Jury selection underway in second R Kelly trial

Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard has told NME about how the creation of the band’s upcoming tenth album ‘Asphalt Meadows’ made them “feel like a new band”, while also revealing that one of the album’s tracks took 25 years to complete.The band are releasing their follow-up to 2018’s ‘Thank You For Today’ this Friday (September 16) via Atlantic, and so far it has been previewed by the singles ‘Foxglove Through The Clearcut’, ‘Roman Candles’ and ‘Here To Forever’.Work on what would become ‘Asphalt Meadows’ began prior to the pandemic, but Gibbard told NME that the opportunity that was given to the band to “get off the touring treadmill” during the COVID lockdowns changed the album they were making for the better.“I remember specifically saying to my wife, at some point in January 2020, ‘I just wish I had a year off’,” the singer recalled. “The band had intermittent things planned that year, but there were a couple of own goals I had [made] too.

Muse have shared details of a 2023 European tour with Royal Blood – see the full list of dates and ticket details below.The summer shows will be in support of their latest album, ‘Will Of The People’, and see the Devon-formed rock band play stadiums across Europe. It follows details of the UK leg of the tour, which also see the band joined by Royal Blood.Tickets for most of the new European dates go on sale this Friday (September 16) at 10am local time while the French shows go on sale September 22 at 10am local time.

Easy Life have announced details of a 2023 UK and European headline tour featuring their biggest gigs to date – get full details below and find out how to get tickets here.The Leicester band are set to release new album ‘Maybe In Another Life’ next month (October 7) after production delays pushed the record back from a planned July release.The band have now revealed that following the album’s release they will tour across the UK and Europe in early 2023, with the extensive set of gigs including their biggest headline show to date at London’s Alexandra Palace on February 25.“it’s happeninggg,” the band wrote on Twitter when announcing the gigs. “We are taking the easy life show on the road – UK, Ireland and Europe.”They added: “this is our biggest tour yet and we are bringing out the big guns.”General sale tickets for the show go on sale from 10am BST on Friday, September 16 here.

Hollywood actor Paul Walker.After his devastating car accident in 2013, Meadow captured the hearts of the public with her dazzling smile and stunning good looks.Meadow's beloved dad passed away when the Porsche Carrera GT they driving were in slammed into a pole and erupted into flames.READ MORE: Vin Diesel walks Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow down the aisle during her weddingAt the age of just 16 meadow took Porsche to court and filed a wrongful death lawsuit.She said that the car her dad was in with his friend had a faulty engine and there were issues with the seatbelts that left the pair in the burning car for one minute and 20 seconds.Meadow and Porsche reached a resolution in her wrongful death lawsuit for an undisclosed amount two years later. Today (September 12) would've been Paul's birthday, so here at Daily Star we're taking a look at some of Meadow's most glamorous snaps that would make her dad proud.Meadow stunned fans with this post on Instagram in which she looked ready for the autumn season.

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday, September 19.King Charles III is the country’s new King, with him and Prime Minister Liz Truss travelling across the UK during the national period of mourning.Every royal is coming together for this time of grief, but there are more members of the family that some realise.In fact, some have spotted Sophie Winkleman , who plays Big Suze on Peep Show, at events, shocking fans of the cult classic Channel 4 comedy series.The last thing viewers would expect is for her to be a royal, but the actress married into the family years ago.On September 12, 2009, Sophie Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor, making her Lady Frederick Windsor.They tied the knot at Hampton Court Palace in London.Frederick is the son of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, making Sophie a legitimate member of the Royal Family through marriage.He is 53rd in the line of succession for the British throne.They have two children together, six-year-old Isabella Alexandra May and nine-year-old Maud Elizabeth Daphne Marina WindsorSophie’s famous family doesn’t end there either, as she is the half-sister of Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman.They share the same dad, Barry Winkleman, who published the Times Atlas of World History.Sophie’s mother is author Cindy Black, while Claudia’s is tabloid journalist and editor Eve Pollard.Yes, Sophie is still acting together, continuing to use her maiden name instead of her Royal title.For UK audiences, Sophie is best known for her role as Big Suze in Peep Show, the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Jez, played by Robert Webb.American viewers may know her best from Two and a Half Men, where she played the character of Zoey from 2011 to 2015.More

