Brian Cox throws weight behind Dundee's libraries ahead of national reading celebration

Khloe Kardashian isn’t looking to date any time soon.

estimated $124 million in ticket sales, Paramount Pictures said Sunday. Including international showings, its worldwide total is $248 million.It’s a supersonic start for a film that still has the wide-open skies of Memorial Day itself to rake in even more cash. According to projections and estimates, by Monday’s close, “Top Gun: Maverick” will likely have over $150 million.“These results are ridiculously, over-the-top fantastic,” said Chris Aronson, Paramount’s president of domestic distribution.

Love Island this year.Love Island bosses have been revealing the sexy singletons heading into the Spanish villa a week before the eighth series is set to air on ITV2.One of the hunks looking for a summer of love is 27-year-old real estate agent Andrew.When asked why he's now decided to go on the hit dating show, he revealed that for him it's the "best time to give it a go"He said: "Because I’m actually single for once, so I thought why not? This is the best time to give it a go."Andrew revealed he's a very loyal person which he believes makes him a catch.The singleton admitted that when he's in a relationship he's a very good boyfriend as he's "all for them."It also looks as though the Love Island contestant has a romantic side to him as he once surprised his ex on a trip to Paris.Speaking about one of his most memorable dating experiences he said: "We went out for dinner for her birthday."I pretended that I got her absolutely nothing and she was kind of fuming. "Then I whipped out that, ‘We're actually going to Paris tomorrow’.

Ricciardo was again out performed by teammate Lando Norris, who finished fifth in Monaco and picked up the fastest lap of the race, putting further pressure upon his experienced counterpart after his team already laid down the gauntlet.McLaren chief Zach Brown admitted last week that Ricciardo had not lived up to expectations since joining the team in 2021 and, while he is tied down with the team until 2023, he hinted at an end of the relationship before that by making it clear there were options to terminate that relationship.Now, after further disappointment in Monte Carlo, former F1 driver Ralph Schumacher suggested the team could indeed move on before next season, telling Sky Germany: "The rumours as well as the statements in the team, are getting louder. He’s just too far away from his teammate."I’m curious how the future looks for him.

sex workers' in 2022 should 'wake up to reality'.The adult film star said that conventions were long ago put into place in order to keep women firmly in their place.However, Cindy, who was born in Vietnam but now lives in the US, said that "those days are over".After two years of covid restrictions, Cindy said sex work is more popular than ever."Sex work is more prevalent than ever and people no longer have the power to discredit or stigmatise our career choices,' said Cindy."It's a far cry from when the threat of our ‘secrets’ being ‘outed’ to our families weighed heavily on us."Cindy recounts the time a little more than a decade ago when she was working a 9-5 job at a famous fashion retail store while moonlighting in the evenings as a webcam model to help pay off her student loans and supplement her meagre retail salary.“I kept this night job completely separate from my day job."However, one day I was called into HR and confronted with my profile photo from the cam site."They told me that a customer alerted HR, but I believe it to be someone else who sent the photo to my company, as well as every woman in his family."Even though having this second job wasn’t ‘wrong’, I was shamed by HR - they ‘expected more’ from me - and now that all my co-workers knew about my other job, I found myself in a hostile work situation and had to quit the job."She added: "This was nothing in comparison to my former boyfriend’s family sending me harassing and rude texts… his mother told me I was ruining her family." Now with the rise of OnlyFans, which exploded in popularity during the pandemic, independent content creators became their own bosses and working from home took on a whole new meaning.

Lawrence told the BBC: "I took a Tupperware box containing my baby's remains home from hospital in a taxi, cleared up some space in our fridge and put the box in there." Greenwich and Lewisham NHS Trust say a full investigation is now under way.Laura and Lawrence's heartbreak began when at almost four months into their pregnancy, Laura began bleeding profusely, but after going to University Hospital Lewisham, they were told their baby still had a heartbeat and all was well.But after another scan just days later, doctors told the couple that their baby had died.They were sent home and told to wait for a bed for Laura to come back and give birth their dead baby.Two days later, Laura woke up in agony and rushed to her bathroom.She removed what had fallen into the toilet after realising it was the remains of her baby and said it was then she "saw it was a boy."In utter panic, she ran out and told Lawrence: "Don't go in there." They called 999 but were told it was not an emergency so they wrapped the infant in a wet cloth, put him in a box and took him to A&E.Laura said: "We were put in the general waiting room and told to sit at the back."I was there holding my baby in a tupperware box, crying, with 20 or 30 other people in that waiting room."Laura was told she needed surgery to remove the placenta meanwhile the baby remained in the box.For the latest breaking news stories and incredible tales from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here."Nobody would even open the box and look at our baby," said Laura."It was almost as though no-one wanted to acknowledge it. Because if they did, then they would have to deal with the problem," added Lawrence.

