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Tears streamed down Shaquille O’Neal’s face as he paid a poignant tribute to the late Kobe Bryant on Tuesday. The NBA great remembered his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate — who he described as “a little brother” — during a special episode of “NBA on TNT” filmed at the Staples Center. Dwyane Wade, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith […]

Image copyright Getty Images Broadcasting colleagues have spoken in support of Alastair Stewart after he stepped down from ITV News, apparently in the wake of a Twitter race row. Ranvir Singh, political editor of ITV’s Good Morning Britain, said: “I would never use the word ‘racist’ and his name in the same sentence.” Others posting

Trevor Noah has some harsh words for Alan Dershowitz over his latest defense of Donald Trump during the president’s impeachment trial. The “Daily Show” host slammed Dershowitz, a member of Trump’s legal team, on Wednesday for claiming that if Trump believes his re-election was good for the country, any action taken by the president in order to

Image copyright Getty Images Sarah Sands is standing down as editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme after three years. The news comes a day after it was announced that 450 jobs are to be cut from BBC News under plans to complete its £80m savings target by 2022. Sands, who took over the reins

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn’t have a long-recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to the ground, but it is not clear whether it would have averted the foggy-weather crash, investigators and other experts say. At issue is what’s known as a Terrain Awareness and Warning

Image copyright © Jim Marshall Photography LLC Image caption Jim Marshall on tour with The Mamas and the Papas, in 1967 When photographer Jim Marshall died, in 2010, he left behind more than a million pictures that captured the true face of music in the 1960s and 70s. From Hendrix burning his guitar at Woodstock,

As host of the 2020 Grammy Awards, Alicia Keys was determined to find a suitable way to pay tribute to Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, after news broke that they were among the nine people killed in a helicopter crash just hours before the ceremony.  Keys said Wednesday on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that the evening

Image caption Matthew Wilder performed the song on Top Of The Pops in 1984 Last night I had the strangest dream… Break My Stride, a perky pop smash from 1983 is suddenly a big deal on TikTok, the social media app where users share short, quirky videos of themselves lip-syncing, cooking or just being silly.

In Vanessa Bryant’s first public remarks since the deaths of her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, she thanked everyone for showering her and her family with support “during this horrific time.” “There aren’t enough words to describe our pain right now,” Bryant wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday evening, paired

Image caption Ben Lovett is due to open his second venue in London in March “This place was no man’s land when I was growing up.” Dressed in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket, Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett is stood in front of what will soon be his new venue, Lafayette, in north London.