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Emirates Team New Zealand secure Louis Vuitton Cup finals spot
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Job done. Emirates Team New Zealand’s demolition of Italy’s Prada-backed Luna Rossa means that the Kiwis have already secured one of the finalist slots in the challenger series Louis Vuitton Cup as they seek to win the America’s Cup .
Forget the royal baby, look at pictures of this Stormtrooper gatecrashing a historical re-enactment
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Galactic warrior may have turned up at the wrong event
Incredible images show Star Wars’ Tatooine set is about to be eaten by giant Pacman-shaped sand dune
Saturday 20 July 2013
Scientists say Phantom Menace settlement is doomed to follow in footsteps of New Hope set overrun nearby
Cathedrals to an internet age: Google’s new Kings Cross HQ is among the more outlandish designs by online giants
Thursday 04 July 2013
Not so much vaulted ceilings and soaring towers, the British headquarters that Google means to build just north of Kings Cross Station will be more of a soil-hugging affair. To be made of steel, glass and laminated timber with designs meant to echo the industrial heritage of the area, the building will rise only to 11 storeys at its highest but will stretch 330 metres from end to end. That’s longer that the Shard is tall.
Alas, poor Yoda, I knew him, Han Solo: Star Wars rewritten as Shakespearean drama
Sunday 30 June 2013
Star Wars has been rewritten as a Shakespearian drama in a bid to get more children interested in the Bard. It’s a new hope that’s surprisingly inspired, discovers John Walsh
Grace Dent on TV: Bodyshock: The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles, Channel 4
Friday 28 June 2013
It's rude to gawk, but there's something worthwhile in these stop-and-stare documentaries
The master faker of pictures preparing for Mike Leigh's film about JMW Turner
Friday 07 June 2013
Mike Leigh is the latest director to require artist Charlie Cobb's services, for his new film about the great British artist JMW Turner, currently shooting in the UK. Cobb has churned out many fake Turner paintings for the still untitled film, due out in 2014, in which Timothy Spall plays Turner.
Avoiding TV spoilers: It’s a thorny old game
Wednesday 05 June 2013
How on earth are we supposed to avoid big plot twists when everyone keeps tweeting them? Argh!
Star Wars TV series to hit screens in 2014
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Disney has announced it will launch TV series Star Wars Rebels
Organisers use the Force as Star Wars and Doctor Who fans clash at Norwich convention
Thursday 16 May 2013
Trouble flared at the fourth Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia, which was organised by the Norwich Star Wars Club
Review: The Round House, By Louise Erdrich
Sunday 12 May 2013
Teenage kicks on the reservation keep hard times at bay
'May the force be with us': New Star Wars film to be filmed in the UK
Saturday 11 May 2013
Sequel to the original trilogy seized upon by George Osborne as a victory for UK creative industry tax breaks
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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