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A new city centre park and hundreds of new homes across Salford and Stockport are the major developments in Greater Manchester this week.

Naman Ramachandran The 19th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival has wrapped in Yogyakarta (Jogja), Indonesia, with local feature “Yohanna” dominating the Indonesian Screen Awards while Neo Sora’s “Happyend” secured the festival’s top Golden Hanoman Award. “Yohanna,” directed by Razka Robby Ertanto, collected five honors including best film, director, storytelling, performance (Laura Basuki, Kirana Putri Grasela, Iqua Tahlequa), and cinematography (Odyssey Flores). Truong Minh Quy’s “Viet and Nam” took home the Silver Hanoman Award.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patrick Dempsey joined their Dexter: Original Sin castmates and a group of Yellowjackets stars at the Paramount+ CCXP Talent Welcome Party on Friday (December 6) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

MGMT playing ‘Kids’ while still college students – check it out below.Back in 2003, the band’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser were calling themselves ‘The Management’ and one day while still students at Wesleyan University, the pair set up a gig on campus and played songs to their friends and peers.Footage from this performance has resurfaced this week and sees the band performing early versions of songs that would go on to become some of their biggest hits, like ‘Kids’ as well as a cover of Talking Heads‘ ‘This Must Be The Place’.The previously unseen videos of the set were uploaded to YouTube by user Rad Scientist, who said they found the footage “on an old drive” that they thought was “gone forever.”Other songs in the set included: ‘Money to Burn,’ later included on their 2005 demo album ‘Climbing to New Lows’ as well as ‘Funky Legal Beats’ and ‘I Am One of the Smartest Apes in the World.’Check out the videos here:MGMT spoke to NME back in February about their latest album, ‘Loss Of Life’, which came out on February 23.Vocalist Andrew VanWyngarden said of himself and bandmate Benjamin Goldwasser: “We’ve grown and changed a lot as people but I think our new album is proof that we have the same creative spark we had when we met.

Is Apple Martin a “mean girl,” as some say online? One debutante is coming to her defense!

Emiliana Betancourt SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from Season 3, Episode 3 of “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” now streaming on Max. Pauline Chalamet’s character Kimberly in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” is no stranger to severely humbling experiences. She is endearingly naive and well-intentioned, but sometimes her overeagerness to do good leads her to some hilariously cringe-worthy scenes.

Active Campus co-ordinator at Dumfries and Galloway College, Connor McGeorge, has been appointed as a paralympic performance academy coach with British Curling.

K.J. Yossman Caleb Azumah Nelson is set to write, direct and executive produce the BBC adaptation of his debut novel “Open Water.” The eight-part series will be produced by Mam Tor Productions (a Banijay U.K. company) and B-Side Productions.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Paisley to call for an end to violence against women and girls.

TR Knight is headed back to Broadway in the upcoming production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow!

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Wilde, Kelly Rowland, Ali Wong and Demi Lovato were among the celebrities who helped 500 underserved Los Angeles students celebrate the holidays Tuesday at BMO Stadium. Hosted by Baby2Baby and sponsored by Nordstrom, FRAME and LAFC, the event saw children in first through third grades pick out new toys and clothing. A DJ provided pop tunes while Santa Clause greeted everyone as they arrived.

The stars are kicking off the holiday season by giving back!

Serial baby killer Lucy Letby has been quizzed by police about further deaths. Cheshire Police has confirmed that the 34-year-old former NHS nurse was recently interviewed under caution in prison.

Nearly 400 student flats could be built in a ten-storey tower block in Salford.

A schoolgirl has died trying to protect her mum from a knife attack, it's understood.

Ellise Shafer Ewan McGregor is returning to the West End for the first time in 17 years to lead the company of Lila Raicek’s new play “My Master Builder,” inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s 1892 work. The show reunites the “Star Wars” and “Moulin Rouge” actor with director Michael Grandage, who he previously worked with on the Donmar Warehouse productions of “Othello” and “Guys and Dolls.” The production starts previews on April 17 at Wyndham’s Theatre before officially opening on April 29, and will run until July 12.

Naman Ramachandran Indonesian filmmaker Paul Agusta (“Onde Mande!”) is set to present his latest project “All Things Real and Unreal” (Segala Yang Semu Dan Nyata) at the inaugural JAFF Market, running alongside the Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival, from Dec. 3-5.

As the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches, there could be no better time to revisit the tumultuous events of 1968 in what was then Czechoslovakia. In August of that year, Russian tanks rolled into Prague – along with the armies of five countries within the Soviet bloc – to crush Czechoslovakia’s new, homegrown version of communism, dubbed by foreign media “socialism with a human face.”

SPOILER ALERT – Do not read ahead if you haven’t watched the new episodes of The Sex Lives of College Girls!

Rachel Seo SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Season 3 of “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” now streaming on Max. Fare thee well, Leighton Murray. Following the July announcement that Reneé Rapp would leave “The Sex Lives of College Girls” in Season 3, the Max show has finally revealed how her character, über-rich legacy student Leighton Murray, departs from Essex College. In the Season 3 premiere, Leighton discovers that the high-level mathematics class she was set to take is canceled due to a lack of participants.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent From Jacob Elordi‘s new bearded look to Sean Penn’s red carpet debut with girlfriend Valeria Nicov, this year’s Marrakech Film Festival has been making headlines in mainstream media like it never did before. Yet, the event has existed for 21 years.