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Ian McDiarmid: As a kid, I always wanted to be the baddie | Ian McDiarmid

The theatre and film actor on staging a pair of Julian Barnes stories, playing Emperor Palpatine, and finding peace in isolation Ian McDiarmid, 77, has distinguished himself as a theatrical all-rounder. He made his name on stage as an actor of incisive authority and is internationally known as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films.

Relieved Novak Djokovic ups his game and eases past Toms Etcheverry | Australian Open 2024

Novak Djokovic admitted that he is relieved to feel his performance level rising at the Australian Open after he played his best match of the tournament so far, outclassing Toms Martn Etcheverry 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (2) to reach the fourth round at Melbourne Park.

The secret world of breast cancer: 17 surprising things I wish Id known

I thought I knew all about the disease that took my mother when I was nine. But on being diagnosed myself, my eyes were opened to the myths and realities October is breast cancer awareness month. You are probably aware of breast cancer in some way. I was for much of my childhood my

Call to honour El Salvador's rescuer of Jews after war role rediscovered | El Salvador

He was El Salvador's equivalent of Oskar Schindler, a man who was given a chance to do something about the Holocaust - and took it. Now, six decades after Jos Castellanos helped to save 25,000 Jews by granting bogus nationality certificates, the story of the central American nation's consul general to Switzerland during the second

How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?

Since his confrontation with Cathy Newman, the Canadian academics book has become a bestseller. But his arguments are riddled with pseudo-facts and conspiracy theories The Canadian psychology professor and culture warrior Jordan B Peterson could not have hoped for better publicity than his recent encounter with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News. The more Newman