READ MORE: Fit gran, 64, wows in post-workout snap as she flexes toned body in gym gear Lauren Wood, who has over 74,100 Instagram followers, explained how it can take just one thing to achieve a healthy weight loss. Posting to her fans on Sunday evening, the Brit wrote: "Want to know how to lose fat? "It's all down to one single thing: Calorie deficit."She claimed fad diets, like keto, are just ways of lowering your daily calorie intake to make you be in a deficit.

Fulham summer signing Willian has revealed that part of his reason to end his Corinthians dream return was down to abuse that was suffered by his daughters. The Brazilian made the move back to the Neo Quimica Arena - where he began his career as a 10-year-old. After leaving in 2007 for Shakhtar, his grand return in 2021 was heralded as a major coup - 14 years after his departure.But it became quickly evident that neither party were happy with each other with fans getting on the winger's back for what was perceived as a number of poor performances.

Twitter after he correctly predicted the date of the Queen's death as he also gave a warning about King Charles III.Logan Smith, who posts on social media as @logan_smith526, initially tweeted back that the Queen would die on September 8, 2022, back in July which tragically became a reality on Thursday.Now, the tweet is going viral as people are concerned that the bloke's prediction for King Charles III's death will come true too as he claims the new monarch will die on March 28, 2026.READ MORE: Piers Morgan praises 'selfless' Princess Anne who 'never gets enough credit'Smith has since made his Twitter account private after the post started to gain traction. Screenshots of the post have been shared all over social media platforms including a TikTok by @zukosburnteye which shows her looking shocked about the post.

Emmerdale’s Sandra Flaherty might not be all she’s pretending to be – in more ways than one.Liv’s mum came back on the scene earlier this year intending to swindle her daughter out of her inheritance money, and has been working on splitting up her marriage to Vinny Dingle ever since.With Sandra determined to get her daughter back on the booze after months of fighting to stay sober, fans are desperate for someone to expose her cruel plot.READ MORE: Emmerdale’s Mack mystery partner ‘confirmed’ – threesome twist and ‘not a woman’But things might not be all as they seem, as eagle-eyed viewers think they’ve rumbled a key DNA twist which could throw another spanner in the works.Some fans have suggested that Sandra isn’t Liv’s biological mother at all, and has just been posing as such to get closer to her.Taking to Facebook, one user wrote: “Don’t know if this is the truth but I heard a while back that Aaron comes back and exposes Sandra as she’s not really Liv’s mum!”Another quickly agreed: “Yes, Aaron susses her out trying to fleece his sister. Can’t wait for her to leave!”Someone else posted: “Oh wow, I hope it’s true – can’t wait for that!”Meanwhile, it has also been suggested by some soap sleuths that Sandra could instead be biologically related to Vinny as well as Liv, making her even more determined to split them up to avoid any incest.Vinny was raised by his dad Paul Ashdale, with his adoptive mum Mandy meeting him when he was just nine months old and raising him as her own.

Playstation and Xbox in 2023, Assassin's Creed Mirage will be set in Baghdad, Iraq during the city's golden age in 861 AD. It follows Basim Ibn Ishaq's origin story from street thief to master assassin.

The ongoing R Kelly trial was dominated last week by the testimony of the star’s former business manager Derrel McDavid, who is a co-defendant in the case. He is accused of helping Kelly cover up the star’s sexual abuse of minors in the 2000s, but – he repeatedly insisted on the witness stand last week – at the time he genuinely believed that all of the musician’s various accusers were lying.For that claim to be credible, McDavid needed to convince jurors that he had never closely scrutinised the various sex tapes involving Kelly that were leaked and then retrieved during the 2000s, including the one that was at the centre of the musician’s 2008 trial.

