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The U.K.’s National Theatre Live has released a new trailer for “The Fifth Step,” featuring Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses,” “Dunkirk”) and Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (“The Hobbit,” “The Responder”) in David Ireland’s critically acclaimed drama. The trailer offers wider audiences their first glimpse of the intense two-hander. The production is set to reach cinemas worldwide from Nov. 27, presented by Neal Street Productions, Playful Productions and National Theatre of Scotland in association with Nica Burns. Ireland’s play, from the writer behind “Ulster American,” follows the twelve-step journey of Alcoholics Anonymous, and centers on two men: James (Freeman),…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Death toll surges in early Israeli strikes on Palestinians with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City as the widely criticised attack to capture the main urban centre continues.Published On 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

For decades, the discussion around autism has been a hotbed of misinformation, misinterpretation, and bad science, ranging from the long-discredited link between the neurodevelopmental condition and vaccines, to newer claims that going gluten-free and avoiding ultra-processed foods can reverse autistic traits.On Monday night, this specter arose again in the Oval Office, as President Donald Trump announced his administration’s new push to study the causes of autism with claims that the common painkiller Tylenol, otherwise known as acetaminophen, can cause the condition. The FDA subsequently announced that the drug would be slapped with a warning label citing a “possible association.”David Amaral,…

By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the world.In this former French colonial garrison town, network signals come and go like the dusty wind. On a recent morning when the connection disappeared again and the Starlink at the local customs office was unavailable, he drove his silver Mitsubishi GLX to the town’s outskirts.Sitting cross-legged on a blue tarpaulin sheet under the shade of a leafless gum arabic tree,…

Getty ImagesFinding the right period product for you can be a difficult taskFor many of us, our first lessons about periods were brief and practical, often limited to learning how to use pads or tampons.Alongside these traditional options, there’s now a wider range of products available, including reusable options such as menstrual cups, period pants and washable pads.Making the choice about which one is best for you can be overwhelming. You might wonder how these products work and whether they’re foolproof enough to put the fear of bleeding through your clothes at bay. Dr Tempest, a consultant gynaecologist at the…

Jorge CastilloSep 24, 2025, 12:59 AM ETCloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.NEW YORK — José Caballero, a Yankee for all of 54 days, proudly carried a championship belt — given to the player of the game after every New York victory — around his left shoulder as alcohol-soaked chaos raged around him in the home clubhouse Tuesday night.Acquired at the trade deadline to provide a versatile…

A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal.More than a third of the money clawed back related to fraudulent activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, with other cash being recouped from unlawful council tax claims and illegal subletting of social housing.The government will announce later today that a new AI tool which has helped to identify the fraud will now be licensed to other countries, including the US and Australia.Civil liberties campaigners have previously criticised the Labour government for its use of…

Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on TuesdayOrganisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a Gaza-bound flotilla with pro-Palestinian activists on board carrying aid, reported hearing explosions and seeing multiple drone attacks from their boats situated off Greece from late Tuesday to the early hours of Wednesday.“Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,” the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement, without adding whether there were any casualties.“We are witnessing these psychological operations firsthand, right now, but we will not be intimidated.”Suited in…

The Walt Disney Company is probably hoping that upon viewing the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film The Mandalorian and Grogu, audiences feel a swell of nostalgia. No, not for 1977, when Star Wars was fresh and wondrous; after all, Disney didn’t even own it then. Not even for a decade ago, when the company brought the film series roaring back with 2015’s The Force Awakens, still the highest-grossing movie in US box office history. Rather, the trailer, consciously or not, hopes to transport viewers, and presumably profits, back to the halcyon days of … 2019.They would probably…

US President Donald Trump took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday, delivering a sweeping speech that touched on foreign policy, immigration, climate change and more. He attacked friends and rivals alike, while making controversial – and often factually inaccurate – assertions.Here’s a look at some of his key comments and arguments – and how they hold up against the facts.Broken teleprompterTrump kicked off his speech with a lighthearted comment about a non-functional teleprompter, noting that he did not mind that it was not working.“I don’t mind making this speech without a teleprompter, because the teleprompter…