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Roger Waters has urged followers on social media not to vote for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump in the upcoming US election, due to their respective stances on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.Waters has frequently spoken on the issue since last October when over a thousand Israelis were killed by Hamas forces at a music festival.Following the attack, the Israeli cabinet formally declared war against Hamas, leading to the most significant escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in several decades and triggering unprecedented and seemingly unrelenting violence.According to a report by Reuters, Palestinian health authorities have said Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 41,500 people. The attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023 killed over 1,200 people.Waters took to Twitter/X today, ahead of the election next Tuesday (November 5), to tell his followers not to vote for either party as “they both support murdering children”.

opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics in Paris this year.Yet despite its continued popularity, contracting on the original track has excluded Gala from receiving royalties throughout the years.Now, 28 years since its initial release, Gala has shared an updated version in order to “reclaim” her rights to the song. She’s also shared a remix by Diplo, which is out now via Ministry Of Sound and B1 Recordings.

Johnny Depp has suggested that he doesn’t have “any ill feelings toward” Hollywood amid his recent troubles.The actor has been involved in legal battles with former wife Amber Heard in recent years, winning a defamation case against her in 2022 in the US; the jury also found that Depp had defamed Heard through his attorney. In 2020, he lost a libel case against The Sun in the UK.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about his new film Modì, which is about the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, Depp compared the “vast wilderness” that the subject matter was in to his own, saying that it “taught [him] a whole lot”.The actor then reflected further on recent comments he made about his own life being turned “into a soap opera” in the past few years.“Honestly, I can sit here this very second and think about all the hit pieces, and how everybody was against me, and yeah yeah yeah he is off the map … endless stuff,” he said.“I can remember it all. Went through it all.

The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell has picked out what he believes to be the scariest scene in the history of horror cinema.The filmmaker, whose latest feature Wolf Man is due out early in the new year, picked a tense scene from John Carpenter’s 1982 classic The Thing in an article for The Hollywood Reporter.“The blood test scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing is a high water mark of terror for me,” Whannell wrote. “Kurt Russell’s character MacReady is using a flamethrower to heat up a wire and then stab it into a blood sample taken from every member of the science team.

The New York Times, Chopin’s composition was written on a pockmarked musical scrap roughly the size of an index card with the composer’s name on it. After testing the piece’s paper and ink as well as analysing the handwriting, the musical style and consulting outside experts, the Museum has confirmed that the unearthed composition is most likely an unknown waltz by Chopin.

8 Out Of 10 Cats, Mock The Week and Taskmaster, has spoken candidly in a new interview with The Guardian about his mental health struggles, and how it has interacted with his career.Describing how he directed his insecurities into an inspiring force to pursue his stand-up work, he said: “It was a toxic fuel. Effective, like chucking petrol on a bonfire, but unsustainable.”Beckett, who was named as the sixth richest comedian in the UK in July, and who also hosts the spin-off show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! Now!, added that even when success came his way, the negative thoughts continued.“I had all the markers of a successful person,” he said.

The Pride of Britain red carpet was graced with the presence of numerous celebrities, amongst them Zara McDermott, who dazzled everyone in a shimmering black and silver dress. Fans couldn’t get enough of the documentary star's appearance, and they were in luck as Zara took to Instagram to divulge some beauty secrets behind her radiant look for the night.

Kate Carter-Larg, the Saturday Kitchen guest and Cheesy Toast Shack co-owner, has shared her reaction to the unfounded backlash she's encountered following her appearance on the BBC show. Despite serving up mouth-watering toasties on October 26, attention was unfairly diverted by some viewers to Kate's fashion choices.The entrepreneur and mother-of-two was unjustly criticised for wearing an outfit deemed "too inappropriate" for television, despite it being a modest brown strapless top teamed with denim jeans.

EastEnders fans, brace yourselves - the BBC soap is hinting at multiple exits in upcoming episodes, following two potential deaths. Monday night's episode dropped a major clue that more than one character might be bidding farewell to Walford for good.The police's shocking revelation about Keanu Taylor's murder led to an even bigger discovery by Nish Panesar, who is set to exit the show after being diagnosed with a terminal illness earlier this year. Rumours are also swirling that Linda Carter could be next on the chopping block, as cast members were spotted filming a funeral scene without her.

It seems as if Danny Dyer had a blast celebrating his 47th birthday, admitting he enjoyed "a little doobie" in Amsterdam.The trip was a stark contrast to his wild 21st birthday visit, and the Rivals actor shared that this time around, the Red Light district felt "unsettling" as he strolled along the canals, just "having a mooch around". Danny, who turned 47 in July, jetted off with his wife Jo, his brother, and his sister-in-law for a special birthday getaway, but couldn't help laughing as he recalled how women in the windows were "still trying to coax me in".

Jeremy Clarkson has been seen in a new photo, just days after revealing that he’d experience a major health scare. Earlier this month the Clarkson’s Farm star explained that he’d been rushed to hospital and had undergone a heart procedure after facing a “sudden deterioration in his health. In a new Instagram post, Jeremy, 64, told followers that he’d welcomed Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White to his pub, The Farmer's Dog in Oxfordshire.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor More than 200,000 people have canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post — about 8% of its base — after Jeff Bezos, the paper’s owner and founder of Amazon, barred the editorial board from running a presidential endorsement, according to a report. NPR, citing anonymous sources, cited the figure in a report and said the number of cancelations “continued to grow” on Monday afternoon. The controversy threatens to put a major dent in the Washington Post’s circulation of 2.5 million subscribers.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Music has played a role in political campaigns throughout history, but only recently did it result in headlines about cease-and-desists and “somnambulant bobbing.” Of course, America is in its third consecutive presidential election cycle in which there are nearly weekly stories about musicians objecting to Donald Trump’s unauthorized use of their songs at rallies. (“It’s a shame that some artists want to limit half of the country from enjoying their music,” an RNC spokesperson says of the complaints and legal orders.) But the nation still had never seen anything like the recent Pennsylvania rally in which he danced in place while his playlist rolled on for 39 minutes.

Strictly Come Dancing favourite Amy Dowden will not be appearing in this Saturday's show, with Lauren Oakley stepping up to dance with JB Gill.

Lockerbie’s Laura Millar has been made the first ever director of strategy for H&H Group Plc.

Ethan Shanfeld Marc Maron has called out “comedians with podcasts” who “joke around” with “shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show,” saying, “all it does is humanize and normalize fascism.” “When someone uses their platform for that reason they are facilitating anti-American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy,” he wrote in a blog post shared to social media. While Maron did not call out anyone by name, the post comes three days after Joe Rogan, whose “Joe Rogan Experience” is the No. 1 podcast in the U.S.

J. Kim Murphy Paul Morrissey, a fixture of New York’s cinema scene whose collaborations with Andy Warhol in the ’60s and ’70s reinvented the American underground and made local legends of amateur actors and transgender performers, died Monday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 86.

A Lanarkshire mental health charity received a welcome boost this month as the UK celebrated Mental Health Day with a £1,000 donation from the Alona Hotel.

A “beloved dad” who was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Hamilton has been named by police.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Shirley MacLaine is making a ghastly racket. It sounds like a combination of retching and the “aack” noise that the protagonist of that old “Cathy” comic strip used to make whenever she was nauseated, horrified, infuriated or you name it.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Nick Offerman is the latest addition to the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” Variety has learned. Offerman will star in the series alongside previously announced cast members Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, and Michelle Pfeiffer. The eight-episode show was ordered to series at Apple back in February after a multi-platform bidding war.