drunken lout has been thrown in jail after allegedly biting her sister's eye out in a drunken vodka-fuelled argument.It is reported that Ashleigh Mason was so drunk on vodka and cans of White Claw that she started to attack her sister while in a car.The incident took place in Salt Lake City, Utah over the weekend.Local news outlets state that 25-year-old Mason grabbed her sister's hair, pulled her into herself and bit her left eye.And shocking, this caused part of her sister's eye to be ripped out in the women's teeth.Having allegedly committed the assault, she then fled the area and ran to a nearby garden where she hid.She was described as being “extremely intoxicated”, and screaming loud enough so that her cover was blown by police and those in the area.Her unnamed sisters eye will need plastic surgery to fix it fully, and it's possible her tear duct has been ripped out, too.Police couldn't confirm that, however, due to the amount of blood at the time.Mason was thrown into Salt Lake County jail on charges of aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, and intoxication, and has a £1,800 bond on her head which has not yet been paid.According to the women's criminal record, available on the Salt Lake Sheriff website, she was arrested in November, 2021, for assaulting a police officer or military service member and a further charge of assault, and in January this year for assault.She was also held in January 2021 for intoxication and disorderly conduct.No medical update has been given on the condition of the sister, yet.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.

Good Morning Britain star took to Instagram over the weekend to issue the warning to her 120,000 followers.She shared a screenshot of the fake profile on her story, asking fans not to “engage” with the person behind it.Ranvir wrote: “This is not me.Someone is asking for money in exchange for my photos. Pls do not engage with it.” (sic)Elsewhere on the social media site, Ranvir was inundated with praise after she announced her latest collaboration with a charity.The journalist revealed she had joined the Refuge charity team to help provide support to victims of domestic abuse.She shared a video of herself in her feed telling her fans how she felt “absolutely thrilled and honoured” to become an ambassador for Refuge.Ranvir added in the caption: “I’ve been wanting this for almost ten years, and now I can say how privileged I feel to finally be part of the @refugecharity family.“I look forward to learning and giving whatever I can to improve the lives of women and children facing domestic abuse.“Call the 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247 for confidential, non-judgemental information and support.

Love Island is set to return on 6 June, and the line up of singletons heading into the villa this year has now been revealed. Those getting set to jet off to Mallorca in search of love include former professional footballer Michael Owen's daughter Gemma.

The lead singer of the Sex Pistols isn’t happy with the new series about the band.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAustralian production and distribution firm Arcadia has begun development of non-fiction best-selling book “Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer’s Tuscan Cookbook” as a feature film.Envisaged in the style of “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” or “Under the Tuscan Sun,” the feature film is currently in development and is being written by Australian film and television writer Katherine Thomson (Amazon TV series “A Place to Call Home,” feature documentary “Women He’s Undressed,” StudioCanal’s upcoming film “Helena!”).Written by two of Australia’s most celebrated cooks and food writers, and published by Penguin, “Tuscan Cookbook,” took readers on a journey, beginning in 1977 when the pair left Australia to open a cooking school in a villa outside of Siena. It records their time in Italy, the dishes cooked, the places visited, people who made it happen and the guests who joined for the ride.

Master P and his family are in mourning.

Bobby Brown speaks candidly about his late ex-wife Whitney Houston, his sobriety, and more in a new interview with Fox News Digital.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVeteran Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio returned to Cannes this year with “Exterior Night,” a limited TV series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists that, prior to playing on pubcaster RAI, is now on release in two installments via Lucky Red in Italian cinemas where it’s doing quite well.Bellocchio, who previously recounted Moro’s still-mysterious abduction in the 2005 film “Goodmorning, Night” from the viewpoint of one of his captors, is taking a different narrative approach in this series consisting  of six one-hour episodes that reconstruct the 55 days of Moro’s imprisonment from different points of view, including that of his family, his fellow high-echelon Christian Democrat politicians, and the ailing Pope Paul VI, played by Toni Servillo. He spoke to Variety about what drove him to revisit Italy’s deepest recent collective trauma and why he thinks the crucial issue of whether the Italian government should have negotiated with the Red Brigades to try and save Moro remains an open question.

