Marine Le Pen is closing the gap on Emmanuel Macron in the opinion polls – and investors are getting nervous ahead of this weekend’s first round of voting in the French presidential elections. For months it has seemed that Mr Macron, who cruised to victory five years ago at the head of his newly-formed La
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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has demanded a “firm global response” as he blamed Russian forces for a missile strike near a railway station which killed at least 50 people, with the UK set to provide fresh military aid to his country. The UK will send armoured vehicles to Ukraine for the first time as part of
A missile that exploded near a Ukrainian railway station, which officials claim killed at least 39 people, had the words ‘for’ and ‘children’ painted on it in Russian. Up to 4,000 people – believed to be largely women and children – were at Kramatorsk station on Friday morning when the blast hit. The grammar of
The owners of TalkTalk, one of Britain’s biggest broadband providers, have received tentative approaches about a possible £3bn sale of the company amid a frenzy of international telecoms industry consolidation. Sky News has learnt that Vodafone has been weighing whether to make a potential offer for TalkTalk in recent weeks. Sky, the Comcast-owned immediate parent
LINK has been on a tear in the hardstyle dance scene. Coming off his debut EP with Insomniac’s Basscon Records, he followed up with a beauty in “Break It Down” on Junkie Kid’s label Harsh Records. He’s carved his own unique sound and style into the genre, and has definitely caught our attention as an
It was such an incredibly heavy hour with a subject they handled beautifully. Jaina Lee Ortiz deserves nothing but praise for her incredible performance throughout Station 19 Season 5 Episode 15. Her powerful performance coincided with an equally powerful hour of Station 19 and one of the series’ best. Sexual assault is an issue that’s
We turned up in Barvinkove looking for the hard-pressed town mayor. He had promised to tell us about plans to evacuate residents from this war-threatened area. The Russian military has made a series of gains in the east as they try to encircle Ukrainian troops in cities such as Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. After a series
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend any Academy events for 10 years after slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage at the ceremony. The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars, announced the decision after meeting to discuss possible sanctions following the star’s outburst at the event.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been forced to defend his wife’s tax affairs amid criticism her multi-millionaire status puts him out of touch with the current cost of living crisis. Mr Sunak married Akshata, the daughter of the so-called ‘Bill Gates of India’ – Narayana Murty, in 2009 after they met at Stanford University. Her 0.91%
In her second novel, Rachel Barenbaum (A Bend in the Stars) presents a 450-page epic spanning Philadelphia, Berlin, Moscow and the doomed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. At times, the novel is experimental, mixing imaginative science fiction with history, family drama, romance and political intrigue in a narrative structure as complex as the science in its
It’s a new era for the Kardashians! Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kris Jenner celebrated the premiere of their new reality series, The Kardashians, with a special screening at Goya Studios on April 7. Joined by members of their inner circle—including Kim’s boyfriend Pete Davidson, Kourtney’s fiancé Travis Barker and her ex Scott Disick—the family happily posed
A boy was left with a fractured skull and brain damage when he was accidentally hit by a stray throw at a professional baseball game. Bryson Galaz, aged six, was struck during a warmup when Los Angeles Angels pitcher Keynan Middleton threw a ball to a teammate, who missed the catch. The child’s mother has
Rishi Sunak has dramatically broken his silence in the row over his wife’s tax affairs, declaring: “To smear my wife to get at me is awful.” In an interview with The Sun, hitting back at attacks by opposition MPs on his multi-millionaire wife, he said: “She loves her country like I love mine.” Mr Sunak
Photo courtesy of LXR.Look to vintage shopping for your spring retail therapy. By Ivy Tang Date April 7, 2022 Facebook Twitter It takes some time and patience, but there’s no better feeling than finding that truly unique piece of clothing secondhand. Whether you’re digging through the racks at the thrift store or taking advantage of
We all love a good sine wave synth in drum & bass and even in rave music in general. In D&B, we’re partial to the sine wave sub synth which builds tension, lets us know of the drop, transitions phrases without losing the bass-based aggression we love so well and screws those screwfaces right up
The Hugo Awards is the biggest science fiction award in the world of books, and it has been running since 1953. The winners are chosen by popular vote of members of the World Science Fiction Society, and they are announced at WorldCon. This year, the organization received 1,368 nominating ballots, which have been narrowed down
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