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Moment thieves use forklift to tear apart cash machine from funeral director’s building on high street
Thieves used a stolen forklift to smash a hole in the wall of a funeral director’s building in Halstead, Essex, in an attempt to rip out its cash machine. The break-in, caught on camera in the early hours of Thursday morning, highlights the continuing problem of “ram-raid” style ATM thefts targeting high street businesses, even…
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Book reveals Ground Zero debris was dispersed across all fifty states
A new book, *Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the WTC* by Samuel Holleran and Max Holleran, traces what became of the nearly two million tons of debris cleared from Ground Zero after the 9/11 attacks, revealing that fragments were dispersed to all 50 US states and beyond. Published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of…
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More than 40% of people cancelling Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions blame rising costs
More people cancelling video game subscriptions such as Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online are now citing rising costs as their reason, according to new US survey data from analytics firm Circana. Analyst Mat Piscatella noted that while this doesn’t mean cancellation numbers have risen overall, those who do cancel are increasingly…
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Julian Casablancas to curate soundscapes for Singapore art exhibition
The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has been appointed sound curator for The Singapore Masters Show 2026 at Opera Gallery, where he will craft soundscapes to accompany more than 30 works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Marc Chagall and Banksy. Rather than presenting the artworks in isolation, the exhibition aims to…
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Jay Baruchel & Michael Dowse Talk Falling In Love With ‘The Stunt Driver’ Ken Carter, Upcoming Sitcom Project, Baruchel’s WWII Fighter Pilot Passion Project
Ahead of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, director Michael Dowse and star Jay Baruchel spoke to Deadline about The Stunt Driver, a Canadian sports comedy Dowse spent 12 years trying to get made. The film tells the true story of Ken Carter, a Canadian stuntman who set out to jump a rocket car a…
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They’re gonna need a bigger bunker! Row erupts over giant fake shark erected on crazy golf course without planning permission
A planning dispute has broken out in Brighton after a 31ft fake shark, suspended from a gallows-style structure at a crazy golf course, was installed without planning permission and is now facing objections from residents who say it glorifies the killing of a species vital to marine ecosystems. Jumble Rumble Adventure Golf put up the…
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Los Angeles Showed Its True Colors After Sept. 11
Twenty-five years on from 9/11, Hollywood Reporter reflects on how thoroughly the September 11 attacks reshaped Los Angeles and its film industry in the weeks that followed. Studios transformed into fortresses, with Warner Bros closing its gates and erecting concrete barriers, Fox building a cement maze, and Paramount guards checking under cars with mirrors, as…
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Sienna Spiro Becomes Youngest British Female to Top U.K. Singles Chart in 12 Years Thanks to ‘Great Expectation’
British singer Sienna Spiro has claimed her first UK Official Singles Chart No. 1 with “Great Expectation,” dethroning Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas.” At 20, Spiro becomes the youngest British female artist to top the chart since Becky Hill in July 2014, marking a breakthrough year that began with her viral single “Die on This Hill”…
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“Things come more difficult to him than to anyone I’ve ever met…he doesn’t con himself into thinking he knows what he’s doing”: Peter Gabriel, in the words of his collaborators and admirers
This piece revisits a 2010 Prog magazine feature in which collaborators and admirers of Peter Gabriel reflected on the former Genesis frontman’s career and working methods, dubbing him “the Progfather.” Contributors including Robert Fripp, Ian Anderson, Steven Wilson, Martin Scorsese, Mike Portnoy, Tom Morello and Trevor Rabin offer personal recollections that together paint a picture…
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Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a method for 3D-printing building material on Mars using bioengineered yeast and gelatin mixed with simulated Martian soil, avoiding the energy-intensive heating usually required to turn regolith into usable building blocks. The technique, described in a paper published on Thursday by teams from The Hong Kong University of Science…