Manchester United’s clash with Liverpool at Old Trafford on Super Sunday is of huge significance for opposing managers Michael Carrick and Arne Slot, according to Gary Neville. Both sides appear on course for a top-five finish this season and with it qualification for the Champions League, with United three points clear of their rivals, while…
When you hear the phrase “body-swap comedy,” you tend to think of complications. A good entry in the genre, like “13 Going on 30” or “All of Me,” can involve so much personality juggling that it becomes a heady experience. That was true, in its way, of “Hoppers,” the recent Pixar film in which a…
In a scene reminiscent of a computer war game, three battle-fatigued soldiers, dressed in white snow camouflage, emerge from a war-torn alley with their hands raised above their heads. They crouch down, following the orders being blasted at them, fear and shock etched across their faces as they stare down the barrel of a machinegun…
Amazon Rejoice: The Amazon app now lets you ask real shopping questions to its fake podcasters — it’s an addition to the “Hear the highlights” AI feature the company introduced last year. Before, the short audio summaries were generated from an unalterable script. Now, the dialogue can…
Women will be massively underrepresented on ballot papers across the UK next week, campaigners say, with research revealing that almost twice as many men as women are standing as candidates across the local, mayoral and devolved elections. Democracy campaigners say men of all political stripes are likely to dominate local government, with women’s views on…
1 May 2026 Howard Stern has branded his former assistant’s claims as a “thinly veiled attempted shakedown”. Howard Stern has responded to the lawsuit The 72-year-old shock jock has responded to claims of a hostile work environment made by his former employee Leslie Kuhn, who filed a lawsuit against Howard and his wife Beth Stern…
Russia has continued heavy attacks on Ukraine for the past 24 hours, with several coming overnight on Thursday and in the early hours of Friday. At least one person has been killed and several have been injured. A Russian drone attack overnight damaged port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region and wounded two people in…
One of the greatest real-time strategy games ever is making its way to macOS (again). Publisher Feral Interactive announced today it will bring Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to Apple computers through Steam on May 28, with an App Store release to follow later this year. Feral worked…
Fragments of a priory’s medieval tiled floor that spent almost 60 years stashed in a toffee tin after being pocketed by a nine-year-old boy during a family outing have finally been handed back. The three pieces of decorative clay tiles, dating from the late 13th to early 14th century, were taken as a souvenir by…
The Bombay High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought a stay on the theatrical release of the Marathi-Hindi bilingual film Raja Shivaji, clearing the way for the movie’s scheduled release on May 1, 2026. The petition had objected to the omission of the honorific “Chhatrapati” from the film’s title and claimed…
