Ava DuVernay is the Oscar nominated and Bafta winning director of drama and documentaries such as Selma and 13th. Her latest film Origin is based on the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, which compares discrimination in the United States, India and Nazi Germany.
Constance Marten, the aristocrat whose newborn baby died after she and her partner went on the run, has denied harming her daughter. She told a jury she did nothing but show her love. She and Mark Gordon are being tried for manslaughter over Victoria’s death, while they were living off-grid in a tent on the…
With his signature blend of what he calls TrapHouseJazz, the saxophonist and singer Masego has been credited with introducing jazz to a new generation.
It’s been a day of ‘firsts’ on the moon – the first time, in half a century anyway, that an American spacecraft has landed.
One of the biggest players in the world of artificial intelligence is back with a new product. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is launching Sora, which can create realistic videos from a few typed instructions.
Abuse and violence against shop workers has risen by 50 percent to a staggering 1,300 incidents a day – according to a survey by the British Retail Consortium.
Prince Harry has settled his remaining phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers. The High Court in London was told he had accepted a substantial sum, in addition to the more than £140,000 compensation he was awarded in December, to drop his outstanding claim.
People in Bristol have been queuing round the block for a third day after a new dentist opened its doors to NHS patients.
Police looking for a man who allegedly attacked a woman and two children with a corrosive substance in London on Wednesday night have arrested a 22-year old man on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Four days after a chemical attack on a woman and her two daughters in south London, police have offered a twenty thousand pound reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest. The last confirmed sighting of 35-year-old Abdul Ezedi remains the night of the attack – despite him having serious injuries to his face.
London police are hunting for a suspect who left a woman and her two children badly injured in an alkali, not acid, attack.
Residents of a fishing village in Iceland are waiting to find out if they’ll ever be able to return, after a volcano sent rivers of lava precariously close to their homes.
Five migrants have died while attempting to get to the UK from a beach near Boulogne. Around 70 people, including children, were rescued after their boat got into trouble. The first migrants to get to the UK in a small boat were reported yesterday, after 27 days of no crossings.
He may have been described by the Chinese as a ‘troublemaker’, but former physician William Lai has won a decisive victory in Taiwan’s presidential election. The island’s fraught relationship with its powerful neighbour dominated the poll and he is expected to continue to forge closer military and diplomatic ties with Japan and the West.
Fujitsu, the Japanese technology firm which manufactured the faulty Horizon software, will be quizzed by MPs next week about their role.