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Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia launches fiery attack on ‘disgusting’ Gwyneth Paltrow

Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia launches fiery attack on ‘disgusting’ Gwyneth Paltrow

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Colin Firth’s ex-wife Livia has unleashed an angry tirade on Gwyneth Paltrow, after the actor and wellness entrepreneur appeared in an advert for a housing development in Israel. Ms Firth, 56, an environmental activist who advocates sustainability in the fashion industry, called out the Marty Supreme star for taking part in an advert promoting 51 Park, a 51-storey luxury housing complex in Herzliya, a city north of Tel Aviv. The development is around 90 minutes’ drive away from Gaza, and the clip has provoked criticism online, with some social media users condemning Paltrow for publicising high-end property while conflict persists in the region. Ms Firth, who was married to Ms Paltrow’s Shakespeare in Love co-star Colin from 1997 to 2019, revealed that she had …

Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Fiery Setback

Blue Origin Rocket Explodes in Fiery Setback

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on Thursday night during a hotfire test on the launch pad, lighting up the skies around the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In a post on X, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said that all personnel had been accounted for. “It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it,” Bezos wrote. “Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.” What Is a Hotfire Test? The test during which Blue Origin’s rocket—a vehicle that, at 98 meters tall, is one of the largest ever built—exploded is known as a hotfire test, or static fire test. Essentially, it is a standard procedure carried out on the engines of a rocket, spacecraft, or prototype, in which the engines are ignited for a very short period of time and then shut down while the vehicle remains secured to the launch pad. The purpose of this test is to verify that the systems are functioning correctly before an …

Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion | Fiction

Uprising by Tahmima Anam review – a fiery novel of female rebellion | Fiction

‘Yes, you will leave this place,” the chorus of child protagonists in a community of sex workers say at the start of Tahmima Anam’s incantatory and fiery new novel of female defiance, Uprising. “This story will save your life,” we were told three times in Deepa Anappara’s 2020 debut, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, also featuring precarious children dwelling in the margins. What is the distance between imagination and action, lived realities and dreams? How can solidarities be forged in such circumstances? Uprising holds within its pages some answers and a deep conviction – for a better life, a more just world – and then reaches out and fights for it. As a journalist, Anam visited the infamous “floating brothel” Banishanta in Bangladesh; her new novel, set on an isolated island “at the end of the country, in the middle of a river that emptied into the sea”, fictionalises the island’s community and ecological precarity. Here, a generation of daughters grow up watching their mothers trapped in sex work – “we knew that the …

The Strokes end Coachella set with fiery video condemning US and Israeli bombings in Iran and Gaza

The Strokes end Coachella set with fiery video condemning US and Israeli bombings in Iran and Gaza

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The Strokes ended their set at weekend two of Coachella with some politically charged messaging. While the indie rock band performed their song “Oblivius” for the first time in a decade Saturday night, they showed a video montage that accused the CIA of enforcing regime change through political violence and concluded with footage of Israel bombing Gaza and the United States bombing Iran. The video on the massive LED screens alleged that the CIA has been linked to the deaths of foreign political figures, including Panama’s Military Leader Omar Torrijos, former President of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz and former President of Ecuador Jaime Roldós Aguilera. It also gave voice to the conspiracy theory that the U.S. was involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Footage of recent bombings in the Middle East were captioned, “Over 30 universities destroyed in Iran.” Another explosion …

The Strokes end Coachella set with fiery video condemning US and Israeli bombings in Iran and Gaza

The Strokes end Coachella performance with fiery political video condemning US government

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This The Strokes ended their set at weekend two of Coachella with some politically charged messaging. While the indie rock band performed their song “Oblivius” for the first time in a decade Saturday night, they showed a video montage that accused the CIA of enforcing regime change through political violence and concluded with footage of Israel bombing Gaza and the United States bombing Iran. The video on the massive LED screens alleged that the CIA has been linked to the deaths of foreign political figures, including Panama’s Military Leader Omar Torrijos, former President of Guatemala Jacobo Árbenz and former President of Ecuador Jaime Roldós Aguilera. It also gave voice to the conspiracy theory that the U.S. was involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Footage of recent bombings in the Middle East were captioned, “Over 30 universities destroyed in Iran.” Another explosion …

In fiery speech, Pope Leo says ‘Enough to war!’

In fiery speech, Pope Leo says ‘Enough to war!’

