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Hollywood actor Will Smith travelled across Antarctica with former Wales rugby star turned global adventurer Richard Parks as his guide, in a new series which sees him visit all seven continents. Parks said teaching the Fresh Prince of Bel Air star about the Earth’s southernmost and coldest continent for the show was “special”. The ex-Dragons…

A man has been charged after a group of masked men entered a vehicle and stole a watch worth about £450,000 and cryptocurrency of more than £1m. Two men and three women were travelling in the car in Oxford on the afternoon of 4 November when the men clad in face coverings got inside. They…

Fifa will finally release its much-anticipated return to video games in 2026, several years after its acrimonious split with developer EA. But it is Netflix, rather than a major game studio, which has secured the rights to the upcoming football game. Once one of the most profitable brands in gaming history, issues including a costly…

For years, scientists have warned that bird flu – better known as H5N1 – could one day make the dangerous leap from birds to humans and trigger a global health crisis. Avian flu – a type of influenza – is entrenched across South and South-East Asia and has occasionally infected humans since emerging in China…

US President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela – a move denounced by Caracas as “warmongering threats”. Trump wrote that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government had been designated a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO), which had also engaged in “Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking”.…

Five days after a gunman killed two people and injured nine others at Brown University, officials have still not identified a suspect, leaving the community on edge. Investigators in Rhode Island have released a photo of an individual they believe was in close proximity to their primary person of interest. The photo comes a day…

Canada’s population dropped by 76,068 between July and October – a contraction driven mainly by limits on immigration, the federal statistics agency has said. The decrease was due mainly to a drop in non-permanent residents, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday, and comes after Ottawa set a goal to restrict temporary residents to 5% of the…

The Academy Awards will begin streaming exclusively on YouTube in 2029, the latest big change in Hollywood. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the announcement on Wednesday, saying that it signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars until 2033. The Oscars, which is planned…

Warner Bros Discovery has told its shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s $108.4bn (£80.75bn) takeover bid. Paramount had said its offer was”superior” to a $72bn deal that Warner Bros struck with Netflix for its film and streaming businesses. But in a dramatic plot twist in the story of who will take control of one of Hollywood’s…

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has asked a federal court to vacate or amend her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. Maxwell, a former British socialite, claims that “substantial new evidence” has emerged from civil cases, investigative reports and other documents demonstrating that she did not receive a fair trial, according…