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Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’s acclaimed debut feature Aftersun swept the board, snagging seven wins at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) in London this evening.

EXCLUISIVE: Arian Moayed, Jesmille Darbouze, Tasha Lawrence, Michael Patrick Thornton and original Hamilton castmember Okieriete Onaodowan have rounded out the cast for A Doll’s House, the new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen’s drama that will star Oscar winner Jessica Chastain.

Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji picked up the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film at the Red Sea Film Festival with his debut feature Hanging Gardens.

An NHS Tayside doctor who fled Iraq has spoken of how he now splits his time between working in Iraq and Perth.

A Scots dad's Iraq prison 'nightmare' is finally over after he arrived back home in Scotland to his 'buzzing' family today.

A Scots man locked up in Iraq for the past two months will have to wait for his homecoming after his flight home was delayed.

A Scottish construction engineer who has been held in jail in Iraq for the last two months will be reunited with his family tomorrow. Brian Glendinning, 43, will fly into Edinburgh Airport at about 5.25pm and will be greeted by his loved ones, following his lengthy ordeal.

The brother of a Scots man jailed in Iraq said he 'cried tears of joy' after finding out his prison 'nightmare' had ended.

A Scots dad who was jailed in Iraq has been released from prison, with his family hopeful that they will be reunited within days.

A Scottish man who has been locked up in an Iraq jail for two months over unpaid debts is waiting on Qatar bank confirming they have agreed to drop their case against him before he can be released.

Scotland, was held at Basra International Airport early last month over an unpaid £20k Qatar bank loan as he prepared to start work as a construction engineer at a BP oil refinery.Now his wife Kimberly says she’s worried about his welfare after she received a heartbreaking phone call from the Baghdad jail where Brian, 43, has been held for more than a month.READ MORE: Russian kamikaze drones target Ukraine as Kyiv struck by three explosionsBrian was shocked to discover there had been an Interpol Red Notice issued from Qatar over the unpaid debt, which was taken out in 2016, reports the Daily Record.His family have previously said that he’d been paying the money back until he was forced to give up his job the following year due to ill health.Kimberly said: “He’s not well. He has no energy.

The wife of a Scots man jailed in Iraq over an unpaid £20,000 Qatar bank loan has told how she fears he is unwell after a distressing phone call from his Baghdad prison. Brian Glendinning, from Kincardine, Fife, was due to start work as a construction engineer at BP oil refinery but was instead detained after flying into Basra International Airport on September 4.

Violent crime continues to ravage Philadelphia as shootings and homicides devastate area residents. Retired Philadelphia police officer Nick Gerace told "Fox & Friends First" where he is placing the blame. "This all extends to Larry Krasner, our failed, radical district attorney here in Philadelphia," he told Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus on Wednesday.

She sat in on a Cabinet meeting – the first monarch to do so for over a century. She also enjoyed a good tease of some of her more earnest prime ministers. At a G7 meeting of world leaders in 1991, Edward Heath, the pompous former prime minister, was filmed showing off about how brave he had been in going to Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.

In seven decades on the throne, the Queen was duty personified.  But, while never putting a foot wrong, there were moments when she clearly had a whale of a time. You knew it when she suddenly broke out in that broad, somehow innocent smile.

Bernard Shaw, a former lead news anchor for CNN, has died.

Anne Garrels, longtime foreign correspondent for NPR, died of lung caner on Wednesday, the network announced.

statement to the network provided by former CNN CEO Tom Johnson. He was 82. «Even after he left CNN, Bernie remained a close member of our CNN family providing our viewers with context about historic events as recently as last year,» Chris Licht, CNN Chairman and CEO, said in a statement on Thursday. «The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.»According to his biography on CNN's website, the veteran broadcast television journalist covered some of the pivotal stories of the last three decades, including the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and the 2000 presidential race.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Bernard Shaw, who was CNN’s lead anchor for 20 years and distinguished the network’s coverage of such landmark events as the Gulf War, died Wednesday, the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet disclosed. He was 82, and had contracted pneumonia that was not related to the coronavirus pandemic. “Bernie was a CNN original and was our Washington Anchor when we launched on June 1st, 1980. He was our lead anchor for the next twenty years from anchoring coverage of presidential elections to his iconic coverage of the First Gulf War live from Baghdad in 1991,” said Chris Licht, CNN’s chairman and CEO, in a statement. “Even after he left CNN, Bernie remained a close member of our CNN family providing our viewers with context about historic events as recently as last year. The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.”

Bernard Shaw, legendary CNN lead anchor, has died due to complications after contracting pneumonia. He was 82.

