There are “serious safety risks” for patients in the rollout of electronic health records in hospitals across England, a charity has warned.Patient Safety Learning said incidents involving new systems were likely to be under-reported and must be flagged. It ha... More »
Labour goes into its conference this weekend with a friendly warning it would do well to heed. The Starmerite thinktank Labour Together has just published its analysis of why Labour won. Its conclusion: Labour has been “cautiously hired, on a trial basis, liab... More »
I have a new niece, as my sister Fionnuala and her husband Adam welcomed Sadhbh (pronounced: Sadhbh) into a grateful world this week. At time of writing, she is three days old, but she seems very sound and her sister Clodagh is delighted by her company. My kid... More »
At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured in a shooting at in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday. At least four of the wounded have “life-threatening injuries,” Birmingham Police Department Officer Truman Fitzgerald told a news co... More »
Two deadly bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed scores of U.S. military personnel more than 40 years ago have cast a long shadow over survivors and victims’ families.A day after the killing of a senior Hezbollah member seen as a key figure in those attacks... More »
Who knew Chris Hemsworth‘s looks over the years could “transform” from hot to HOTTER?! Here is a 28-year-old version of the Australian hunk at the “Thor” Premiere in Hollywood back in 2011 (left). This was soon after he played the alpha male jock, Curt Vaughan... More »
Should have gone to Specsavers. You don’t need £2,435-worth of designer glasses to see how corrosive it is to the government when the media, traditional and social, is filled with snickering stories and scornful commentaries about who paid for the prime minist... More »
Iran: ‘In the Arms of the Tree’“In the Arms of the Tree” has been selected as Iran’s official submission for the best international feature film category of the 2025 Academy Awards. The decision was announced by the Farabi Cinema Foundation, which said ... More »
SAN SEBASTIAN — In bumper deals, premier French production-sales agency Playtime has secured a raft of sales across key territories for François Ozon’s “When Fall Is Coming,” which bows in San Sebastian’s main Competition.
Distribution so far takes in major ... More »
The lyricist and composer wrote thousands of compositions — and one stern letter to The New York Times.Few songwriters and composers were as prolific as Irving Berlin, whose vast musical catalog includes well-known songs such as “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” “Cheek t... More »
The rendering is dramatic, a vast white stadium inspired by the design of a Maghrebi communal tent, known as a moussem.The language used to describe it is no less flowery: think of it as “almost like a Noah’s Ark, a place for all nature and animals to come tog... More »