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Tarantino, 64, recently relocated to the UK as he develops a “swashbuckling comedy” play set in 1830s Europe, which is due to launch in early 2027.The Popinjay Cavalier will be Tarantino’s debut as a theatre writer and director, after previously speaking about his desire to retire from movies after making 10 films.Meanwhile, pop legend Minogue, 58, is no stranger to Wales thanks to her strong Welsh roots.Her family were originally from Maesteg in Bridgend county, and emigrated to Australia during the 1950s.Over the years, Minogue has spoken about the Welsh side of her family and has said performing in Cardiff…

The good news about shopping for six-year-olds is that they’ll love almost anything you give them. The bad news? That makes it surprisingly hard to choose something really good. Between the plastic toys destined for landfill and the ones that hold their attention for all of five minutes, it can be tricky to find something that actually sticks.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.At this age, children are usually in year 1 or 2 at school, able to read a little, full of curiosity, and starting to focus…

The UK government will halve the amount of tariff-free steel imports allowed in an attempt to counter a global oversupply of cheap Chinese metal and bolster its beleaguered local industry.New “safeguards” will be introduced on 1 July and will coincide with similar new limits being introduced by the EU for the same purposes.At the same time tariffs on steel imports above the duty-free quotas will be doubled to 50% of the product’s value.The quotas replace existing pre-Brexit rules that set import levels across the EU. The UK had retained the rules after leaving the bloc.Under the new rules, the existing…

Two powerful, deadly earthquakes struck Venezuela, just 39 seconds apart, on Wednesday.But in addition to those temblors, two other strong earthquakes struck across the world in less than 24 hours. A 5.6-magnitude tremor hit Northern California at 8:10 a.m. Pacific time, with some reports of injuries and power outages, and a 6.9-magnitude quake off the coast of Japan, with no reports of serious damage, soon after the Venezuela quakes.While that may seem like an unusual number of strong earthquakes in a short time, experts said there was no indication they had any relation to each other.The quakes in Venezuela are…

Lithuania’s Klaipėda LNG terminal became the kind of expensive energy-security bet that looks obvious only after a crisis. AFP PHOTO / PETRAS MALUKAS (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS / AFP) (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesThe most dangerous number for Europe’s energy security this month is not a high oil price. It is a falling one.By June 25, with tankers again moving through the Strait of Hormuz and Brent slipping below $73 a barrel, the market had almost filed the shock away. The relief is real. The danger sits inside it. Each time the price comes back…

Elon Musk was no longer a trillionaire by the time markets closed on Wednesday. Plunging shares in Tesla and SpaceX dragged the tech magnate down to billionaire status. As of 4pm ET, Forbes listed Musk’s net worth as $970.2bn.Musk reached trillionaire status on 12 June after SpaceX’s historic initial public offering. The rocket, satellite and AI company’s debut on the stock market made Musk the first person with a net worth of more than $1tn. His fortune continued to hover around that gigantic figure in the weeks following the initial public offering (IPO).A global stock selloff this week led to…

Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026Two powerful earthquakes have struck northern Venezuela, killing dozens of people, injuring hundreds and destroying homes and infrastructure. These images show the damage, rescue efforts and grief in the affected communities.

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Jun 24, 2026, 07:53 AM ETSweden’s Felicia Schröder is one of the best young strikers in Europe already. Maurizio Lagana/Getty ImagesReal Madrid have signed 19-year-old Sweden forward Felicia Schröder from BK Häcken, in a move that the Swedish side (and Schröder’s agent, Linus Gunnarsson) said broke the world transfer record for a women’s player.In truth it’s a bit more complicated, as a Häcken spokesperson told Reuters that the fee was more than the $1.5 million Orlando Pride paid to Tigres for the signing of Mexico playmaker Lizbeth Ovalle last August, yet FIFA documentation shows that London City Lionesses actually set a…

The Locarno Film Festival will honor and celebrate the Belgian-born actress Virginie Efira with the Leopard Club Award at its 79th edition this August. Efira will receive the award in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on the evening of Friday, Aug. 7. In the fest program, she will also present Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden (Soudain), for which she won the Palme for best actress at Cannes and for which she learned to act partly in Japanese. “Over the past decade, Virginie Efira has become a defining presence in French-language cinema,” Locarno said on Thursday. “In 2023, she earned…