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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 08:45:44 (2 days ago)

‘It still haunts me’: the puppet show Dracula that’s definitely not for small children

The dreaded bloodsucker will be getting his fangs into the Edinburgh fringe this year – in a deeply creepy, liberty-taking show with a sisterly twist. We meet its director

Who is your Dracula? Max Schreck’s toothy Nosferatu, Bela Lugosi in a tux, the lantern-jawed host of Hotel Transylvania? This notorious shapeshifter “exists for us even before we know who he is” says theatre director Yngvild Aspeli, who is bringing a puppet bloodsucker to the Edinburgh fringe this summer. “There were stories of vampires long before Bram Stoker but he gave new life to them.”

After watching her deeply creepy show Dracula: Lucy’s Dream, that eerily waxen, lifesized puppet has for me become as indelible as top-hatted Gary Oldman or gorily grinning Christopher Lee. It matches Jonathan Harker’s assessment of the count in Stoker’s novel: “The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.” I saw the show on tour in Paris several months ago and it still haunts me: I could swear this Drac disintegrated then reappeared before my eyes, such is the technical sophistication of Aspeli’s French-Norwegian company Plexus Polaire. Thanks in part to Emilie Nguyen’s spectral lighting, stunning transformations take place, with the actors and puppets frequently becoming indistinguishable.

Gazeta do Povo - Mundo

2026-07-07 08:45:03 (2 days ago)

Bispos convidam fiéis da FSSPX após excomunhão de líderes

Bispos determinam proibição de participação em ritos do grupo e exigem retorno à comunhão plena com a autoridade pontifícia

Gazeta do Povo - Mundo

2026-07-07 08:44:58 (2 days ago)

Tribunal da França reduz pena e Le Pen poderá concorrer na eleição de 2027

Corte de apelações manteve a condenação de Marine Le Pen, mas sua pena foi reduzida e ela poderá concorrer na eleição presidencial de 2027

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 08:42:15 (2 days ago)

New York man sues ICE for sending officers to his house after he emailed agency head

David Streever had emailed acting ICE director after an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

An upstate New York resident sued US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.

David Streever, who is a US citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said. Streever sent the email in January to Todd Lyons, then the acting director of ICE, after an immigration officer fatally shot Minneapolis resident Renee Good in a confrontation caught on video during an anti-ICE demonstration.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-07 08:41:41 (2 days ago)

French court opens door to Le Pen presidential run, with ankle tag

A French appeal court on Tuesday upheld Marine Le Pen’s conviction for misusing EU funds but shortened her ban on running for public office, in theory preserving a path for the far-right leader to run in the 2027 presidential election. However, ‌the court also sentenced Le Pen to a three-year jail term: two suspended and one with an electronic ankle tag. This would make a presidential campaign politically and logistically difficult, and casts doubt on whether she will in fact continue to seek...

Fox News - Video

2026-07-07 08:38:52 (2 days ago)

Off-duty Florida sergeant 'stumbling drunk' harasses elderly couple at bar, bystander jumps into action: video

Jason Stickels, the 44-year-old sergeant, was arrested after the incident on Monday and now faces two counts of felony battery on a person 65 or older. (Credit: Volusia Sheriff's Office / Facebook)

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-07 08:37:14 (2 days ago)

The Invite welcomes heterosexual polyamory into cinemas. It’s about time

As a non-monogamist, it’s refreshing to see a film that reflects modern attitudes to non-conventional relationships, instead of using them as a punchline or cautionary tale

What is the chief obstacle that must be overcome in most modern-day big-screen romcoms? Lack of attraction? Misaligning schedules? Or, perhaps, heteromonogamy? If that wasn’t the dominating norm of human relationships, many movie plots would be much swifter to resolve. What if Elizabeth Olsen didn’t have to choose between Callum Turner and Miles Teller in Eternity? Or Twilight allowed Bella to be in a throuple with Edward and Jacob? Even though both films have fantasy narratives, their predestined outcome is as real as it gets – a man and a woman (re)marry and live happily ever after.

For a long time, alternative relationship structures were relegated to fan fiction, undeserving of mainstream fictional representations where conflict and resolution are both inscribed in coupledom. Even the films that challenged mononormativity, such as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, sustain the cautionary tale: opening up your relationship will eventually break it. As a practising non-monogamist, I yearn to see my values represented on screen as something more than a cautionary tale. Recently, the love triangles of Past Lives (implied) and Challengers (consummated) have suggested that perhaps Hollywood itself may be opening up. Then came The Invite, a poly-romcom just in time for the Week of Visibility for Non-monogamy.

Globo News - Mundo

2026-07-07 08:34:20 (2 days ago)

Chinês é arremessado de seu apartamento no 12º andar durante passagem de tornado

Tornados e tempestades deixam rastro de destruição em Ezhou. Um homem foi arremessado seu apartamento no 12º andar durante a passagem de um tornado na cidade de Huanggang, na China, nesta segunda-feira (6). Segundo informações da mídia local, o chinês de 30 anos não morreu, mas encontra-se agora hospitalizado em estado grave, na unidade de terapia intensiva. Além dele, sofá e armários também foram levados pelos fortes ventos. Pelo menos 11 pessoas morreram e 331 ficaram feridas durante a tempestade que teve ventos de até 260 km/h na província de Hubei, no centro da China, de acordo com a mídia estatal. A tempestade atingiu as cidades de Huangshi, Huanggang, Ezhou e Xianning, e durou mais de quatro horas. Imagens impressionantes foram postadas nas redes sociais e mostram Ezhou sendo atingida pelo imenso tornado (veja o vídeo acima). Tornados são raros na província de Hubei, que registrou o último em maio de 2021. O clima severo é resultado da sobreposição do tufão Maysak com o início da estação chuvosa de verão, segundo especialistas. GIF Tempestade atinge Ezhou Reuters

Fox News - Science

2026-07-07 08:34:19 (2 days ago)

Trump puts brakes on OpenAI’s newest AI model

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model requires Trump administration approval for early access, raising questions about government control over AI cybersecurity tools.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-07 08:34:11 (2 days ago)

Trump arrives in Turkey for high-stakes NATO Summit

Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman joins 'Fox & Friends' as President Donald Trump lands in Turkey for a NATO Summit, with tensions surrounding Iran and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war on the agenda.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-07 08:33:06 (2 days ago)

SJSU was told of decades-old allegations against volleyball coach during controversial 2024 season

Emails reveal the Title IX office at San Jose State met with a former player alleging abuse by Todd Kress during the 2024 volleyball scandal.

South China Morning Post - World News

2026-07-07 08:30:05 (2 days ago)

Europe could prosper as China’s trade ally rather than adversary

The European Commission has been clearly signalling its intention to wage a trade war against China. Brussels’ intent to counter the so-called China shock 2.0 – the wave of subsidised Chinese exports such as electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels and batteries – is no longer merely a verbal threat but appears to be an imminent decision. Comparing current trade tensions between the European Union and China with the trade conflict between Europe and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s reveals striking...