On the 30th anniversary of Creative Europe’s Media Programme, the European Commission in association with the advocacy group 50/50 is launching a big diversity and inclusion campaign aimed at ramping up the representation of women in the film and news media sector. Dubbed CharactHer, the campaign was designed to foster inclusion, empower women and highlight inspiring female professionals from all […]

YOU must have a TV licence to watch or record any live telly in the UK. The standard BBC TV license fee costs £159 and the price goes up every year. Viewers started paying £1.50 more when the cost of a TV licence was hiked in April this year. It's the fifth year in a row that the licence fee […]

Prince Albert of Monaco was fearful ‘low-key’ Charlene wouldn’t cope with the ‘fish bowl’ of public life and comparisons to his mother Grace Kelly, royal correspondent claims – as princess remains in South Africa Albert’s friend said he was ‘fearful’ Charlene wouldn’t cope with ‘fish bowl’ Joel Stratte-McClure revealed she faced pressure from the start in documentary Comes after Charlene revealed in […]

For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. For much of last year, Victorians in lockdown had four permitted reasons to leave home. Or, in the eyes of many couples, one very good reason to stay home. ‘He’s absolutely a COVID baby’: Hannah Martin gave birth to Soren in Melbourne two days ago.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui The number of babies […]

Kiefer Sutherland will star as President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Showtime’s “The First Lady.” The series is described as a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. The first season will peel back the curtain on the personal and political lives of three dynamic First Ladies, tracing their […]

If you’ve kept your eyes on indie film and auteurist television in the last few years, you’ve likely spotted Fred Hechinger, the now-21-year-old actor who made a name for himself working with directors like Bo Burnham, Steven Soderbergh, Barry Jenkins, and Mike White. In early June, the excitable young actor materialized on a Zoom screen, surrounded by books and CDs, […]

When Donald Trump first won the presidency and moved to Washington DC, it was months before his wife, Melania Trump, and young son, Barron, joined him. Instead, Melania chose to stay in New York where she’d spent years in the modeling world — and as the wife of real estate magnate Trump. She first said she was staying there to […]

DEIDRE SAYS: Around one in five men admit cheating on their partner, a survey by The Sun found, with eight per cent admitting five or more affairs. Not everyone agrees on what constitutes infidelity. Many people think cheating means having a full sexual relationship with someone who isn’t your partner.  For some, sex isn’t that important. They believe an affair means […]

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — A funny thing happened on the way to Sun Valley this year. Despite predictions that turnout for the annual Allen & Co. conference would be lighter after last year’s COVID-forced cancellation, attendance at the three morning sessions on the first full day of the gathering was strong and included the mega-mogul of the moment, Amazon founder […]

How much have your little darlings COST you? Working mother of three ISABEL OAKESHOTT worked out she’s spent half a million pounds on childcare. Here she rages against the price women are still forced to pay for a career Isabel Oakeshott, based in the UK, revealed she’s spent £500,000 on childcare Working mother, who has three children, now 13, ten and […]