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23 classic RKO films coming to BBC iPlayer including 'Citizen Kane', 'King Kong' and 'Top Hat'

Time to catch up on some of the greatest movies ever made.




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Everything coming to Netflix UK in May 2020

The streaming platform has another great combination of movies and TV shows coming your way throughout May.




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Jerry O'Connell on 'Justice League Dark': 'Superman belongs to the fans so I take criticisms seriously' (exclusive)

Jerry O'Connell has voiced Superman in a series of movies since 2015, culminating in the new 'Justice League Dark: Apokolips War'.




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Harry Potter star Rupert Grint becomes a father

He announced that his partner Georgia Groome was pregnant in April.




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Robert De Niro wants to play New York governor Andrew Cuomo in a coronavirus movie

Robert De Niro has heaped praise on Andrew Cuomo's response to the coronavirus pandemic, while also taking the chance to attack Trump, too.




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For this 29-year-old, the fear and anxiety sparked by coronavirus are everyday battles. Here’s her advice for coping.

Jam Gelua says now more than ever people need to remember that mental health supports are available and they should reach out to anyone who can help. It makes a difference, she says.




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Interest for ‘good news’ grows amid coronavirus pandemic

Instagram accounts dedicated to good news, such as @TanksGoodNews and @GoodNews_Movement, have seen follower counts skyrocket in recent weeks.




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The incredible comeback you probably didn't hear about: Phil Galfond talks overcoming €900,000 deficit

Professional poker player Phil Galfond overcame a €900,000 deficit in a 25,000-hand head-to-head challenge against a pot-limit Omaha regular known as "VeniVidi1993" online.




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The iconic hockey moments that should be statues: Bobby Orr has one; who should be next?

What signature moments from hockey history should be immortalized outside of arenas? Here are our picks.




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Big East commissioner: 'If our campuses aren't open, we will not have athletes coming back'

Big East commissioner Val Ackerman discussed the hurdles for sports to return to her league in 2020-21.




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150,000 worthless baseball cards in the time of coronavirus

My basement is overrun by sports cards from the 1980s and 1990s, all of which aren't worth the cardboard they're printed on. And they've never been more priceless.




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The pandemic ‘unicorn’: Canadian startup dependent on travel joins $1-billion-plus club

Platform connects international students to universities, colleges and high schools with one application system




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How Europe got caught up in crackpot 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories

At a time of crisis, people want answers — and 5G is a really simple answer




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Apple to hold virtual developer conference June 22, later than usual

Delay likely also pushes back Apple's software testing cycle, which could be another indicator of this year's iPhones launching later than usual




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Bitcoin is staging a comeback reminiscent of the 2017 bubble frenzy

In anticipation for a technical event that may be a new catalyst, Bitcoin has rallied to more than US$9,000 from around US$6,000 just a month ago




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Shopify becomes Canada’s most valuable company after quarter beats expectations on back of pandemic

Larger retailers like Heinz and Loblaw signing up with Shopify




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Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto smart city project after 3 years, citing ‘unprecedented economic uncertainty’

'It has become too difficult to make the 12-acre project financially viable'




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As Shopify passes RBC to become No. 1, the Canada market curse gets put to the test

Those that leapfrogged the value of Canada's largest bank in the past have faltered — think Valeant, BlackBerry and Nortel




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Coronavirus: NHS doctor returning to help during pandemic cheers up colleagues by singing opera

Dr Alex Aldren has returned to the NHS after leaving to become an opera singer




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Coronavirus: NHS hospitals using Amazon Wish Lists to ask for donations of basic items

NHS hospitals are asking for basic items such as toothbrushes and sanitary products




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Coronavirus: Increased alcohol consumption during lockdown could lead to 'second health crisis', warn researchers

It is feared that daily drinkers could be most at risk




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Coronavirus: Miss England who returned to work as NHS doctor 'concerned' about lack of PPE

'Nurses are constantly in contact and unwittingly the virus can be spread to other parts of the hospital due to this appalling lack of PPE'




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Adverts which claim IV drips can help fight coronavirus banned by watchdog

No treatments for the coronavirus have yet been approved, meaning companies cannot make medical claims about their products




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'We don't do apart': Elderly couple who fought coronavirus together in hospital heap praise on NHS staff

'We've never been apart for sixty plus years, we don't do apart,' says Sidney Moore




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Coronavirus: Half of health workers experiencing increased levels of stress and trauma

Less than a third say government is doing enough to help healthcare workers




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Coronavirus: Do I need to start taking vitamin D during lockdown?