“DELUSION OF OMNIPOTENCE” Responsibility also fell to the “immense multitude” that rejects war, Leo said, urging them to build a “Kingdom of peace…in our homes, schools, neighbourhoods, and civil and religious communities.” “A Kingdom that counters polemics and resignation through friendship and a culture of encounter. Let us believe once again in love, moderation and good politics.”  The pope described the Kingdom of God as a “bulwark against that delusion of omnipotence that surrounds us and is becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.” It also was a place with “no sword, no drone, no vengeance, no trivialisation of evil, no unjust profit, but only dignity, understanding and forgiveness.” Leo painted a grim picture of the current state of the world, “where there never seem to be enough graves, for people continue to crucify one another and eliminate life, with no regard to justice and mercy.” Pope Leo, who was elected pontiff last May following the death of his predecessor Francis, is moderate and known as a bridge-builder. But he has been increasingly denouncing the conflicts dividing …

Bob’s Burgers star shares health update after sustaining ‘serious injuries’ in fiery crash

Bob’s Burgers star shares health update after sustaining ‘serious injuries’ in fiery crash

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Eugene Mirman, the voice of Bob’s Burgers’ Gene Belcher, has assured fans he is recovering after being involved in a fiery car crash earlier this week. On Tuesday, the Russian-born voice actor, 51, crashed his 2026 Lucid Gravity into the Bedford Toll Plaza on the Everett Turnpike in New Hampshire. State police said that they received calls that “indicated the vehicle had caught fire, and someone in the vehicle appeared to be trapped.” Mirman was pulled from the wreckage by a state trooper and bystanders and was transported to the hospital with “serious injuries,” according to a police press release. In an Instagram post shared Friday, Mirman spoke out for the first time since the accident, expressing his gratitude “for all the well wishes, love and kind messages from friends and strangers.” “I am extraordinarily thankful to the heroic people that …

Bob’s Burgers star Eugene Mirman in hospital with ‘serious injuries’ after fiery car crash

Bob’s Burgers star Eugene Mirman in hospital with ‘serious injuries’ after fiery car crash

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Actor and comedian Eugene Mirman has been hospitalised after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash at a toll plaza in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The crash took place just before noon when his 2026 Lucid Gravity struck a toll plaza in Bedford and caught fire, according to the New Hampshire State Police. They added that calls made to the emergency line “indicated the vehicle had caught fire, and someone in the vehicle appeared to be trapped”. The police identified the driver as Yevgeny Mirman, a 51-year-old Massachusetts resident, and said he was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital with “serious injuries”, according to a press release from the department. A veteran state trooper who had been assigned to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte’s security detail arrived at the scene and saw that the vehicle was “actively on fire” with …

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vows vengeance in fiery first statement

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vows vengeance in fiery first statement

Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, issued a fiery first public statement Thursday, vowing to keep blocking the vital Strait of Hormuz oil trade route and attacking neighboring countries that host U.S. military bases. The written statement was one of defiance, even as President Donald Trump indicates that he would like to wrap up the conflict soon as global energy markets face an economic shock from the strait’s closure. The health and current whereabouts of the new leader, 56, are still both unclear, after Iranian state TV previously indicated he had been wounded in the wave of U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, and several of their relatives. Even on Thursday, state TV offered no explanation for why Khamenei did not appear in person, with only a written statement attributed to him read out by an announcer. Israel has previously indicated it would target anyone appointed to succeed the slain elder Khamenei, and experts suggest the written statement poses less security risk to the new supreme leader …

The Heat line-up: Meet the cast in Olivia Attwood’s fiery new series

The Heat line-up: Meet the cast in Olivia Attwood’s fiery new series

Olivia Attwood is back on screens in an exciting new reality series, The Heat. The new show, launching tonight on ITVX, sees 10 ambitious chefs travel to Barcelona, working under multi Michelin Star chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, who is opening an exclusive summer restaurant and is on a mission to find the next rising star. But this is no MasterChef, because each day when the kitchen service is over, the cameras keep rolling… From post-shift dates to staff nights out, there is no escaping The Heat… So, who are the young hopefuls taking part? Read on to find out more about the cast of The Heat. The Heat line-up: Meet the cast of new ITV2 reality series Akito Akito. ITV Age: 24 Location: Cheshire Akito has fused his love of cooking with content creation, building a massive audience and racking up millions of views with his high energy, fast-paced takes on chef life. His cooking career began at just 16 years old, when he entered fine dining restaurants as a kitchen porter before working his way up …