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Parks and Recreation reunion: Fans are a 'mess' after 'emotional' quarantine special

Episode has been hailed the 'absolute best part' of lockdown




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Ross Kemp 'devastated' after coronavirus victim dies while filming NHS documentary

'Ross Kemp: On the NHS Frontline' aired on ITV




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Sam Lloyd death: Scrubs cast members, led by Zach Braff, pay tribute to co-star

'He made me crack up and break character every single time we did a scene together'




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Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars bodyguard accuses host of being 'cold, sly and demeaning'

He claimed only approved celebrities were permitted to talk to host at awards after party




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Celebrity Juice: Holly Willoughby quits series and thanks Keith Lemon for '12 years of chaos'

Lemon praised Willoughby for 'getting hands dirty' on ITV2 show




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James Corden and Trevor Noah praised for paying furloughed staff members out of own pockets

News comes as Ellen DeGeneres allegedly leaves 'distressed' staff members in the dark




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The Witcher: Two Hollywood stars 'turned down role of Vesemir' in season 2

Hit Netflix show expected to return in 2021




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Gogglebox's Malone family defend themselves from viewer complaints over social distancing

Many are confused as to how show can continue despite lockdown




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Last Dance viewers left 'emotional' as Kobe Bryant raves about 'big brother' Michael Jordan

Archive footage shows Jordan tell Bryant 'I'll see you down the road' after first match together




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Tiger King: John Finlay stars in advert for animal print emergency prep kit

Finlay was married to Joe Exotic during filming of 'Tiger King'




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Charlie Brooker hopes coronavirus pandemic won't make 'psychotic strongman politicians more secure'

Writer also said he has no plans for further episodes of 'Black Mirror'




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Coronavirus: Game of Thrones actor becomes Asda delivery driver during pandemic

Michael Condron played Bowen Marsh in the fantasy epic




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Sopranos creator David Chase writes coronavirus-themed scene in which Tony is alive

Character's fate was famously left ambiguous at the end of the seminal gangster drama




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Kevin Spacey compares his downfall to people struggling in pandemic in newly surfaced video

Actor said he had to ask himself 'who am I?' after his 'world completely changed'




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The Simpsons writer concedes series really did 'predict 2020' after new double 'prediction' emerges

People have noted a certain timeliness in a clip from the 1993 episode 'Marge in Chains'




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Lenny Henry's daughter posed as comedian and sent 'manipulative' false messages in attempt to win back boyfriend

Billie Henry was given a five-year restraining order




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Becoming, review: Michelle Obama's Netflix documentary gives emotion without intimacy

Ninety minutes in the company of the former first lady is like an inspirational infomercial, says Annie Lord




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SNL at Home: Saturday Night Live announces season finale with third remote episode

Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks have contributed to the programme remotely




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'Love in the Time of Corona': Coronavirus romance series filmed entirely remotely to air this summer

Show promises a 'funny and hopeful look at the search for love, sex and connection during this time of social distancing'





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Kemistry & Storm – the tragic story of the drum'n'bass originals

As a pioneering female DJ duo, the two best friends were integral to the rise of the 90s dance scene, before a car accident changed everything. Storm talks about the soul sister she lost

Storm remembers the sound of glass shattering, but not how many seconds or minutes had passed before she realised something awful had happened. A 4.5kg metal cat’s eye had been dislodged from the road ahead by a passing van, and had smashed through their car windshield on the passenger side. It left Kemistry – her best friend and partner in one of the UK’s most pioneering drum’n’bass outfits – with devastating injuries. Minutes later, she died.

“I’ve had some really dark times and really dark thoughts,” says Storm, 20 years on from the accident. “Thoughts about me not being here, about going to join her.”

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Drake: Dark Lane Demo Tapes review – rap’s whingeing king hits a dead end

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There are flashes of skill and rawness in this odds-and-ends mixtape but it feels like a clumsy lunge at commercial success

In a world where the boundary between mixtapes and albums is becoming ever more blurred, the title of Drake’s latest album highlights its interstitial nature. That said, it’s still slightly misleading. There are tracks here that sound like demos – the mopey James Blake-isms of Chicago Freestyle are audibly unpolished – but for the most part, it ’s a way of collecting up leftovers and leaks, spare tracks he apparently has lying around the studio.

Those inclined to view Drake’s career with a cool eye might be surprised he has any spare tracks lying around the studio, given the state of his last album. Listening to Scorpion, 25 songs long, required a certain degree of mental stamina: you needed to steel yourself against the panicky sensation that you might die of old age before it ended. But it wasn’t the sheer quantity that was the problem so much as the quality of what was there. Scorpion had its moments but was so hopelessly uneven that it was easy to buy into the theory that its length was not due to its author’s teeming multiplicity of fantastic ideas, but an attempt to game the streaming services: more songs means more streams, more streams means a higher chart placing.

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Officials say Iran attempted hack of Israel's water system...


Officials say Iran attempted hack of Israel's water system...


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Malls across America resemble ghost towns as they reopen...


Malls across America resemble ghost towns as they reopen...


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ROYAL CARIBBEAN crew go on hunger strike until company proves sending them home...


ROYAL CARIBBEAN crew go on hunger strike until company proves sending them home...


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Empty Vegas Strip counts losses as locals venture out...


Empty Vegas Strip counts losses as locals venture out...


