Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros Discovery studio and streaming business in $83bn deal
Streaming service to gain control of studio behind Harry Potter and Batman, as well as HBO, home to The White Lotus and Game of Thrones
I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?
Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair – what does the new Tarantino cut offer?
The director’s two-part revenge saga has now been released as one mammoth movie with several tweaks and additions
‘He’s the new Daniel Day-Lewis’: Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
Robbie addresses backlash to casting Elordi as a character described by Brontë as ‘dark-skinned’, while Fennell praises her female star’s ‘big dick energy’
‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia
Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects
Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted!
With Nuremberg out in Australian cinemas, we cast an eye over Rusty’s eclectic, varied and downright impressive oeuvre. Are you not entertained?
‘I’ve had all the luck you can get’: Michael Caine retires for the fourth time
The 92-year-old actor made the announcement again as he received an award at the Red Sea international film festival in Saudi Arabia
Belle Gibson drama Apple Cider Vinegar leads 2026 Aacta award nominations
Netflix miniseries about wellness scammer lands 20 nominations, while Adelaide-made horror hit Bring Her Back dominates film categories
‘My God, what a story it would make’: film-maker Kevin Brownlow on It Happened Here and Winstanley
Brownlow is best known for restoring silent movies, but in conjunction with Andrew Mollo, he made two features, in 1964 and 1975, that look astonishingly prescient today
Trump’s billionaire backers dress influence as generosity
Michael Dell’s $6.25bn gift spotlights how the super-rich use ‘charity’ to win access, favour and influence
Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws
Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump
Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
Flights resume at Edinburgh airport after air traffic control issue – as it happened
Services had been grounded due to a technical issue with air traffic control
Tesla launches cheaper version of Model 3 in Europe amid Musk sales backlash
CEO Elon Musk says lower-cost electric car will reignite demand by appealing to broader range of buyers
Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?
We know from recent hacks, and even the Snowden revelations, how vulnerable information gathered is to theft and misuse, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins