No disrespect to the more high-minded entries, but a ripe genre detour can often be just what you crave during an intensive festival. Paolo Strippoli’s The Spiral (L’Estranea) scratches that itch with a psychological thriller seeped in supernatural horror, dread and vicious satire of middle-class Italians who would sooner sell their souls to the devil — or some random woman in a hospital chapel — than risk the embarrassment of damaged children. Led by a nail-biting performance from Jasmine Trinca and wicked support from Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, who really should play bad-bitch emissaries of evil more often, this is juicy entertainment that ought to travel well.

The UK government was forced to pay the highest interest rate for a 30-year bond since 1998 on Tuesday, underlining the fiscal challenges facing the chancellor, John Healey.

Echoing the global bond market sell-off that has driven up yields, or interest rates, on government borrowing across the main markets, the Treasury paid 5.82% to borrow £4bn.

The Smithsonian Institution’s secretary, Lonnie Bunch III, will retire at the end of the year amid Donald Trump’s attacks on the museum’s content and independence.

Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 as the first African American to lead the museums, cited personal reasons for departing, while acknowledging the pressure that the president’s attacks on the Smithsonian’s depictions of US history had taken.

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Nintendo revealed a special Zelda foil cover, a themed Switch 2, and console accessories with a prompt to pre-order now

War is once again descending on Yemen, a country once described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

The country is currently experiencing its most serious spell of fighting since 2022, when a United Nations-brokered truce halted eight years of a war that had killed tens of thousands of people.

LEGO has officially revealed the LEGO Icons Bookstore: Book Nook, which is set to release on October 1. At 1,690 pieces, it's the largest book nook LEGO has released to date and is an 18+ set stacked with tiny details.

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We know the next-generation BMW M3 will come as a 1,000-horsepower electric sedan alongside a gas version, but BMW is now teasing the M Performance 3 Series that'll presumably be a lot more attainable. Seen in official BMW photography going through its final tests in France is the new M350, the successor to the current M340i.

Officials in Florida on Tuesday identified the five people killed in Saturday’s Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami international airport – and said two more remained hospitalized in critical condition.

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Generative AI is becoming a routine part of how many students conduct research, create projects and solve problems. While GenAI can make learning more accessible and efficient, it can also make it easier for students to accept plausible-sounding errors, skip important reasoning or rely on technology before developing their own understanding.

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The great Jim Cramer is often found of saying, "It doesn't matter where a stock has been, only where it's going."  It's fantastic advice, and worth remembering when looking at shares of Vertiv Holdings.