New synthetic opioids banned by UK Government in bid to prevent drug deaths

Evil” will premiere Thursday, May 23, on Paramount+, the streamer announced Monday. Production recently began in New York City on the previously announced four bonus episodes. Season 4 will include 14 episodes premiering weekly.

Thania Garcia Ahead of the release of her new “Funk Generation” album, slated for April 26, Anitta has announced she is going on tour. Starting May 18 in Mexico City, Mexico, the “Funk Generation Tour” will take the Brazillian singer to over 20 cities, including her first tour dates in North America. She’ll then hit South America and Europe in major cities like Paris, London, Bogota, Buenos Aires, biza and more.

Rita Ora has shown off her washboard abs in a stunning bikini picture on Instagram.The singer and actress looks sensational in newly shared images from her recent trip to New Zealand.The 33-year-old posed in front of a mirror in a bikini and also shared a steamy picture in a hot tub, alongside stunning scenic pictures while enjoying her travels.Two videos she shared shows her flying in a helicopter over waterfalls and now covered mountains in Queenstown. It seems Rita is exploring what the country has to offer, after marrying Kiwi husband Taika Waititi.The New Zealand filmmaker is said to have splashed out millions on a home for the couple in Point Chevalier.

His response to the police was brief, but resigned. "I'm f****d, aren’t I?," Craig Parr said after officers tracked him to a hotel room in Newcastle. They had seized £300m of drugs, and caught him red handed. Just days earlier, Parr had been in a service station off the M25, raising a glass ahead of a daring plot.

One day after President Joe Biden said he was “outraged and heartbroken” over an Israel Defense Force attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen team members distributing food in Gaza, WCK founder José Andrés gave an emotional interview to Reuters in which he said, “What I know is that we were targeted deliberately, nonstop until everybody was dead in this convoy.”

A New York judge decided today that Jonathan Majors will still be sentenced next week on his assault and harassment conviction.

Peaches joined Romy on stage in New York City to perform The xx’s singer’s track ‘Did I’ this weekend.Romy was performing at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Friday (March 29) when she brought out the Canadian electroclash artist to perform the track from her debut solo album ‘Mid Air’.“Last night in NYC the ICON Peaches @peachesnisker joined us onstage for Did I!!” Romy shared on Instagram over the weekend.“I don’t know how to express how much I love Peaches and what an inspiration she has been to me! Thank you so much for this moment Peaches.”The singer also posted snippets of their performance together, for which they shared the lyrics to ‘Did I’.Check out footage in Romy’s post below.A post shared by Romy (@romyromyromy)Alongside their onstage moment, Romy has announced that a remix of the track by Peaches is coming Tuesday (April 2). “It was a dream to perform with her in NYC and it gave Did I a whole new perspective, can’t wait for you to hear this,” Romy shared.Meanwhile, Romy recently spoke to NME about The xx’s time back in the studio together, sharing that they’ve “learned a lot from our different solo projects”.The artist was speaking on the red carpet of the 2024 BRIT Awards, where she was nominated in the Best British Dance Act category on the night.“We’ve been in the studio since I last spoke to NME and we’re in the studio again next week, so we’re meeting up regularly,” she told us at the BRITs.

Vampire Weekend have released a new single ‘Mary Boone’ and announced a UK and European tour for the end of 2024. Read on for all the details.‘Mary Boone’ is the fourth and final single to be shared ahead of the release of their fifth studio album ‘Only God Was Above Us‘, which comes out on April 5.

Shakira played a free pop-up show in front of a huge crowd in New York’s Times Square last night (March 26).The Colombian star only announced the show on her social media channels hours before the show. By the time she took to the TSX Stage, around 40,000 fans had flocked to the square.Opening the show with her 2006 smash ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, she went on to feature a number of tracks from her recently-released album ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’, including ‘Te Felicito’, ‘TQG’, ‘Como Donde y Cuando’ and ‘Punteria’.

For most of her career, Amirtha Kidambi didn’t refer to herself as an activist, in the same way she didn’t consider herself a Carnatic singer despite studying the form for years. Both of these practices, she explained in a 2017 interview, are lifelong callings.

Manchester Airport has announced the launch of a direct route to Shanghai, the first service to operate to the Chinese city from the north. Juneyao Air has chosen Manchester as its first destination in the UK in a move that’s been hailed as “fantastic news” by regional leaders.

Netflix have confirmed the release date for a new thriller series starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Chumbawamba have told New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister to stop using their track ‘Tubthumping’ at rallies.Last weekend (March 17), New Zealand’s deputy prime minister Winston Peters –who leads the right-wing New Zealand First party which is part of the country’s coalition government – walked on stage to the British group’s 1997 hit song before giving his controversial “state of the nation” address.Per BBC, Peters reportedly discussed plans to remove gender and sexuality lessons from the school curriculum and said that NZ First and their supporters have a “real chance to take back our country”. He also used ‘Tubthumping’s song’s lyrics at the end of the address, telling the audience “we got knocked down, but we got up again.”“Chumbawamba wrote the song Tubthumping as a song of hope and positivity, so it seems entirely odd that the ‘I get knocked down…’ refrain is being used by New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters as he barks his divisive, small-minded, bigoted policies during his recent speeches,” said the band’s former lead guitarist Boff Whalley in a statement sent to BBC News.He continued: “Chumbawamba would like to make it clear that we did not give permission for Peters to use the song and would ask him to stop using it to try to shore up his misguided political views.“Chumbawamba does not share any of Peters’ ideas on race relations and would like to remind him that the song was written for and about ordinary people and their resilience.

Less than a month before Jonathan Majors is set to be sentenced in his domestic violence trial, the much-accused former Marvel actor has today been sued for defamation by his ex-girlfriend.

Natasha Richardson died suddenly at the age of 45 in March 2009.Her son, Daniel Neeson, 27, paid tribute to his late mom on the 15th anniversary of her death Monday.“15 years since you’ve left this plane onto forever more. I look forward to reuniting one day but for now I take solace in knowing you’re beside me every step of the way.

Dave Myers shared a touching final message on his last Hairy Bikers episode.The beloved TV chef, who was 66, sadly died last month after being diagnosed with cancer. While the BBC was showing their latest series, Dave was bravely fighting his illness with chemotherapy. In the most recent show, Dave and his best mate Si King filmed in Devon and Dorset and talked about how special it was to work together during such a tough time.

There’s a lot of rumors running rampant right now about the royal family, and there’s a major conspiracy theory circulating on Twitter and X that a major “royal announcement” is coming soon, too.

BritBox International has its new leader following BBC Studios‘ takeover of the streamer.

Paramount Names Australia/New Zealand Chief

Thousands of social housing tenants are set to see as much as £400 slashed from their yearly energy bills, the Government said as it announced a new round of funding for home upgrades.