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Quacking for a beautiful cause! Standing up for people with cleft palates everywhere, Mia Robertson[...]

'The characters are little human beings, a man and woman but not a black man and a woman.'

There’s no need to speculate further. As we guessed/hoped in our Cannes wish-list piece, “Mad Max: Fury Road” will make its world premiere at Cannes. But it won’t play in competition, and despite being the subject of the first official Cannes announcement, it won’t be the opening night film either. If we’re gonna split hairs about the announcement: is this a good sign? Another thing to consider: ‘Fury Road’ at Cannes isn’t exactly that special. It premieres on the Croisette on May 14th and then it... Читать дальше...

National Videogame Arcade is recognition of the creativity of games, writes Helen Lewis

You can't unsee it.

CNBC Pro highlights the worst-performing stocks this week and analyzes whether the negative momentum will continue.

Group to demand millions and central role in UK parliament

Chat service was launched one year ago and is now reportedly fundraising at a $2.8bn appraisement

Investment bank backed US share sale by a Chinese coalminer that was an empty shell

The world is facing a serious water crisis. Former NFL star Jack Brewer highlights a couple of companies investing in solutions.

Delay to the elections has stretched tensions further in Lagos among key candidates

Collaboration with J&J on platform using data collected from millions of procedures

Swelling community starts to make its presence felt

In the state’s national parks, the flora is the star attraction

Next week, the billionaire property developer is to open a $100m golf course in the Bronx

Pine Creek is an exclusive 2,500-acre community in Okeechobee, Florida, that caters to rich gun lovers.

From the ‘mom’ to the ‘boyfriend’ to the ‘girlfriend’, the jean pool is getting bigger

Boulder, Colo., Mayor Matthew Appelbaum, and Matt Petersen, Chief Sustainability Officer for Los Angeles, talk about some of the sustainability efforts in their cities. They speak with WSJ’s Russell Gold at the ECO:nomics conference in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Finding love these days is just an app away, but the stricter social mores of the mid-1800s had a much more rigid context for passion, and it's against this backdrop that "Effie Gray" unfolds. Today we have an exclusive clip from the period drama. Directed by Richard Laxton ("Burton And Taylor," "An Englishman In New York"), the movie tells the story of the scandalous affair between Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning) and Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), one that develops when... Читать дальше...

The actor seems to relish playing characters with a Quixotic streak

From comedy podcasts to new fiction and adaptations, the medium of radio is enjoying a renaissance

Flying Dog Brewery is bringing back Dead Rise Old Bay Summer Ale after having trouble keeping it in stock during its debut.

Is military and ‘soft power’ enough to make up for relative US economic decline?

A literary biography that explores the genesis of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and its influence on generations of writers

Artifice and dissembling are daily requirements to escape — or just survive — the country’s hereditary dictatorship