Culture

Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart on Netflix — her 2002 abduction told firsthand

Netflix released Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart, a feature documentary under two hours that chronicles Elizabeth Smart’s 2002 abduction in Salt Lake City from her own perspective. The film includes Smart’s account alongside family members who fill in gaps about what happened at home. Smart was 14 when she was

Culture

Rediscovered Warhol films from 1960s to be screened at MoMA

On Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m., the Museum of Modern Art will screen "Andy Warhol Exposed: Newly Processed Films From the 1960s," revealing more than an hour of footage shot by Andy Warhol and his collaborators in the 1960s that was not developed until spring 2024.

Sports

Man Utd rule out Cole Palmer transfer, prioritise Casemiro replacement

Manchester United have formally ruled out a summer move for Chelsea forward Cole Palmer, deciding the transfer would be financially unviable and instead prioritising the search for a successor to departing midfielder Casemiro. According to The Mirror, co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and CEO Omar Berrada held high-level talks and concluded

Politics

Xi tells Starmer UK and China should ‘rise above differences’ in Beijing talks

China’s leader Xi Jinping told UK prime minister Keir Starmer in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing that the UK-China relationship had gone through “twists and turns” and that the two countries should “rise above differences” if they were to “stand the test of history”. The meeting

Tech

MITO AI raises $4.5M led by Lightspeed to launch AI video workflow platform

MITO AI said it raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and is launching its product on Thursday after testing with about 200 beta partners, the company exclusively told Business Insider. The startup positions itself as a project-management and workflow platform for generative-AI filmmaking,

Sports

Squad depth proving decisive in WSL title race

Squad depth is increasingly decisive in the Women’s Super League title race, with Manchester City described as using rotation centrally to their momentum; City sit nine points ahead of Chelsea going into Sunday’s game against them, the report says. The article says a crowded fixture list — with several

Culture

Ariana Grande Watches Alysa Liu Skate in Milan 2026 Promo Snow Globe

In a promo for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, Ariana Grande appears gazing into a snow globe that contains Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu skating alone in a wintry, magical version of Milan’s cathedral. The video opens with 20-year-old Liu on a seemingly perfect icy surface as snow

Health

Ray J bedridden on 8 medications after saying he has months to live

Ray J told TMZ on Thursday that doctors have advised bedrest and put him on eight different medications as he fights for his life, including Jardiance and Entresto for people at high risk of heart failure and the cholesterol drug Lipitor. He earlier said on Instagram this week that he

Health

Therapist advises man on whether to tell parents about childhood gay bullying

A gay man in his 50s who endured severe bullying in school wrote a tell-all letter to his school’s director after a recent reunion and found the director’s gracious response healing. He has shared the letter with a supportive brother but is unsure whether to show it to

Culture

‘Shelter’ review: Jason Statham as rogue MI5 agent in Scottish Hebrides

In "Shelter," directed by Ric Roman Waugh and reviewed Jan. 29, 2026, Jason Statham plays Mason, a rogue former MI5 agent living in a lighthouse on an island in the Scottish Hebrides. The film opens when a winsome, curious teenage girl named Jackie is almost drowned in a

Culture

Ubisoft memes about Black Flag remake leaks after actor said company threatened to sue him

Ubisoft's official Assassin's Creed X account has been posting GTA-style memes about a possible Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake leak, a shift from earlier tensions when the game's lead actor Matt Ryan said the company "threatened to sue me" for

Culture

Inuuteq Storch’s MoMA PS1 debut documents everyday life in Greenland

Inuuteq Storch, a 36-year-old photographer from Greenland, has a debut exhibition at MoMA PS1 in Queens titled "Soon Will Summer Be Over," on view through Feb. 23, the review says. The show assembles work from across Greenland, including the series "Keepers of the Ocean" (2019) and

Culture

How to find surveyors and get surveyor vaults in Arc Raiders

Polygon (Published Jan 27, 2026) explains how to find surveyors in Arc Raiders and what you need to do to get surveyor vaults. Surveyors are large metal balls that patrol maps and scan the environment; they aren’t hostile until you shoot them. Polygon’s testing found surveyors most commonly

Culture

Fallout season 2 impresses, but penultimate episode creates a Star Wars-style problem

A GamesRadar+ reviewer says Fallout season 2 builds on a brilliant first season but its penultimate episode introduces the Vault 32 Overseer Steph Harper’s backstory in a way that creates a Star Wars–style overconnection problem. The review praises Season 2 as something “S.P.E.C.I.A.

