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An Egyptian actress who wore a revealing dress to the Cairo Film Festival is to go on trial on charges of “inciting debauchery”, reports say. Rania Youssef appeared in a lacy, black, see-through outfit that exposed most of her legs, outraging many Egyptians, though some said she should be able to wear what she wanted. She could be jailed for ...

We’ve all been there – a football in the face during a kickabout with your niece, or a whack on the ankle by your son’s out-of-control scooter. So it’s good to know we mere mortals aren’t the only ones to suffer at the hands of our beloved offspring. Music star Gaz Coombes revealed on Tuesday he has had to cancel ...

The man nicknamed “the Indiana Jones of the art world” has done it again – this time tracking down a precious sixth-Century mosaic stolen from Cyprus. Finding the 1,600-year-old piece in a flat in Monaco had felt very special, Dutchman Arthur Brand said. He handed the work over to the Cypriot embassy in The Hague on Friday. Mr Brand has ...

Actress Rebel Wilson has lost her final bid to reclaim a record payout in Australia, despite winning a high-profile defamation case. Wilson sued magazine publisher Bauer Media over articles that she said had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar. A court awarded her a A$4.7m (£2.6m; $3.5m) payout last year, but that sum was reduced to A$600,000 on appeal. ...

Amy Schumer has had to cancel a show in Dallas after being hospitalised with severe morning sickness. The comedian and actress posted a picture of herself in hospital on Instagram and apologised to fans for having to reschedule. She said she’s “fine” and “baby’s fine” but she has hyperemesis gravidarum, which the Duchess of Cambridge had during her pregnancies. Schumer ...

Ethiopia is changing rapidly under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, with women now wielding enormous power in a country where they have mostly been confined to traditional roles, writes BBC’s Tigrinya’s Hana Zeratsyon. Ethiopians like to say they were ruled by Queen Sheba in biblical times – something they take great pride in, yet the reality is that the Horn of ...

The judges get dressed in broom cupboards, the physio’s treatment room is in the disabled toilet, and the props won’t fit through the doors. But Strictly Come Dancing loves coming to Blackpool. When you move Britain’s biggest TV show to one of the country’s most historic ballrooms, you have to make use of every available space. “We turn broom closets ...

The Mad Max and Venom actor is a friend of Princes William and Harry and was among the guests at Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle in May. He was honoured by the Prince of Wales at a ceremony where author Ken Follett was also made a CBE and TV historian Lucy Worsley was appointed an OBE. Businessman and philanthropist Lloyd ...

William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men, has died aged 87. Goldman, who received Oscars for both of those films, also wrote Marathon Man, Magic and The Princess Bride, which he adapted from his own novels. His memoir Adventures in the Screen Trade is famous for his memorable declaration that “nobody knows ...

US actor Rob Lowe has said it has been “surreal” to learn that parts of Malibu where he grew up have been destroyed in California’s devastating wildfires. “A lot of my childhood memories of that area will never be the same,” he told the BBC’s Colin Paterson. “I know so many people who have lost their homes there,” he continued. ...