Bernard Shaw, the first chief anchor for CNN who helped lead breaking news coverage for more than 20 years, has died.

jailed for 15 years in Iraq for collecting stones and shards of pottery is to be freed. Retired geologist Jim Fitton, 66, who could have been executed over the case, has been held since March ­after taking the items as souvenirs.

rappers and their wives who’ve been married for more than 20 years, but it’s officially over between Big Boi and wife Sherlita Patton. According to TMZ, the Outkast rapper filed for divorce back in April and a final divorce decree was entered last month, ending their marriage after 20 years. In his filing, Big Boi claimed there was no hope for reconciliation between the two as the pair were separated and had already begun living apart.

K.J. Yossman Director James Marsh is set to direct a new hybrid animated documentary feature for Submarine and Sandpaper Films.“Oasis, Saving the Baghdad Zoo” (working title), is a feature-length animated documentary partly based on “Babylon’s Ark,” the book about a year-long rescue mission of animals abandoned across Baghdad by Saddam Hussein and his son Uday.Billed as a 21st century Noah’s Ark, the film will show how a team of American soldiers, Iraqi zookeepers, and international volunteers tended to lions, camels, bears, exotic birds, monkeys, pigs and even an ocelot in the middle of a brutal war, risking their own lives in the process.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic“King James,” a new dramedy at the Mark Taper Forum, is a two-hander about a love triangle of sorts. The unseen third point in this romance, per the title: basketball legend LeBron James, whose on-again, off-again status as a hometown hero with the Cleveland Cavaliers over a period of 12 years is the catalyst and constant trigger for a friendship between a couple of true believers in Northeast Ohio.

RICHARD Madeley came under fire today when he showed the tearful daughter of a man imprisoned in Iraq how much water he would receive. Geologist Jim Fitton, 66, was handed a 15-year sentence in the middle-eastern country after collecting fragments during archaeology tour.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBrazilian writer-director Caru Alves de Souza, whose second feature, “My Name Is Baghdad,” won the Crystal Bear for best film at Berlin’s 2020 Generation 14plus sidebar, has been selected for the Pop Up Film Residency 2022 program.Alves de Souza will use the Residency to develop “Lonely Hearts,” her new fiction feature.The award was announced Saturday at Cannes Marché du Film by Josephine Bourgois and Rachel do Valle, executive director and program director at Brazil’s Projeto Paradiso, which is backing the prize, and former Cannes Critics’ Week programmer Matthieu Darras, creator of Pop Up.Alves de Souza will participate in the mentoring program for the development of a fiction feature, which runs over three weeks, in August, in Vilnius, Lithuania. She will receive a Paradiso Scholarship and travel support in the amount of Reais 5,000 ($1,000), in addition to becoming part of the Paradiso Talent Network.

Manori Ravindran International EditorBleecker Street has bought a new thriller starring Julie Delpy, Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack.“The Tutor” marks the feature directorial debut of Alice Troughton, who’s known for directing TV shows such as “Baghdad Central,” “A Discovery of Witches” and “The Midwich Cuckoos.”Written by Alex MacKeith, “The Tutor” follows an aspiring young author, hungry for recognition and success, who takes a tutoring position at a legendary writer’s estate.

Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to Alice Troughton’s “The Tutor,” an upcoming drama that has attached to star Julie Delpy, Richard E.

Naman Ramachandran Endeavor Content‘s U.K.-based content studio The Story Company, which was launched in 2021, has rebranded as The Story Collective and made three senior hires.Former ITV Studios producer Kate Lewis (“Vera”) joins as executive producer and brings with her a slate of projects she has been developing under her Neon Ink banner. Lewis will manage and expand the company’s slate of scripted projects, and provide creative support to their portfolio of invested production companies and writer partnerships.

Boris Johnson has been accused of sounding like the “Comical Ali of the cost-of-living crisis” by denying the facts of the rising prices faced by working families.

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dog owner was left terrified after her sick dog returned home with a menacing note attached to its collar after it managed to escape. The tragic canine, named Baghdad, had the threatening message tied to its collar after it dashed from its home and neighbourhood.

A student from Cheetham Hill will travel to ISIS-occupied cities in Iraq to film a documentary. Zain Ullah, a Law and Criminology student at Manchester Metropolitan University , is set to visit places in Iraq that were once occupied by or are still occupied by terrorist group ISIS.

refugees, and his melting pot musical mix ranges from Eastern European folk and Yiddish theater to Jimmy Buffett and John Prine.Heifetz’s voice could be mistaken for Steve Goodman’s, and there’s a twinkle in his twangy tenor as he finds humor in the immigrant experience. But it’s not all yuks as he reflects on outliers and outsiders, dislocation, disorientation and striving to belong in the land of plenty.“I’m foreign as the fourth day of July,” Heifetz sings.