Academy award winner Adrien Brody is to take the lead role in the new instalment in the Predator franchise, it has been announced. The Darjeeling Limited star will act alongside Alice Braga and Danny Trego in Predators, Nimrod Antal’s relaunch of the series featuring the dreadlocked alien killing machine. Antal is shortly due to begin [...]

The supermarket chain Waitrose has withdrawn its advertising from Fox News after complaints were received about remarks made by a presenter involving US president Barack Obama. Glenn Beck caused controversy back in July when he alleged Mr Obama was being a "racist". Describing the arrest of a black academic, Henry Louis Gates, Mr Beck said [...]

An urgent call to launch negotiations on an arms trade treaty has been made as over 2,000 people die every day from armed violence. Oxfam and a coalition of NGOs have said today the death toll has reached 2.1 million in the "three years of talks about talks" which are "going at a snail’s pace". [...]