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The nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards were just announced and Ryan Coogler’s vampire-adjacent period drama Sinners received a record-breaking 16 nominations. That’s the highest number of Oscar nominations for a single film in the history of the awards, followed by Titanic, La La Land and All About Eve with 14 noms each.Sinners grabbed a nomination in nearly every major category, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The same goes for the performances, as Michael B. Jordan captured the nomination for Best Actor. Even Delroy Lindo got nominated for Best Supporting Actor, which is his very first…
Before President Donald Trump left the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, he announced the creation of the Board of Peace and called it a “new international oversight body”, though several key US allies were not present at a charter-signing ceremony. Trump also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Elon Musk appeared at the forum for the first time to talk about space and AI. The BBC’s Faisal Islam is in Davos and runs through the day’s highlights.
Some former state employees across the country have been left with no income this month after the company managing civil service pensions failed to pay them.The Civil Service Pension Scheme, which manages the pensions of 1.7 million public sector workers in the UK, has been unable to provide lump sums or regular payments to many people since Capita took over administration of the scheme in December.Capita said it had been left with a much bigger backlog of cases than originally agreed and apologised to those affected.One retiree, Steve Duell, said that he will have to borrow to pay his bills…
It only seems right that cloud gaming should welcome virtual pilots, and that’s definitely now the case if GeForce Now is your streaming platform of choice. One of the most frequently requested features from its community according to NVIDIA, flight control support has now been added to its GeForce Now offering, meaning you can live your Top Gun fantasies without worrying about your rig buckling under the pressure.The first compatible peripheral is the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One — which incidentally NVIDIA is giving away to five winners of a it’s currently running, along with a month of GeForce Now Ultimate…
Lyse DoucetChief international correspondentBBC”Together we are in a position to… end decades of suffering, stop generations of hatred and bloodshed, and forge a beautiful, everlasting and glorious peace for that region and for the whole region of the world.”Such was the soaring promise of US President Donald Trump as he inaugurated his new Board of Peace on the stage of stages that is the Davos Economic Forum this week.The world of all too much suffering and strife badly wants to believe him.But for many observers and officials in capitals the world over, it is yet more proof of Trump’s drive…
Watch: Labour and Conservative MPs criticise Trump Afghanistan remarksDonald Trump has sparked fresh outrage in the UK after saying Nato troops stayed “a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan.Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the chair of the foreign affairs committee, called it an “absolute insult” to the 457 British service personnel killed in the conflict, while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: “How dare he question their sacrifice?”Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty, who served in Afghanistan, said it was “sad to see our nation’s sacrifice, and that of our Nato partners, held so cheaply”.The UK was among…
That was far more like it from Liverpool. For a club on a deeply fraudulent unbeaten run laced with daft draws and unconvincing, unnecessarily stressful wins against idiot teams, Liverpool can leave the south of France feeling far more sure of themselves. The formalities first: a 3-0 win here with Qarabag to follow at Anfield on mad matchday eight leaves a top-eight finish now firmly in Liverpool’s hands. Any win on the final day will now be enough. That’s significant enough after victory over a very capable and confident Marseille side. But this was a night where, for once in…
We already knew xAI’s Grok was barraging X with nonconsensual sexual images of real people. But now there are some numbers to put things in perspective. Over an 11-day period, Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images — including an estimated 23,000 of children.Put another way, Grok generated an estimated 190 sexualized images per minute during that 11-day period. Among those, it made a sexualized image of children once every 41 seconds.On Thursday, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) published its findings. The British nonprofit based its findings on a random sample of 20,000 Grok images from December…
Steven Markham/ Mick Tsikas/ EPAAustralians have been disappointed by the politicisation of the Bondi tragedyThursday had been earmarked for Australians to mourn the victims of last month’s Bondi shootings.Those who had lost loved ones in the antisemitic attacks wanted it to be a chance to remember the dead, and spread light and kindness in their honour.Instead, it was a day dominated by a political row resulting in the collapse of the opposition coalition.”I mean, you would have thought they could have put this off for 24 hours,” veteran political commentator Malcolm Farr told the BBC.”It’s at the very least unfortunate…
Zoe ConwayNews CorrespondentBBCThousands of homes, like this one in Swansea, were fitted with insulation that caused mould and dampThousands of people are living in homes that pose a risk to their health and safety after the ”catastrophic failure” of two government insulation schemes, MPs have said.Major defects have been found in over 30,000 houses fitted with insulation through government schemes since 2022.The Public Accounts Committee has now said that the “level of non-compliance” by installers should be investigated for fraud and that the government’s current response was “not credible”.The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said it was “categorically…