Hounds review – pitch-black comedy drama of hapless Moroccan dog-fighting hoodlums
Kamal Lazraq is a Moroccan film-maker who had been a prize winner at Cannes for his student film Drari; now he makes his feature debut
Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist
Yé-yé was France’s homegrown response to rock’n’roll: pretty young singers – almost all female – performing a lightweight Francophone adaptation of American music with lyrics
Françoise Hardy, French pop singer and fashion muse, dies aged 80
Françoise Hardy, whose elegance and beautifully lilting voice made her one of France’s most successful pop stars, has died aged 80. Her death was reported
Rare white grizzly bear and two cubs killed in Canada in separate car strikes
National park staff in Canada are mourning the “devastating” loss of a rare white grizzly bear and her cubs after all three were killed in
Emma Raducanu hits out at ‘insane’ officiating after grass-court victory
Emma Raducanu opened her grass-court season with a heartening 6-1, 6-4 win over Ena Shibahara in the first round of the Rothesay Open – and
‘Don’t worry about AI. People want bodies in a room’: Faithless on the eternal power of rave – and the death of Maxi Jazz
In 2002 Faithless were granted a sunset slot on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage, and attracted close to 100,000 people. “England had actually just lost the football,
Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds
Deaths from civil conflicts and battles across the world over the past three years have risen to the highest level in three decades, according to
Malawi vice-president and nine others killed in plane crash
Malawi’s vice-president, Saulos Chilima, and nine other people have been killed in a plane crash, the country’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, said in a live televised
Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade
Hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants across Europe are being forced to work as soldiers for increasingly powerful drug cartels to meet the continent’s soaring appetite
War, disastrous sex and a lot of lawsuits: the chaotic aftermath of Motown’s peak years
Motown Records famously churned out songs like cars on an assembly line, and songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland (HDH) – brothers Eddie and Brian Holland, and the