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Dolly Parton was laid to rest in a private ceremony at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, beside her husband Carl Dean, on 31 August 2026. The estate kept the service closed, then released the announcement the public had been waiting for.

Tim Curry, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and one of the great screen villains, has died at 80. He was just named an honorary Muppet, a distinction shared with Dolly Parton.

Dolly Parton has died at 80 at Nashville's Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, surrounded by loved ones after a brief battle with cancer. She sang a one-room Tennessee childhood into one of the great American lives.

Two masked burglars needed less time to strip three masterworks from a Parma-area museum than it takes to boil an egg. Italy's art-crime specialists needed five months to get them back.

Three weekends, US$2.022 billion. Only Avengers: Endgame got there faster, and no Spider-Man film had ever reached the mark.

Hayden Panettiere, the actor who became a household name playing an indestructible cheerleader on Heroes and later a hard-living country star on Nashville, has died at 36. Her publicist Kasey Kitchen confirmed the death and said an investigation is ongoing. No cause of death has been released.

The first thing you notice is the curtains. Hung inside a fully furnished living room visible from the traffic crawling along Sunset Boulevard, they belong to a room with no door to the outside world.

Two days after releasing her eighth studio album, Ariana Grande pulled out of one of the most anticipated West End productions in years. Empire Street Productions confirmed on 2 August 2026 that Grande will no longer appear in the Barbican's revival of Sunday in the Park With George.