The official Avengers: Doomsday trailer has dropped – and boy are we in for a hell of a ride.

The movie, which is coming out in December this year, is being touted as the biggest superhero team-up blockbuster since Infinity War and Doomsday.

Not only will it see several of the biggest Marvel Cinematic Universe characters coming together – including the Fantastic Four, Shuri’s Black Panther, and the Thunderbolts – but it will also see OG Avengers Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr reunite.

Some Marvel fans claim that the MCU has gone downhill since Endgame, and refuse to jump back on board. Others believe this new two-and-a-half minute trailer has parts that look like ‘AI slop’. Some say that there’ll just never be as hyped about Marvel films as they were seven years ago when Endgame came out.

And yet, within half an hour, the Doomsday trailer has already banked a million views on YouTube. Make of that what you will, naysayers.

As someone who’s remained a staunch Marvel fan my entire life, and has had faith that Doomsday will bring the goods, the trailer sent chills running up and down my spine.

We have the X-Men, officially in the MCU, including a tormented Professor X (SIr Patrick Stewart), a long-haired Magneto (Sir Ian McKellen), and Mystique (Rebecca Romijin), boasting a brand new look.

Robert has returned, but not as a resurrected Tony Stark – this time, he’s here as the dreaded Doctor Doom, the longtime foe of the Fantastic Four. Whether this means that this Doctor Doom hails from a parallel universe remains to be seen.

Even in this short snippet, Doctor Doom’s power seems unprecedented. He’s able to stop Thor’s hammer mid-flight with just two fingers, seemingly with even more ease than Hela (Cate Blanchett) was able to in Thor: Ragnarok, when she caught the weapon in the palm of her hand before exploding it to smithereens.

But another aspect of Robert’s performance has fans wagging their tongues – the actor’s peculiar accent.

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‘That Victor Von Doom accent from Robert Downey Jr. is driving me insane. What an unbelievable actor, man 🔥,’ ZeMo wrote on X.

‘I will say, I genuinely like Robert Downey Jr’s accent for Doctor Doom,’ ConnorBehrens remarked, while SalenmaganStark said: ‘The accent btw 🙌 Robert ate this 🔥.’

One fan called Shadowthehooded admitted that they initially couldn’t even tell that it was Robert speaking.

However, we’re still yet to see his face underneath Doctor Doom’s metal mask, which he wears in the comics to conceal his severely scarred face.

The trailer boasts several jaw-dropping moments, including Channing Tatum’s Gambit going up against Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, not to mention Thor’s long-awaited reunion with Steve Rogers.

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After Thor says that they need a ‘miracle’ to battle their new nemesis, a voice gently says to him: ‘Hey pal.’

‘It’s not possible,’ Thor responds, before holding his hammer, Mjolnir.

As fans will remember (as who could possibly forget?), in Avengers: Endgame in the fight against Thanos, Captain America was able to summon and wield Mjolnir, which only those who are ‘worthy’ are able to do.

In the Doomsday trailer, Steve catches it once again – seemingly proving that he is very much real and his true self. And the trailer ends there, with Cap’s mysterious return.

Is he the real Steve Rogers? Is he from a parallel universe… or could he an evil version of the character we all adore? There are only four months left until we find out.

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The comments come amid criticism of senior Labour figure Ed Miliband, with briefings including warnings he would be a “threat to Britain” in No 11.

Mr Burnham said: “They haven’t come from my team and I’m appalled at those briefings.

“I’m appalled at any colleague being on the receiving end of an anonymous briefing.

“And coming back to Westminster I kind of see that having gone to another level and it really does demean our politics.

“For me, that is what I’m coming in to change – to get some respect back, some teamwork going.”

He called for a “wider cultural change” in politics, where criticism of colleagues is replaced with cooperation and accountability.

He told broadcasters: “I’m talking about a different type of politics.

“You know what I feel very strongly?

“I don’t believe politicians get the right to stand on someone’s doorstep and point fingers at everyone else when all politics has not been working for people.

“All parties have failed in one way or another.

