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Aussie who calls himself “the coriander of comedy” is back with the follow-up

it should see Simmons return to the outright cod-surrealist madcappery

it should see Simmons return to the outright cod-surrealist madcappery

it should see Simmons return to the outright cod-surrealist madcappery

on the eve of a court hearing

court hearing which threatened to expose details of their tumultuous relationship to public glare.

Both actors issued a joint statement drawing a line under a saga

Both actors issued a joint statement drawing a line under a saga which has appalled, titillated and divided the film industry and fans.

Both actors issued a joint statement drawing a line under a saga which has appalled, titillated and divided the film industry and fans.

“Our relationship was intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love,”

high-priced lawyers to battle over lurid claims of jealous paranoia, drunken rages, manipulative greed and a severed fingertip.

manipulative greed

a severed fingertip

a violent row in Australia which disrupted filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

a violent row in Australia which disrupted filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

the comedy veteran has said he is delighted with the accolade.

Mayor Lionnel Luca made his municipality the third to outlaw the garment as a “provocation”

hey see as absurdity in adding the new category of “religious offences” to their usual roster of “promiscuity offences”

hey see as absurdity in adding the new category of “religious offences” to their usual roster of “promiscuity offences”

mayor Christian Estrosi has thrown down a gauntlet to the Socialist prime minister, Manuel Valls.

“does the government intend to take to fight these phenomena which you yourself denounce?”

But there is no liberty to subjugate women.”

it has become yet another flame in the murderous tinderbox of Islamism in France,

our words “laity” and “secularism” fail to express the depth of allergy to all things theocratic, which is endemic to French societal fabric since the revolution.

the Islamist onslaught against France

Most French people wonder how much more they can take – but brace themselves for more

inflammatory language about “infidels” and “unbelievers”.

burkinis are “part of an encroachment by Islamist extremism in this area

When his doctor told him that his lack of eyelids was destroying his sight, that was the last straw.

no one had successfully transplanted as much face and scalp tissue before

All my efforts have gone down the drain because the contest won't take place.

Wszystkie moje wysiłki poszły na marne, bo konkurs się nie odbędzie.

Mrs May says her government will abide by the results of the vote and intends to open exit negotiations with EU colleagues next year.

a feud between the ministers in charge of the main Brexit departments

Theresa May is clearly running scared from parliamentary scrutiny of her Brexit negotiations.

The apparent reluctance of Vogue to engage with genuinely disabled models offers a snapshot of society’s problem

Bolivian authorities accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials of the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike

Bolivian authorities accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials of the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike

this social network has in fact made the lives of billions of people more open and transparent, and made segments thereof more exposed to the public

subjects of labour (natural resources and raw materials)

Profile information can quite often contain misleading or faulty information.

the top 50 websites in Serbia that we use there are in 46% of the cases some of the Facebook cookies embed.

he stoked tensions with Mexico over the issue of immigration

his aggressive but muddled language on immigration

He also told the crowd that he would introduce "extreme vetting" of immigrants.

Mexico will not pay for the wall the New York tycoon wants to build.

His policy stances could represent a huge threat to Mexico, and I am not prepared to keep my arms crossed and do nothing

“Donald Trump has made his outlandish policy of forcing Mexico to pay for his giant wall the centrepiece of his campaign,”

You don’t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon.

On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer.

This is how Barack Obama remembers courting Michelle Robinson in 1989.

against the backdrop of southside Chicago in the late 1980s.

Some critics have praised the film and others have been lukewarm.

Obama’s conservative foes are likely to dismiss the film as propaganda

It comes at a wistful moment for the president’s admirers.

The contrast with his predecessor, George W Bush – whose final year in the White House was greeted by Oliver Stone’s scathing biopic, W – could not be starker.

The contrast with his predecessor, George W Bush – whose final year in the White House was greeted by Oliver Stone’s scathing biopic, W – could not be starker.

Bush was seen boozing, going to war on a flimsy premise and threatening the family legacy.

At the end of the Bush years, we get a denigration

Another film is imminent

Obama is far from the first president to be lionised – or demonised – by Hollywood.

I think the rule of thumb is to wait for 10 years.

Not every politician, however, reads and watches coverage of themselves as assiduously as Trump does.

The remarkable story of Phiona Mutesi, the chess prodigy from one of Kampala’s poorest slums who has inspired a major new Hollywood movie

I first met Phiona Mutesi in September 2010 sitting on the mud stoop of her family’s shack

I first met Phiona Mutesi in September 2010 sitting on the mud stoop of her family’s shack

at the age of nine she could neither read nor write and had dropped out of school

they’d been robbed of all their meagre possessions

a room with no windows and a tin roof

a tin roof so dilapidated that every rainstorm flooded the shack

a tiny charcoal stove,

two musty mattresses for the entire family to sleep on

Katwe in the south of Uganda’s sprawling, smoggy capital city of Kampala,

Kampala, emerged in the mid-20th century as a place for poor artisans

during the rainy season is regularly flooded with raw sewage

he was an illegitimate child

His mother died when he was around eight and he embarked on an odyssey of despair.

he lived much of his childhood on the run, scrounging for food

Within a year of learning the game, mostly through trial and error, it became evident that Phiona had a special gift

During her earliest games, she played recklessly

when her plane ascended through a cloud bank into the sun and blue sky

when her plane ascended through a cloud bank into the sun and blue sky

They also fielded some odd questions: did you stay indoors or in the bush?

Coach, I will be a grandmaster some day.

It was a trip both triumphant and sobering.

She is still unfailingly humble

She spends holidays at her mother’s newly constructed house in a lush valley several kilometres outside Kampala

benefiting only a select few and upending society.

the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests”.

Today the machinery question is back with a vengeance, in a new guise

Today the machinery question is back with a vengeance, in a new guise

Thomas Carlyle, writing in 1839, railed against the “demon of mechanism”

“oversetting whole multitudes of workmen”.

$2 trillion in efficiency gains from the deployment of self-driving cars and drones.