Arcade Fire continue to tease new material with sheet music and postcards

Russian forces encircle the key strategic target of Mykolaiv, on the road to the Black Sea, the man in charge of the city's defences warns that the attacking troops “will become dog food”.Ukrainian General Dmytro Marchenko, who is in command of the garrison at Mykolaiv, vows that his men would kill ten Russians for each civilian killed in the battle for the major Black Sea shipbuilding centre.One Russian attack has already been repelled, and General Marchenko says the streets are littered with Russian dead.“It’s unpleasant to say this,” he told The Times, “but their corpses are food for stray dogs.“We’re not able to retrieve them because of continuing Russian fire in those areas.”He added that many civilians had been killed in the Russian assault, and he knew precisely who was responsible.“We know who these people are,” he said. “We have a vast amount of intelligence, including much from our American partners, that consists of photos where we can see faces.

Valve’s recently released Steam Deck now has a quite simple way for players to install the Windows operating system on the device.The portable PC has been said to be able to run other operating systems, and now Valve is helping users easily get Windows running on the device as well. Users can find all the resources to get the operating system working on the handheld here.Valve has noted that there’s no dual-boot yet on the Steam Deck, as the SteamOS hasn’t been updated to let players choose between that and Windows.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Peaceful,” Emmanuelle Bercot’s Cesar-winning melodrama which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has landed domestic distribution with New York-based banner Distrib US.Sold by Studiocanal, the movie is headlined by Benoit Magimel and Catherine Deneuve (pictured). Magimel, who won the Cesar Award for best actor — beating fellow nominee Adam Driver — stars as a man dying of cancer.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorPeople who are interested in CNN Plus finally have a date when they can add it to their streaming repertoire. The WarnerMedia-owned cable-news outlet intends to launch the subscription broadband service on March 29.The detail — perhaps the last piece of information to be disclosed about the new media venue — comes ahead of a presentation CNN executives and anchors will make during the SXSW Festival this weekend.

Kristen Stewart is hitting the streets of NYC.

Sam Heughan gushed about working with Canadian icon Celine Dion in the upcoming rom-com “Text For You” on Thursday’s “Watch What Happens Live”.

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

Police have issued an appeal for information after four terrifying knife-point robberies over just two days in Bury town centre.

The Apprentice viewers left stunned during the latest episode as Lord Alan Sugar was forced into a show first.

A mum says she was left in tears after discovering a vile fat-shaming note left on her car in her local ASDA car park.

job after discovering she can earn a staggering £1,000 per week from her former side hustle. Atlanta Martin, 21 from West Sussex had worked as a flight dispatcher before deciding to pick up a second job in July 2019.

COVID disaster relief on a rare Pokémon card.Vinath Oudomsine allegedly lied to a US government loan program set up to provide funds to businesses affected by COVID-19. He claimed he ran an entertainment services business with ten employees and a turnover of $235,000 (£179,200).

LCD Soundsystem have added two new dates to their upcoming Brixton Academy residency. Tickets are available here.The residency is being held to celebrate the “platinum” 20th anniversary of the first time they performed live in London in 2002 at Arthur Baker’s ‘Return To New York’ and Erol Alkan‘s ‘Trash’ parties.The O2 Academy Brixton run will now take place from June 27-29 and then July 1-3, with the extra dates being June 27-28. The dates are the band’s first UK shows in over four years and tickets are available here.Last month the group announced that they will play four nights in a row at Philadelphia’s Franklin Music Hall from March 28-31, and four nights at Boston’s Roadrunner from April 3-6.We’ve added two more dates in London.

NME journalist Gavin Martin, who has died.The news was reported by Louder Than War earlier today (March 11). A cause of death has not yet been confirmed.Born in 1961, Martin was first published in the NME letters page when he was just 13-years-old before moving to London as a teenager to work at the magazine alongside Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons and Danny Baker.Martin wrote U2‘s first-ever NME cover interview in 1981 ahead of the group releasing their second studio album, ‘October’, later that same year.

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has shared an update on the film adaptation of her 2021 memoir, Crying In H Mart.As announced in June last year, the musician is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation and the soundtrack under the moniker, Japanese Breakfast.Speaking to Consequence about her progress on the film, Zauner said: “So I actually just finished the first draft of the screenplay.“My producers really like it, so hopefully the revision process won’t be too brutal. And yeah, hopefully that will come out sometime in the next couple years.

Willie Nelson's sister and bandmate, Bobbie Nelson, has died. She was 91. Bobbie, who was a pianist, singer and a member of the band Willie Nelson and Family, passed away Thursday morning, "peacefully and surrounded by family." "Her elegance, grace, beauty and talent made this world a better place.

Sharna Burgess posted a new maternity photo to her Instagram on March 10. The pic appears to have been taken during a recent trip to Hawaii, with Megan and her boyfriend, Brian Austin Green, on the beach as the sun sets in the background. In the photo, Sharna is wearing a white cutout dress, which hugs her growing baby bump at her midsection. Brian is dipping her down and planting a kiss on her lips, while gently cradling her stomach to show off the bump.

Rosalia, 28, is a name that’s been taking the music world by storm over the last year and with a gig as the musical guest for the March 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, she’s about to get even more attention. The Spanish singer-songwriter will team up with host Zoe Kravitz for the comedy sketch show and it’s just one of many fantastic opportunities she’s been getting lately. With over 18 million followers on Instagram, she’s definitely making her mark in a big way and we’re ready to see what else she has in store!

"Deltacron" has been officially identified as a coronavirus variant.

family while going through the process to build your own.Talking about doing this herself, parent Stacey, an accountant from Cornwall, told money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk: "My husband and I had been trying for a couple of years to conceive but it wasn't happening for us even though we both have one child from previous relationships."We looked at adoption, fostering and IVF and decided to try IVF."I looked up several different clinics to get an idea on price and even looked abroad as the costs really vary across the country even just hours apart."I ultimately always wanted to donate my eggs though, I saw a documentary as a teenager about it in America and it really stuck with me which is why it was really the first thing I looked at when we found we needed IVF."She continued: "The cost reduction wasn't actually something I knew about until after doing the research into UK egg sharing."We ended up doing one collection and two lots of putting eggs back. Had we paid for everything it would have cost between £6000 and £8000."However we only ended up paying around £2000.

NASA has told how it has spent the last month preparing for an asteroid impact.The confession was made during the Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise – which is the fourth gathering of several space experts in recent years.Although it was not clear whether or not the organisation is actually worried about an impending impact.Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer at NASA Headquarters, said: “While NASA has previously led and participated in simulated asteroid impact scenarios, this specific exercise marked the first time an end-to-end simulation of this type of disaster was studied, to include assessing a scenario from discovery of the asteroid impact threat through the aftermath effects of its hypothetical impact with Earth.“An asteroid impact to our planet is potentially the only natural disaster humanity is capable of accurately predicting and preventing.“Conducting exercises of this nature enable government stakeholders to identify and resolve potential issues before real-world actions to respond to an actual asteroid impact threat would ever be needed.”While there are no predicted asteroid impact threats to our planet for the foreseeable future, this exercise - hosted by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland - focused extensively on United States federal and state government coordination that would be necessary to respond to such a threat should one ever be discovered.Over the course of two days, multiple government agency officials worked through a detailed hypothetical scenario in which astronomers “discover” a simulated asteroid, designated 2022 TTX, that has a probability of impacting the Earth six months after its discovery.As more information was revealed to exercise