From Katy Perry’s comeback to the Joker sequel: 15 celebrity flops and fails of 2024

Money, success, power, beauty – it often seems as if celebrities have everything they could possibly want. So it’s just as well they also get tangled up in their fair…

Gavin and Stacey tops Christmas Day TV ratings

The Gavin and Stacey finale attracted an average of 12.3 million TV viewers – the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, overnight data shows. The new Wallace…

The archaeological mystery of Stonehenge’s long-lost megaliths

Around 4,500 years ago, the famous silhouette of Stonehenge would have looked very different. Writer and archaeologist Mike Pitts digs up clues to the mystery of the circle’s long-lost stones.…

How new Robbie Williams biopic Better Man lays bare the terror of fame – by making its hero a CGI chimp

A new film about the tumultuous career of UK boy-band sensation turned solo star Robbie Williams depicts him as an ape. Directed by the maker of The Greatest Showman, it’s…

Our Sun may once have had a twin. What happened to this stellar sibling?

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs, but our Sun is a notable exception. Now scientists are finding clues that it may once have had a companion of its…

Greenland and the Panama Canal aren’t for sale. Why is Trump threatening to take them?

President-elect Donald Trump ran on a platform of isolating the US from foreign conflicts like the Ukraine war, increasing tariffs on foreign trade partners, and rebuilding domestic manufacturing. But in…

High Street suffers Boxing Day hit as shoppers stay home

Boxing Day shoppers are staying away from the High Street and shopping centres, compared with last year, initial footfall data suggests. Data gathered by MRI Software shows morning footfall on…

American Airlines resumes flights after technical issue

American Airlines has resumed flights after suspending its services for around an hour on Tuesday due to a technical issue that impacted the systems needed to release its planes. The…

Illegal trade booms in South Africa’s ‘super-strange looking’ plants

A biodiversity hotspot in a remote part of South Africa has become the hub of an illegal trade in protected plant species, with organised crime groups capitalising on overseas demand.…

Whisper it – alcohol-free wine has arrived in France

In the vineyards of Bordeaux, the unspeakable has become the drinkable. Wine without alcohol has arrived. The heresy of yesterday is now – thanks to science and economic crisis –…