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Half a decade after a deluge of documentaries exposed the fraudulent Fyre Festival, Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are teaming up to produce a stage show based on the failed Caribbean event. The real-life couple and prolific commercial and independent film director Bryan Buckley announced Fyre Festival The Musical on Monday, which Buckley will direct and serve as book writer, with Waititi and Ora producing alongside Matthew Weaver (We’re the Millers). The new production is described as, “Not just a Greek-sized tragedy of one man’s con. It’s a satirical indictment of an entire generation. Fyre Fest The Musical. It’s about…

Liverpool’s new £125m signing Alexander Isak made his first appearance of the season as a substitute for Sweden on Monday night, but he could not prevent his country falling to damaging 2-0 defeat away to Kosovo in World Cup qualifying.The Swedes, who conceded a 90th-minute equaliser in a 2-2 draw away to Slovenia on Friday, went behind in the 26th minute as goalkeeper Robin Olsen blocked Elvis Rexhbecaj’s shot only for the rebound to fly off the midfielder’s shin into the net.Vedat Muriqi made it 2-0 for Kosovo three minutes before the break and although Sweden brought on Isak, they…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. To celebrate Star Trek Day on September 8, the European Space Agency (ESA) released a video of the Star Trek technology that’s made it real-life space. So while we still don’t have teleporters or deflector shields, ISS astronauts do kind of have tricorders like the one used by Captain Christopher Pike in the first episode of the original series. We’ve also seen the development of technology that resembles Replicators, VISOR, and PADDs. The original Star Trek premiered on network television in the United States on September…

A few years ago, padel was a niche sport known mostly in Spain, the Middle East, and parts of Latin America. Today, it’s becoming one of the most sought-after experiences in high-end travel. From coastal Portugal to the Maldives and across the US, padel courts are appearing as an amenity to travel for, widely in luxury hotels and resorts. But this isn’t just the latest hospitality gimmick—it’s a reflection of changing traveler priorities.“As the fastest-growing sport in the world, with over 30 million players currently worldwide, it’s easy to find a partner almost anywhere you go,” says Jon Krieger, the…

The US Supreme Court has ruled sweeping immigration raids in Los Angeles can continue for now, lifting a federal judge’s order that had barred agents from making stops without “reasonable suspicion”. The Monday ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to conduct record-level deportations of migrants in the country illegally. The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal challenge to the recent immigration sweeps in LA works its way through the courts.The liberal justices dissented, saying the decision puts constitutional freedoms…

A years-long succession battle within Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire has drawn to a close, with his son Lachlan set to control the news group.The deal, which the family announced on Monday, will ensure the ongoing conservative leaning of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post even after 94-year-old Rupert’s death. Under the agreement Lachlan will control a new trust while siblings Prue MacLeod, Elizabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch will cease being beneficiaries of any trust with shares in Fox or News Corp.It follows years of tension between the media mogul and three of his children…

AMD’s FSR 4 AI upscaling and frame-generation technology can now be enabled for “most games that support FSR 3.1 with DirectX 12,” the company says in the patch notes for its newest 25.9.1 driver. This support has been a big promise from AMD, but it’s taken awhile to come to fruition; FSR 4 first launched alongside the company’s RX 9000-series graphics cards back in March.AMD touts FSR 4, its competitor to Nvidia’s DLSS 4, as a “significant leap forward” over FSR 3. “By utilizing ML algorithms, FSR 4 can intelligently predict and compensate for lost pixels during low-resolution rendering, thereby…

Eva Libertad spent months researching the script of Deaf, speaking to deaf women about pregnancy and parenthood for her drama about motherhood and identity. Almost immediately, the Spanish director knew the film needed a labour scene. “For all the women, giving birth had been a very traumatic event,” she says. She heard stories about women in labour not being informed of procedures, or having their hearing partners removed from the room, depriving them of an interpreter as well as support. “I left out some of the most difficult experiences.”Her film gives us a frighteningly realistic birth scene. “Push, push hard,”…

Lucy ManningSpecial correspondent,Helen BushbyCulture reporter andVinnie O’DowdBBC reporterBBCFather Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has told BBC News he stands by his posts on X which led to his arrest last week, over his views on challenging “a trans-identified male” in “a female-only space”.”I don’t regret anything I’ve tweeted – sometimes I’ve tweeted a bit more out of anger, because of the frustration that no-one’s paying attention to this issue,” he told BBC special correspondent Lucy Manning. Speaking about his arrest, he said: “I got very, very angry, because for eight years now, I’ve been standing up for women’s rights and trying…

The Observer’s Rory Smith and BBC Sport chief football news reporter Simon Stone discuss what went wrong for Cameroonian goalkeeper Andre Onana at Manchester United, as he gets set to join Turkish side Trabzonspor on loan.Watch the Monday Night Club on BBC iPlayer, and listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.