World

Ali Akbar, Paris’s last newspaper hawker, made a knight of the National Order of Merit

Ali Akbar, a 73-year-old believed to be France’s last newspaper hawker, was made a knight of the National Order of Merit in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace on Wednesday, where President Emmanuel Macron described him as the 'most French of the French'. Born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan,

Sports

Watching 18 Champions League games at once was entertaining but overstuffed

A Guardian columnist described attempting to watch 18 Champions League matches at the same time on the final group-stage match day as entertaining but overwhelming, saying the information overload from TV, laptop and phone made it hard to judge whether it was a brilliant night of football. The piece says

Tech

GOG used AI-generated sale banner, in-house artist confirms

Digital PC storefront GOG used AI-generated artwork to advertise an ongoing 2026 sale, and a graphic artist who works at the company confirmed the image was created with AI on January 26, Kotaku reports. The image was first noticed by someone on Reddit and reported to GamingOnLinux; observers pointed to

Culture

Prime Video confirms 'Fallout' Season 3 — writing underway, filming set for May 2026

Prime Video renewed Fallout for a third season in May 2025, and the show’s creative team says writing is underway; Production List reports Season 3 will begin filming in May 2026 in Santa Clarita, California. Executive producer Jonathan Nolan told IGN in December that “we're hoping to

Culture

How you wear a winter scarf is being read as a sign of age

The New York Times reported on Jan. 29, 2026, that the way people wear winter scarves has become a marker of age, with social media debates casting some scarf styles as youthful and others as old. On social platforms and in commentary, certain techniques have been labeled: folding a scarf

Health

Pregnant Influencer Leah Jay Ramsey to Have Open-Heart Surgery After Mitral Valve Leak

Australian influencer Leah Jay Ramsey, who lives in Austin, Texas, is set to undergo open-heart surgery days after she and her husband announced they are expecting their second child. Her husband, Michael Ramsey, said in an Instagram post on Jan. 28 that a heart scan showed her mitral valve was

Business

Lukoil agrees to sell its foreign assets to Carlyle, excluding Kazakhstan

Lukoil said on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, that it had agreed to sell its foreign assets to Carlyle, a Washington-based investment firm, while excluding its operations in Kazakhstan. The company did not disclose the financial terms of the deal and said it was still in talks with other prospective buyers.

Crypto

Gen Z shifts to prediction markets after $150B altcoin wipeout

BeInCrypto reports a growing cohort of Gen Z crypto traders is shifting capital from altcoins and meme coins into on‑chain prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi, a move that followed an estimated $150 billion altcoin wipeout between late 2024 and the end of 2025. The outlet notes the

World

Kaja Kallas warns Russia is ‘trying to bomb and freeze’ Ukrainians as EU meets in Brussels

Arriving for an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on 29 January 2026, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned that Russia is “bombing Ukrainians, trying to bomb and freeze them to surrender,” and said ministers had a “very package agenda” including Ukraine, the evolving EU‑US relationship

Culture

Collider highlights 10 Western TV shows that were cancelled too soon

Collider senior author Michael John Petty published a Jan. 28, 2026 list of 10 Western TV shows he says were cancelled too soon, arguing the genre’s ongoing comeback makes many of those early endings feel especially premature. Petty ranges across eras, from ’50s and ’60s horse operas to modern

Sports

Wolves braced for £50m Jørgen Strand Larsen bid from Crystal Palace

Wolves are braced for a bid totalling £50m for Norway striker Jørgen Strand Larsen from Crystal Palace, with the forward expected to exit in this window and Palace said to be in advanced discussions to sign him. Agent Jorge Mendes is leading negotiations on behalf of Wolves, with an initial