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More than 200,000 households were temporarily left without electricity in southern France after power cuts, which threatened to disrupt the Cannes Film Festival.Around 160,000 households in the Alpes-Maritimes area lost power from around 10am on Saturday, officials said. Supplies were restored to all homes at around 3pm local time, on Saturday, hours before the festival's closing ceremony - which was unaffected.Arson is suspected after the outage, which followed an overnight […]

Alan Yentob, the former BBC presenter and executive, has died aged 78.A statement from his family, shared by the BBC, said Yentob died on Saturday. His wife Philippa Walker said: "For Jacob, Bella and I, every day with Alan held the promise of something unexpected. Our life was exciting, he was exciting."He was curious, funny, annoying, late, and creative in every cell of his body. But more than that, he […]

Gillian Anderson has warned homelessness is a growing problem in the UK - one that will only get worse if we enter a recession.The award-winning actress, who is playing a woman facing homelessness along with her husband in her latest film, The Salt Path, told Sky News: "It's interesting because I feel like it's even changed in the UK in the last little while." Born in Chicago, and now living […]

A weapons supervisor who was jailed for involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie, Rust, has been freed.Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was released on parole from the Western New Mexico Correctional Facility in Grants on Friday, after serving her 18-month sentence, NBC News, Sky's US partner said, quoting New Mexico Corrections Department spokesperson, Brittany Roembach. Gutierrez-Reed was released to return home to […]

US music agent Dave Shapiro is among those killed after a small plane crashed into a neighbourhood in San Diego.The 42-year-old co-founder of music agency Sound Talent Group was one of six people on a private jet that went down in Murphy Canyon during foggy weather early on Thursday. All are presumed dead, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. Sound Talent Group said two other passengers on the plane were […]

Eight people have been found guilty of crimes connected to the gunpoint robbery of Kim Kardashian at a Paris hotel.The theft targeting the TV personality, socialite and businesswoman in 2016 was carried out by a group the media dubbed the "grandpa robbers" as most were close to or of retirement age. A six-member jury, led by three judges, reached a verdict on Friday following a four-week trial at Paris's Palais […]

Wes Anderson is a rarity in Hollywood, with an unswayed distinct aesthetic which has every big name in Hollywood pleading to be in his next project.Fronted by Benicio del Toro, his new film The Phoenician Scheme sees the return of numerous previous collaborators including Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright and Scarlett Johansson, but also adds new faces to the Anderson universe. It is set in the 1950s and follows a ruthless […]

Billy Joel has cancelled all his upcoming concerts in the UK and the US after being diagnosed with a brain illness that has affected his "hearing, vision and balance".A statement on the US singer's Instagram account on Friday revealed that he has Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH). The condition "has been exacerbated by recent concert performances, leading to problems with hearing, vision and balance."Under his doctor's instructions, Billy is undergoing specific […]

Kneecap have released a new single ahead of their headline performance at London's Wide Awake festival, just days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.The rap trio from Belfast shared a link to the song - The Recap - which opens with Sky News presenter Wilfred Frost reporting about the counter terrorism police investigation - on Instagram, linking to their WhatsApp channel. Image: Kneecap performing in […]