“You don’t get the right to point fingers when you’ve not been good enough yourselves and that’s what I’m coming in, with that honesty, and myself included, my generation of politicians hasn’t been good enough.”

He said: “Things have been in flux for a long time now.

“We all have to be better and that’s my message.

“We have to change the way we do politics, turn the country around.

“Now, nobody can be happy with the fact that we’re seeing all of this turbulence and I’m conscious that I’m the sixth person to walk up Downing Street in the last decade, that isn’t good enough. We need to be better. We will be better.”

The government said the first steps will involve helping those sleeping rough for a long period of time to move into secure housing, and includes the “acquisition of suitable homes”.

Burnham, in a statement after his first speech in Downing Street, said: “On my first day as prime minister, I’m announcing this government’s commitment to finally end long-term rough sleeping across the UK at the earliest opportunity.

“We’ll get to work immediately, bringing together national and local government with the investment needed to get it done.”

The latest annual national statistics, published by the government in February this year, estimated there were 4,793 people sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2025 in England.

This was a new record high and the fourth annual increase in a row.

The number of people seen sleeping rough on a single night in Greater Manchester was recorded as 268 in 2017, 149 in 2023 and 154 in autumn 2024.

The Manchester Mill reported, external that the figure had increased to 197 in 2025.

Burnham visited homelessness charity The Passage in Victoria, London, hours before he made his first speech in Downing Street.

Challenged about his record, Burnham said the “problem was down significantly” from when he first became mayor of Greater Manchester.

He told broadcasters: “We ran a scheme every night, 600 beds, called ‘A Bed Every Night’ and we funded it through various different ways. But we were the only place that was doing it.

“And you won’t be able to get the numbers down if you’re the only place and other cities, people are coming to Manchester.

“So it taught me that the only way is to do this together.”

Burnham referenced the Everyone In scheme during the Covid-19 pandemic, when thousands of rough sleepers across England were helped with housing.

He said: “Everybody pulling in the same direction, everyone in, as we did in the pandemic, because we did bring people inside in the pandemic.

“And that’s what I’m saying as I go into government today. We did it then, we can do it now, get the basics right, put a care for people at the heart of everything that we do and just get this country working as it should again.”

Burnham’s pledge echoes one made by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who committed to providing 8,000 homes “immediately” to house people with a history of rough sleeping in the event of the party winning power.

Nick Cave’s son Earl has shared how his life devastatingly changed after losing his twin brother Arthur in a clifftop accident over 10 years ago

Nick Cave’s son Earl has opened up about the devastating impact of losing his twin brother Arthur.

Eleven years ago, his brother Arthur sadly died when he fell off a cliff in Brighton after taking LSD for the first time. Following his brother’s death, Earl, 26, found solace in religion and believes the trauma partly led to him calling himself a Christian.

Earl didn’t go to church as a child but says that he became drawn to the idea of religion as he’s gotten older. He started attending every Sunday and began to like the message “more and more.”

“I like the idea that this isn’t it. I wonder whether that’s something intrinsically connected to my trauma. The idea is definitely something that I need to have. It’s comforting,” he said.

He told The Sunday Times: “Life doesn’t feel like an endless vacuum of nothing. Faith keeps me and my morals in check. I manifest and pray for people. It makes me happy.”

Nick and his wife Susie have both used different mechanisms to cope with the death of their son. Nick uses his music to process his grief, with his song Skeleton Tree in 2016 discussing grief in its rawest form.

Susie, meanwhile, channelled her grief into The Vampire’s Wife, a fashion line which she has now closed. Sadly, there has been a lot of grief in the family as Nick’s son, Jethro, 31, died in 2022.

Jethro had schizophrenia and battled with drug addictions, and he died in Melbourne two days after he had been released from jail two months after he violently assaulted his own mother.

Speaking about the deaths of two of his children, he told The Guardian: “‘I think it’s something that people who lose children feel regardless of the situation, simply because the one thing you’re supposed to do is not let your children die. Forget that. The one thing you’re supposed to do is protect your children.”

