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Ruvimbo Kaviya, a nurse in Leeds, has had a tumour called a meningioma taken out from the space beneath the brain and behind the eyes.

The Los Angeles Times calls it "a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on the mean streets of Grand Theft Auto V." Grand Theft Hamlet won SXSW's Jury Award for best documentary, and has now opened in U.S. theatres this weekend (and begun streaming on Mubi), after opening in the U.K. and Ireland. But nearly the entire film is set in Grand Theft Auto's crime-infested version of Los Angeles, the Times reports, "where even the good guys have weapons and a nihilistic streak — the vengeful Prince of Denmark fits right in." Yet when Sam Crane, a.k.a. @Hamlet_thedane, launches into one of the Bard's monologues, he's often murdered by a fellow player within minutes. Everyone's a critic. Crane co-directed the movie with his wife, Pinny Grylls, a first-time gamer who functions as the film's camera of sorts. What her character sees, where she chooses to stand and look, makes up much of the film, although the editing team does phenomenal work splicing in other characters' points of view. (We're never outside of the game until the last 30 seconds; only then do we see anyone's real face....) The Bard's story is only half the point. Really, this is a classic let's-put-on-a-pixilated-show tale about the need to create beauty in the world — even this violent world — especially when stage productions in England have shuttered, forcing Crane, a husband and father, and Mark Oosterveen, single and lonely, to kill time speeding around the digital desert... To our surprise (and theirs), the play's tussles with depression and anguish and inertia become increasingly resonant as the production and the pandemic limps toward their conclusions. When Crane and Oosterveen's "Grand Theft Auto" avatars hop into a van with an anonymous gamer and ask this online stranger for his thoughts on Hamlet's suicidal soliloquy, the man, a real-life delivery driver stuck at home with a broken leg, admits, "I don't think I'm in the right place to be replying to this right now...." In 2014 Hamlet was also staged in Guild Wars 2, the article points out. "This is, however, the first attempt I'm aware of that attempts to do the whole thing live in one go, no matter if one of the virtual actors falls to their doom from a blimp. "As Grylls says, 'You can't stop production just because somebody dies.'"

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The English actor, 63, plays the role of farmer Nathan whose homestead and family life are threatened by local county lines drugs dealers.

Georgia Brown, 27, was thrown out of Gossip! nightclub after she got involved in an 'altercation' with another woman during a night out in Hanley in March last year

The 52-year-old Oscar winner hauled what appeared to be a ripped-up piece of luggage out of Artists Equity headquarters

Kevin Costner shared a sweet memory with his late pal, Whitney Houston, on his milestone 70th birthday.

The contestants will battle it out for the chance to win Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment, with the new series set to kick off on Thursday January 30.

Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du Beke has revealed the one big difference he has seen in the BBC show from when it first started. 

A major update from a cold case decades old has revealed the parents of Chester Breiney are responsible for his tragic death.

The devastating Los Angeles wildfires have put billions of dollars worth of fine art at risk as experts warn could be 'one of the most impactful art losses ever in America.' 

Liberals and leftists afraid of what Donald Trump might do as president again are stocking up on food, water and some more unusual items like Plan B pills and machetes.

Donald Trump's penchant for promoting attractive, poised and fragrant young women is one policy that he clearly has every intention of reviving in his second White House term.

Love Island: All Stars ' are reportedly set to welcome two new bombshells next week.

Criminals stole four suitcases, collectibles and clothes worth roughly £10,000 from Vishal Patel's secure unit at a Shurgard storage facility.

Whether you take yours over-easy or sunny side up, supermarket shelves in the UK are increasingly catering to people who want even more from their eggs - FEMAIL put them to the test...

Golf hero John Daly has sent Donald Trump a message of support ahead of his inauguration, days after being hospitalized and undergoing emergency surgery.

A Scots farmer claims giant sea eagles are threatening to put him out of businesses because they keep killing his flock of sheep.

Wayne Westhead, 65, an ex-Major with a 30-year career in the British Army behind him, was one of the people targeted by the scammers.

Chelsee Healey and Andy Buchanan were the first couple eliminated from Dancing On Ice 2025 on Sunday night.

America's outgoing national security adviser has "wide access to the world's secrets," writes Axios, adding that the security adviser delivered a "chilling" warning that "The next few years will determine whether AI leads to catastrophe — and whether China or America prevails in the AI arms race." But in addition, Sullivan "said in our phone interview that unlike previous dramatic technology advancements (atomic weapons, space, the internet), AI development sits outside of government and security clearances, and in the hands of private companies with the power of nation-states... 'There's going to have to be a new model of relationship because of just the sheer capability in the hands of a private actor,' Sullivan says..." Somehow, government will have to join forces with these companies to nurture and protect America's early AI edge, and shape the global rules for using potentially God-like powers, he says. U.S. failure to get this right, Sullivan warns, could be "dramatic, and dramatically negative — to include the democratization of extremely powerful and lethal weapons; massive disruption and dislocation of jobs; an avalanche of misinformation..." To distill Sullivan: America must quickly perfect a technology that many believe will be smarter and more capable than humans. We need to do this without decimating U.S. jobs, and inadvertently unleashing something with capabilities we didn't anticipate or prepare for. We need to both beat China on the technology and in shaping and setting global usage and monitoring of it, so bad actors don't use it catastrophically. Oh, and it can only be done with unprecedented government-private sector collaboration — and probably difficult, but vital, cooperation with China... There's no person we know in a position of power in AI or governance who doesn't share Sullivan's broad belief in the stakes ahead... That said, AI is like the climate: America could do everything right — but if China refuses to do the same, the problem persists and metastasizes fast. Sullivan said Trump, like Biden, should try to work with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a global AI framework, much like the world did with nuclear weapons. "I personally am not an AI doomer," Sullivan says in the interview. "I am a person who believes that we can seize the opportunities of AI. But to do so, we've got to manage the downside risks, and we have to be clear-eyed and real about those risks." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Mr_Blank for sharing the article.

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