British actress Jane Lapotaire has died, aged 81, according to the Guardian. Her cause of death has not been announced. She is survived by her screenwriter son Rowan Joffe, 53, who she shared with ex-husband, movie director Roland Joffe. The actress got her TV break in the BBC series Marie Curie in 1977, before playing the title role in Pam Gems’ Edith Piaf musical Piaf in London’s West End in 1978, winning an Olivier Award. Two years later, Piaf moved to Broadway, where Lapotaire won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, beating out Elizabeth Taylor. It was her only appearance on Broadway. In recent years, Lapotaire played Princess Irina Kuragin in the fifth season of Downton Abbey and Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother of Prince Philip, in season three of royal drama The Crown. Her death was announced on Thursday by The Royal Shakespeare Company on Thursday, where she was an Honorary Associate Artist. “A truly brilliant actress, Jane joined the RSC in 1974 to play Viola in Twelfth Night,” the company said in a tribute. “A few years later, she took the title role in Piaf, winning Olivier and Tony Best Actress awards." In 2000, Lapotaire suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage while preparing to teach a course on Shakespeare in Paris. She wrote about her harrowing recovery, which involved a month in the ICU, in the 2004 memoir Time Out of Mind. Last month, Lapotaire was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to drama.

Five or more American service members are feared dead after an American refueling aircraft crashed on Thursday. The U.S. military confirmed in a press release that two aircraft were involved in an incident, leading one to land safely while the other went down in western Iraq. The military said the incident happened in “friendly airspace” and was “not due to hostile or friendly fire.” A U.S. official told CNN that at least five members were aboard the U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker that went down. A typical KC-135 flight crew consists of three to four members, including the pilot, co-pilot, boom operator, and sometimes a navigator, according to an Air Force fact sheet. But aeromedical evacuation missions can also carry five additional medical personnel. The military release did not confirm the number of service members on board nor their conditions, but said more details would become available “as the situation develops.” Since President Donald Trump initiated a war on Iran on Feb. 28, eight American service members have died. Six U.S. servicemembers were killed after a retaliatory Iranian drone strike hit a mobile operations center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1.

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We’re just about a week into Daylight Saving Time, and while the time shift comes with plenty of positives (who doesn’t love an extra hour of daylight?), it also significantly disrupts your sleep routine and circadian rhythm. When you add in months of winter sluggishness, late-night doom-scrolling, and the general exhaustion of daily life, it’s easy to see why March is considered Sleep Awareness Month. Simply put, most of us aren’t getting the rest we actually need. If you’re tired of being tired, look no further than BetterSleep, a leading app for sleep and relaxation. BetterSleep empowers you to build better nighttime habits to help you fall asleep faster and wake up feeling more refreshed.

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Social media star and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Livvy Dunne is starting off her acting career as a recurring character on Fox’s Baywatch reboot. The network announced on Thursday that Dunne, 23, will play Grace, “a highly enthusiastic junior lifeguard.” The former Louisiana State University gymnast announced last April that she had retired from the sport and had begun taking acting lessons. Among the main cast of the classic ‘90s series reboot are Stephen Amell, Jessica Belkin, Shay Mitchell, Brooks Nader, Thaddeus LaGrone, Hassie Harrison, Noah Beck, and David Chokachi. Amell stars as Hobie Buchannon, the son of David Hasselhoff’s character Mitch Buchannon from the original series, as he captains the Baywatch lifeguards alongside his daughter, Charlie Vale, played by Belkin. Dunne became the highest-earning female college athlete during her time at LSU with an NIL valuation of $4.1 million, and has over 15 million followers combined across her social media profiles. Last year, she graced a cover of the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue alongside actress Salma Hayek, Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles, and model Lauren Chan.

HUNTR/X isn’t done protecting the world from demons just yet. A KPop Demon Hunters sequel is officially in the works after directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans inked a multi-year writing and directing pact with Netflix. The first movie was Netflix’s most popular movie of all time, with more than 325 million views. No date for the sequel has been set. The Hollywood Reporter said that previous speculation of a 2029 release appeared unlikely, given how long it takes to produce an animated film. The movie is a favorite to win best animated feature and best original song—for the hit Golden—at the Oscars. “I feel immense pride as a Korean filmmaker that the audience wants more from this Korean story and our Korean characters. There’s so much more to this world we have built and I’m excited to show you. This is only the beginning,” Kang said in a statement, with Applehans adding that the film’s characters “are like family to us.” Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, said the directors “ignited a global fandom that crossed languages, generations, and genres.”

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We’re starting to see a few miserly mea culpas emerging from the loose-knit collection of podcast influencers who went to bat for Trump in 2024: Joe Rogan is shaking his head in disbelief at the events unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. Andrew Schulz is feeling “misled.” These guys—and many others like them—allowed themselves to be seduced by the lies for the clicks. Now they feel played. What frustrates me most about these podcasters is all of them seem to possess genuine curiosity about the world. But they’ve chosen to place their faith in the least credible people, because those people feed them a story they want to believe. And now that they’re seeing what they’ve wrought, they want our grace? Well, I’m inclined to give it to them. But it’ll require something beyond a rueful monologue about how “things got weird.” Admit that you were wrong not just about Trump, but about the epistemology that got you there. Admit that entertaining every crackpot theory doesn’t make you an iconoclast—it makes you a sucker. And do something radical for the podcast age: start telling their audiences the truth, even when it’s boring, even when it’s complicated, and even when it doesn’t get nearly as many clicks as the lie.

