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Catherine O’Hara was honoured during the Emmys’ In Memoriam segment, with her former on-screen children Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy paying tribute to the acclaimed actress. Culkin, who starred alongside O’Hara in the Home Alone films, recalled calling her “mama” and said she had felt like a mother figure to him as well as being a mother to her own children. Murphy and Levy also spoke about O’Hara’s lasting influence on their lives and the impact of her death. O’Hara died in January from a pulmonary embolism. She also had rectal cancer at the time. Her career included…

Technology leaders have called for a slower pace of artificial intelligence development, warning that increasingly powerful systems could outstrip the safeguards designed to control them. President Donald Trump, however, has rejected the idea of putting the brakes on the industry and insisted the United States must press ahead. The clash has placed Anthropic chief executive and co-founder Dario Amodei at the centre of a growing debate over the future of AI. In an essay published on Saturday, Mr Amodei argued that the industry should “pace the frontier” to give researchers more time to improve safety measures and understand the behaviour…

Macklemore says he has been removed from Ed Sheeran’s North American tour after voicing support for Palestine during a performance at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. The US rapper claimed Sheeran told him that Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, had objected to his appearances and that other stadium owners had joined the opposition. Sheeran has not publicly commented, and a replacement support act has not been announced. Macklemore made the comments during his Instagram response to the dispute, while insisting that he and Sheeran remained friends. He said the British singer had told him Kraft called to say…

Indian police have launched an investigation after a woman biker shared video appearing to show a car ramming her motorcycle following an alleged confrontation with the driver. The footage has raised questions about road rage in India, although the circumstances leading up to the incident remain disputed. The driver’s lawyer said his client “got a bit agitated because the bikers were pestering him”.

China’s factory output growth quickened in August, while retail sales growth slowed, presenting a mixed picture of activity in the world’s second-largest economy. The contrasting performances point to stronger industrial production alongside weaker momentum in consumer spending during the month.

Nicole Kidman was the target of a joke during Mariska Hargitay’s opening monologue at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, after the host borrowed lines from the Australian actor’s famous cinema advertisement. Hargitay, best known for playing Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, began the ceremony with a pre-recorded musical number before arriving on stage at the Peacock Theatre. Instead of singing the words to I Love Rock ’n Roll, she performed a spoof version titled I Love TV Screens. Backup dancers wearing television sets on their heads carried her on to the stage. “The…

An 80-year-old man has been accused of shooting a door-to-door salesman in the back during a confrontation in a gated community in Scottsdale, Arizona. Patrick McBride was arrested after the salesman was found with a gunshot wound in the lower back near Pima Road and Hawknest roads on Sunday afternoon, 13 September. He was taken to hospital in a stable condition after telling officers he could not feel his legs. Police said the man had been riding a Segway while offering window-washing services to residents. According to court documents, McBride told him to leave the private community before later going…

First-homebuyer mortgage applications have plunged by 20% in a year, marking their sharpest fall since 2022 as sales of newly built homes also decline. The downturn has raised questions over Labor’s Budget plans to increase housing supply, with weaker demand from prospective first-time buyers adding to pressure on the new-home market. Mortgage applications from first homebuyers are now in their worst freefall since 2022, while sales of brand new homes have “tanked”, according to the figures. The figures cast doubt on whether the Government’s Budget measures will achieve their aim of boosting the supply of housing.

Elizabeth Holmes has appeared to share a glamorous selfie on X despite being imprisoned, prompting millions of views and a series of apparently witty replies from her account. The photograph shows the disgraced Theranos founder, 42, wearing full make-up, a black-and-white top and a snake ring while blowing a kiss at the camera. It was accompanied by the message: “The answer to every challenge lies in your heart.” By Monday night, the post had been viewed more than 12 million times. The account told one user that the ring was “from a Taylor Swift merch stand” and responded to another…

A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked a Trump administration rule that would have imposed fixed time limits on visas for international students, academics and foreign journalists. Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV ruled that the administration’s justification for replacing the existing system was arbitrary and unlawful. The current arrangements allow international students in the United States to remain until they complete their studies. Under the proposed international student visa rule, students, researchers, professors and other academics would have been limited to four years in the country. The change would have had a significant impact on many PhD students, whose courses…