Asked if he feels culpable because drugs were involved in the death of Arthur, he added: “There could be some element of that, yep. Look, these things are in our DNA, they’re inherited.

“I don’t want to make any assumptions about Arthur, who was just a young boy. It’s not like he was into drugs. On a fundamental level, it’s against nature to be burying your children. And there can’t help but be feelings of culpability.”

Because of the public nature of the death, Nick felt he had to grieve publicly too.

“That was helpful, weirdly enough. It stopped me completely shutting the windows and bolting the doors and just living in this dark world,” he shared following Arthur’s death.

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Andy Burnham has visited Buckingham Palace and received an invitation from the King to form a Government

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Andy Burnham has formally become Prime Minister after meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace.

In the traditional “kissing of hands” audience, Mr Burnham received the monarch’s approval to form a government, a confirmation later issued in a statement by the Palace.

The newly elected Labour leader, who returned to Westminster only recently after serving as Manchester mayor, has pledged to give people “breathing room” against the rising cost of living. He is expected to unveil his first Cabinet later this afternoon, having remained notably tight‑lipped about his choices.

Earlier, departing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gave a farewell address outside Downing Street, saying that he ‘changed’ the Labour Party, making it ‘fit to lead’.

“I’m about to visit His Majesty The King and offer my resignation to close the book on my time as Prime Minister,” he began. “My work is done. In six and a half years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019 – changed it, so it was fit to face the country, and won a landslide general election victory in 2024.

“It has been the privilege of my life to serve you and this great country as Prime Minister. And I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two years ago.”

Reports have suggested cost-of-living support offered by Burnham could include action on energy bills, including allowing more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.

Environmental campaigners have urged him to stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto, which promised not to issue new licences for North Sea drilling, arguing they would not reduce energy bills.

Mr Burnham could also face a decision on whether to temporarily nationalise Thames Water as the firm struggles with a £20 billion debt pile.

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By DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR and GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Published: 13:23 BST, 20 July 2026 | Updated: 14:09 BST, 20 July 2026

Andy Burnham will unveil the top jobs in his new-look Labour Cabinet today amid a furious party row over who should be Chancellor.

With Rachel Reeves almost certain to be turfed out of No11, Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood are said to be vying to take over running the economy.

The Labour Left is still clamouring for Energy Secretary Mr Miliband to be made Chancellor, despite alarm from businesses and moderates. 

Markets have been calmer following speculation that Ms Mahmood, the Home Secretary under Sir Keir Starmer, will get the role instead, but any surprises could prompt a panicky response.

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Meanwhile, the fates of big beasts such as Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper are due to be decided this afternoon, with a procession of big-hitters expected to brave the cameras as they walk up Downing Street to No10.

Green energy tycoon Dale Vince, who is one of Labour’s biggest donors, warned Mr Burnham against appointing Ed Miliband as his Chancellor.

‘I think it would be a mistake for a number of reasons,’ the 64-year-old told Sky News, after he was invited to Downing Street to hear Mr Burnham’s first speech as Prime Minister.

‘I think his spending decisions in DESNZ (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) have been poor – no value for money at all.

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The Labour Left is still clamouring for Energy Secretary Mr Miliband to be made Chancellor, despite alarm from businesses and moderates.

Markets have been calmer following speculation that Ms Mahmood, the Home Secretary under Sir Keir Starmer , will get the role instead, but any surprises could prompt a panicky response

‘Tens of billions of pounds committed to projects that won’t even move the dial on carbon, let alone our economy.’

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Mr Vince also cautioned that Mr Miliband ‘would be a lightning rod for Right-wing criticism’ if he took charge of the Treasury.

‘I think he could do better,’ he added, when asked about Mr Burnham’s potentially picking Mr Miliband as Chancell

This morning former Labour minister Lord Hutton urged the new PM to choose a pro-business chancellor to maintain market confidence.

‘We really do need a complete reboot on the economic growth plan. I think that’s going to be a real first order sort of issue for the new prime minister and the chancellor,’ the peer told Times Radio.

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Briefings against Mr Miliband have included warnings he would be a ‘threat to Britain’ in No11. 