Public Health England has updated its advice on vitamin D




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Coronavirus: Apple and Google update plans to let phones track whether people have been exposed

Without integrating into phones' operating systems, performance of contact-tracing apps is likely to be limited




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One in three nurses say mental health has become 'very bad' during pandemic

A lack of PPE is concern among nurses




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Wellbeing levels in UK at lowest since records began, new research suggests

UK population is suffering from 'high levels of psychological distress', according to the research




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Eco-chic and trouser suits: how Meghan Markle’s style reads the room

The future royal wore a trouser suit for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, ushering in a new kind of sartorial diplomacy

Last night, for her first official evening engagement with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wore an Alexander McQueen trouser suit. It was slim-fitting, with cropped cigarette trousers, worn with very high stiletto heels and a cream dishabille blouse. The outfit was many things: very Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking, a bit Princess Diana, with a soupçon of Marlene Dietrich, even a hint of Carine Roitfeld (although Roitfeld probably wouldn’t have worn a blouse underneath the tux). What it was not was a Sandringham-appropriate boxy Catherine Walker skirt suit. It was notable because it didn’t feel like standard royal family dressing at all.

The royal family wrote the rule book on sartorial diplomacy. Usually, their approach is unambiguous. It is a gown embroidered with 2,091 shamrocks in Ireland; a Chanel tweed coat in Paris in the middle of Brexit; a dress by Polish designer Gosia Baczyńska at a garden party in Warsaw. It is the opposite of wearing a cult band T-shirt that only fellow devotees will recognise. The clothes are designed to speak of decency and propriety; the visual messages are clear enough to charm heads of state and reach the rest of us in the cheap seats as well.

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Judi Dench becomes British Vogue's oldest cover star

85-year-old Oscar-winner appears in the magazine’s June issue

Judi Dench has become British Vogue’s oldest cover star, securing her first front page for the style arbiter at the age of 85.

The Oscar-winning actor was photographed just before lockdown for the magazine’s June issue, but the accompanying interview explores her experiences self-isolating at home in Surrey.

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Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy Dies of Coronavirus at 75

Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, whose collaboration with Siegfried Fischbacher created the well-known animal training and magic duo Siegfried & Roy, died of complications from COVID-19 Friday in Las Vegas. He was 75. Horn had revealed on April 28 that he had tested positive for coronavirus. “Today, the world has lost one of the greats of […]




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Film News Roundup: Kaniehtiio Horn Romantic Comedy ‘Tell Me I Love You’ Lands at Vision Films

In today’s film news roundup, romantic comedy “Tell Me I Love You” finds a home; the Canadian government gives COVID-19 relief funding to the Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada; and the cancelled Sun Valley Film Festival gives out awards. ACQUISITION Vision Films has acquired Los Angeles romantic comedy film “Tell Me I Love You,” […]




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Andre Harrell, Music Executive Who Discovered Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, Dies at 59

Andre Harrell, a veteran music executive best known as the founder of Uptown Records, where Sean “Puffy” Combs got his start in the business, who later went on to head Motown Records, has died. He was 59. The cause of death is as yet unclear. DJ D-Nice revealed the sad news while spinning on Instagram […]




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Nurse offers advice on caring for those with coronavirus at home – video

Many people will get coronavirus at some point during this pandemic and in the majority of cases will be able to manage the illness themselves. Emma Hammett, a nurse and founder of First Aid for Life, offers some advice on how to look after people who have mild or moderate symptoms at home.

