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Manhunt launched after girl, 14, ‘is raped by stranger in woods’ in Southampton
Hampshire Police have launched a manhunt after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a stranger in woodland in the Swaythling area of Southampton on Sunday afternoon. The attack has prompted a significant police response, with specialist officers supporting the girl and detectives appealing for witnesses as they treat the investigation as a priority. Officers…
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Tense moment McDonald’s worker chants ‘Free Palestine’ at drive-thru customers as they were complaining about their order
McDonald’s has suspended a worker at its Cannon Hill drive-thru in Brisbane after she was filmed chanting “Free Palestine” at two Jewish customers who had queried a missing item from their order. The customers, Asaf and Matan, said the woman began questioning where they were from before repeating the phrase when told one of them…
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Reform’s crypto cash, Scottish student rents, and a heart-defect scare headline TalkFuse
Reform UK has reportedly banked £20m from crypto-linked donors since 2024, while Scottish students face record hall rents; plus a US teen’s hidden heart defect, National Treasure 3, Janie Bradford’s death and Fortnite’s AI-heavy new season.
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One Year Ago Today, We Lost the Last Surviving Member of the Vocal Quartet Whose No. 1 Hit Soundtracked ‘Halloween,’ ‘Deadpool,’ and ‘Stranger Things’
Marjorie Latzko, the last surviving member of 1950s vocal group the Chordettes, died on 22 August 2025 at her home in Saratoga Springs, New York, aged 96. The group’s biggest hit, “Mr Sandman”, written by Pat Ballard, became a chart-topping standard and has since featured in numerous films and television shows, cementing the quartet’s lasting…
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“I got a new agent”: the 1996 flop that left Ben Stiller in “movie jail”
Audiences thought it was too weird. The post “I got a new agent”: the 1996 flop that left Ben Stiller in “movie jail” first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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The 1930s singer Jeff Lynne was always scared of turning into: “It’s just a weird thing”
Jeff Lynne, the ELO and Traveling Wilburys frontman, revealed in a 2015 remark that he long harboured a private fear about how his commercial success would be perceived, worrying that having “too many hits” would see him written off as a lightweight, easy-listening act in the mould of crooner Perry Como. He explained that critics…
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The “unacceptable” 2000 movie Mike Myers refused to make: “I cannot cheat moviegoers”
Mike Myers once turned down a $20 million film built around Dieter, his pseudo-intellectual talk-show host character from Saturday Night Live, arguing publicly that he could not “cheat moviegoers” by making a film from a script he deemed unacceptable. The twist was that Myers himself had written that script, meaning he effectively torpedoed a project…
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Diamondbacks star spotted at casino during team’s game after no-showing to stadium earlier in the week
Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte was reportedly seen at a casino during one of the team’s games, following an unexplained absence earlier in the week. The episode has drawn attention because Marte had been scratched shortly before a game against the Boston Red Sox and subsequently placed on the restricted list, raising questions about…
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Celebrate the SNES’s 35th Birthday With the 5 Weirdest Switch Online Games
To mark the Super Nintendo’s 35th anniversary, a Polygon writer explored lesser-known games available through Nintendo Switch Online and selected five unusual titles that stood out. The piece argues that these games offer a mix of overlooked fun, historical curiosity and occasionally frustrating design, showing the breadth of the SNES catalogue beyond its best-known releases.…
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Andrew Garfield on His Secret Instagram, Thoughts of Leaving Hollywood and Playing Roy in the ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ Siegfried & Roy Television Series
Andrew Garfield has discussed his private use of Instagram, fatigue after a year of near-continuous work, and his desire for a quieter life outside Hollywood. Speaking while promoting “The Magic Faraway Tree”, he said social media is deliberately designed to encourage compulsive use and that he often imagines retreating to the Somerset countryside to work…