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Sex Pistols have released their ‘Pistol Mint Commemorative Coin’ today (May 30) ahead of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee on Friday (June 3).The nickel-plated coin features artist Jamie Reid’s Union Jack flag design on the front, with a high quality decal of his depiction of the Queen sporting a lip piercing on the back.It comes days after the band reissued their controversial 1977 single ‘God Save The Queen’, which includes the lyrics “God save the queen / She ain’t no human being / And there is no future / In England’s dreaming.” The single was seen as an anti-monarchy protest song, released around the time of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in the summer of ’77.Despite being banned by the BBC at the time, the song reached Number One on the NME chart and Number Two on the UK’s singles chart (the track was listed as a blank on the latter to avoid causing offence).The commemorative coin (available here until the end of June), which marks the Queen’s 70th year on the throne, comes in a cushioned sapphire velvet presentation box with the front face design embossed in silver.

Love Island.The nation’s favourite dating show is returning for its eighth series and there is a host of sexy new singletons looking for love.24-year-old Amber, who is a nanny from London, is next in line to head to the famous villa because she feels like "it's the right time."Asked why she thinks now is the perfect time, she said: "I think it just feels like the right time. This year it definitely feels like it’s two feet in.

Michael van Gerwen ahead of the World Cup of Darts after the Green Machine was ruled out with a wrist injury.Van Gerwen has announced he has been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome – pressure on the nerves in the wrists which can cause tingling and numbness in the fingers and hand – and will undergo surgery the day after the Premier League play-offs in Berlin, shortly before the start of the World Cup in Frankfurt.The three-time world champion intends to be back to 100 per cent fitness in time for the World Matchplay in Blackpool, which starts on July 16. Van Gerwen was due to partner Danny Noppert at the World Cup but his place will now go to Dirk van Duijvenbode, who has played at the tournament before, alongside MVG.Van Duijvenbode is a larger-than-life character, who is known for one of the most intense walk-ons in the sport.

This Morning's Alison Hammond revealed she is dating someone new on the popular ITV programme earlier today (May 30th).Alison made a big reveal that she was dating someone "special" after her co-host Dermot O’Leary let it slip about he relationship status, leaving Alison rather flustered after the bombshell revelation.Dermot said: "You're not available anymore are you, but if you were, you'd be a catch", and then gave her a cheeky nudge.Alison replied: "What do you mean 'I'm not available."Dermot appeared to realise he'd put his foot in it, as he then hesitated as he said: "Well, erm, you know."Alison laughed: "I'm available".Dermot exclaimed: "Oh she is available."Alison then joked: "Are you trying to say I'm not available?""Well, I don't know, now I'm really confused, I thought you weren't available," explained Dermot.Alison continued to tease Dermot, saying: "Is there someone in my life?" - and Dermot replied, "I think so".Alison beamed: "Well I think you've just told the whole world", before erupting into a giggle.A red-faced Dermot said: "I think I've just gone down a rabbit hole here".Also then confirmed her relationship status, saying: "I love the way you out me" - there is someone in my life, yes".She then said: "I'm going to tell everyone", gesturing toward the cameras and the viewers at home,."There is a special someone in my life".Dermot then put his head in his hands as he discussed his blunder.He said: "I didn't mean it to come out, I was just saying you were a catch."But Alison didn't seem to be too annoyed at her co-star, as she told him: "Thank you Dermot for telling everybody, but there is someone I'm dating, so it is a bit closed.""But you know what? I want to share it with our family [This Morning

Bosses at Dundee Rep have revealed their pride in the selection of the new Doctor Who.

celebrity cancel culture, which he analogized to a modern-day form of “McCarthyism.” The 75-year-old Laurence Olivier award winner dropped the bombshell during a Thursday appearance on Piers Morgan’s show “Uncensored” on TalkTV.“It is a kind of modern-day McCarthyism really,” Cox told the host of the so-called witch hunt, in which celebs are excommunicated from Hollywood for certain actions and opinions. “It is a kind of raid on people’s sensibilities in order to reduce them and make them… I don’t know, there is so much hypocrisy in the whole thing.”The thespian continued, “I am not religious but there is a thing in the bible where it says, ‘Let he or she without sin cast the first stone’ and there seems to be a lot of casting of stones. And it is like a virus.”Cox was in good company while discussing the negativity of cancel culture with Post columnist Piers Morgan, who recently vowed to wipe out the damning trend.“My mission statement for this show is simple: I’m canceling cancel culture,” Morgan told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” viewers in April.