Image copyright Getty Images Image caption González was well-known in Mexico, with dozens of acting credits to her name One of Mexico’s best-known television actresses, Edith González, has died aged 54. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016 and went into remission a year later, but it recently returned. González started her career as […]
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Image copyright Universal Music Image caption Krept and Konan say Drill can provide young people with a route out of violence Rap duo Krept and Konan have warned that outlawing drill music could push performers back to a life of crime. The band were speaking as they launched a new single and short film, Ban
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ornella Muti has been a star on screen and stage since the 1970s Italian actress Ornella Muti has been told she could go to jail if she fails to pay damages for cancelling tour dates to attend a dinner with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and actor Kevin Costner. Muti had
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Image caption Cohen, pictured in 2008, died in 2016 at the age of 82 A collection of love letters written by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen to his lover and muse Marianne Ihlen have sold at auction for $876,000 (£692,190). Many items from the archive sold for more than five times their pre-sale estimates, according to Christie’s.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Nana Patekar is a prominent Bollywood actor Bollywood actor Nana Patekar was cleared of sexual harassment charges after police said on Thursday they had not found sufficient evidence. Patekar was accused by actress Tanushree Dutta of harassing her in 2008 on the sets of a film they both starred
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Image copyright ITV Image caption Sinha (far right) has been a “chaser” on The Chase since 2011 Paul Sinha, one of the professional quizzers on ITV’s The Chase, has revealed he has Parkinson’s disease. “I will fight this with every breath I have,” tweeted the 49-year-old comic, going on to share further details of his
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Image caption David Walliams with Esme Harrison-Jones, one of the two gold winners A story about chickens trying to cross the road has outrun the competition at this year’s 500 Words contest. The judges felt Why Did the Chicken… was so finger lickin’ good they made its author, Esme Harrison-Jones, gold winner in the 10
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Elizabeth Lederer’s prosecution of five black and Hispanic teenagers for a rape they did not commit was overturned in 2002 The prosecutor of five teenagers convicted for the brutal rape of a female jogger in 1989 – depicted in Netflix’s When They See Us – has left her job
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Image copyright Getty Images When Toronto Raptors won the NBA Finals against Golden State Warriors last night, they weren’t just celebrating a sporting success. The Canadian basketball team had managed something perhaps more significant – killing the Drake curse. The rapper has for years been taunted by sports fans for bringing “bad luck” to their
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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Gooding Jr flew from Los Angeles to New York to turn himself in Actor Cuba Gooding Jr has been charged with forcible touching after allegedly groping a woman in a Manhattan bar. The 51-year-old star of Boyz N The Hood and Jerry Maguire turned himself in to New York police
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