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The Bafta-winning actor answers your questions about taking Angelina Jolie to meet his grandmother down the pub, working with Danny Boyle and directing Paul WellerYour new film, Sinners, sounds scary. What scares you? MrSOBaldrick
Loneliness.I’ve always wanted to act, but I’ve never taken the plunge. Has there been a role where you felt you took a plunge out of your comfort zone? AliciaGrace1
Getting to portray an American comes with inherent impostor syndrome, because so many other US actors could take the role. The roles I’ve played in the US have bigger distinctions from my lived experiences than some of my other roles. But it can be rewarding and fulfilling to do something that’s very different, so it works both ways. Continue reading…

A Tabcorp chief executive has come out swinging against the gaming giant, claiming sexist remarks like the one he allegedly made were rife among the company’s directors.

The 14-year-old was allegedly attacked in the toilet block. The school only found one of his teeth.

A woman was asleep inside her bedroom when a car crashed through her home, causing the wall to collapse over her.

In this second extract from Frances Ryan’s new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions• Read the first extract hereRosie Jones, comedian
If you have a shot of whisky, and then you have a shot of pickle juice, it tastes exactly like a cheeseburger. Honestly, it does, try it. That, and … be whoever you want to be. Having a disability is not a disadvantage; it’s a different perspective. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, and sometimes a weakness can become our biggest strength.Marsha de Cordova, MP
Follow your dreams and pursue your passions, even if you’re afraid. Don’t let your disability – or anyone’s opinion – hold you back. Find yourself a good mentor and have a plan. Continue reading…

Rome prosecutors expected to send team to Santa Marta where body of Alessandro Coatti was found dismemberedProsecutors in Rome have opened an investigation into the murder of an Italian scientist in Colombia, with one theory being that he could have been killed by warring criminal clans in a case of mistaken identity.Alessandro Coatti, who until late last year worked at the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) in London, was last seen leaving a hostel in Santa Marta, a port city on the Caribbean coast, on 3 April. Continue reading…

EY admits to failings in assessment of 2017 and 2018 financial statements of travel firm, which collapsed in 2019EY has been fined almost £5m for “serious breaches of standards” over its audits of Thomas Cook in the years before the travel company’s devastating collapse in 2019.The UK’s audit watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), said EY and one of its partners, Richard Wilson, had admitted to failings related to their assessment of the travel agent’s financial statements from 2017 and 2018. Continue reading…

A murder-accused man who blamed a mate for killing an Indigenous teenager has admitted he also attempted to frame an innocent man.

The findings from volumes kept in a Cistercian monastery in France shed new light on a robust medieval trade network that went well beyond local sourcing‘Hairy” medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin are in fact made of sealskin, researchers have found.The covers of the 12th- and 13th-century books from French monasteries were made using seals believed to be from Scandinavia, Scotland and potentially Iceland or Greenland, hinting at extensive medieval trade networks. Continue reading…

17-year-old runs 9.99s with illegal tailwind in both heat and finalSprint sensation to run 200m on Sunday in PerthGout Gout has become the third Australian to run 100m in less than 10 seconds, and he did it twice within two hours on a dramatic day at the national athletic championships in Perth.But neither of the teenager’s two times of 9.99s – one in the heat and one in the final – will be formally recorded due to illegal tailwinds. Continue reading…