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Belgium thrash United States 4-1 in Seattle to end World Cup hosts’ run
DANIEL MATTHEWS IN SEATTLE: Even though USA star Balogun was controversially cleared to play, it was Belgian striker Charles De Ketelaere who decided this World Cup showdown.
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Zendaya explains freezing up on first day of Nolan’s Odyssey shoot
Zendaya has explained why she fluffed her lines on her first day of filming Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming adaptation of The Odyssey. Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Emmy-winning actress said a combination of first-day nerves on a Nolan set and freezing weather in Iceland left her briefly unable to deliver her dialogue. The…
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Scores fall as wrecking crews demolish once-cherished Sheffield pub amid amenity fears
Demolition work has begun on a former Sheffield pub that was once well loved locally, according to a report by The Star (thestar.co.uk). The move has gone ahead despite objections raised over the loss of community amenities, with concerns cited about a “lack of social facilities” in the area. The full details of the article…
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The Cherry Orchard
Oscar-winning actor Helen Hunt is making her Royal Shakespeare Company debut in a new version of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the aristocratic matriarch Madame Ranevskaya. She stars alongside Kenneth Branagh and Bill Pullman, a notable moment given her long admiration of the RSC’s work and of Branagh in particular, whose Henry V…
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Noah Kahan to headline Rolling Stone’s first US festival
The folk superstar played the magazine’s festival days before a series of sold-out shows at Fenway Park this week.
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Keir Starmer contacted FIFA over England match after Trump red card row
The OutKick opinion piece argues that FIFA’s decision to suspend Folarin Balogun’s red card ban — allowing the US striker to play on at the 2026 World Cup — was legitimate rather than the scandal European critics claimed. It matters because the ruling drew furious reactions from Belgium’s football federation, UEFA and pundits, and because…
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Super Mario Bros and Judge Dredd among 1990s sci-fi failures
From Super Mario Bros. to Judge Dredd, these infamous ’90s sci-fi disasters prove big concepts can still crash hard.
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Antinous rivals Twilight’s Jacob as Pattinson’s Odyssey villain, actor jokes
Robert Pattinson has drawn a light-hearted comparison between his role in Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming epic The Odyssey and Taylor Lautner’s character Jacob in the Twilight saga. Speaking to MTV U.K. at the film’s London world premiere, Pattinson — who plays the antagonist Antinous, one of the suitors pressuring Queen Penelope (Anne Hathaway) to remarry while…