Walmart Eyeing Deal to Buy Vizio for More Than $2 Billion: Report

The appointment of a key community figure to head up a new town board that will implement a massive £20m injection in Dumfries has been slightly delayed.

This year brought another leap year – along with an age-old tradition allowing women to propose to their partners.

Annika Pham Taskovski Films has acquired world rights to the Danish doc “Daughter of Genghis,” produced by “The Lost Leonardo’s” Andreas Dalsgaard for Elk Film. The debut feature of award-winning photo-journalists Kristoffer Juel Poulsen and Christian Als will world premiere in the F:ACT competition section of the leading international documentary festival CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.

A mum who took her baby to hospital with a common complaint but was dismissed and sent home has helped launch a campaign after her daughter was later diagnosed with an extremely serious medical condition.

Cancer patients in Scotland receive less cancer care than in other comparable countries, a new study has shown.

A crocodile and a wild cat are among the ‘dangerous’ animals being privately kept in Greater Manchester, it has been revealed.

Council road maintenance has fallen to its lowest level in five years amid mounting fury among Greater Manchester residents over the growing number of potholes across the city region.

Selome Hailu SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” now streaming on Netflix. A cruel dictator grabs an enemy soldier by the wrist. The soldier’s eyes widen. He lets out a desperate shriek as his skin turns to a crisp — he’s being burned alive.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Austin Butler‘s transformation into Elvis was widely documented last year. He spent three years researching the music icon and went fell Method actor during production, never abandoning Presley’s trademark southern drawl for months on end. For his role as the sociopathic villain Feyd-Rautha in Denis Villeneuve‘s “Dune: Part Two,” Butler toned down the Method acting considerably.

Angelique Jackson In a year where the box office was dominated by the $1.4 billion-grossing “Barbie” — produced by its star Margot Robbie and directed by Greta Gerwig — one might expect to find a plethora of other hit films led by women and girls among Hollywood’s top earners. However, 2023 marked a historic low for women in leading roles among the year’s 100 top-grossing films, according to the latest USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report. Researchers led by Dr.

A new online petition is urging the UK Government to “commit to not increasing the State Pension age above 68” following the publication of new research by the International Longevity Centre, which suggested that the State Pension age will need to rise to 71 by 2050 to keep up with projected longer life expectancy.

Skyrocketing demand for children and adolescent mental health services is leaving youngsters facing long waits for help. There has been "an increased demand for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to assess and treat young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties", says a Greater Manchester patient watchdog.

People have been urged to look for a red flag warning sign of diabetes that develops in a person's eyes.

Religious people coped much better during the Covid-19 pandemic than non-believers, according to a new study. Researchers found those with faith experienced much less unhappiness and stress during the pandemic, with mental health decline being 60 per cent worse for non-religious people.

Variety FYC Fest: The Producers. The conversations were moderated by Variety’s senior artisans editor Jazz Tangcay and senior awards editor Clayton Davis. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Producer Daniel Lupi on Filming in Oklahoma, Striving for Authenticity Producer Daniel Lupi became involved in “Killers of the Flower Moon” after the script was rewritten to center the relationship between Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), contrasting from the original version of the script where DiCaprio was playing FBI agent Tom White.

The RSPCA is investigating after two guinea pigs were left out on a road dumped in a carboard box.

Naman Ramachandran Streaming subscription growth in the Southeast Asia region slowed dramatically in 2023, but revenue from those subscriptions grew at a robust rate, a new study has found. The report from data analytics company AMPD, that is part of consultancy and research firm Media Partners Asia, shows that the region – that includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – added only 1.3 million net new SVOD subscribers in 2023, compared with 11 million in 2022. But subscription revenues grew at 12.5% to $1.4 billion.

Bladder cancer is one of the more common forms of the disease and one of its red flag warning signs can often be mistaken for another, less serious health condition.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After more than a year away from the mic, Dr. Brené Brown is bringing back her two podcasts — “Unlocking Us” and “Dare to Lead” — under a new partnership with Vox Media. Brown, a renowned researcher, author and speaker whose work explores emotional facets of the human experience, on Wednesday announced a deal to bring her shows to the Vox Media Podcast Network.

It's not just carrots, eating grapes is good for your eyes as well, a new study reveals. Just a couple of handfuls of grapes a day for four months was shown to improve key markers of eye health.