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Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis joined director Peter Berg at a special screening of The Mosquito Bowl in New York on Wednesday. The BAFTA-hosted event took place at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin Williams Center, where the stars and filmmaker discussed the new war film during a question-and-answer session following the screening. The Mosquito Bowl follows four football stars in wartime Set after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film follows four leading American college football players who put their sporting careers aside to enlist in the Marines. As they prepare for the invasion of Okinawa, the men take…

A 22-year-old Chicago rapper was killed during an FBI operation in Dixmoor, Illinois, after agents carried out a court-authorised warrant at a home near 145th Street and Cooper Avenue. Chadwick Clark, who performed under the name LoWick, died in the agent-involved shooting at about 7am on Wednesday, 28 October. The FBI said one person was killed and that no federal personnel were injured. Family seeks answers over Dixmoor FBI shooting Federal officials have not said what warrant agents were serving or what prompted the shooting. The circumstances remain under investigation. Clark’s sister, Nia Cole, said her brother had been hiding…

A rare Nanotyrannus skeleton has sold for US$47.3 million (£36.6 million) at Sotheby’s in New York, making it the second-most valuable fossil ever sold at auction. Named Jodi, the specimen was bought after a 12-minute bidding contest involving six contenders. Its final price far exceeded the pre-sale estimate of US$6 million to US$9 million. The sale narrowly missed the fossil auction record, set in July when an exceptional Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Gus sold for US$50.1 million. Jodi is just over half the length of Gus, measuring 19.6ft (5.9 metres) long and 9.6ft (2.9 metres) tall. Nanotyrannus skeleton among…

Hannah Fry’s The Future examined predictions of catastrophe from climate change, pandemics, asteroid strikes and superintelligent machines, but the BBC2 programme’s treatment of artificial intelligence was met with scepticism by its reviewer. The half-hour programme featured Professor Stuart Russell of Berkeley, who warned that AI could strip away the qualities that define human civilisation. “To me, that’s almost worse than extinction,” he said. Russell also cited Alan Turing, describing the computing pioneer as convinced that machines would eventually take control. “There’s no solution, this is just going to happen,” he quoted Turing as saying. The programme presented the warnings alongside…

Asian shares fell after an earnings miss from Alphabet weighed on Wall Street futures, putting pressure on markets across the region. The weaker performance from the technology company dragged US stock futures lower, with the move reverberating through Asian trading.

At least 68 people have died after a Renfe high-speed train crashed into the back of a stationary Iryo service in Toledo province, in Spain’s second fatal high-speed rail disaster this year. The collision happened at about 8.53am on Wednesday, 28 October, between the towns of Urda and Los Yébenes, on the Madrid-Seville line. The two trains were travelling south from Madrid when the Renfe service struck the Iryo train from behind, derailing carriages on both trains. Another 58 people were receiving hospital treatment, according to the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha, while emergency crews continued searching the wreckage for…

A friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon told his murder trial that he sent messages suggesting he might not speak to her again, shortly before Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed in Sydney. Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Baird, a former television presenter, and Davies, a Qantas flight attendant, in Paddington on February 19, 2024. He was a New South Wales police officer at the time. Messages sent before the alleged murders The court heard that Lamarre-Condon contacted the friend, referred to in proceedings as Fiona Rosso, on the encrypted messaging app Signal on February 15. He wrote:…

Serbians stormed a television studio and confronted its editor-in-chief as a student-led protest movement swept into power in national elections, putting renewed focus on media outlets seen as supportive of Aleksandar Vucic. The confrontation came amid a wider reckoning for pro-Vucic media, following the movement’s electoral breakthrough. The incident highlighted tensions surrounding the country’s broadcasting landscape after years of disputed coverage. A regional public broadcaster has apologised for what it described as years of one-sided reporting, fuelling hopes of a new era for Serbia’s media.

The dollar remained steady after the Federal Reserve held interest rates, leaving the future direction of monetary policy uncertain. The decision has made the path for rates less clear, with markets weighing what the Fed’s hold could mean for the US currency.

Harry Shum Jr has said he would like to return for both the planned Glee reboot and the Crazy Rich Asians sequel series, despite not being included in the cast announcements for either project. The 44-year-old actor discussed the possibility after Tuesday’s episode of Dancing with the Stars, where he is competing in its 35th season. He is also filming season 23 of Grey’s Anatomy. Asked about the Crazy Rich Asians series, Shum said: “You know what? I love those two franchises. Obviously, the last of [Crazy Rich Asians] ended on the characters that Gemma [Chan] and I play, so…