Nobby Stiles: Former Man Utd midfielder and England World Cup winner's death linked to heading footballs, coroner rules

England 1966 World Cup winner Nobby Stiles died with a brain condition caused by repeatedly heading a football, a coroner has ruled.

Stiles, a former Manchester United midfielder, died almost six years ago aged 78 with severe dementia and had headed a football around 140,000 times during his career, Stockport Coroner's Court heard at the inquest into his death.

‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ to Play in Select Movie Theaters for Awards Qualifying Run (EXCLUSIVE)

For one week, “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” will screen in select movie theaters in Los Angeles and New York, Variety has learned exclusively.

While the film is primarily a streaming release and will have its Paramount+ debut on July 25, it has also been set for an awards-qualifying theatrical run from July 24 to 30, with three showtimes per day at the AMC Burbank Town Center 6 in L.A. and the AMC Empire 25 in Manhattan.

Andy Serkis Gets Asked Why New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Cast Is All White Actors: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Be Doing a Politically Correct Casting-for-the Sake-of-Casting Version of the Film’

Andy Serkis said in a recent interview with the BBC that his new “Lord of the Rings” movie, “The Hunt for Gollum,” will “somewhat acknowledge” the franchise’s lack of diversity. The film, which is now in production, has announced a cast so far that is made up entirely of white actors: Jamie Dornan, Anna Taylor-Joy, Kate Winslet, Lee Pace, Leo Woodall, Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen, plus Serkis’ return in the title role. The BBC asked Serkis why this is the case.

Post Malone to Perform at the World Cup Closing Ceremony

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The singer will join Tom Cruise, Jennifer Hudson, and more during the final game on July 19

Post Malone will join a star-studded lineup of artists and celebrities to close out the final game of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which takes place at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19.

And Now Netflix Has a Docuseries on the Idaho Student Murders

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What’s one more documentary about the brutal 2022 quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students?

On July 29, Netflix will join Peacock (The Idaho Student Murders) and Amazon Prime Video (One Night in Idaho: The College Murders) with an Idaho student murders documentary series of its own, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare. But this one is the “definitive” one, so says Netflix and executive producer Joe Berlinger (Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey).

Message Screenshots Are Terrible Evidence—Courts Accept Them Anyway

Recently, I consulted on a matter where the other side's evidence arrived as screenshots of text messages. Pages of gray and blue bubbles, clean and readable. The client's question was the right one. How do we know these conversations actually happened? The screenshots could not answer it. Standing alone, they never can.