Maxine Peake says she was fat-shamed by teacher at top theatre school

Susan Saint James Dies: ‘McMillan & Wife’, ‘Kate & Allie’ Actor Was 80

Susan Saint James, the husky-voiced actress who starred in such popular TV series as McMillan & Wife and Kate & Allie, died Monday, October 26, of pancreatic cancer. She was 80. A rep for Saint James confirmed her death to People. In a statement, Saint James’ family described her as “generous with her time and […]

Dollar General sued by FTC and 20 states for overcharging customers at the checkout

Discount retailer has faced lawsuits in the past over price bumping allegations

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Monumental Forms, Dies at 84

Working with four-by-four cedar beams, she created towering sculptures that evoked cave walls, frozen waves, seashells or the folds of a giant’s brain.

I’m an ACOTAR addict. The snobs are wrong about Sarah J Maas’s ‘fairy smut’

Millions of readers have fallen under the spell of literary phenomenon Sarah J Maas. Roisin O’Connor is one of them, eagerly awaiting her next dose of horny fantasy creatures, out today after a five-year hiatus

Spain deports 16 Ceuta migrants to Morocco ahead of November elections - despite NGO’s warning

Busted’s James Bourne says brother ‘saved my life’ with kidney donation

Musician, 43, had been forced to drop out of Busted tour last year due to health

‘Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir’ Sets Global Season 7 Rollout on Disney, TF1 and Globo

“Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir,” the blockbuster French animated series, is gearing up for a global rollout of its seventh season across Disney, France’s TF1 and Brazil’s Globo. Miraculous Corp, the joint venture between Mediawan and ZAG, has unveiled a staggered release schedule for the 26-episode season, which will premiere on Globo in […]

Matthew Perry Netflix Docuseries: Five Takeaways From Flimsy Look At ‘Friends’ Star’s Life & Death

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains details about Netflix’s The One About Matthew Perry docuseries. Let’s be honest, Netflix’s just debuted The One About Matthew Perry is mainly for the hardcore Friends fans. Having said that even the devotees of Rachel, Ross, Monica, Joey, Phoebe and Chandler might be disappointed as there’s not much in […]

This freight train claims to be the longest ever. Here's how long

South Africa claims it has sent the longest freight train in the world on a test run

Spain branded ‘hypocritical’ after deporting more than a dozen Ceuta asylum seekers to Morocco

Spain insists Morocco is a safe country despite NGOs saying the country does ‘not respect many human rights’

John Healey’s plan for a ‘Robin Hood’ Budget may not be as risk-free as he thinks

As John Healey prepares to deliver a ‘steady-as-she-goes Budget’, political editor David Maddox looks at why it may not be as dull as we have been led to believe

She climbed Everest without oxygen. But the summit was never the point

Melissa Arnot Reid first came to Nepal in 2008 as an assistant guide on an Everest expedition. She was 23 and had been guiding for only three years. She had arrived, by her own account, with “an incredible level of naivety.” Summitting Everest, she thought then, was “the master’s degree for a guide”, a way