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Warner Bros. is developing a feature film set in the world of Game of Thrones with writer Beau Willimon of Andor and House of Cards. "That's about all we know right now, and as with everything 'Thrones' things could change, but the film is firmly in development," reports TheWrap. Page Six Hollywood was first to break the news and speculated that the story could revolve around Aegon I, the legendary Targaryen king who spawned a dynasty. From the report: The Targaryens have been at the center of all things "Thrones" on HBO, with "Game of Thrones" following Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) quest to usurp the throne, spinoff "House of the Dragon" set in the midst of the Targaryens' reign and recent spinoff "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" following the squire-ship of Aegon "Egg" Targaryen towards the end of the family's run atop the Iron Throne. All, of course, based on George R.R. Martin's expansive book universe.

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Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley

I first heard the Cure’s Charlotte Sometimes as a teenager, and it was like waking up from a dream. With dissonant guitar chiming like church bells and opaque lyrics about preparing for bed, it unburied a childhood memory of reading Penelope Farmer’s ghostly 1969 book of the same name. As a child I’d found it fantastical: on Charlotte’s first night at boarding school, she wakes to find herself 40 years in the past, in the body of someone else, with an unfamiliar moon in the sky. But as a teen, re-reading the story on Robert Smith’s recommendation, it held a mirror to my increasingly uncertain sense of self. To hear Charlotte’s disorientation play out through uneasy bass and Smith’s dizzying, doubled-up vocals was strangely comforting; confirmation that growing up has always felt like time-travelling. Learning that the band recorded it exactly 10 years, to the day, before I was born was further proof: my own cosmic link to a past life. Katie Hawthorne

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Mukund Krishna arrested by City of London police along with two former national board members

The head of the body representing most police officers has been arrested on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position, weeks after he called for greater whistleblowing about wrongdoing.

The chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) since 2024, Mukund Krishna, 46, had helped oust powerful local leaders in the Metropolitan and West Midlands police forces and the federation, and had a salary and bonuses of £320,000 a year.

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First Deputy Chief Justice Vladimir Davydov attributed the decline to the “humanization” of Russia’s law enforcement practices since President Vladimir Putin first took office.

Op de Brabantse Wal werd in 2021 een gigantische put met drugsafval gevonden. Om de grond te saneren moest een groot stuk bos worden gekapt. De boswachter zag het natuurgebied veranderen in een laboratorium. Nu durft hij te hopen op herstel.

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Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again

An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.…