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“Words cannot express the emotions we are collectively feeling right now,” the official Backstreet Boys account posted on X Factor .
“He was immensely talented and, as part of One Direction , Liam will leave a lasting legacy on the music industry and fans around the world, the account for “ The X Factor ” posted.
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Robert Icke’s script is a contemporary reworking, rather than a translation, reimagining Oedipus as an insurgent politician standing for election.
It seamlessly transports themes of power, politics, arrogance and the human thirst for knowledge into the 21st century .
Lesley Manville captivates as Jocasta , her witty carelessness making her eventual emotional collapse all the more harrowing.
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Charles is stopping over for a few days on his way to the Commonwealth meeting in Samoa .
But as is often the case with royal visits these days there seems to be little public interest.
As in the UK , this royal visit will be met by protest from republicans .
The monarchy isn’t good for anything or anyone, it is not dignified.
In the UK that cause is gaining momentum, the campaign gaining strength. We will win, the question is when. And the question for Australia is whether the UK will get there first , and what that means for a proud and independent nation..
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Liam Payne died aged 31 after falling from a balcony at a hotel in Argentina .
He was dehumanized his entire life, by the music industry machine that made him famous, by tabloids, by social media, and even by his own fans.
He became a pin-up poster, then a literal doll (you could collect all five ) The fantasy that One Direction represented to a generation was always codependent.
One Direction was an eccentric name for a boyband.
But it inadvertently suggested something darker that a youthful, fresh-faced boyband can only last so long.
As the novelist Samantha Hunt once wrote: “ one direction is, of course, the only choice they, we, get”.
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HARDtalk is being axed as the BBC seeks a net reduction of 130 news jobs in a 24 m cost-cutting drive.
It is produced by a team of barely half a dozen people on a shoestring budget of scarcely 1 m a year.
Sackur and his predecessor Tim Sebastian have interviewed not just Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela , but a slew of unsavoury figures.
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The California Coastal Commission voted 64 to block a proposal to let SpaceX launch up to 50 rockets per year from Vandenberg Air Force Base .
Commission members have long resisted the Air Force's efforts to increase the number of launches from the base.
Some members also pointed to Elon Musk's politics as a reason to reject the request.
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Sean Combs allegedly used date-rape drugs Rohypnol and GHB, mixing them in drinks and dousing victims in body oils laced with GHB.
Barbie Day at Columbus Circle’s Museum of Arts and Design .
Oscar-baiting Roman Catholic drama “Conclave” stars Stanley Tucci , Ralph Fiennes , John Lithgow .
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Al Pacino has revealed in his new memoir that he almost didn't get the role of Michael Corleone in " The Godfather" The Hollywood star said he would've been let go from the role if Francis Ford Coppola hadn't been impressed with his performance.
The 84-year-old actor said he was underplaying the role because he wanted the power of Michael to shock the audience.
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Giovanny Aldama Garcia was arrested Monday on felonious aggravated animal cruelty charges after he allegedly abandoned the white bull terrier on Interstate 75 in Tampa as he traveled to Georgia .
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that the dog was “very rattled from that experience” and that the entire ordeal was totally unacceptable” News of the dog’s abandonment went viral on social media last Wednesday .
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Comedian Seinfeld told fellow comedian Tom Papa that he “regrets” making those statements.
The 70-year-old comedian made the initial comments during an interview with The New Yorker in April .
Seinfeld also denied rumors that he was unwilling to perform at colleges anymore.