving an “open door to fraud” through its expanded betting partnerships and of letting political pressure undermine the World Cup’s integrity. In an open letter published to coincide with Sunday’s final, Berset called for a…
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Restoring Britain’s health to 2014 levels could add 2% to GDP, thinktank says
A new report from the Health Foundation thinktank argues that restoring the UK population’s health to 2014 levels would boost GDP by 2% and deliver a £72bn benefit to public finances, framing national health as an economic asset rather than simply a cost to be managed. The paper, published on Sunday, comes as healthy life…
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US retaliates with military strikes on Iranian defense systems following attack that kills two American troops
The United States conducted military strikes on Saturday night targeting Iranian missile storage facilities, air defense systems, and surveillance infrastructure operated by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. The action was
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World Snooker deal to deliver £200m boost to Sheffield’s economy, council says
Sheffield City Council says a new World Snooker agreement is expected to generate a £200 million boost for the city’s economy. The deal matters because it would secure the economic benefits associated with major snooker events, including spending by visitors and wider exposure for Sheffield. The available text does not provide the deal’s duration, specific…
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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down in widespread Meta outage
Meta’s services went down for users worldwide on Sunday morning, with Facebook showing an “Account Temporarily Unavailable” error from just before 9am BST. Instagram and Messenger were hit too. Services were answering normally again when checked at 10:52 BST, around two hours later.
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Cuellar breaks with DSA, Eggers slams OpenAI, Wales crushed 43-0
Democrat Henry Cuellar distances himself from the DSA, author Dave Eggers accuses OpenAI of harming young writers, and Wales exit the Nations Championship scoreless after a 43-0 loss to South Africa.
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Here be dragons: does moving power to the north work?
Andy Burnham’s recent promise to create a ‘No 10 North’ echoes BBC’s successful Out of London plan When the BBC first announced its intention to move a significant chunk of its operation to Salford in Greater Manchester – the “Out of London” plan, as the then director general Mark Thompson called it in 2004, with…