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Anna Wintour, the outgoing editor-in-chief of Vogue, has addressed Meryl Streep’s performance as a formidable glossy fashion-mag editor widely perceived to be based on her in the 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada.Based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger, who previously worked as Wintour’s assistant, the film starred Anne Hathaway as an aspiring reporter who secures a post as a lackey to the ice-cold editor of fictional publication Runway.“I went to the premiere wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about,” Wintour said to New Yorker editor David Remnick on…

The opening week of the NFL’s regular season is always fun for a couple of reasons. First off, we get football back in our lives. Second, we can wildly overreact to all of what unfolded in Week 1. For instance, Daniel Jones has to be the favorite for NFL MVP now, right? After all, he just led the Indianapolis Colts on scoring drives on every single possession against Miami. What about the Kansas City Chiefs? They’re done after dropping the opener against the Chargers! Of course, both are silly decrees to make, and are over-the-top examples to say that not…

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Published On 11 Sep 202511 Sep 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareA nationwide wave of antigovernment protests swept across France, filling streets with smoke, burning barricades and tear gas as demonstrators rallied against budget cuts and political instability.The “Block Everything” campaign created a formidable test for President Emmanuel Macron and transformed Sebastien Lecornu’s first day as prime minister into an immediate crisis.While the movement did not achieve its goal of total national disruption on Wednesday, it successfully paralysed significant portions of daily life and ignited hundreds of flashpoints throughout the country.Despite deploying 80,000 police officers who dismantled barricades and…

Utah Valley University:On behalf of Utah Valley University, we are shocked and saddened by the tragic passing of Charlie Kirk, a guest to our campus. Our hearts go out to his family. As we grieve with our students, faculty, and staff who bore witness to this unspeakable tragedy, UVU campuses will be closed from September 11-14.

The emotive song will appear on Uchis’ Sincerely: P.S. deluxe album Kali Uchis has shared a new single, “Cry About It!” featuring Ravyn Lenae. The track heralds Uchis’ upcoming Sincerely: P.S. deluxe album, out Sept. 26 via Capitol Records. The doo-wop-inspired ballad sees Uchis crooning, “Too bad, so sad, you should cry about it/ Llora, llora, hasta que ya te deje de doler/ Too bad, so sad, go cry about it.” Lenae adds her vocals to the chorus. The duo appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase the single live shortly before dropping the track. Sincerely: P.S. is a follow-up to Uchis’ most recent LP, Sincerely,…

“I felt quite lost,” says the goalkeeper Elaha Safdari. “I didn’t know anyone, but little by little football gave me the strength and power to start again, to start from zero, to build, to keep going and to keep pushing myself forward.”It is four years since a 17-year-old Safdari arrived in England, part of the Afghanistan women’s development team evacuated first to Pakistan then to the UK after the US withdrawal of troops and the concession of power to the Taliban.Nazia Ali, a strong, fast and physical midfielder for the senior Afghanistan side who was evacuated to Australia, also as…

Weather forecasting was still banned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act when the Met Office was founded in 1854Forecasting the weather used to be less scientific and more magical, to the point that practitioners could be accused of witchcraft.The mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria drew up tables of planetary motions in the second century. Ptolemy was a notable pioneer in astronomy, but went too far in his conclusions about planets influencing our atmosphere. He devised a complex set of calculations to determine their supposed effects on the weather, in a branch of astrology known as astrometeorology. Continue reading…

What we know so farFor those just joining us, here’s a recap of the day’s events as we’ve been bringing you the news of the killing of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. Kirk, a 31-year-old influential ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot on Wednesday while speaking at a university in Utah, triggering a manhunt for a lone sniper who the governor said had carried out a “political assassination”. Authorities said they still had no suspect in custody as of Wednesday night, about eight hours after the midday shooting at Utah Valley University campus in Orem during…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.John Lewis’s half-year losses widened to £34mn, with the UK retailer blaming an upcoming tax on packaging and higher national insurance contributions that came into effect earlier this year.The employee-owned company, which runs 36 department stores, as well as the Waitrose supermarket chain, posted a loss before tax and exceptional items of £34mn for the six months to July 26, compared with a loss of £5mn during the same period last year. New chair Jason Tarry, who is spearheading a revival after a…