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Fast & Furious wraps up as Fast Forever films in Los Angeles
Vin Diesel shares a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the final Fast & Furious installment, Fast Forever, as the franchise nears $7.5 billion in revenue.
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Zara Larsson leaves Epic for RCA in Sony internal move
Zara Larsson has left her decade-plus home at Epic Records and signed with RCA Records, Variety can confirm. Two sources tell Variety that the pop star has inked a new deal with RCA. The sources say that Larsson was entertaining offers from multiple labels but that Sony, which houses subsidiaries Epic and RCA, wanted to…
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Spain reach World Cup quarter-finals as substitute Merino sinks Portugal late
Having battled back from injury to make the World Cup, the matchwinner’s goal was a deserved payoff for unsung sacrificesAnd then, suddenly, there was Mikel Merino circling the corner flag again, another marvellous moment to emulate his father Ángel Miguel and embrace his son Marco. To hold those who got him here and the whole…
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Parents’ WhatsApp groups turn teacher gifts into private-school class war
When school fees are £60,000-plus a year to board, a jar of homemade jam with a scribbled ‘To the Best Teacher’ tag doesn’t really cut it as an end-of-term gift.
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Abbey Road Institute to open Los Angeles campus led by Rafa Sardina
Rafa Sardina, the celebrated Grammy-winning producer and engineer, will head up the program, which is slated to open in October
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Melbourne graffiti artist scales Bolte Bridge pillar prompting police standoff
A graffiti artist has climbed one of the 140-metre-high pillars of Melbourne’s Bolte Bridge, sparking a police standoff and partially shutting the busy inner-city crossing. Emergency services were called around 3am on Tuesday, and one lane was closed as police negotiated with the man, who was refusing to come down. The stunt matters because it…
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Human vapor reimagined as Netflix and Toho’s first streaming series
Netflix and Japan’s Toho studio have launched Human Vapor, an eight-part streaming thriller that reimagines Toho’s 1960 science-fiction cult classic about a Tokyo killer who murders his victims while existing as a shape-shifting cloud of gas. The project is significant because it marks Toho’s first-ever streaming series and its decision to open a vault of…
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US and Belgium meet in Seattle for World Cup last-16 knockout tie
The Guardian’s live blog covers the USA v Belgium last-16 tie at the 2026 World Cup, held in Seattle. It matters because it is a knockout game with a quarter-final place at stake, and because the co-hosting USA have unexpectedly captured public support with strong performances, making this one of the tournament’s marquee ties. Both…
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Desmond Limerick thriller Deadlock set for screen adaptation by Matthew Carnahan
Filmmaker Matthew Michael Carnahan, known for the war drama Mosul, is set to direct The Gatekeeper, a thriller in development for Amazon MGM Studios and Di Bonaventura Pictures. The film is an adaptation of James Byrne’s bestselling novel Deadlock and marks another high-profile literary-to-screen project drawing established Hollywood talent. The story follows Desmond “Dez” Aloysius…
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Marcellus Wiley denies death threat claim as wife alleges Fourth of July assault
Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive end Marcellus Wiley, 51, was arrested for domestic battery on 4 July after his wife, Annemarie, called police to report an assault at a Marriott hotel in Orlando, Florida. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by the New York Post, Annemarie alleges that Wiley threatened to kill her and became…