Attorney General Merrick Garland Appoints David Weiss As Special Counsel In Hunter Biden Investigation

Well-known international TV exec Michael Murphy is leaving Beyond after 19 years and has launched his own business.

Busan International Film Festival (BIFF, October 4-13) has unveiled its full line-up, including opening and closing films, and announced that Hong Kong star Chow Yun-fat has been named as Asian Filmmaker of the Year. 

ITV has confirmed Love Island: All Stars, bringing together UK contestants from down the years for the first time.

Foo Fighters teamed up with Billy Idol over the weekend to perform a cover of Sex Pistols classic ‘Pretty Vacant’.Idol joined Dave Grohl‘s band on vocals for a performance of the 1977 single during the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival on Sunday night (September 3). You can view footage below.The band last teamed up with with Idol in 2018 when they covered John Lennon’s ‘Gimme Some Truth’ at the Welcome to Rockville festival.Idol’s guitarist, Billy Morrison also shared a photo with the band following the performance, writing: “Thank you Aspen, and thank you @foofighters – it was a great day yesterday.

Burning Man festival goers have started exiting the site in huge numbers after wet conditions started to ease.This weekend tens of thousands of fans were left stranded in the Nevada desert after rainfall created muddy conditions, which resulted in the shut down of the festival three days early. It was due to run from August 27 to September 4, 2023.Attendees were told to stay in their camps and conserve food and water, with roads in and out of the event closed due to flooding.Organisers finally allowed revelers to start leaving the site at midday (8pm BST) yesterday (September 4).Thousands of Burning Man attendees are making their "exodus" as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of its famous party around a flaming effigy namesake | Read more: https://t.co/Sk4nlUzIxn pic.twitter.com/yZKHwm8205— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 5, 2023“Please know that while conditions are improving and roads are drying, the playa is still muddy and may be difficult to navigate in some neighbourhoods and down certain streets,” organisers added.Meanwhile, authorities have identified the person who died at the festival as 32-year-old Leon Reece.The Pershing County sheriff’s office said it had received a call around 6.24pm (local time) on Friday (September 1) about an unresponsive man on the ground at Black Rock City.Organisers also said the man’s death was unrelated to the weather, reports BBC News.Local reports previously described the conditions at Burning Man as “treacherous” with “thick, slimy mud that clung to shoes and anything else it touched”.

Stephen Robinson believes Alex Gogic has been St Mirren ’s stand-out performer so far this season.

UEFA's master of ceremony – or deputy general secretary to give him his full title – Giorgio Marchetti was in full salesman mode at last week's last ever Champions League group stage draw.

ITV bosses have confirmed the launch of Love Island: All Stars after months of rumours swirling.

Energy firm OVO has joined calls for energy standing charges to be abolished for vulnerable households as it confirmed it will not be passing on the latest increase on October 1 when the new price cap comes into effect. OVO chief executive Raman Bhatia warned that households were facing a prolonged period of high prices compounded by wider cost of living pressures that would leave millions struggling unless urgent action was taken.

The summer holidays are officially over and the new school year has now arrived for all children across the UK.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Rani R. Raad, a former president of CNN Commercial Worldwide, has been appointed CEO of Abu Dhabi-based media company International Media Investments.

S Club's Rachel Stevens has shared the band's emotional tribute to late bandmate Paul Cattermole after he died suddenly in April, aged just 46. Paul was due to join the iconic pop band for their reunion tour of the UK before he passed away from 'natural causes', but the rest of the band - bar Hannah Spearritt - are still going ahead with the 15 date tour. Mum of two, Rachel Stevens, 45, has opened up ahead of the tour that kicks off in Manchester next month, as she shared the change to the tour name that honours Paul.

Naman Ramachandran “Love Island: All Stars,” a spinoff of ITV’s “Love Island” format, has been confirmed by the U.K. broadcaster’s chiefs. “Love Island” is a British dating game show format that has been on U.K.

Naman Ramachandran Matt Smith, known for playing Doctor Who in the eponymous BBC series and the Duke of Edinburgh in Netflix’s “The Crown” is returning to London’s West End. Smith will headline an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play “An Enemy of the People” at London’s Duke of York’s Theatre. “An Enemy of the People” revolves around Dr.

A young horse rider from Kirkcudbright has been chosen to represent the Scotland under-18 eventing squad.

The number of people in Dumfries and Galloway losing their life to alcohol has reached record levels.

A family-run Dumfries business is calling it a day after not being able to find new owners.

The Scottish Government is being asked to step in for a fourth time over plans for a windfarm in the Glenkens.

Loch Ken Trust is celebrating a double funding boost worth more than £100,000.

Love Island: All Stars has been confirmed by ITV, with the news first being announced on Tuesday's Good Morning Britain, with the Love Island Twitter account then sharing the exciting news on social media. Sharing a photo of the iconic villa, the account wrote: "The rumours are true! [yellow heart emoji] #LoveIsland: All Stars is coming soon..." Mike Spencer, Creative Director at Lifted Entertainment, the company that produces Love Island, said: "It has been rumoured now for a while but we are thrilled to finally confirm that we are making Love Island: All Stars early next year for ITV2 and ITVX.

This Morning host Holly Willoughby has issued a letter to her fans begging them to vote for her colleague Alison Hammond at tonight's (5 September) National Television Awards amid fears the show could face a tough night.The NTAS are one of the biggest nights in the TV calendar, and they will see This Morning compete for the Daytime award, while Alison is in the running for the Best Presenter gong.This Morning is seeking to defend its best daytime show title as the programme continues to face backlash amid the furore of the Phillip Schofield scandal. Holly urged her fans to vote for Alison following her first day back on This Morning on Monday, 4 September.

Coronation Street star Chris Gascoyne is best known for his role of Peter Barlow on the cobbles, having first joined the show back in 2000. However, after 23 years on the soap, the 55 year old recently revealed that he’d be taking a step back from his time on the show. Instead, Chris is swapping the soap world for the theatre world and he is set to play Captain Hook in the stage show of Peter Pan later this year.

Marks and Spencer fans are flocking to buy the high-street retailers 'cute and sturdy' waterproof M&S Collection Wellies, which could easily be mistaken for designer brand Hunter. The £35 bargain boots could save fashion fans £80, as Marks and Spencer's version looks nearly identical to Hunter's Original Chelsea Boots - which originally cost £115.

Romance and runaways will be on the cards in Coronation Street next week. With her dad having failed to show up to their planned meeting, Stu Carpenter suggests granddaughter Eliza get in the car so they can visit her mum who is currently behind bars.

Dev Alahan is set to get an almighty surprise in Coronation Street next week as an affair is finally exposed. Viewers of the ITV soap are well aware that his son Aadi Alahan has been sleeping with Courtney Vance, the wife of Dev's new business associate Darren.

Hwasa, a member of K-pop girl group MAMAMOO, has opened up about her new single ‘I Love My Body’.Hwasa recently made a guest appearance on South Korean television personality Sung Si-kyung’s YouTube channel. During the interview, the singer opened up about her upcoming single ‘I Love My Body’ and why she “chose this song”.“I was making headlines for a while due to the public indecency controversy,” she said, as translated by Allkpop. In July, Hwasa made headlines after she was reported to the police over an alleged “indecent performance” at the Sungkyunkwan University Festival, which was held in May.“I heard that the way I performed on stage was controversial, which was understandable, but the hate comments I got were intolerable,” she added.

The romantic life of BTS‘s Jung Kook remains a mystery.

Two men have been sentenced after cocaine and heroin worth more than £9000 were seized from a house in Blantyre.

A Scots mum has spoken of her pride in her teenage son, who spent the first three years of his life in hospital, after being diagnosed with a rare heart condition in the womb. William Kilpatrick was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot before his birth.

A crash flipped into a bus stop following a horror crash in Edinburgh yesterday.

who died last week aged 76.Laurie, 74, discovered she had pancreatic cancer during the pandemic, and is now cancer-free following months of treatment.But the iconic “Margaritaville” hitmaker, who was diagnosed with a rare form of skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, sadly lost his battle surrounded by his loved ones on Friday.Speaking about her beloved brother’s death, Laurie admits she’s “thunderstruck that Jimmy didn’t make it.”“Jimmy and I were diagnosed with cancer about the same time,” she told People. “It was four years ago and Jimmy was actually diagnosed first.

Family and friends of Kyle Livingston will come together this weekend for a mental health awareness walk in his memory.

Thankful Alfredo Morelos has released a lengthy Rangers letter of appreciation as he saluted supporters, team-mates and his former managers during his six years in Glasgow.

All Saints' Mel Blatt is taking part in Celebrity Race Across the World and her mum Helene is coming along for the ride. In fact, the pair will spend every minute of the day together for a whole month.

Anton Du Beke likes to get things right. A self-confessed perfectionist, Strictly Come Dancing’s newest and arguably most popular judge always gives 100 percent. From his flawless foxtrots to his witticisms, Anton aims to please.

Fans of Game Of Thrones and Succession are bound to love Sky original drama Domina , which returns for its second season this week. Set in Italy, the eight-part series continues the retelling of the power struggles for control of the Roman Empire from a female perspective. Polish-born actress Kasia Smutniak stars as leading lady Livia Drusilla who, after three years away, returns to Rome alongside her husband Augustus Caesar, known as Gaius (played by Matthew McNulty).