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Beyoncé has updated her latest album, Renaissance, in response to criticism from fans and the pop star Kelis. The song Heated has received a lyrical update, removing a slur that is often used to demean people with spastic cerebral palsy. In place of the so-called "s-word", Beyoncé now sings "blast". Meanwhile, a reference to Kelis's hit Milkshake has also disappeared from the album, after the singer complained she had not given permission for its use. The "la la la" hook from Milkshake was originally used in the background of Beyoncé's song Energy. Those vocals have now been erased from the mix. A drum sample - based either on Milkshake or an earlier Kelis track called Get Along With You - remains integral to the song. ...

Dev Patel successfully broke up a knife fight in Adelaide earlier this week, his representatives have confirmed. The actor, who has starred in Slumdog Millionaire, witnessed the fight in Adelaide on Monday (1 August). A man and a woman were reportedly fighting in the street and in a convenience store when the man was stabbed in the chest. Patel's spokesman said the star "acted on his natural instinct". The man who was stabbed is expected to survive. "We can confirm that last night, in Adelaide, Dev Patel and Taos Shoes Canada his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already in progress outside of a convenience store," representatives for Patel told BBC News. "Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the ...

The new Batgirl movie has been scrapped by Warner Bros Discovery months before its planned release. Reportedly budgeted at more than $70m (£58m), it was due to be shown in cinemas and on the streaming service HBO Max later this year. The New York Post reported that the decision had followed a poor reaction to test screenings. However, Warner Bros said the move reflected its "leadership's strategic shift". The production was filmed entirely in Glasgow and the local council said it had brought a significant economic benefit to the city. The film was based on the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon - or Batgirl - played by Leslie Grace. She appeared alongside Michael Keaton as Batman, Brendan Fraser as villain Firefly and ...

Critics mostly wanted to get off the Bullet Train, with many saying Brad Pitt's new movie goes off the rails. The film, directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2), is a westernised big screen re-working of a bestselling 2010 novel by Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka. Pitt plays a returning hitman taking on a series of assassins, under instruction from his handler (Sandra Bullock), en route from Tokyo to Kyoto. The Guardian described it as "weirdly exhausting and overwhelmingly unfunny". "It rattles strenuously on and on and on with unexciting and uninterestingly choreographed fights, cameos which briefly pep up the interest and Keen Canada placeholder non-lines where the funny material should have gone," wrote Peter Bradshaw, in his two-star review. ...

When Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, first saw a large black object sticking out of the ground in a remote part of his land, he thought it was a dead tree. But on closer inspection - and verification from experts - he learned it had fallen from space. The Australian Space Agency (ASA) later said it came from a SpaceX capsule. Experts described the discovery as "rare" and "exciting" - but said such events may become more common. The object landed on 9 July in a large area of fields, but was not discovered by Mr Miners until several weeks later. Two other pieces were later found nearby, and the ASA asked Cloud Shoes  anyone who came across further items to contact a debris hotline set up by SpaceX. D...

A Republican who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to help overturn the 2020 election has lost a vote to a candidate endorsed by the former president. Rusty Bowers was hoping to fight for election to the Arizona state senate, but lost the party's primary vote to David Farnsworth. The staunch conservative also testified against Mr Trump to the committee investigating last year's Capitol riot. Republican voters elsewhere in the US also backed Trump-endorsed candidates. Candidates were chosen in a number of states on Tuesday following primary elections that decide who will stand for the party in November's mid-terms. Those who have publicly supported Donald Trump and repeated his false claims about fraud and malpractice in the 2020 ...