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A Norwegian warship is in danger of sinking after colliding with a Maltese-registered tanker in a fjord on Thursday. The accident triggered the temporary shutdown of a North Sea crude export terminal, Norway's top gas processing plant and several offshore fields. The frigate, which recently took part in a major NATO military exercise, was aground and listing on one side, live television pictures showed. The Norwegian military was attempting to save the ship but some reports said the crew had to be evacuated. Читать дальше...

We’ve known for months that Jeremy Irons will be in HBO’s Watchmen TV pilot, which is supposedly an “alternative reality” from the one depicted in the comic and takes place after that story, but all we knew was that he’d be playing an “aging and imperious lord of a British manor.” Now, it sounds like we might not have…

The Nazis generally, and Josef Mengele in particular, committed so many horrific atrocities in real life that amplifying their crimes for fictional purposes feels like overkill. Still, if Quentin Tarantino can revise the circumstances of Hitler’s death for our cathartic amusement, there’s no reason why the…

There was a time, hard as it might be to remember, when Overwatch’s wackiest hero was a peanut-butter-loving science ape from the moon. Earlier this year, however, he was usurped by a mech-piloting, robo-voiced, Thunderdome-battling hamster who’s also from the moon. How do you top that? Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan…

Adesina: "Today is a day of delight, when we shine the light on a part of Africa that doesn't always get the attention it deserves."

Damon Smith reviews Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald to coincide with the film’s world premiere in Paris.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned yesterday, apparently at the request of President Donald Trump. During his two years in office, Sessions has used the power of the Justice Department to lead a crackdown on civil liberties and press freedom. As the ACLU remarked, Sessions “was the worst attorney general in modern American history."

Here’s a look back at some of the damage Sessions has done to journalists and whistleblowers:

Tripling number of investigations
The Justice Department... Читать дальше...