Actor Marisa Abela, 29, has spoken out about her thyroid cancer diagnosis in 2020 when she was 23.

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The actress, now 29, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2020

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K-pop band to start tour in April after nearly four-year hiatus due to all seven members needing to complete South Korea’s mandatory military service

The BTS comeback is upon us: the K-pop septet has announced a 2026-2027 world tour, kicking off in South Korea in April and running through to March 2027 with more than 70 dates across Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Europe.

The tour marks the group’s first headline performances since their 2021–22 Permission to Dance on Stage tour.

9 April and 11-12 April – Goyang, South Korea

17-18 April – Tokyo

25-26 April – Tampa, Florida

2-3 May – El Paso, Texas

7 May and 9-10 May – Mexico City

16-17 May – Stanford, California

23-24 and 27 May – Las Vegas

12-13 June – Busan, South Korea

26-27 June – Madrid

1-2 July – Brussels

6-7 July – London

11-12 July – Munich

17-18 July – Paris

1-2 Aug – East Rutherford, New Jersey

5-6 Aug – Foxborough, Massachusetts

10-11 Aug – Baltimore

15-16 Aug – Arlington, Texas

22-23 Aug – Toronto

27-28 Aug – Chicago

1-2 Sept and 5-6 Sept – Los Angeles

2-3 Oct – Bogotá, Colombia

9-10 Oct – Lima, Peru

16-17 Oct – Santiago, Chile

23-24 Oct – Buenos Aires, Argentina

28 Oct and 30-31 Oct – São Paulo

19 Nov and 21-22 Nov – Kaohsiung, Taiwan

3 Dec and 5-6 Dec – Bangkok

12-13 Dec – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

17 Dec, 19-20 Dec and 22 Dec – Singapore

26-27 Dec – Jakarta

12-13 Feb – Melbourne, Australia

20-21 Feb – Sydney

4 March and 6-7 March – Hong Kong

13-14 March – Manila, Philippines

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Wood wins the award for fiction for his ‘utterly immersive’ novel Seascraper while Perry picks up the nonfiction prize for her memoir Death of an Ordinary Man

Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper.

Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man took the nonfiction prize. Jamila Gavin was awarded the children’s fiction prize for My Soul, A Shining Tree.

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Peut-on captiver les fans de Game of Thrones sans dragons ni magie ? C'est le défi auquel fait face A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, une petite série d'à peine six épisodes, d'une durée unitaire allant de 30 à 40 minutes. Basée sur le roman court Le Chevalier errant de George R. R. Martin, la série met le paquet sur le duo hétéroclite composé de Duncan et l'Œuf (Egg). Un pari audacieux, mais réussi, malgré un récit trop court et un faux pas de réalisation qui casse l'élan final.

A murderous Clockwork-Orangey gang take on the zombies in this gruesome and energised fourquel. It’s the finest of the 28 franchise by a blood-curdling mile

It’s very rare for a fourquel to be the best film in a franchise, but that’s how things stand with the chequered 28 Days Later series. In this one, which follows immediately on from the previous episode, 28 Years Later, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell bring pure death-metal craziness. There is real energy and drama in this latest iteration of the post-apocalyptic zombie horror-thriller saga, created by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland back in 2003, with Nia DaCosta taking over directing duties for this film. Fiennes’s dance to Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast is basically one of the most extraordinary moments of his career. At the screening I attended, we were on our feet, looking for a speaker bin to headbang into. The band surely has to rerelease this track with Fiennes’s performance as a new official video. His Voldemort was never so freaky.

It is just so exhilarating to see this intergenerational face-off between such superb actors as Fiennes and O’Connell. That brings us to the point of my agnosticism about this whole franchise; Bone Temple is the best for an interesting reason – because the zombies are almost entirely irrelevant and are at a minimum. The always slightly dull business of zombieism is de-emphasised, and what counts is the conflict between sentient human beings. Even the one important zombie here is interesting because he is being transformed into something else.

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Peut-on captiver les fans de Game of Thrones sans dragons ni magie ? C'est le défi auquel fait face A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, une petite série d'à peine six épisodes, d'une durée unitaire allant de 30 à 40 minutes. Basée sur le roman court Le Chevalier errant de George R. R. Martin, la série met le paquet sur le duo hétéroclite composé de Duncan et l'Œuf (Egg). Un pari audacieux, mais réussi, malgré un récit trop court et un faux pas de réalisation qui casse l'élan final.

Quelques mois seulement après 28 ans plus tard, retour triomphant de la saga créée par Danny Boyle et Alex Garland, 28 ans plus tard : Le Temple des Morts transforme l'essai. Le film, cette fois réalisé par Nia DaCosta, raconte beaucoup de choses sous le prisme du gore et de l'âpreté. Voici notre critique, sans spoilers, de cette nouvelle épopée, à découvrir dès le 14 janvier 2026, au cinéma.

Quelques mois seulement après 28 ans plus tard, retour triomphant de la saga créée par Danny Boyle et Alex Garland, 28 ans plus tard : Le Temple des Morts transforme l'essai. Le film, cette fois réalisé par Nia DaCosta, raconte beaucoup de choses sous le prisme du gore et de l'âpreté. Voici notre critique, sans spoilers, de cette nouvelle épopée, à découvrir dès le 14 janvier 2026, au cinéma.

As southern fried sleuth Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig is apparently still enjoying the hell out of a franchise that allows him to build more space away from a certain, comparatively dour secret agent. Read More