Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza plays a woman who turns to crime to pay the bills - and realises she's good at it, and enjoys it - in new movie Emily The Criminal.
The young man who attacked a Malaysian police station and killed two officers was a recluse and believed to have acted on his own, despite suspected links to the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group, the country's home minister said Saturday. The man stormed a police station in southern Johor state near Singapore in the early hours of Friday with a machete. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution called it a “lone wolf attack,” based on the initial investigation, and said there was no threat to the wider public.
DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Kola Bah used to earn a living as a tour guide in Mali's historic city of Djenné, once a center of Islamic learning known for the sprawling mud-brick mosque that has been on the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. The Grand Mosque of Djenné — the world’s largest mud-brick building — used to draw tens of thousands of tourists to central Mali every year. Now it's threatened by conflict between jihadi rebels, government forces and other groups. Bah says his income w
Ana Dias scored in her first start and the Portland Thorns earned a 2-0 weather-delayed win over the Houston Dash on Friday night in the National Women's Soccer League. Olivia Moultrie added a second goal to give the Thorns (6-3-1) their club-best six wins in a row. After a two-and-a-half-hour weather delay at Shell Energy Stadium before kickoff, the Thorns came out strong. Janine Beckie's shot went off the post, and Dash goalkeeper Jane Campbell made four saves on 11 shots to keep it scoreless
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) — Hundreds of dedicated pitmasters are sweating through the smoke as they compete to see who will be crowned “best in pork” at this year's World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, Tennessee. Considered one of the premiere cooking competitions in the U.S., the contest dates back to the 1970s. But as the so-called culinary sports expanded beyond local home cooks, the competition is fiercer than ever. This year's competition started on Wednesday and runs throu
The mother of five said her children took her to a tattoo and piercing parlor on Mother's Day
Blues are looking to hold off Manchester City to deliver the perfect trophy send-off for Emma Hayes
Cornish Gems has been voted one of the best place travel firms to work for in the UK, has 200 luxury properties in its portfolio.
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Edible oil droplets trap bugs without the harm to people and wildlife that synthetic pesticides can cause
Salted caramel made with bacon fat? Surely not! Then again, whyever not?
Nadeem, 57, an academic, meets Anona, 59, an environmentalist
Mark Damon, who has died aged 91, enjoyed two bites at the Hollywood cherry, first as a toothy B-movie performer, then as a financier and producer of several worldwide hits, including Das Boot (1981) and The Lost Boys (1987).
INTERVIEW: Twenty years ago, Anna Jones was one of Jamie Oliver’s TV apprentices; now she’s made a name for herself as a vegetarian cookbook queen. She tells Hannah Twiggs why she chose her own kitchen over life as a chef
THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The actor talks to Charlotte O’Sullivan about objectification, weight loss, the return of family sitcom ‘Trying’ and how acting with his co-star Esther Smith ‘elevates the show’ for him
IN FOCUS: Social media has started to normalise wrinkle-smoothing injections in the young – whether they actually have wrinkles or not. But some experts warn that supposedly minor tweaks may be a slippery slope to long-term facial modification, writes Katie Rosseinsky
Vladimir Putin began the second day of his trip to China on Friday by laying a wreath at the memorial to Soviet soldiers who kicked the Japanese out of Manchuria in 1945. Then he went to Harbin, the Chinese terminus of the trans-Siberian railway, to address an industry forum.
This impressive dessert is like a Bomb Pop on a plate!
CAR REVIEW: We should applaud and cherish cars like this, writes Sean O’Grady. They are part of a dying breed. Small may no longer be beautiful, but there is still an answer for those who desire more traditional urban transport
STATE OF THE ARTS: Whether it’s Poirot’s vanity or Nero Wolfe’s agoraphobia, detectives have always had their vices, writes Nick Hilton. But as Inspector Rebus returns to screens for the first time since 2007, should there be a reappraisal of the troubled detective trope?
‘People can be quite selective about ‘authenticity’ in drama,” shrugs Anjana Vasan. “Nobody seems to mind if a prince of Denmark or a duke of Verona speaks like he went to Eton.” But she notes that more questions get asked when somebody with a different skin tone takes on roles in plays by Shakespeare and Ibsen. “People speak about the Western canon being so great that it can speak to anyone. Then they think it’s surprising that somebody like me can see themselves in that world.”
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