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Ricky Gervais’ partner of 44 years, Jane Fallon, revealed via Instagram that she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. “About a month ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer - very early stage thankfully & the prognosis is excellent,” she writes in the caption. The opening image of the post is a selfie of Fallon with the words “Bit of news …” at the top and, below, “No one panic” in parentheses. The post also features photos of a stuffed bear in a doctor costume and her cat, Pickle, in a nurse’s outfit. Doctors initially detected cancer cells while conducting a routine mammogram in December 2025. “I had no symptoms but the brilliant radiographer spotted something iffy & sent me for further tests & eventually a biopsy,” she said. After that came another series of biopsies and an MRI. It’s been a difficult process for the author, adding, “My surgery is scheduled for the week after next and I just want to get it over with now.” Fallon, 65, is best known as an author, writing the bestselling books Getting Rid of Matthew and Faking Friends, among others. Fallon and Gervais, 64, have been a duo since 1982.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, police officer suffering a “mild anxiety attack” took an ambulance from a man who had just been shot by police, leaving the wounded person waiting for transport to the hospital, where he died. According to a state investigative report released Tuesday, Officer Erin Perrotta was involved in the pursuit of Dyshan Best, 39, last March when officers shot Best in the back. When the first ambulance arrived, dispatch records from American Medical Response indicated the call was for a “Stab/Gunshot/Penetrating Trauma.” But officers on the scene instead directed paramedics to treat Perrotta first, telling the crew to “hurry up and take their partner.” The ambulance left with the Perrotta while the shooting victim was left behind to wait for a second unit. According to the report, Perrotta told paramedics in the ambulance, “I am fine, I just needed to get out of here,” and declined further treatment. Best eventually arrived at the hospital 14 minutes after the officer, and later died from his injuries that night. Best’s niece, Tatiana Barrett, said she believes her uncle could have survived if he had arrived at the hospital sooner. Perrotta has since been placed on administrative leave in connection with an unrelated matter, according to WFSB-TV.

English singer Morrissey, 66, abruptly canceled his Thursday concert in Valencia, Spain, after claiming the city’s notoriously noisy Las Fallas festival left him too sleep-deprived to perform. The former frontman for The Smiths informed fans on his website that his stay at a Valencia hotel had been an “indescribable hell,” blaming the city’s bustling atmosphere for ruining any chance of rest. Morrissey said he had driven from Milan to Valencia ahead of the performance but was unable to sleep because of the noise level. According to the singer, the nonstop racket—including “loud techno singing” and “megaphone announcements” made it “impossible” for him to sleep and left him in what he described as a “catatonic state.” While the show in Valencia won’t go on, Morrissey insisted the concert was “not canceled,” arguing that “circumstances render the show impossible.” The singer is still scheduled to continue his current tour with upcoming performances in the Spanish cities of Zaragoza and Seville on March 14 and 16, respectively. The cancellation follows five earlier shows being scrapped from his Make-Up Is a Lie tour.

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A local politician from Ontario is resigning amid scrutiny for purchasing a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf. Bob Gale, the now-former Niagara Regional Chair, bought the book in 2010 for around $6,000. The purchase went unnoticed by the public until it was discovered by a member of the Niagara Anti-Racism Association. Gale maintains that the book is part of his artifact collection instead of an endorsement of the murderous Nazi dictator. In his letter announcing his departure, he didn’t mention Mein Kampf by name, but said he was the owner of “a historical book found in many libraries.” He also called out the whistleblower who made the discovery, calling them a communist party member. A coalition of local anti-racist groups demanded Gale resign and explain himself. “It’s shocking but not surprising that Niagara’s highest elected municipal official owns hate literature,” Sherri Darlene of the Justice 4 Black Lives Niagara, said. According to CBC, Gale leaves office after separately stirring up controversy for trying to fundamentally reshape Niagara’s municipal government system. Before entering public office, Gale was a police officer and head of his family’s oil company.

A massive pipe burst out of the road in Osaka, Japan, bringing traffic to a screeching halt. The pipe is 11.5 feet in diameter and rose up to 42 feet above the ground at one point. No one was injured in the accident, but it surely annoyed the residents in the area. “I can’t believe this,” a nearby resident, Ryozo Kawakita, told the Japan Times. “Cars will probably be blocked for a while,” another individual in the area told the Kyodo news agency. The pipe’s unusual placement was first reported by a shocked pedestrian early Wednesday morning. According to crews in the area, the pipe was used during a sewer-related construction project. The pipe was used to prevent the surrounding soil from collapsing in, but when the water was drained from the pipe, it floated up and out of the road. The issue has been mainly resolved after firefighters refilled the pipe with water, sinking it to the depths of the ground below. Roads are set to remain closed for the next few days as emergency crews cut out the remaining few feet of the pipe above ground.