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2026-07-22 06:06:03 (1 week ago)

'Play music loud to remember Ozzy' says Sharon on first anniversary of his death

Sharon Osbourne shares with the BBC her memories and hopes for the future.

RT News - Top Stories

2026-07-22 06:05:43 (1 week ago)

Ukraine hits two more Russian retailer warehouses

Ukraine has hit two more Wildberries warehouses, leaving workers injured, the retailer’s founder Tatyana Kim and officials have said 
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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-22 06:04:40 (1 week ago)

Opposition parties shut down Indian parliament in solidarity with ‘cockroach’ protests

Proceedings suspended as politicians call for Modi government to address police violence and education scandals

India’s opposition parties have shut down parliament in a protest calling for the resignation of the education minister, in solidarity with the new youth-led “cockroach” movement.

Opposition politicians, led by the Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, gathered outside the parliament building in Delhi on Wednesday, many dressed in black and waving placards calling on Dharmendra Pradhan to quit.

Daily Sabah - World News

2026-07-22 06:04:00 (1 week ago)

Iran war already cost US $37.5 billion yet Pentagon asks for more

The ongoing Iran war has cost the United States an estimated $37.5 billion so far, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed Tuesday, up from a previous estimate of nearly $29 billio...

ABC News - International News

2026-07-22 06:03:52 (1 week ago)

A protest movement is challenging India's establishment. What to know about the 'Cockroaches'

A joke has turned into a major protest movement in India, challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi Hindu nationalist’s government

Fox News - Politics

2026-07-22 06:00:47 (1 week ago)

GOP gov claims swing-state opponent's agenda carries $18B price tag in explosive report as key midterm nears

Aaron Ford's policy proposals carry an estimated $18.1 billion price tag over four years, requiring billions in new taxes, a Lombardo report claims.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-22 06:00:45 (1 week ago)

Cyclospora outbreak: Is it still safe to eat at restaurants? Here's what to know

A food policy professor reveals why diners shouldn't fear restaurants during the cyclospora outbreak but should take key precautions with leafy greens.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-22 06:00:44 (1 week ago)

Prince William, Kate Middleton wrestled with major decision over Prince George's future: expert

Prince George passed Eton College entrance exams with "no special treatment," as Prince William and Kate Middleton reportedly debated the boarding school choice.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-22 06:00:31 (1 week ago)

Nigerian pastor highlighted by Trump says he’s next after militia kills his relatives

Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo says Fulani militia killed nine of his family and now threatens his life as the State Department condemns Christian persecution.

Fox News - Politics

2026-07-22 06:00:24 (1 week ago)

State Department rips revolutionary socialist Nicaraguan regime as far-left leader ends country's elections

Daniel Ortega declared Nicaragua will never hold elections again, prompting the State Department to condemn the Murillo-Ortega dictatorship.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-22 06:00:14 (1 week ago)

Pinocchio: Unstrung review – public domain slasher turns beloved puppet into sick serial killer

Like the grisly Winnie-the-Pooh films, the latest in the Twisted Childhood Universe franchise offers feeble satire and shock-free ‘horror’

The so-called Twisted Childhood Universe, a bad-taste British slasher franchise, continues to get mileage out of turning beloved kids’ characters into sicko serial killers. After a pair of satanic Winnie the Pooh movies, we now get a cash-in of Pinocchio, directed again by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, and like the Pooh duo, it’s a nasty piece of work. Cheerfully nasty, in fact, as it goes for black comedy laughs by bumping off characters in grisly drop-a-dumbbell-on-your-face scenarios. But it’s not-so-nice nasty as well, by being smirking and unpleasant; the kind of film that makes a joke out of the overweight kid puffing on an inhaler.

The setting is a stately pile in the English countryside where inventor Geppetto (Richard Brake) lives with his preteen grandson James (Cameron Bell), whose parents were killed in an accident. James has also tragically lost a friend to childhood cancer. So Geppetto makes him Pinocchio, carved of out of wood and brought to life – a friend who will never die. Like Chucky in the Child’s Play movies, Pinocchio is a creepy doll with a malevolent little face and rictus grin – nicely in fact. Poor James is terrified when they meet, but the two become fast friends. And there are some juvenile gags as Pinocchio learns about real boys, noting in an encyclopedia that Geppetto has missed a vital bit of anatomy. One day, James sneaks Pinocchio into his school bag, and tells him not to move. But when James is picked on by bullies and mutters, “I wish they were all dead,” Pinocchio does not stick to instructions.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-22 06:00:13 (1 week ago)

Go woke, get rich: why rightwing hate campaigns don’t affect the box office

After a bigoted online backlash, led by Elon Musk, The Odyssey achieved a monster weekend – the latest example of a targeted takedown that didn’t work

• The Odyssey: jaw-dropping action, dark magic and dolphin cameos – discuss with spoilers

Elon Musk was a man on a mission. Yes, he’s supposedly intent on colonizing Mars, or the moon, or maybe, if you give him some more time to move the goalposts, just a really, really tall mountain, but this spring, a more pressing task presented itself, a sequel to his early-2026 mission to post white supremacist rhetoric: take down Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which he decided was the latest of “woke Hollywood’s” attempts to spread racial animus (towards white people, of course) and win Oscars while doing so. Nolan, Musk explained to the trade publication Variety, was “pissing on Homer’s grave”, referring to the author of the film’s epic-poem source material.

As the final phases of the movie’s promotional campaign ramped up, Musk posted dozens of times on his self-owned social media platform with grievances related to the casting of Lupita Nyong’o (a Black woman) and Elliot Page (a trans man) in the movie, often spreading false statements about this casting existing to satisfy new Oscar requirements. (As detailed here, those new Oscar diversity requirements are extremely flexible, and often satisfied by studio-wide programs that have nothing to do with casting. The Odyssey did not need to hire Oscar winner Nyong’o to be eligible for awards.) Musk may be a divisive-at-best figure who large swaths of the population do not take seriously, but he commands enough attention and adulation from a vocal minority that plenty of online accounts were soon parroting his willful misunderstanding of Hollywood and The Odyssey. Many of them abruptly and hilariously zeroed in on the 2004 movie Troy – which the right flank of social media suddenly decided was a beloved masterpiece, rather than its own, far greater distortion of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad.