Boris Johnson to chair Cobra meeting as Afghanistan crisis deepens

Ariana DeBose, at first, didn’t have any words to say about her Oscar nomination because she was so shocked.

Setting the record straight. Armie Hammer and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, have not reconciled their romance despite rumors to the contrary.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorVisionary visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died Monday, contributed his groundbreaking inventions and techniques to classics including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner.”Among his many honors were three visual effects Oscar nominations (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner”); the Academy’s Scientific and Engineering Award for creating the Showscan Camera System; and the Visual Effects Society’s Georges Méliès Award, honoring those who have made significant, pioneering contributions to the effects business, in 2012.A generation of visual effects artists and filmmakers were influenced by his work, including Weta FX senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri, who said, “Doug stands out as an iconic figure in visual effects, one of the early pioneers who blended a deep knowledge of cinematography and mechanics to develop techniques that we still use today. An early evangelist of high frame rate processes, Doug’s vision for where we can take cinema is just now coming to fruition.” Here’s a look at a five iconic moments Trumbull helped create.Trumbull was Oscar nominated for visual effects for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters,” and one of his significant contributions was the motion control photography used in the scenes featuring the alien’s massive mother ship.

Mark Sutherland If last year’s Brit Awards went out with something of a COVID-restricted whimper, this year’s ceremony came in with a bang.Several bangs in fact, as an unexpected mash-up between emo-metal hybrid Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran on the latter’s “Bad Habits” launched the show to, no doubt, the bewilderment of mums and dads tuning in at home and expecting the nice, ginger-next-door they usually see at events like this. The arena, however, was ablaze — quite literally, as the unlikely collaborators became the first of several performers to torch the stage.Held at The O2 Arena in south London, this year’s Brits — unlike last year’s event — took place in a country that is largely free of COVID restrictions.

Everyone needs a good cry every now and then. For Will Arnett, it happened on the side of the road. To be fair, the BoJack Horseman actor had recently split with Amy Poehler after nine years of marriage. This made his experience filming the Arrested Development revival “almost excruciating,” as he told The Guardian. “Just brutal, brutal, brutal,” he continued. “I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.”

MAYA Jama awkwardly shut down Mo Gilligan's questions about her love life during the Brit Awards 2022. As the presenters chatted in between awards Mo, 33, drew attention to the sparkler on 27-year-old Maya's ring finger.

ED Sheeran and his wife Cherry melted fans' hearts as they shared a sweet kiss on camera at the Brit Awards. The musician, 30, and Cherry enjoyed the rare PDA moments after learning he had won the gong for Songwriter Of The Year.

Garth Brooks is finally getting a tattoo after all these years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJoe Rogan weighed in again on the controversy over his repeated use of the N-word on his podcast — and Spotify’s removal of 70 past episodes because of “racially insensitive language” — and played the victim card.Last Friday, Spotify pulled 70 past episodes “The Joe Rogan Experience” from its platform, which the streamer said it did at the request of Rogan and his team. That came after singer India Arie last week said she was pulling her music and podcasts off Spotify, citing Rogan’s “language around race”; she reposted a video on Instagram compiling 24 times Rogan used the N-word on his podcast, and the clip soon went viral.Rogan addressed the situation in Tuesday’s episode of his podcast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the drama series “Early Edition,” Variety has learned.The original series starred Kyle Chandler as a man who magically received tomorrow’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times today, delivered to his door each morning by a mysterious ginger tabby cat. His knowledge of the future then gave him the chance to change it for the better.In the rebooted version, an ambitious but uncompromising journalist starts receiving tomorrow’s newspaper today.

an Blackford MP, the SNP Westminster leader, said that it would be “unacceptable” for parliament to remain in recess for another fortnight, while UK armed forces and personnel were putting their lives on the line at Kabul. Johnson faced a hostile reception from across a packed House of Commons last week when MPs were recalled for a one-off session to debate the deteriorating situation at Kabul airport.

Prime Minister flew on April 1 five days after the start of the hotly contested Hartlepool vote campaign got underway. After landing in Teeside International Airport he was taken by motorcade to a B&Q story in Middlesborough on government business to promote a rise in the minimum wage.

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Prime Minister to phone Biden to extend the exit date as former PM Tony Blair said the UK had a “moral obligation” to stay on and complete the evacuation.

Cop26 summit in Glasgow will secure the action needed. Miliband, who was UK Environment Minister at the failed climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, said getting international agreement required the “extra diplomatic and political heft of the Prime Minister and others”.

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Prime Minister ducked and dived his way through piercing questions from MPs as he waffled his way through an opening statement in a day-long debate on Afghanistan. The Prime Minister had few answers or explanations for the UK’s lack of co-ordinated response to the sudden Taliban takeover at the end of a 20 year war which claimed the lives of 457 British troops and thousands of Afghan civilians.

Commons debate this morning to explain Britain’s role in the unfolding catastrophe in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister will kick off a five hour debate to which MPs have been recalled by announcing the UK will resettle 20,000 vulnerable people.

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Prime Minister will hold the meeting this afternoon as a struggle to get UK nationals and local allies out of the country continues. Johnson' s spokesman said the UK will continue the evacuation effort for "as long as we are able to do so and as long as it is safe to do so".

Afghanistan capital of Kabul have made desperate attempts to escape as the Taliban complete their take over of the country. Helicopters buzzed over the city evacuating citizens while British and US troops made a desperate last stand at Kabul airport, where thousands were waiting to flee.

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First Minister highlighted work by Canadian authorities who said they had welcomed a flight full of refugees from Afghanistan, which is on the brink of complete collapse as Taliban fighters encroach on the capital Kabul.Canada’s immigration body said it will assist in resettling 20,000 Afghans threatened by the Islamist group.Sturgeon tweeted that she hopes the UK Government “does similar and offers as much refuge for vulnerable Afghans as possible”.She added: “As we did with Syrian refugees, @scotgov is willing to play our full part and do all we can to help those in peril as a result of the horrifying situation currently unfolding.”A Downing Street source said Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to seek a recall of MPs this week to

Love Island star Priya Gopaldas left the rest of the villa stunned with her admissions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a previously unseen clip from the show. Airing on Love Island:Unseen Bits, the girls were discussing crushes on older men when Priya revealed she had a soft spot for Bojo.

Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops.

Nicola Sturgeon has condemned ongoing events in Afghanistan and claims the country’s people have been “shamefully abandoned”. The First Minister says “implications, for women and girls especially, are horrifying” as the Taliban continue their lightning advance across the country.

Britain and the US have agreed to send more troops in as the Taliban's lightning advance through the country continues - gains that come only weeks before allied forces are due to withdraw. Taliban insurgents are now estimated to hold more than two-thirds of Afghanistan and continue to press their offensive, having taken the country's second and third largest cities, Kandahar and Herat, as part of a week-long blitz.

East Ayrshire Council, said that even the best part of four decades on from the Miners’ Strike, the communities still feel the pain that saw New Cumnock reduced to a shell of its former glory.So the Prime Minister's quip to Scottish journalists that ‘thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we're now moving rapidly away from coal altogether’, was met with real anger.Cllr McMahon, who was one of many who took part in and was arrested on the picket lines in 1984, said: “The contempt that he has treated the coal mining communities is beyond me.”“I despised Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for.

Downing Street as the Prime Minister drafted plans to cut benefits. Two works of art purchased through the Government Art Collection fund, which is bolstered by the taxpayers, now adorn Boris Johnson's residence in London.