If you're looking after loved ones whose  symptoms are severe or getting worse, you should seek medical help immediately – particularly if they are in a vulnerable group

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'Bicycles are the new toilet paper': bike sales boom as coronavirus lockdown residents crave exercise

Australia’s peak representative body for cyclists has called on governments to transform roads into cycleways to ease traffic on bike paths

Australian bike retailers are struggling to keep up with the boom in sales since coronavirus restrictions came into force last month.

“We’re the new toilet paper and everyone wants a piece,” Grant Kaplan, manager of Giant Sydney, a bike store in Sydney’s CBD, tells Guardian Australia.

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Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human

We can expect psychological difficulties to follow as we come out of lockdown. But we have an opportunity to remake our relationship with our bodies, and the social body we belong to. By Susie Orbach

When lockdown started, I was confused by bodies on television. Why weren’t they socially distancing? Didn’t they know not to be so close? The injunction to be separate was unfamiliar and irregular, and for me, self-isolating alone, following this government directive was peculiar. It made watching dramas and programmes produced under normal filming conditions feel jarring.

Seven weeks in, the disjuncture has passed. I, like all of us, am accommodating to multiple corporeal realities: bodies alone, bodies distant, bodies in the park to be avoided, bodies of disobedient youths hanging out in groups, bodies in lines outside shops, bodies and voices flattened on screens and above all, bodies of dead health workers and carers. Black bodies, brown bodies. Working-class bodies. Bodies not normally praised, now being celebrated.

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Living alone but feeling connected | Letter

Jill Wallis says she has never had so much contact with family and friends as she has had since the lockdown began

You have published many articles about the challenges of isolation, most recently your long read (Patterns of pain: what Covid-19 can teach us about how to be human, 7 May). But there is one interesting outcome you may not have considered.

Many of those of us who always live alone are finding we are much more in contact with loved ones than previously. I’ve lived alone since being widowed 16 years ago, and I’ve never had as much contact with my family and even my friends than I’ve had since the lockdown began.

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Supreme Court Puts Temporary Hold On Order To Release Redacted Mueller Materials

The procedural move gives attorneys for House Democrats until May 18 to respond. They say they're owed access to confidential evidence and other materials. No, argues the Trump administration.




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Pence Spokeswoman Katie Miller Tests Positive For Coronavirus

The case is the second confirmed by the White House this week. President Trump said Miller hasn't come into contact with him but has "spent some time" with the vice president.




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Attorneys: Watchdog Wants Coronavirus Scientist Reinstated Amid Probe

Rick Bright, a top scientist working on a vaccine, says he was reassigned for not focusing on treatments favored by President Trump, even though they lacked "scientific merit."




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Civilian Coronavirus Corps Aims To Get Pennsylvania Back To Work

Gov. Tom Wolf hopes a New Deal-inspired plan will help get the state's more than 1.7 million unemployed residents working again.




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Top 5 Moments From The Supreme Court's 1st Week Of Livestreaming Arguments

From a mysterious toilet flush to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking from the hospital, here are the highlights — including audio clips — from a historic week for the high court.




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Reopening After COVID: The 3 Phases Recommended By The White House

President Trump wants businesses to start reopening after the coronavirus forced shutdowns. Here's what the White House task force recommends for states.




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Mike Pence aide tests positive for coronavirus, 2nd case in White House complex

The White House was moving to shore up its protection protocols to protect the nation's political leaders.




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Windsor, Ont., health-care workers to get gift cards from U.S. Consulate as thanks

"Your support to vulnerable Americans during this crisis is deeply appreciated," said U.S. Consul General Greg Stanford.




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Top White House officials ordered U.S. CDC coronavirus reopening guide buried, docs show

The files also show that after reports that the guidance document had been buried, the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be fast-tracked for approval.





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Coronavirus: Trudeau promises more COVID-19 aid to come from Ottawa

Justin Trudeau says there will be more support from the federal government to help certain sectors of the economy reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Media outlets push for regulatory changes to level the playing field amid coronavirus pandemic

Publishers of several of Canada’s major newspapers signed a joint letter to the federal government this month, taking aim at the advertising revenue earned by Google and Facebook.