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Alan Cumming Urges UK Industry To Help Bring Down Paramount-Warner Merger, As Government Poised To Make Intervention
EXCLUSIVE: The UK film and TV industry is being urged to help block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) merger by a coalition including Alan Cumming, with a government decision on whether to intervene expected imminently. The Traitors host Cumming posted a video as part of a coalition calling itself Block the Merger UK, which urges…
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Popular diet trend could boost mental health among older adults, study finds
Older adults who followed a Mediterranean diet during COVID-19 lockdowns reported less decline in happiness and life satisfaction than their peers.
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Scientists may have found a way to make sausage rolls and flaky pastries much healthier
Scientists are using oleogelation to turn plant-based oils into solid bakery fats, aiming to cut saturated fat in sausage rolls, croissants and Danish pastries without losing texture.
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Botticelli’s Venus may have died after rape caused brain rupture, scientists discover
The article reports on scientists’ claim that the woman associated with Botticelli’s Venus may have died after a rape led to a brain rupture. If correct, the finding would radically alter the story behind one of the best-known images in Western art, shifting attention from beauty and myth to violence and the hidden realities of…
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Major study identifies the type of strong painkillers most likely to kill you – codeine is the safest
The article reports on a major study comparing strong painkillers and their links to fatal outcomes, concluding that codeine appears to be the safest of the drugs assessed. Its significance lies in the way it frames relative risk within a widely used class of medicines, which could affect prescribing decisions and public understanding of opioid…
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The Day She Returns review – another round of slow, reflective boozing really hits the spot
This review argues that Hong Sang-soo’s The Day She Returns revisits many of the Korean director’s familiar habits, including static black-and-white compositions, long restaurant conversations and conspicuous daytime drinking, but does so with unusual emotional force. The film centres on Jeong-su, a well-known actor returning to work after a break shaped by motherhood and divorce,…
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Paramount Skydance Agrees to Link Merger Antitrust Case to Pre-Existing Paramount+ Subscriber Suit
Paramount has agreed to a request from 12 US states to link their new federal antitrust challenge to its proposed $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery to an existing lawsuit brought by Paramount+ subscribers. If the cases are formally related, they will probably be handled by Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in California, who is already…
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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
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After record heat, could the Atlantic make Britain’s weather even more extreme?
As temperatures rise, scientists are investigating whether a changing Atlantic could bring more volatile weather to the UK
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Children born during lockdown found it more difficult to focus, follow instructions and regulate their emotions aged four, says study
These babies had a ‘uniquely disrupted’ first year as the Covid outbreak severely restricted social interaction between March 23, 2020, and July 19, 2021.