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Netflix’s 8-Part Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit Is Anchored by a Masterclass Performance
Netflix’s 2023 sci-fi mystery series “Bodies” is being highlighted as an underrated showcase for actor Kyle Soller, best known to genre fans as Syril Karn in “Andor”. While Soller’s Star Wars role is defined by obsessive rigidity and eventual downfall, his turn as Victorian-era Detective Inspector Alfred Hillinghead in “Bodies” reveals a more vulnerable, emotionally…
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Donald Trump’s ‘haunted’ childhood home sells for nearly $2 million
Donald Trump’s childhood home in Jamaica Estates, Queens, has sold for $1.93 million (£1.53 million), following a costly renovation that transformed the once dilapidated property into a modern family home. The five-bedroom Tudor-style house, built by Trump’s father Fred in 1940, had fallen into disrepair over recent years, blighted by feral cats, flooding and structural…
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Blizzard transforms StarCraft into open-world shooter arriving spring 2030
Blizzard has confirmed a new StarCraft game is in development, unveiled via a cinematic trailer at BlizzCon 2026. Rather than a traditional real-time strategy sequel, the title has been reworked into a “story-driven open-world shooter”, marking a significant departure for the franchise and ending years of speculation about a StarCraft shooter project that had repeatedly…
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Blizzard confirms StarCraft universe is becoming open-world action game
Blizzard has confirmed that StarCraft will return in 2030 as an open-world shooter rather than a real-time strategy title, marking the studio’s second attempt to bring the sci-fi universe into an action format after the long-troubled StarCraft: Ghost project was cancelled in 2014 following years in development limbo. The announcement was made by Blizzard VP…
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Stephen King’s Overlooked 6-Part Series Is Officially Streaming for Free
Stephen King’s six-season television series The Dead Zone, based on his novel of the same name, is now streaming free on Tubi. The show follows Johnny Smith (Anthony Michael Hall), a high school teacher who develops clairvoyant powers after waking from a six-year coma following a car accident, allowing him to see visions of the…
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First use of Alien Terrorist Removal Court sends Afghan woman back after Election Day ISIS plot: DOJ
The US Department of Justice has, for the first time, used the Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) — a specialised federal court created by Congress in 1996 but never previously invoked — to deport an Afghan woman accused of supporting an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day 2024. Nazira Haji…
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Mystery as devoted single mom who would ‘never leave her son’ vanishes without a trace from DC home
Fears are mounting for the safety of Antoinette Forbes, a 53-year-old single mother from Washington DC, who disappeared from her home on 4 September without her son, dog, phones, wallet, laptop or car. Her family say the disappearance is completely out of character, insisting she would never willingly abandon her ten-year-old son, who they describe…
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Mystery deepens over missing mum-of-two as her ‘wellness guru’ ex breaks his silence – and reveals how a trip to Dubai changed her completely: ‘I didn’t recognise her’
Katie Walker, a 46-year-old British-born mother of two, has been missing since 23 May, when she was last seen on CCTV walking through Tamarama in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Her ex-husband, Arizona-based wellness entrepreneur Dean Taraborelli, has now spoken publicly for the first time, saying she changed dramatically after moving to Dubai in late 2023, becoming…
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5 Psychological Thriller Books for Fans of Agatha Christie
Five newly released or forthcoming psychological thrillers offer fans of Agatha Christie fresh takes on her signature “closed-circle” mystery formula, in which characters are trapped in isolated settings with a limited pool of suspects. The books, all released or due out this September, transplant Christie’s classic structure to modern settings such as remote Alaskan waters…
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The ghost pitch of Agdam: Qarabag’s abandoned home
Qarabag FK, Azerbaijan’s most successful football club and a regular in UEFA competitions, has never played competitive home matches in its namesake city of Agdam since 1993, when war forced the club to flee. Its former ground, the Imarat Stadium, fell into ruin after the city was captured during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, becoming a haunting…