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Why I separated from my wife – Actor Kunle Afod

The estranged couple started their relationship in 2002 and exchanged marital vows in 2005. The marriage produced children.

Michael Parkinson wasn’t as confident as he looked, documentary reveals

The famous chat show host’s journey from an English mining town to Australian screens and back is detailed in a documentary now screening at the British Film Festival.

Young dancers enthrall audience at Kaladarshini cultural festival in Vijayawada

Tell us: how are you celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights?

We’d love to hear from people in India and around the world about how they are celebrating Diwali We’d love to hear from people in India and around the world about how they are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights.

British comedian and actor Russell Brand found guilty of rape

Prosecutors labeled Brand a sexual predator, he was charged in sexual assault cases spanning from 1999 to 2009.

Elke Sommer obituary

Glamorous star of 1960s films best known for her role opposite Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark Like Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren, the German actor Elke Sommer was part of the postwar crossover wave of European stars who pepped up the tail end of the Hollywood studio era. With her beehive hairdo and an upturned nose she was initially self-conscious about, Sommer brought freshness and gameness to her most celebrated role: as Maria Gambrelli, the maid whom Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau goes out of his way to exonerate of murder in the 1964 comedy A Shot in the Dark.

Three Ghanaian authors to represent country at Sharjah International Book Fair

Three Ghanaian authors, Oswald Okaitei, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie and Ruby Goka, will represent Ghana at the 2026 Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. The trio, who previously represented Ghana at Storymoja, one of Africa’s biggest and most prestigious literary festivals in Kenya, are expected to exhibit their works alongside those of other Ghanaian authors, participate in sessions at the fair and host a special Ghana Book Reading session at a selected venue in Sharjah.

Davido, Kwesi Arthur, Kweku Smoke, Lasmid, others billed for 2026 Tidal Rave Festival

It’s another year and Tidal Rave Festival is taking over the shores of Accra with hitmakers Davido, Kwesi Arthur, Kweku Smoke, Lasmid and other amazing artistes, MCs and DJs. Next Saturday, Africa’s biggest beach festival, Tidal Rave Festival, is getting ready to welcome Ravers to the beach for another exciting experience on 14th November, 2026.

KiDi to headline first ‘Crazy World’ concert at Ghud Park on December 4

Award-winning Ghanaian musician KiDi is set to stage his first flagship headline concert, dubbed Crazy World, on Friday, December 4, 2026, at Ghud Park, Accra Mall. Crazy World is a KiDi live experience brought to audiences by Black Boy Joy Music and powered by Rhythms Africa.

Bassvictim: Peace + War review – like a thrillingly chaotic house party that goes on too long

(VOTB) ​On their fourth buzzy project in two years, the gobby and combustible US-Polish pair are best when they’re leaning into the roughness of their sound Even by the standards of an age in which artists are encouraged to maintain a constant stream of new releases to ensure that they maintain a continual presence in an attention-deficit economy, there’s something pretty startling about Bassvictim’s work rate. The duo – Polish singer Maria Manow and Brooklyn-born producer Ike Clateman – really don’t give the impression of a band built for longevity.

Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting

Is that an explosion, an implosion or an orgasm? Pixies bass-player Emma Richardson’s realm-leaping life in painting.

Tamil Nadu’s wildlife conservation initiatives against country-made guns, on AI-based elephant warning system win awards

Following two consecutive elephant deaths by illegal gunshot injuries in 2022, a conservation campaign titled: ‘Ozhippom Thuppakkiyai, Kaapom Yanaigalai’ (Eradicate Illegal Country-made Guns, Save Elephants) was launched at Hosur Forest Division.

Stravinsky: The Firebird album review – Rattle revels in colour, crackles and bites

Bavarian Radio SO/Rattle (BR Klassik) Simon Rattle has recorded the Russian master’s fairytale ballet twice before, but this version has considerable gains, not least in Rattle’s engaging half hour talk about it Simon Rattle and Stravinsky’s fairytale ballet go way back.

