Who is Renate Krößner and why does she have a Google Doodle?

The Scottish Government has been urged to help a mum and her son to find lifesaving treatment for Lyme disease.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Family animated movie “Pirate Mo and the Legend of the Red Ruby” proved to be a smash hit with international distributors during the Cannes Film Market, with sales agency The Playmaker Munich delivering the film to multiple buyers. During the market, The Playmaker announced first presales to Benelux (Just4Kids), Turkey (Filmarti), Baltics (GPI), Greece (Rosebud) and Bulgaria (Pro Films). The company has now revealed further sales to Poland (M2 Films), Scandinavia (Njuta Films), Hungary and Romania (ADS), Portugal (Outsider Pictures), and Yugoslavia (Blitz Film).

100 gecs have announced details of a new UK and European headline tour for later this year – see the dates below and buy tickets here.The duo – Dylan Brady and Laura Les – will tour on the back of their second studio album, ‘10,000 gecs’, which landed last month.Beginning on October 8 in Berlin, the tour will then visit Italy, France, Belgium and more before hitting the UK and Ireland for seven shows including a huge London date at the Hammersmith Apollo.A week later, the gigs will then wrap up with a headline show at the Manchester Academy.Tickets for the gigs are on sale now – buy your tickets here and see the full list of gigs below.OCTOBER 20238 – Berlin, Astra11 – Milan, Alcatraz13 – Paris, Le Bataclan14 – Cologne, Carlswerk Victoria16 – Amsterdam, Melkweg17 – Utrecht, Tivoli Vredenburg18 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique20 – Bristol, Marble Factory21 – London, Eventim Apollo22 – Leeds, O2 Academy24 – Dublin, Olympia25 – Glasgow, O2 Academy27 – Birmingham, O2 Institute28 – Manchester, AcademyReviewing new album ‘10,000 gecs’, NME wrote: “Though it’s sorely missing some choice cuts from 100 gecs’ current live set (namely ‘Fallen 4 Ü’ and ‘What’s That Smell?’), ‘10,000 gecs’ is insanely fun and impressively ambitious.“It’s also short but sweet, throwing its turbulent flurry of punches and then dipping out before listeners have a chance to really think about what’s going on.

died Wednesday at the age of 83.Mourners were seen leaving flowers and lighting candles at the gates of the Grammy winner’s estate, located on Lake Zurich in the tranquil town of Küsnacht. Turner first moved into the home, known as Villa Algonquin, with her longtime love, Erwin Bach, in 1998. Due to strict Swiss laws prohibiting foreign homeownership, Turner and Bach rented the property until the singer became a citizen of the country in 2013.

death of Tina Turner at age 83, a clip of the singer explaining why she renounced US citizenship and moved to Switzerland has resurfaced.“I have left America because my success was in another country,” the rock ‘n’ roll legend said in a 1997 CNN interview with the late Larry King.“‘Private Dancer’ was the beginning of my success in England. And basically, Europe has been very supportive of my music.”When asked if Europe was more supportive than America, Turner responded, “Yes, hugely.”King pointed out that Turner was a superstar in America, but she retorted back, saying she was “not as big as Madonna” in the States.“I’m as big as Madonna in Europe,” she shared with a smile on her face.

A frantic search has been launched for a man who vanished over three days ago.

A cruel puppy farmer who left dozens of dogs, cats and kittens in faeces-covered cages has admitted causing unnecessary suffering to 65 animals.

As the world mourns the death of rock 'n' roll legend Tina Turner, ET is taking a look back at her longstanding love with her second husband, Erwin Bach. Turner and Bach, a German music executive, met in 1985 when he picked her up from the airport ahead of a concert. From their European meet-cute to tying the knot almost 30 years later, Turner and Bach were married up until her death on May 24. In a statement to ET, the singer's rep said Turner died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. Honoring the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll's love story, keep reading for a full timeline of Turner and Bach's «love at first sight» relationship.  Turner first met Bach when he was assigned to pick her up from the airport in Germany ahead of her concert. At the time, the EMI music exec was 30 years old while Turner was 47. In a documentary interview with Oprah Winfrey, , Turner described meeting Bach as «love at first sight.» «He had the prettiest face.

The world has lost one of rock and roll's most famous voices as it was announced that Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. The legendary singer, who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, passed away after a long illness, her publicist Bernard Doherty confirmed.

An urgent search is ongoing for a Scottish schoolboy who disappeared five days ago.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Aki Kaurismäki, the deadpan cockeyed minimalist of Finland, has become the ultimate illustration of the principle that if you make movies in the same mood and style, with the same monosyllabic bombed-out hipster vibe, for a period of 30 years, your movies may not have changed — but the world around them has, so the films will have a totally different effect. In “Fallen Leaves,” the Kaurismäki bauble that’s showing at Cannes this year, there’s actually a scene in which a character uses a computer. The film’s heroine, Ansa (Alma Pöysti), loses her job as a supermarket worker, and to find another gig she rents an HP laptop at a makeshift Internet café that charges 10 Euro for half an hour. Apart from that, the movie unfolds in that scruffy and sparsely decorated so-familiar-it’s-cozy pre-tech Kaurismäki zone, where people still use electric adding machines or listen to a bulky kitchen radio that looks like it’s from the early ’60s. “Fallen Leaves” is set in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, but to our eyes it’s a weirdly underpopulated place where shopping, as a pastime, doesn’t exist, and neither, in any meaningful way, does conversation.

Eight feature documentaries and eight short docs have been selected as finalists for the 16th Doc Alliance Awards, presented by the Doc Alliance – the association of European documentary festivals.

Sunday night at the 76th Cannes Film Festival was all about the world premiere of the Jude Law and Alicia Vikander Henry VIII period pic Firebrand, which received a royal response from the crowd in the Grand Theatre Lumiere with an eight and a half minute standing ovation.

the face of the Google Doodle on Wednesday on what would have been her 78th birthday. The search engine often honours departed greats and recently marked the lives of Zofia Nasierowska and Kitty O’Neil. Frau Krößner’s Doodle will be shown in Britain as well as her native Germany on May 17.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Steve McQueen looks stressed out. He’s a few weeks into post-production on “Blitz,” his World War II drama for Apple TV+, while starting promotion on his other, long-gestating wartime project, the documentary “Occupied City.” “It’s definitely pleasurable, but this is work,” declares McQueen with the wariness of a filmmaker who’s just been plucked out of the edit suite. “Hard work is always hard work. You can’t avoid it.” The British director, who was Oscar-nominated for “12 Years a Slave,” didn’t set out to make back-to-back movies about the war, but “you plant seeds, and some come to fruition and others don’t,” he explains. “These two happened to blossom fairly close to each other.”

The Eurovision Song Contest final is underway with singers from 26 all taking to the stage.

The UK's Eurovision hopes this year rest on the shoulder of singer Mae Muller.

Eurovision hopefuls Voyager have spoken to NME ahead of tonight’s final in Liverpool, arguing why Europe should vote for them and agreeing that New Zealand should be allowed to compete too.The Aussie rockers have been in the UK all week, wining themselves a place in the final after successfully making it through the semis with their track ‘Promise. Speaking to NME from backstage at the Song Contest, drummer Ash Doodkorte said that “the vibe around Liverpool is blue, yellow and electric”.“It’s been heckers, but in a good way,” he said.

The second of two Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals took place on Thursday in Liverpool, northern England.

The second Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals will take place on Thursday night and will see 16 countries battle it out for a place in the grand final.