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Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save themBulgarian authorities have been accused of ignoring emergency calls and obstructing efforts to rescue three Egyptian teenage boys, who later died in sub-zero te...
World » 15 hours ago
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World » 11 hours ago
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Lifestyle » 16 hours ago
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Entertainment » 16 hours ago
The latest in our series of writers highlighting their favourite feelgood watches is a tribute to Albert Brooks’ 1991 fantasyIn a world where we venerate the actor-writer-director (Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen etc), the great Albert Brooks still feels widely underapprecia...
Entertainment » 15 hours ago
Despite regular adrenaline spikes, this post-apocalyptic action movie also reminiscent of Gareth Edwards’s Monsters is too derivative to develop an identity of its ownAn efficient post-apocalyptic thriller, Elevation subscribes to the Quiet Place school of action streamli...
Entertainment » 14 hours ago
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Entertainment » 13 hours ago
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Entertainment » 12 hours ago
A film festival at a Melbourne planetarium will immerse viewers with a giant curved screen above them – showing dinosaurs, floating heads, and the entire cosmos...
Lifestyle » 16 hours ago
Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.After asking the mother of a sic...