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    Nicole Kidman honoured with AFI Life Achievement Award

    The Big Little Lies star will be the first Australian to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award. Kidman told Stellar magazine that she was grateful to join previous female recipients Lillian Gish, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda and Barbara Streisand. Awarded by the AFI Board of Trustees, the Institute’s prize is among the film world’s most coveted gongs. Male counterparts include George Clooney, Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. Nicole will be the 49th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award, which was first handed out in 1973.

  • Storyful

    NYU Says 'Antisemitic' Incidents Reported at Campus Protest

    “Numerous” arrests were made by responding police officers at NYU’s Gould Plaza on Monday, April 22, the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said, after the university requested assistance in clearing pro-Palestinian protesters from the area.An NYU student newspaper reported that dozens were arrested during the protest.Footage taken by Jarrett Robertson shows the demonstrators chanting and carrying signs and Palestinian flags outside NYU’s Stern School of Business.“Today’s events did not need to lead to this outcome," NYU spokesman John Beckman said. Beckman said things “escalated” when “additional protesters, many of whom we believe were not affiliated with NYU, suddenly breached the barriers”.Beckman said several “antisemitic incidents” had been reported.According to student media, NYU students set up camp on Monday, as protests in solidarity with Gaza continued at Columbia University and spread to other institutions. Credit: Jarrett Robertson via Storyful

  • The Telegraph

    Family of young person at centre of Huw Edwards scandal ‘still suffering’

    The mother of the young person at the centre of the Huw Edwards scandal has said her family is “still suffering” and “still have so many questions”.