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The fate of the 15 penguins trapped in a glorified dungeon on the south bank of the Thames feels, to me, oddly personal.

THERE is something alien—different, distant, disconcerting—about the voice, the technology. A herd of sheep has been decimated. 6000 of them. The field. Journalist has named the cause: nerve gas. Now, ...

Women who died in childbirth, young men who died in war, infants who died before baptism—these especially pitiable dead were ...

The year ahead in movies won’t be simply about spectacle, scale or franchise machinery. It will also be about watching actors attempt to stretch, surprise and sometimes completely reinvent themselves ...

Border Patrol agents shot two more people in their vehicle, this time in Portland. And the story they’re telling doesn’t add ...

From all-time classics like Fight Club to underrated gems like Babylon, these movies are masterpieces that have been ...

Jews have been used as the scapegoats of societies throughout history. Blaming all Jews for allegedly killing Jesus of ...

Which brings us to Tuesday, when TMZ published photos of Role Model—whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury —sitting close together at dinner with… Dakota Johnson! She’s yet to be “Sally” at one of Role ...

Several great shows bowed out in 2025 to rapturous applause, from sci-fi stunners like Stranger Things and Andor to compact ...

It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

Among her most ominous forecasts was a warning that World War III would erupt in 2026 — a prediction made more unsettling by ...