Chris Brown’s lawyers had a productive week last week with not one but two song-theft lawsuits settled. Having brought to an end a dispute with music firm Greensleeves in relation to his 2017 track ‘Privacy’, the Brown legal team also told the courts that a separate lawsuit in relation to 2019’s ‘No Guidance’ was being dropped.Singer Braindon Cooper and producer Timothy Valentine sued Brown last year claiming that ‘No Guidance’ rips off their 2016 track ‘I Love Your Dress’.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent The San Sebastian Festival opens on Sept. 16 with a bang: Alberto Rodriguez’s “Prison 77,” most probably the biggest Spanish film of 2022, the latest title from one of the Spain’s most preeminent auteurs and a foretaste of one possible future face of Spanish cinema, thanks to Movistar+. “Prison 77” begins as a fish-out-of-water jail survival thriller. Manuel, in 1977, a young accountant, played by Miguel Herrán (“Money Heist,” “Elite”), is sent to Barcelona’s legendary Modelo penitentiary pending trial for embezzlement.  It grows, however, for all of its length, as a character-driven tale of psychological observance, as Miguel gradually befriends Pino, his seen-it-all cell mate, who just wants a quiet life.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In the first shot of “OffWorld” (“Apagon”), the camera focuses on Ernesto – balding, serious, tired, lost in thought. It then pulls back to reveal the whole of his office, a computer-screen packed rom at an emergency intervention unit. The shot says much about the latest series from Movistar+, “Off world,” which world premieres in Official Selection at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival and in turn speaks volumes of the ambitions and priorities of Telefonica-owned Movistar+, Southern Europe’s biggest national pay-TV/SVOD service.  Produced with Buendía Estudios, “OffWorld” presents five stories which place very different individuals in the same context, a world where there’s no electricity thanks to a massive power outage; things taken for granted like phones and the internet don’t work. 

A federal prosecutor and the defense attorney for Robert Sylvester Kelly made their opening statements as his second federal trial began in Chicago on Wednesday. Kelly currently faces charges of child pornography and obstruction of justice alongside two additional defendants, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown. “The defendant… had sex with multiple children,” Assistant United States Attorney Jason Julien told the jury today, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and rose to pop music stardom, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the singer's trial on charges accusing him of enticing girls for sex and rigging a 2008 child pornography case. Kelly’s lead attorney implored jurors during her opening statement at the federal trial in Chicago not to accept what she said was the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as "a monster." Going back to the 1990s, much of the world knew Kelly solely by his hit songs, including the chart-topping inspirational anthem "I Believe I Can Fly," U.S.

R. Kelly’s fiancée and victim, Joycelyn Savage, is firing back at his attorney’s claim that the couple are not having a child together.

R. Kelly‘s fiancée, Joycelyn Savage, says she’s expecting a baby with the incarcerated 55-year-old singer, even though his legal team has denied this.

R. Kelly's fiancée, Joycelyn Savage, says she's expecting a baby with the incarcerated 55-year-old singer, even though his legal team has denied this.Savage shares her sonogram and tells ET that she's five months pregnant and is having a baby girl. «I'm very excited,» she says.As for why Kelly's lawyer, Jennifer Bonjean, told E! that Savage is not pregnant with the singer's child, the 26-year-old says that «his lawyer didn't know that prior to him going to jail, Robert and I were doing IVF because at the time I was told I couldn't have a baby.»«When he got sent to prison, we paused on it and I had them freeze my eggs until I was ready,» Savage tells ET.

As it turns out, R. Kelly is NOT having a child with reported fiancée Joycelyn Savage — at least, that’s what his team is now saying days after the woman first revealed she was supposedly pregnant.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterR. Kelly’s second trial got underway in a courthouse in Chicago on Monday, as his defense lost a bid to exclude potential jurors who have seen the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R.