Favourite Characters

David Squires on … his favourite characters after 10 years at the Guardian drawing board

Our cartoonist celebrates a special anniversary with old friends to entertain us in the international break. Buy your own copy of this cartoon from our Print Shop David’s new book, Chaos in ...

World - The Guardian - 22 hours ago

Badenoch is favourite, but will she clinch Tory leadership?

BBC political editor Chris Mason gives the run down on how the Tory Party leadership result could play out.

China’s favourite tipple may finally shake off its hangover

Rebound in overseas sales and share buybacks could help Kweichow Moutai recover

Business - Financial Times - October 25

Rúben Amorim in talks over Manchester United job after Ten Hag exit

United hope to unveil Sporting head coach next week Ten Hag sacked by United following West Ham defeat Manchester United were closing in on Rúben Amorim’s appointment as the club’s new manager ...

World - The Guardian - October 28

Flick dismisses title-favourites tag: Long way to go

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick dismissed the idea his side have replaced Real Madrid as favourites to win LaLiga after last weekend's 4-0 Clásico win.

Sports - ESPN - November 3

Choose your favourite goal from FA Cup first round

Choose your favourite goal from a choice of 10 great strikes in the FA Cup first round.

Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

American author Everett and British writer Harvey have been given the shortest odds of winning the £50,000 literary prize but Ladbrokes say the ‘race is wide-open’. Percival Everett and Samantha ...

World - The Guardian - November 11

Comfort and joy: chef Eric Ripert’s favourite places to dine this season

The chef-patron of the three-star Le Bernardin likes to keep it local on the Upper East Side at this time of year, with sorties into SoHo and Nolita

World - Financial Times - 5 days ago

‘It felt wild and mystical’: readers’ favourite remote spots in Europe

Our tipsters have found solitude in glorious mountains, islands and coastlines from the Highlands to the Aegean. Davaar island , off the Kintyre peninsula in south-west Scotland, is a true ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

How to Give Neurotic Losers the Main Character Treatment

Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection, peers into the soul of millennial disorder in the way that no one else does.

Tech - Wired - October 25

Sark: Ewers bounce-back showed 'true character'

Quinn Ewers settled into the kind of rhythm his Texas coaches and teammates are accustomed to Saturday night in a hard-fought 27-24 win over Vanderbilt.

Sports - ESPN - October 27

How Scholz finally found his voice and called time on the German coalition

Chancellor abandons years-long reticence to go against political allies

World - Financial Times - November 7

Sonic 3 Will Tease New Character At The End Of The Movie

Sonic fans only have just over a month before the third film arrives in theaters on December 20. The threequel has Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles teaming up to take down the mysterious Shadow, voiced ...

Tech - GameSpot - 6 days ago

Hunt: Showdown Gets Its First Crossover Character With This Legendary Horror Villain

We've seen Ghost Face in a number of video games already, namely Dead By Daylight , Among Us , and Call of Duty: Warzone . Now, the iconic killer first seen in Wes Craven's 1996 genre-defying ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 22

Character AI clamps down following teen user suicide, but users are revolting

As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 23

Psychologist Reacts to Silent Hill 2's Characters and Themes

Alexander Kriss is a clinical psychologist and author based in New York, and has written extensively about why we play games, and the effect games can have on their players. He's also a lifelong ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 24

Why attacking Trump’s character has proved so ineffective

Moral grandstanding is not the best way to convince people to come over to your side

Business - Financial Times - November 3

What Harris's years as a prosecutor reveal about who she is now

A look back at the Democratic candidate's career in California shows her struggle to define herself to the public began long before she came to Washington.

Write-ins hardly win, but these characters, celeb, and non-candidates are popular options

Sometimes, voters write in themselves, a favorite Disney character, or a president that died hundreds of years ago. In nearly every case, the write-in never wins.

Politics - The Hill - November 3

Cole Hauser talks "Yellowstone" character Rip Wheeler's loyalty and love

Actor Cole Hauser joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the return of the hit series "Yellowstone," the Dutton family's fight to protect their land, and his role as Rip Wheeler.

From Joker to Terrifier to It: why killer clown characters are on the rise

The great clown panic of 2016 may have passed – but in Hollywood, these curious circus folk are multiplying. Name: Killer clowns.. Age: 100. Continue reading...

World - The Guardian - November 4

Disney Actress Secretly Voiced This Metal Gear Solid Character

It's been a long-held fan theory that the voice actress behind Eva in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was performed by the same woman who provided the voice of Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid. ...

Tech - GameSpot - November 6

Viktor Gyökeres’ drive and character show he can stay at the elite level

Sporting forward is scoring freely for club and country, and will surely be a target for Rúben Amorim at United. After a particularly tempestuous week or two in the life of Sporting Clube de ...

World - The Guardian - November 10

Review: In 'Cross' and 'Day of the Jackal,' driven heroes hunt unreal killers

Prime Video's "Cross" and Peacock's "The Day of the Jackal," premiering Thursday, are cat-and-mouse stories, though exactly who is the cat and who the mouse is a revolving situation.

Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

'Carl the Collector,' a new animated PBS series, features characters with autism

PBS' new animated children's program, debuting Thursday, is the first time the public broadcaster has centered a series on a neurodiverse character.

Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago

The College Football Playoff Race Has New Main Characters

Arizona State and Colorado have forced their way into the playoff picture, a columnist for The Athletic writes.

Sports - The New York Times - 2 days ago

‘I stood on the sunny hilltop imagining I was a Roman’: readers’ favourite ancient sites in Europe

Celtic coins in Jersey, vast Neolithic structures in Spain and France, and a Roman bath or two feature in our tipsters’ picks from antiquity and beyond. Feeling the need for some brief respite from ...

World - The Guardian - October 25

‘Joyce and Hemingway loved lingering here. I can see why’: readers’ favourite small cities in Europe

Art nouveau cafes, Ottoman architecture and beer halls make these modest cities a big draw away from the crowds. I got off the train to Venice last summer in Trieste, planning to spend a few hours ...

World - The Guardian - November 8

What we’ve learned so far from the Lucy Letby inquiry: ‘cold’ character, missed opportunities and staff shortages

The Thirlwall inquiry has uncovered new details about Letby and the neonatal unit on which she worked. During the two criminal trials of Lucy Letby, jurors were given a huge volume of complex ...

World - The Guardian - October 24

Final Fantasy 7 Glitch Sort Of Lets You Save Beloved Character From Murder

In 1997, one of the most-remembered moments from Final Fantasy 7 was the murder of a beloved companion character, which resonated throughout the rest of the game and all of its subsequent follow-up ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 25

Ralph Fiennes on choosing acting roles: "I like characters that have contradictions inside them"

The Oscar-nominated actor starring in two new films – "Conclave" and "The Return" – talks about the draw of playing characters with contradictions, and the thrill of finding a new role.

Asher Grodman talks "Ghosts" season four and his characters new role in the real world

Ghosts star Asher Grodman joins "CBS Mornings Plus" to discuss the new season and to reveal what's next as Trevor lands a job in the physical world.

'A disabled South Park character from 24 years ago is getting me harassed today'

I have felt the shadow of Timmy since childhood - but never imagined the name would be hurled at me by strangers in my 30s.

‘I met the actor I replaced at a party!’ From Friends to Paddington, the tricky art of taking over a much-loved character

Sally Hawkins being replaced in the Peruvian bear’s latest romp is nothing new: from Ross’s wife-switch in Friends to Dallas’s short-lived Miss Ellie stand-in, recasting can cause confusion – and ...