Prince William and Kate Middleton are “delighted” to hear of the arrival of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s second child (via Twitter). Lilibet ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born Friday, June 4 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, according to their official statement on Archewell.  There was also an official statement from Buckingham Palace that read, “The Queen, The […]

DR MAX PEMBERTON: As NHS staff get body cameras… Punched and kicked at work — but I got off lightly Paramedics in London and the North East are being given body cameras  Dr Max says he has been kicked and had knives pulled on him during his career NHS psychiatrist won’t tolerate abuse from angry people, who are mostly drunk  […]

Drake Bell, the former star of the Nickelodeon show “Drake and Josh,” has been charged on two counts of crimes against a child in Ohio. Bell, referred to by his first name Jared in the court documents, was charged with the attempted endangering of children, a fourth-degree felony, and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a first degree misdemeanor, in 2017.  […]

Julian Radlmaier, who made a splash this year with his Marxist vampire satire “Blutsauger” (“Bloodsuckers”), is developing a romantic river barge road movie as his next project. “Binnenschifffahrerin Birte” is an East-West love story that centers on an old housekeeper working in a western German hotel who fondly recalls her youth in 1980s East Germany, when, as a river barge […]

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This year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam Freedom Talk speaker Pallavi Paul claims that her mid-length film “The Blind Rabbit,” which examines police violence and systemic abuse of power, is unlikely to be seen by an Indian audience because the level of censorship applied by the government is “so intense.” The New Delhi-based filmmaker’s 43-minute essay, running in the festival’s short […]

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She spent her life cooking and caring for others until she died of Covid-19. By Danya Issawi This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Ellen Vales loved to cook. Her specialty, and a favorite among those who loved her, was her own Creole version of gravy. She […]

VANDERPUMP Rules fans slammed Brittany Cartwright for "not strapping newborn in the car seat"- but she insisted that "we were parked." Brittany, 32, posted a snapshot of her one-month-old infant, Cruz, who was wearing a striped onesie.  In the snap, Cruz sat in his baby carrier while the car was "parked." The Vanderpump Rules star captioned the photo: "It doesn’t get […]

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