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NFL moves 2020 London games back to US during Covid-19 pandemic

  • Jaguars, Falcons and Dolphins had been set for London
  • Game set for Mexico City will now be played in United States

The NFL has decided to move its international games back to the US for the 2020 season as the sports world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic.

The league had scheduled four games in London and one in Mexico City, but they will now be moved back to the stadiums of the host teams.

Related: Don Shula, coach who led Dolphins to NFL's only perfect season, dies aged 90

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My streaming gem: why you should watch The Most Dangerous Game

The latest in our series of writers recommending hidden films available to stream is a invite to travel back to 1932 for a brutal thriller

Some film tropes get wheeled out so often they create their own furrow. Perhaps that’s why the timeworn premise of “man hunting man” has evolved into its own disreputable but seemingly indestructible mini-genre. This year has already seen the deferred release of scattershot satire The Hunt, a button-pushing thriller from the Blumhouse production line in which snooty US liberals kidnap and stalk blue-collar “deplorables” in a customised paddock sited far from flyover country.

Related: 'My favourite forgotten film' – you recommend your best streaming gems

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The story of Australia’s pandemic can be told through the beaches | Brigid Delaney

First there was crowded Bondi, then the deserted beaches, cordoned off with police tape. If you look closely, a whole nation can be read on the sand

A country reveals itself in a crisis. Americans are buying a record number of guns, in the UK Boris Johnson was reluctant to implement a full lockdown because he baulked at the idea of closing the pubs. In Australia, it is our beaches that are the metaphorical hills that we are metaphorically dying on.

Yeah, we want to beat this virus, but we also want to get a swim in.

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One in three shareholders vote for Rio Tinto to adopt binding emissions target

Shareholder vote in favour of global mining giant adopting binding targets grew sixfold since last year

Shareholders in global miner Rio Tinto have rebuked the company over its climate stance, with 37% voting at a meeting in Australia for a resolution that would require it to set binding emissions targets.

While the resolution did not pass, its sponsor, environmental group Market Forces, said it attracted six times as much support as an identical one put up at the same meeting last year.

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Sydney harbour master tells Ruby Princess inquiry he 'did not understand' email

NSW Health assessment the cruise ship was ‘low risk’ introduced ‘an unfortunate element’ into his decision-making

A New South Wales harbour master has told an inquiry he “did not understand” an email that told him to treat the Ruby Princess “as if it has a positive Covid-19 result” when it came into Sydney Harbour on 18 and 19 March.

Cameron Butchart, who was the duty harbour master on 18 March, said NSW Health’s assessment that the ship was “low risk” introduced “an unfortunate element” into his decision-making.

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Covidsafe app: how to download Australia’s coronavirus contact tracing app, how it works, what it does and problems

The app will ask for your name (or pseudonym), age range, postcode and phone number. Scott Morrison says the Australian government’s covid safe tracking app won’t be mandatory to download and install, but its uptake numbers could play a part in easing Covid-19 restrictions

The Australian government has launched Covidsafe, an app that traces every person running the app who has been in contact with someone else using the app who has tested positive for coronavirus in the previous few weeks, in a bid to automate coronavirus contact tracing, and allow the easing of restrictions.

Here’s what we know about the app so far.

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Pandemic nesters: what it's like to move back with your parents during lockdown

Some people have found returning to the family home a blessing, but for others it has been anything but smooth sailing

Covid-19 has reshaped geographic boundaries. It has left many financially distressed. Expatriates have returned from overseas for indefinite periods of time, and vulnerable people require more help than usual. For all these reasons, and many more, adult children have found themselves doing something that might previously have been unthinkable: moving back in with their parents.

Some are finding the experience transformative. One woman, who left New York for her parent’s rural home, told me that the space and country air have made her reconsider whether she will ever return to the city. But there are also downsides. “I’m craving male attention more than I ever have before,” she confessed. When flirting over apps stopped cutting it, she wound up ordering a vibrator in an unmarked box, and fended off her younger siblings in order to retrieve it from the mailbox.

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Revenge porn in Australia: the law is only as effective as the law enforcement

One study suggests one in three people from 16 to 64 have been victims of image-based abuse. But most will never step foot in a police station

When Laura* was 14, she was convinced that her boyfriend was the love of her life. So, when several girls messaged her to say he had sent them a video of her drunk and engaging in a sexual act, she told herself they were lying.

“I was just like, ‘Oh, you don’t know anything about our relationship. I don’t believe you,’” she says. “But after we broke up, he pretty much sent it to everyone that I knew.

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Queensland deputy premier Jackie Trad stands down over corruption investigation

Trad says she will cooperate with investigation into allegation she interfered in appointment of school principal

Queensland’s deputy premier and treasurer, Jackie Trad, has stood down from ministerial duties over an investigation into the appointment of a Brisbane principal.

The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) is investigating the recruitment and selection process for the principal of the Inner City South Secondary College.

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Experts agree this hurricane season will be above-average, maybe even extremely active

Hurricane season is fast approaching and it is likely to be active -- maybe even an extremely active -- season.




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Rochelle Humes announces she is pregnant with husband Marvin in Easter themed Instagram post

Rochelle Humes has revealed that she is expecting her third child with husband Marvin in an Easter themed Instagram post.




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Bill Oddie remembers his friend and comedy partner Tim Brooke-Taylor in touching tribute

The comedian's death was announced over the weekend