You don’t have to have a clue about background actors to have heard of Central Casting. “Straight out of Central Casting” — it’s an idiom President Trump has used to refer to politicians or civil servants who look the part. The phrase has appeared in some shape or form in films and TV shows like…
Melissa McCarthy got Saturday Night Live in the holiday spirit with a festive opening monologue, where she was toppled by a huge faux snowstorm. After a few weeks off air, the two-time Oscar nominee began the episode by celebrating how “great” it was to be back for her sixth time hosting the sketch comedy series….
“Had we not gone forth with the film and the Standing in the Gap Fund, she would have been just another dead Black person.” These chilling words were uttered to me recently by Pamela Dias, the mother of Ajike “AJ” Owens, about her daughter. Viewers of the Netflix social-justice sensation The Perfect Neighbor will know…
Twelve people were injured after a collision involving a double-decker KMB bus, a rubbish truck and a taxi in Kwai Chung on Saturday. Police said the drivers of all three vehicles and seven bus passengers who sustained injuries were sent to hospital. Two people, a passenger and a pedestrian, refused to be sent to the…
Russia has welcomed Donald Trump’s new US National Security Strategy, calling it “largely consistent” with Moscow’s vision. The 33-page document, unveiled by the US administration last week, suggests Europe is facing “civilisational erasure” and does not cast Russia as a threat to the US. Combatting foreign influence, ending mass migration, and rejecting the EU’s perceived…
Josh MartinBusiness reporter Getty Images The report will look at Covid-era programmes like Eat Out to Help Out, which subsidised hospitality bills Covid-19 support programmes cost taxpayers nearly £11bn through fraud and error, a report will say. The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner Tom Hayhoe will say fraudsters exploited a “golden opportunity” when he shares his…
When Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago, a 26-year-old soldier known as Monka did not see a combat role she could do. But that changed as technology reshaped the battlefield and opened new paths. Last year, she joined the military as a pilot of short-range, first-person view, or FPV, drones after giving up…
Paul Njie, Thomas Naadi,BBC Africa reportersand Lucy Fleming BTV The soldiers appeared on state TV early on Sunday morning to say they were suspending the constitution Benin’s interior minister has appeared on national TV to announce that an attempted coup in the West Africa nation has been thwarted. Earlier, a group of soldiers, led by…
Funds siphoned off from the Philippines’ flood control projects and converted into cryptocurrency may be linked to online scam syndicates run by offshore gaming operators, an official from the country’s cybercrime unit has revealed. Renato Paraiso, acting executive director of the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre, told This Week in Asia that investigators had uncovered…
Real Madrid and Manchester United target Christos Mouzakitis has made his choice of preferred destination if he leaves Olympiacos, while a host of Premier League clubs are chasing Spain international striker Samu Aghehowa. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe. Transfers home page | Men’s grades | Women’s grades…
