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British filmmaker Justin Hardy, who directed a sequel to his late father Robin’s 1973 cult horror classic The Wicker Man, has died aged 61.His family said Hardy died on Friday night after suffering a heart attack, remembering him as “a man of family, of boundless creativity” and “so full of life right to the end”.A Bafta and Emmy nominated writer and director, Hardy was known for the documentary Children of the Wicker Man in 2024, made with his brother Dominic, which chronicled the legacy of their father’s iconic film.He had just completed production on Wrath of the Gods, the concluding…

Lovlina Borgohain (AP Photo) Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain said she felt hurt after noticing that India’s Northeast was missing from a map used by a popular Indian restaurant in Glasgow. The Assam boxer spotted the issue during a celebratory dinner for India’s record-breaking Commonwealth Games boxing campaign and raised it with the restaurant management.The Indian boxing contingent visited an Indian restaurant after winning 10 medals: seven gold and three silver. The 28-year-old Indian boxer, who won silver, noticed that the map used on napkins and displayed outside the restaurant did not include the Northeast.”Please don’t take this the wrong way.…

. From key Supreme Court observations and major parliamentary developments to climate emergencies and global security tensions, this week’s current affairs saw several important developments. The Supreme Court refused a blanket ban on pellet guns while ordering treatment for injured student protesters, and Parliament passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2026. India approved the Rs 84,084 crore Samudra Manthan offshore energy scheme, while France witnessed its first-ever “fire cloud” amid devastating wildfires. Washington battled massive blazes, Iran claimed it had destroyed US F-35 fighter jets, and migration surged into Spain’s Ceuta enclave. Nepal mourned mountaineering legend Nims…

Global, July 31, 2026— Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has upgraded its CFD platform with a native TradingView integration, bringing professional-grade market analysis and order execution into a single interface. The enhancement reflects a broader evolution in trading platform design, where reducing friction has become as important as expanding market access.As traders increasingly participate across assets, the trading experience has become fragmented between analysis and execution. Active traders rely on external charting platforms to monitor markets before returning to their exchange to place trades, creating unnecessary delays during fast-moving market conditions. Bitget’s latest upgrade removes that disconnect by…

Choosing a learning management system shouldn’t feel like a second job. But for plenty of teams, that’s precisely what it becomes. You sign up full of good intentions. Then week one disappears into setup. Week two, you’re deep in an admin dashboard that looks like a cockpit, hunting through LMS tools for the one button that assigns a course.  By week three? Your “quick training rollout” you promised has quietly become a project of its own. Including a plan to manage, three open support tickets, and a colleague who keeps asking when it’ll be ready. Meanwhile, the thing you wanted—people…

“He designed it with this amazing jeweler,” the 14-time Grammy winner detailed during an October appearance on the Heart Breakfast Show. “Kindred Lubreck is her name and she does all of her gold engraving by hand.” And before the owner of NYC-based Artifex Fine Jewelry crafted a diamond-encrusted wedding band for Swift, she constructed a true “Wi$h Li$t” design: A vintage-style 10-carat mine-cut diamond worth upwards of $1 million.  “I just thought her stuff was so cool,” Swift detailed. “So I had shown him a video like a year and a half ago and he was just paying attention to…

Identity, and our anxiety around it, is a ripe battleground for horror: Are we who we think we are, and are we terrified of the things we’re becoming? Or, conversely, should others be terrified of us? In one way or another, the next three films on our Fantasia Festival journey explore those neuroses: two in bloody, suspenseful fashion, the other in quiet, sensitive contemplation. The latter, in fact, might be the closest you might get to something downright cozy at a festival known for ghouls, ghosts, and gore. Returning to Fantasia with the feature-length version of his short of the…

It’s been eight years since the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since then, dozens of states have legalized sports gambling, and the number of participants, and sums at stake, exploded. Americans wagered $13 billion on sports in 2019 and a staggering $167 billion in 2025 — a nearly 13-fold increase. Much of that growth has coincided with the proliferation and aggressive advertising of sports-betting apps, which have made wagering easier and more addictive than ever. In 2024, 19 out of every 20 sports wagers were placed…

Sri Lanka Women host Pakistan Women in the 2nd T20I of the three-match series at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium. The hosts hold a 1-0 lead after pulling off a 6-wicket victory in the high-scoring series opener.Pakistan posted a total of 176/7 in their 20 overs, powered by top-order knocks from Shawaal Zulfiqar (63 off 41) and skipper Muneeba Ali (42 off 24). However, Sri Lanka chased down the target with a ball to spare, thanks to a match-winning maiden T20I century by Imesha Dulani (101* off 64) and a brisk contribution from Chamari Athapaththu (39 off 22).Pakistan will look…

Real Madrid head coach Jose Mourinho has admitted to concerns over his missing players and described his depleted squad as showing “three faces” in their friendly draw with Fiorentina in Austria. Smart finishes by Endrick and 18-year-old winger Alexis Ciria put Mourinho’s new club 2-0 ahead after 24 minutes against their Serie A opponents, only for Roberto Piccoli’s strike before the break and Moise Kean’s header during the second half to secure La Viola a positive result. “[Our] fresh side played very well,” said Mourinho, who is in his second spell as boss after joining from Benfica in June, speaking…