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California dazzled by extremely rare killer whale sightings off southern coast | California
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Experts and whale watchers have been dazzled by a series of orca sightings off the southern California coast that are being described as “extremely rare”.
A group of 10 whales – including a calf just a few months old – has been spotted for the past two weeks off the coast of southern California, between Oxnard and San Diego.
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The actor George Gaynes, who has died aged 98, gave warm, sparkling performances in two 1980s comedy hits. In Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie (1982), he played John Van Horn, a lecherous old ham known to his colleagues on a daytime TV soap opera as “the Tongue”. Breath-freshener at the ready, he tries his luck with a new female cast member, not realising that she is in fact a male performer (played by Dustin Hoffman) in drag.
Gloucester man jailed for life after stabbing ex-girlfriend to death | Crime
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Gods Dice review Baddiel drama has science, spirituality but no spark
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In his debut play, starring Alan Davies, David Baddiel gambles on a mash-up of physics and midlife crisis
Alan Davies emerges on stage to address the room, or so it seems. He speaks of physics and the chances of winning the lottery in the multiverse, asking questions and delivering a few gentle jokes. The audience responds with hesitant heckles before Davies reveals himself to be Henry Brook, a physics professor standing before an imagined lecture room of undergraduates.
Man gets life term for killing and dismembering father | Crime
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