Getty Images South Carolina allows witnesses to observe executions carried out by the state. A South Carolina prison inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat will be the first person in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years. If Brad Sigmon’s execution proceeds on Friday at 18:00 […]
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Chris Vallance & Tom Gerken BBC News Getty Images Technicolor, the visual effects (VFX) group which has worked on films ranging from Disney’s 1940 classic Pinocchio to 2024 blockbuster Mufasa The Lion King, has collapsed into administration in the UK. The group owned several leading visual effects studios including MPC, Mikros Animation and The Mill,
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Liv McMahon Technology reporter Reuters Apple has made headlines by pulling its most advanced data security tool for UK customers. It is removing Advanced Data Protection (ADP) after the Home Office asked for the right to be able to access data which it is applied to – something even Apple itself cannot currently do. Rather
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Reuters Blue Ghost orbiting the Moon in the week before it landed on the lunar surface A private spacecraft has landed on the Moon, becoming only the second commercial vehicle to reach the lunar surface. Blue Ghost left Earth on January 15, after being launched by US firm Firefly Aerospace with the intention of exploring
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Getty Images Mikey Madison and Demi Moore are both up for best actress Stars, film fans and fashionistas rejoice as the biggest night in the showbiz calendar is here at last – the 97th Oscars. Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez leads the way with 13 nominations, but recently saw its awards chances damaged after offensive historic
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Getty Images “He loved being an actor, and hated all the stuff that surrounds being an actor.” That, for film director Barry Sonnenfeld, is how he’ll remember Gene Hackman, who has died at the age of 95. The endless hours in hair and makeup, repeated takes, and studio notes all frustrated Hackman, Sonnenfeld told BBC
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BBC In Union County, South Carolina, the sprawling cotton mills that once put bread on the table for many are long gone. Union is also what is termed a “food desert”, where many residents live far from the nearest supermarket. So in 2016, local non-profit director Elise Ashby began working with farmers to deliver discounted
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Watch in full: The remarkable exchange between Zelensky, Vance and Trump It was the first thing President Donald Trump said when Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky stepped out of his car at the White House on Friday. “You’re all dressed up today,” Trump said as he greeted him, referring to Zelensky’s military-style black sweatshirt, adorned with
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Samantha Granville BBC News Reporting fromSante Fe, New Mexico Getty Images Known for his roles as gunslingers and cowboys, Gene Hackman spent his retirement in the small southwestern city of Santa Fe, New Mexico Gene Hackman was a normal person in Santa Fe. And he really loved that. Residents in the New Mexico city say
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Watch in full: The remarkable exchange between Zelensky, Vance and Trump JD Vance’s remarkable dressing down of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday showed the US vice-president unafraid to take centre stage as an attack dog, rather than serve like some of his predecessors as a self-effacing political understudy. It was Vance who
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