August 2019

Jo Brand battery acid joke ‘went too far’, BBC rules

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jo Brand admitted it was “a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke” Jo Brand’s controversial joke about throwing battery acid “went beyond what was appropriate” for a Radio 4 comedy show, the BBC has ruled. The corporation has partially upheld complaints about the quip made by the comedian on […]

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Sophie Turner Seemingly Shouts ‘WTF, I’m A Wife!” At Hailee Steinfeld

There are some moments that need little context to still be considered fantastic — and this interaction between Sophie Turner and Hailee Steinfeld is one of them. On Monday night, the pair ran into each other at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Someone took a video of the “Game of Thrones” actor and the

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S Korea ex-leader Park and Samsung heir Lee face bribery retrials

Image copyright EPA Image caption Park Geun-hye was South Korea’s first female president South Korea’s top court has set aside part of jailed former President Park Geun-hye’s conviction and ordered a retrial. The court said separate verdicts should have been reached on the bribery allegations against her and sent the case back to a lower

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Ethiopian fossil reveals face for ancestor of famed ‘Lucy’

A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back. The find, from 3.8 million years ago, reveals the face for a presumed ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy, the celebrated Ethiopian partial skeleton found in 1974. This ancestral species

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