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Susan Calman: Tall Tales – comic’s first tour in 10 years is raw and riotous
Susan Calman has returned to standup comedy with her new show “Tall Tales”, marking her first new material in a decade. She undertook the tour as a means of overcoming severe depression, returning to the performance form she feared most. The show represents a significant personal comeback, blending her familiar comedic observations with deeper material…
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Patrick Clancy’s new wife reveals romantic way they met to 60 Minutes and hails him as an incredible father and partner
Patrick Clancy’s new wife, Dr Rachel Danis, has said they met while running in New York’s Central Park and described him as a selfless father and supportive partner. Their 60 Minutes interview is his first since the murder trial involving his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, whose trial ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked…
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‘The man’s a psychopath when it comes to hedgerows’: Derek vs Derek, the unexpectedly heartwarming doc about farmers at war
The documentary *Derek vs Derek* follows two Devon farmers with opposing approaches: Derek Gow is restoring his land to nature, while Derek Banbury runs an intensive cattle and crop farm. Initially presented as neighbours locked in a bitter dispute over rewilding, food production and environmental decline, the film becomes an unexpectedly warm portrait of how…
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Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
A new report says private aviation in the US is expanding rapidly while wealthy owners pay a disproportionately small share of aviation taxes. Private jets produce up to 14 times more direct carbon emissions per passenger than commercial flights, raising concerns about climate damage and public subsidies. The report estimates that private jets and charter…
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‘I pay a lot more for fewer and fewer items’: five US shoppers on their food budgets
Despite Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to reduce grocery prices “on day one” of his second term, American consumers continue to face high food costs more than two years later. Over half of Americans report struggling to afford groceries, driven by supply chain disruptions, tariff disputes, international conflicts, cuts to Snap benefits, and climate crises.…
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‘Eating is my superpower’: Nigella turns up the heat on Bake Off
Nigella Lawson is joining The Great British Bake Off as a judge, replacing Prue Leith and bringing renewed attention to the long-running programme. She says she wanted a more collaborative role after years of working largely alone, while Paul Hollywood says she quickly understood the show’s tone and fitted seamlessly into the team. Lawson and…
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 vs. Galaxy Watch Ultra 2: Comparing their features, durability and displays
The Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 are premium, rugged smartwatches launched this summer, with the main differences stemming from their ecosystems, software and specialist features. Both use titanium cases, support submersion to 100 metres and include safety functions such as fall detection, emergency calls and sirens, making them aimed at…
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Kim Kardashian hospitalized for condition linked to disease that killed her father Robert at age 59
Kim Kardashian has revealed that she was hospitalised with esophagitis, an inflammation or irritation of the lining of the oesophagus. The condition has emotional significance because her father, Robert Kardashian, died from oesophageal cancer aged 59 in 2003, prompting concern from her family in a trailer for the eighth season of *The Kardashians*. The trailer…
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Microsoft executive called OpenAI’s web scraping the ‘largest theft of labor in human history’
Newly unsealed court documents indicate that Microsoft and OpenAI executives viewed AI training based on large-scale web scraping as a serious threat to journalism and publishers. The remarks emerged from The New York Times’ 2023 copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, which alleges that millions of articles were used without permission or compensation to train…
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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers ethically hacked OpenAI systems using Anthropic’s Claude chatbot and OpenAI’s own GPT-5.6 Sol, exposing vulnerabilities in employee accounts and related software infrastructure. The researchers accessed several staff ChatGPT accounts through an internal discussion forum and then reached OpenAI’s GitHub service, highlighting how AI tools can make sophisticated cyberattacks faster and easier. The…