The 90th Academy Awards kick off Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California. Jimmy Kimmel returns for the second straight year to host, and all eyes will be on him and the Oscars producers to see how the broadcast tackles perhaps the biggest scandal in Hollywood history,…

Another blow for Facebook in Europe: Judges in Belgium have once again ruled the company broke privacy laws by deploying technology such as cookies and social plug-ins to track internet users across the web. Facebook uses data it collects in this way to sell targeted advertising. The social media giant failed to make it sufficiently clear…

Former Hollyoaks actress turned Oscar winner Rachel Shenton has come a long way since her soap star days. Rachel’s film The Silent Child scooped the statuette for the Best Live Action Short Film at a star-studded Oscars ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday. As she took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre with her fiance…

Bradley Wiggins after winning the 2012 Tour de France (Picture: Getty)Bradley Wiggins used medication that enhanced his performance during his Tour de France win, a British parliamentary committee report claims. The report found that Team Sky crossed an ‘ethical line’ in allowing the use of medication, which they said was used to treat the cyclist’s…

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Cricket Australia is investigating after CCTV footage emerged of an altercation between David Warner and Quinton de Kock on the steps leading into the dressing rooms at Kingsmead in Durban. The footage, first aired by South African outlet Independent Media, shows Warner being moved away from the incident by team-mates, including captain Steven Smith, after…

Welcome to The Independent‘s Oscars liveblog, bringing you the latest from the 90th Academy Awards and film’s biggest night on the calendar.  This year’s ceremony has witnessed multiple political causes championed from gun control to the plight of Dreamers children to the TimesUp and MeToo movements. Frances McDormand’s powerful acceptance speech for Best Actress (apologies for the…