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Feature: Box Art Brawl – Duel: Professor Layton And The Spectre’s Call
Nintendo Life’s Box Art Brawl feature returns to compare regional box art for Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call (known as The Last Specter in North America), the first game in the series’ prequel trilogy. The feature ties in with the recent announcement of a release date for The New World of Steam, and revisits…
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Michelle Yeoh Returns to Lead in Genre-Blending Thriller ‘The Surgeon’ at Toronto Film Festival
Michelle Yeoh’s new action-thriller “The Surgeon” had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, marking her first leading role since winning the Best Actress Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” three years ago. The film, written and directed by Roshan Sethi, has drawn attention as an unusually graphic, body-horror-inflected action picture that…
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Ukraine peace talks loom, Chile care-home fire kills 16, Jimmy Lai’s daughter reveals cancer diagnosis
Zelensky’s team eyes October talks with Russia and the US as Moscow rejects a Putin-Zelensky G20 meeting; a Chilean nursing home fire has killed sixteen. Also: Rupert Lowe turns down Musk funding, an Afghan teenager pleads guilty to a London murder, and Arsenal beat Sunderland 2-0.
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Flesh & Blood: the story of the short-lived melodic rock supergroup who made a classic blues-rock album then disappeared
Flesh & Blood was a short-lived blues-rock outfit assembled by keyboardist Mark Mangold, drawing members from Touch, Tyketto, Saraya and Asia, whose sole album has become a well-regarded footnote in melodic rock history. The band’s existence stemmed indirectly from Paul Rodgers: Mangold had written blues songs for Rodgers’ band The Law, but only one was…
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‘The Surgeon’ Review: Michelle Yeoh Plays a Kidnapped Doctor Trying to Outwit Her Captors in Deliriously Fun Genre-Bender
Michelle Yeoh stars in “The Surgeon,” a genre-bending thriller from writer-director Roshan Sethi that blends medical drama, crime thriller, action film and dark comedy. Yeoh plays Dr Eliza Lim, a recently retired surgeon abducted by criminals and forced at gunpoint to operate on one of their own, before turning her medical expertise and hidden scalpels…
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Trump faces backlash after saying he will allow China to build cars inside the United States… but under strict condition
Donald Trump has provoked criticism after saying he would allow Chinese carmakers to build vehicles inside the United States, provided their factories employ American workers. The comments, made in a Fox News interview, alarmed critics who fear that admitting Chinese manufacturers could overwhelm the domestic car industry, and they cut against pressure from major US…
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Director of new British Raj drama says UK owes India trillions ‘for 200 years of enslavement’
Nikkhil Advani, the director of Amazon Prime’s new drama The Revolutionaries, has called for the UK to pay India trillions of pounds in reparations for “200 years of enslavement” under British colonial rule. The eight-part series dramatises Indian “freedom fighters” and has proved controversial for its graphic depictions of British brutality, including scenes intended to…
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Daughter of British citizen and pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai who has been jailed by China reveals she has been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer
Claire Lai, the daughter of jailed British citizen and Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, has revealed she has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer at the age of 30. The news reportedly caused her 78-year-old father, who has endured six years in prison including prolonged solitary confinement, to break down in…
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Missing Ohio mom, 37, found dead on top of train car 100 miles from home as cops launch murder investigation
A 37-year-old mother from Holland, Ohio, has been found dead on top of a train carriage in Elkhart, Indiana, more than 100 miles from home, prompting police to launch a murder investigation. Brittany Ritter went missing between 1 and 2 September after last being seen riding a bicycle, and her family reported her disappearance when…
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US-China tensions reach boiling point as Beijing is accused of helping Tehran during Iran war attack that killed American troops
China has been accused of supplying Iran with high-quality satellite imagery that helped it carry out a deadly drone and missile attack on US troops at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing sources familiar with the matter. The allegation is described as the strongest evidence yet…