85 years ago today, the animated film Fantasia, conceived and produced by Walt Disney himself, was released. It was only Disney’s third animated film and, though it featured Mickey Mouse in the role of ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, it had almost no dialogue and consisted of eight pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, including…
While Middleton-Patel stole the show by the end of the night, it was Earps who was the focus before kick-off. The mural of Earps, painted outside Old Trafford following her heroics with England at Euro 2022, bore a ‘Welcome to Manchester’ message which felt riddled with irony as she stepped out in the pouring northern…
Courtesy of Grahame Family A hockey-loving boy from a hockey-loving family is selling special hockey merch to help other hockey lovers—and he’s loving it. His family took a childhood utterance, as genius as it was random, and spun it into a line of merchandise with the proceeds going to charities that pay for gear, rink…
A private investigator whose alleged confession of hacking led to household names, including Prince Harry, suing the publisher of the Daily Mail has claimed his signature on the statement was forged, the High Court in London has heard. Gavin Burrows, who was initially a witness central to the privacy case’s most serious allegations of unlawful…
45 years ago today, NASA’s Voyager 1 probe arrived at Saturn and beamed back the first images ever taken of its rings. It arrived at our solar system’s second-largest planet via a gravitational assist trajectory at Jupiter which was replicated with Voyager 2. On November 12th, when the space probe came within 77,000 miles of Saturn’s cloud-tops,…
Protesters broke through security lines and entered the venue of the COP30 UN climate talks on Tuesday night in Belém, Brazil. BBC journalists saw UN security staff running behind a line of Brazilian soldiers shouting at delegates to immediately leave the venue. Videos posted online showed people storming the COP30 entrance shouting and carrying placards…
The view over Brentford FC’s East Stand – credit SWNS Noemi Oberhauser was never a fan of soccer despite living in the country that invented it. And she never had any intention of falling in love with the global game either, even after she toured a $1,550-a-month apartment in West London and marveled at the…
Asylum seekers can continue living at an Essex hotel after a council lost a landmark legal battle at the High Court to remove them. Epping Forest District Council sought to block migrants lodging at The Bell Hotel in Epping by arguing its owner had flouted planning rules. Mr Justice Mould dismissed the claim on Tuesday,…
The Grand Egyptian Museum’s stunning geometric exterior – credit, Grand Egyptian Museum handout A $1 billion museum built to showcase the finest of ancient Egyptian artifacts has finally been opened in Giza after more than 2 decades of planning, building, and setbacks. Fireworks and drone light shows lit up the desert night. Below, a gala…
Getty Images Smith said he immediately agreed to star in The Death of Bunny Munro after meeting Nick Cave When Nick Cave first saw Matt Smith playing Bunny Munro – the sex-obsessed door-to-door salesman from his 2009 novel The Death of Bunny Munro – he was taken aback. “In the book, Bunny’s not good at…
