Colin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in the Star Wars films, has died at the age of 90. The Hollywood Reporter said that Sierra Dall, Cantwell’s partner, confirmed that he died at his home in Colorado, in the US, on Saturday.

Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson are among those to depart Saturday Night Live, leaving the US sketch show without arguably its two most famous names. Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney are also leaving the cast.

With only a test dummy aboard, Boeing’s astronaut capsule has pulled up and parked at the International Space Station for the first time, a huge achievement for the company after years of false starts.

A woman who stripped off her clothes to reveal a message written on her body has crashed the Cannes Film Festival premiere of George Miller’s Three Thousand Years Of Longing.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has denied a claim of sexual misconduct by a flight attendant contracted by Space X who worked on his private jet in 2016.

A gold signet ring which is more than 3,000 years old has found its way back to Greece after being stolen from an Aegean island during the Second World War.

A German woman said her journey to work has become longer – but cheaper – after leaving her SUV at home and switching to real horse power.

Greek media reported that Vangelis died in a French hospital on Wednesday

McDonald’s has begun the process of selling its restaurants in Russia after more than 30 years in the country.

A friend of actor Amber Heard has testified that she saw bruises and cuts left in the aftermath of multiple incidents of abuse inflicted by Ms Heard’s ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has dropped his lawsuit against a US cannabis dispensary that used an image of his character Borat on a billboard without his permission.

Eric Clapton, a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions, has tested positive for Covid-19 and cancelled two upcoming European gigs.

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with an eye turned to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and a video message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Members of the Californian rock band Eagles Of Death Metal provided emotional evidence about the night so-called Islamic State group extremists stormed their Bataclan theatre concert, killing scores of people in France’s worst attack in generations.

A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California’s landmark law requiring women on corporate boards is unconstitutional.

The European Union has slashed its forecasts for economic growth in the 27-nation bloc amid the prospect of a drawn-out Russian war in Ukraine and disruptions to energy supplies. The EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) will expand 2. 7% this year and 2.

Travis Scott and Morgan Wallen invited controversy with their performances at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, while Mary J Blige was honoured for her musical excellence.

Oil giant Saudi Aramco has said its profits soared more than 80% in the first three months of the year, as the state-backed company cashes in on the volatility in global energy markets and soaring prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in films Tremors, The Right Stuff and The Player has died. He was 79. Ward died on Sunday, his publicist Ron Hofmann said on Friday.

One of the world’s biggest airlines, Emirates Air, has announced it lost £900 million over the past fiscal year – an 80% improvement over the year before. The Middle East’s top carrier said revenue was up 91%, reaching £13. 2 billion.

A newborn giraffe has been fitted with an orthotic brace on its front leg at a zoo in the US. The calf, named Msituni, was born on February 1 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego, with her front limb bending the wrong way.

The US Senate has confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Mr Powell’s high-stakes efforts to curb the highest inflation in four decades.

The world got a look on Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.

European Union countries have been adopting into local law a 2019 EU directive granting publishers additional rights over their content

A passenger with no flying experience radioed an urgent plea for help when the pilot of a small plane suddenly fell ill off Florida’s Atlantic coast, and landed the plane safely with the help of air traffic controllers.

Cleaner air in the US and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a study has found.

"We condemn in the strongest possible terms the creation and distribution of photographs and videos of our members during a nude scene," said Kate Shindle, president of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Wim Wenders is making a film about high-end public toilets in Japan that will have what the renowned German director calls “social meaning” about people in modern cities.

Henry Winkler is as busy as ever these days, but the actor is still making time to write a memoir. Celadon Books announced it has a deal with Winkler to tell his life story. The memoir, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2024.

Amazon has fired two employees with ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful US organising effort in the retail giant’s history.

Atlanta rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang and promoted it in his songs and on social media, prosecutors allege in a sprawling indictment that accuses him and 27 others of racketeering and other crimes.

Atlanta rapper Young Thug co-founded a violent street gang and promoted it in his songs and on social media, prosecutors allege in a sprawling indictment that accuses him and 27 others of racketeering and other crimes.

Elon Musk, who is offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met the bloc’s single market chief.

An experienced Nepalese Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 26th time, breaking his own record for the most climbs of the world’s highest peak, expedition organisers said.

A man charged over an attack on comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl pleaded not guilty Friday to four charges.

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra’s upbeat, melodic entry for this month’s Eurovision Song Contest was written as a tribute to the frontman’s mother, but it has become an anthem to the nation’s war-ravaged motherland since the Russian invasion of ...

SpaceX has brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s space taxi service.

The Federal Reserve has intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by half a percentage point — its most aggressive move since 2000.

You star Penn Badgley is tapping in to his own familiarity with the angst of a young person by co-creating and hosting a podcast devoted to the awkwardness of adolescence.

New Orleans’ chief music festival ended its first weekend with the Red Hot Chili Peppers honouring the late Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins by closing the show for his band.

The 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, has been investigating Apple since 2020

Bosses of Egypt’s Suez Canal said on Sunday that its monthly revenues hit an all-time record in April, raking in 629 million US dollars (£500 million).

Elon Musk has sold 4. 4 million shares of Tesla stock worth roughly $4bn (€3. 8bn) – most likely to help fund his purchase of Twitter. Musk reported the sale in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

Amputee athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma has achieved her goal of running 102 marathons in as many days, setting an unofficial women’s world record. And she said she will run two more for good measure and wrap up her challenge with 104.