Actor best known for playing Guy Foucher in the French musical film classic The Umbrellas of CherbourgThe actor Nino Castelnuovo, who has died aged 84, starred in one of the indisputable masterpieces of 1960s French cinema: Jacques Demy’s heartbreaking…
Grandmother of Eitan Biran investigated over his alleged abduction – reports
Italian prosecutors had already placed cable car crash survivor’s maternal grandfather under investigation after he brought the child to IsraelThe maternal grandmother of a six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a cable car crash in northern Ita…
Billogram, provider of a payments platform specifically for recurring billing, raises $45M
Payments made a huge shift to digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic — purchasing moved online for many consumers and businesses; and a large proportion of those continuing to buy and sell in-person went cash-free. Today a startup that has been focusing on one specific aspect of payments — recurring billing — is announcing a […]
Wales 0-0 Estonia, Northern Ireland 0-0 Switzerland: World Cup qualifying – clockwatch!
Updates from tonight’s World Cup qualifying gamesFollow Poland v England – live!Get in touch! Email Scott with your thoughts on tonight’s matches 9.44pm BST FULL TIME: Greece 2-1 Sweden. 9.44pm BST FULL TIME: North Macedonia 0-0 Romania. Continue readi…
From the Vine review – laugh-free comedy of midlife Italian escape
Joe Pantoliano stars as a disaffected executive setting out to revive his grandfather’s vineyard in this tiresomely whimsical taleAn Italian-American man in late middle age rejects the rat race and embarks on a voyage of self-discovery and winemaking i…
After years of inaction against adtech, UK’s ICO calls for browser-level controls to fix ‘cookie fatigue’
In the latest quasi-throwback toward ‘do not track‘, the UK’s data protection chief has come out in favor of a browser- and/or device-level setting to allow Internet users to set “lasting” cookie preferences — suggesting this as a fix for the barrage of consent pop-ups that continues to infest websites in the region. European web […]
Suspected thief of winning scratchcard stopped at Rome airport
Tobacco shop owner in Naples allegedly snatched customer’s card and sped off on his motor scooterBorder police at Rome’s main airport have prevented a Naples tobacco shop owner suspected of running off with a customer’s winning game ticket from boardin…
Il Buco review – unhurried meditation on the beauties of geological time
Ten years after village doc Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino returns with an observational piece centring on a deep-cave system in CalabriaIn 2011 Italian artist Michelangelo Frammartino scored a small indie hit with a film called Le Quattro …
Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government
Double Booker prize winner tells La Repubblica she may take Irish citizenship to feel European againHilary Mantel has said she feels “ashamed” by the UK government’s treatment of migrants and asylum seekers and is intending to become an Irish citizen t…
The Hand of God review – Paolo Sorrentino exposes his childhood trauma
Going back to Naples and the tragedy that changed his life, The Great Beauty director evokes his adolescence with bawdy vigourAt 16, Paolo Sorrentino returned home to find that both his parents were dead, killed by a carbon monoxide leak. On the night …