Scientists are scrambling to find the cause of a mystery cancer ‘epidemic’ which is striking under-50s.
Kate Middleton’s shock diagnosis last week has shone a light on the startling trend, with top doctors claiming it is a worldwide problem.
Despite years of research, researchers are baffled as to what is behind the problem.
Increased awareness thanks to the likes of Dame Deborah James, who died from bowel cancer aged 40 in 2022, and improved diagnosis methods are thought to have
Film producer Hal Roach once mischievously quipped that ‘you know it’s summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer’.
The capricious weather was a constant subject when I was making ‘Quintessentially Irish’ with Navan-born Pierce Brosnan, a film that is a lush valentine to everything great and Irish.
Here are some of the most spectacular locations encountered while filming it.
THE K CLUB
It is a pleasant 30-minute journey from Dublin Airport to the luxurious hotel The K Club in
Recollections may vary. So said Queen Elizabeth in response to allegations made by Harry and Meghan in their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Of course, I have no idea what did or did not happen behind closed palace doors. But, having studied memory for 25 years, what I do know is that recollections really can vary. Two people can remember the same event in completely different ways.
In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the all-wise Jedi knight in Star Wars: ‘Many
Visitors could be forgiven for thinking it’s a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
For the abandoned citadel of Guermassa in Tunisia sits in an otherworldly landscape redolent of the environs of Star Wars’ Tatooine.
This is not a coincidence: nearby Tataouine city – the capital of the Tataouine Governate – provided the architectural inspiration for Luke Skywalker’s home planet, if not the shooting location (that’s Matmata, in the north east).
Guermassa itself is the name of
A lot of hard thinking went into this compilation of what I consider to be the 100 greatest films ever made.
I’ve deliberately left out some of the mighty early silents, and there aren’t too many foreign-language films, because this has to be an accessible collection.
Nevertheless, if I were asked by a visiting English-speaking alien to recommend 100 superb films made in the past 100 years which reflect all the different aspects of the human condition, this would be
Viewers have been inundated with on-screen adaptations of books, comics, and even musicals.
And it appears the trend is only set to snowball as now audiences are being reiterated version of existing movies themselves – such as the latest Mean Girls – and encouraged to dip back into well fleshed-out fandoms and fictional worlds.
It would seem that another one of the latest trends is video-game inspired films and TV shows, with everything from The Last of Us, Five Nights
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The ABC made-for-television movie The Day After premiered on November 20, 1983. It changed the way many Americans thought about nuclear war—but the fear now seems forgotten.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
A Preview of Hell
We live in
A self-styled ‘assassin’ who declared ‘I’m here to kill the Queen’ after he was caught by police with a crossbow while intruding Windsor Castle has been sentenced to nine years with an extended license period of five years.
‘Delusional’ Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, climbed into the castle grounds with the weapon on Christmas Day 2021 after sending a homemade video to friends and family on WhatsApp where he apologised for what he was about to do.
Calling himself ‘Darth Chailus’
Disney has unveiled its latest cruise ship – with renderings revealing dazzling interiors.
Disney Treasure, Disney Cruise Line’s sixth ship, is slated to set sail from Florida on her inaugural cruise in December 2024.
The 4,000-passenger ship, which measures 1,119ft (341m) in length and weighs approximately 144,000 gross tons, is being constructed at Germany’s Meyer Werft shipyard.
The vessel, a sister ship to Disney Wish, which launched last year, promises to ‘unlock the far-reaching realms of Disney, Pixar, Star Wars
Samsung has launched the next iteration of its smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic. The latest and greatest Galaxy Watches ship with Wear OS 4 and have the best new features, including app folders and custom colors in One UI Watch 5.
With the Galaxy Watch 6 series, you also have advanced sleep coaching for better sleep tracking and Food and Drug Administration-certified heart rhythm notification tracking, as well as ECG measurements for irregular heart rhythms.
