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Bournemouth cafe faces boycott calls over 9/11 anniversary screening
A cafe in Bournemouth is facing calls for a boycott after advertising a £15-a-head 9/11 “watchalong party,” which residents and a local councillor have condemned as tasteless and disrespectful. The event, planned for Friday at the Wild Boscombe Cafe, marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and invites guests to relive rolling news…
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Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem about Black women debuts at Yard Theatre
A new production of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf has opened at the Yard theatre in London, marking the play’s first major London run despite premiering on Broadway 50 years ago. Directed by Diane Page for the venue’s reopening, the piece uses poetry,…
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Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA’s first astronaut emeriti
Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, the commander and pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission, have become the first astronauts to join the agency’s new emeritus programme, five months after returning from their lunar flyby. The status allows them to formally step back from active astronaut duty while continuing to train and mentor NASA’s workforce and…
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
A new documentary, NAZA, from Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has premiered at the Venice Film Festival featuring testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders about secret systems used in the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Produced by the Guardian, it is the only documentary in competition for the festival’s Golden Lion…
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Two Cleveland Police Officers Honoured at Separate Funerals Following A66 Collision
Two Cleveland Police officers, PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, died in a head-on collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough when their armed response vehicle was struck by a Volkswagen Passat carrying youths w
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‘Hero of Gatwick’ becomes human megaphone to help overwhelmed easyJet staff manage angry passengers when flights were axed
A passenger stuck at Gatwick Airport amid mass flight cancellations took it upon himself to help overwhelmed easyJet staff communicate with hundreds of frustrated travellers, earning praise online as the “hero of Gatwick.” Kurtis Toy, a 36-year-old cyber security consultant, had just been removed from a delayed Aberdeen flight when he noticed two easyJet employees…
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The Tubs: Hard Life review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week
Alexis Petridis reviews Hard Life, the third album by Welsh indie band the Tubs, in the Guardian’s album of the week slot. The band, fronted by Owen Williams, have become unlikely critical darlings following their 2025 album Cotton Crown, earning praise from the heritage rock press and a New Yorker profile, despite sticking rigidly to…
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Best Bluetooth Speaker (2026): JBL, Sonos, Marshall, and More
WIRED has published its updated (September 2026) guide to the best Bluetooth speakers, covering a range of budgets and use cases from beach days to home listening. The overall top pick remains the JBL Flip 7, praised for its compact size, durable IP68-rated build and strong sound quality at an affordable price, reflecting JBL’s continued…
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Play the First Dragon Quest Monsters on PlayStation in Over 20 Years with PS5 Demo
Square Enix has released a free playable demo on PS5 for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World, marking the first time in over two decades that a mainline entry in the monster-collecting spin-off series has appeared on a PlayStation platform. The game, which sees players befriend, raise and battle Dragon Quest creatures in a style…
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‘Killmonger Locs’ Are Everywhere in Video Games. This Artist Is Sick of It
Ebonix (Nyjah Udogaranya), a technical artist who has spent over a decade creating custom hair content for life-simulation games such as The Sims, is speaking out about the video game industry’s continued failure to represent natural Black hairstyles. She says developers still default to stiff, uniform “Killmonger locs” — named after Michael B. Jordan’s Black…