Raise the Red Lantern review – Gong Li gives a decade-defining performance in an addictively ruthless masterpiece

Gong simmers with rage, loneliness and humiliation as the ‘fourth mistress’ navigating the intimate political savagery of her husband’s compound in Zhang Yimou’s 1991 thriller Revisiting Zhang Yimou’s grippingly addictive psychological drama from 1991, adapted from a novella by Su Tong, is a reminder of what a great impact this movie made on western audiences. Like Jung Chang’s memoir Wild Swans from the same year, Raise the Red Lantern opened our eyes to 20th-century China’s secret theatre of cruelty and misogyny; elaborate domestic rituals of submission and servitude coexisted with…

CS Amudhan’s ‘Tamizh Padam 3,’ starring Shiva, goes on floors

Launched in 2010, ‘Tamizh Padam’ is a spoof comedy franchise that parodies popular Tamil cinema tropes and characters

‘Children were wearing fake life jackets’: one Syrian family’s terrifying, 10-year journey

In 2015, two film-makers first met 11-year-old refugee Israa, forced to abandon Aleppo for a new life in Europe, along with her parents and siblings. Wife-and-husband documentary-makers Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes met Israa while filming a BBC series, Exodus, about refugees trying to reach Europe.

Herbert Blomstedt, renowned conductor with a seven-decade career, dies aged 99

The much loved Swedish-American musician, particularly known for his work with the San Francisco Symphony and Leipzig Gewandhaus, continued performing until earlier this year Born in Massachusetts, US, in July 1927 to Swedish parents, the musician grew up in Sweden and Finland.

JoyNews’ Nana Boakye Dankwah Yiadom shortlisted for 2026 AMDF Journalist of the Year Award

JoyNews’ Nana Boakye Dankwah Yiadom has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 Africa Media Development Foundation (AMDF) Journalist of the Year Award in the Television category. The award presentation will take place during the 10th Africa Conference on Development Journalism (ACDJ2026), scheduled for December 2 to 4, 2026, in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Channel 4 axes Married at First Sight UK over rape allegations

Decision follows reviews of two allegations of rape during filming and one of sexual misconduct Channel 4 has axed its money-spinning reality show Married At First Sight UK, after female participants made allegations of rape and sexual misconduct during its production. The broadcaster announced the decision following two reviews that were ordered after two women alleged they were raped during the filming of MAFS and a third alleged she was subjected to a non-consensual sex act.

‘By the time the abuse ended, I was 16, and a husk’: how Johnny Daukes survived his childhood – and fought back

Daukes was an outgoing 10-year-old when he met boys’ club leader John Phillips. Then he found out his brother had been abused by Phillips too In early 2020, Johnny Daukes found an old storage box in his loft with a big black folder inside marked Toxic Hazard.

‘It’s so glossy and sexy!’: 10 movies (and one TV show) that inspired Grand Theft Auto

As GTA 6 looms, we look at the films that have influenced Rockstar’s creatives, from Heat to Bonnie and Clyde, via Boyz n the Hood and Speed Grand Theft Auto is arguably the most cinematic video game series ever made. Here then are the movies (and TV show) that have shaped the GTA experience, from the 1996 original to this year’s inescapable instalment.

India's costliest film retells a beloved Hindu epic - but divides critics

Easily the most anticipated Bollywood film of the year, Ramayana: Rise of a Legend is the first of two parts.

Think of England review – far-fetched tale of state-sponsored second world war porn turns deadly serious

Writer-director Richard Hawkins (who scripted Paul Greengrass’s The Theory of Flight) imagines that during the second world war the British government commissioned porn films to be shown to troops as a morale-boost. This is supposedly based on an “urban myth” whose existence does not appear to be evident other than in online material relating to this film – although Britain’s Political Warfare Executive (PWE) is known to have dropped pornographic leaflets over Germany to damage enemy morale, crudely depicting wives cheating on absent soldier husbands, etc.

Sherrock’s synthetic success over Littler and why Netflix’s darts special felt so dissatisfying

Gary Lineker announced at the conclusion of Netflix’s Beat Luke Littler on Friday night. Indeed, as a result of her historic run to the third round of the world championship at Alexandra Palace in late 2019, she may still be the second most famous darts player in the country, after Littler himself.