‘They haven’t come from my team and I’m appalled at those briefings,’ Mr Burnham said last week, branding them ‘appalling’.

The centre-left Mainstream grouping of Labour MPs has called for him to appoint a ‘progressive chancellor’.

In an apparent reference to Mr Miliband, it urged the incoming prime minister to pick ‘someone who understands the threat that climate breakdown poses to people and planet and who has the courage to rebuild our state’s productive capacity’.

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However, Mr Miliband was seen as the least market-friendly candidate in a poll by Bloomberg, while he has also clashed with unions over North Sea oil jobs that could be affected by the push for green power he champions. 

One veteran Labour MP on the Left of the party told the Daily Mail: ‘I don’t think Miliband will get No 11. He would be too big a risk.’ 

Ms Mahmood is unpopular with the party Left because of hardline immigration reforms, and a move would allow Mr Burnham to shake things up. 

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was filmed entirely on IMAX cameras for what is believed to be the first time, and there are only three cinemas in the UK that can show the film in the 70mm format

So when word spread that his latest epic, The Odyssey, had been filmed entirely on IMAX cameras — believed to be a first in the history of cinema — Nolan devotees up and down the country had one problem. Only three cinemas in the UK are capable of screening the film as it was truly intended to be seen in 70mm IMAX, two of them in London and one at Manchester Printworks, leaving millions of fans far from the nearest qualifying screen.

For many, the answer was straightforward – make the trip regardless. One such fan is Cerys, a Newcastle-based content creator with a lifelong passion for cinema, who thought nothing of a five-hour journey to the BFI IMAX in London to catch the film in its full, intended glory. But after seeing it a second time back home in Newcastle – this time in 35mm at the Tyneside Cinema – her verdict on the two formats was not quite what you might expect.

Christopher Nolan fans travel for The Odyssey 70mm IMAX experience

She said: “I have now seen the odyssey in both IMAX 70mm and the smaller 35mm format and I think both have differing benefits that I thought I’d share with you in case you’re trying to decide what format to see the movie in. If you can’t see it in 70mm and you’re worried about missing something or if you think it’s worth trying to see it in 70mm.

“I saw it early at BFI IMAX on Tuesday which I had to travel down for and I’ve just come out of a 35mm screening at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle which is where I live. So if you’re in a similar position to me and maybe don’t have great access to a 70mm IMAX screening I’m here to explain why there are other benefits to different formats as well.

“The major difference that I noticed when seeing it in two different formats is actually a product of the loss of screen that you get, and how this changed my interpretation of the story.

“The first time I saw it was 70mm and I found myself more focused on the spectacle of it all, which was undoubtedly astonishing, but seeing it in a smaller format allowed me to focus more on the story which I found enriched my understanding further.

“There were a lot of nuances that I definitely missed out on the first time that I saw the film because I was so wrapped up in the scale whereas now that I’ve seen it again in 35mm I found that my focus was more on the plot, the dialogue and the characters.”

70mm IMAX vs 35mm film: How screen formats change the story

Boasting a remarkably stellar cast including Zendaya, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Travis Scott and Anne Hathaway, The Odyssey weaves together three interlinked storylines — Odysseus’s decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War, his son Telemachus’s search to locate him, and a father-son revenge plot to reclaim their family home. On its opening weekend, The Odyssey took the global box office by storm, raking in a staggering $264m.

Cerys went on to say: “I left both experiences feeling deeply fulfilled just in slightly different ways. Second difference was in the colours and the aesthetics.

“Both looked absolutely gorgeous but I think the grainier all-timely look of 35mm really enhanced the timelessness of this story and solidified the fact that this film will stand the test of time.

“This was honestly my favourite part about seeing it in 35mm whereas I thought the 70mm IMAX looked brighter, which again looked gorgeous, but this added to the spectacle.

“I personally think it’s worth seeing in any and all formats and I do think seeing it in 70mm IMAX was a phenomenal experience that I would definitely recommend.

“It really is great seeing it how it was meant to be seen, but I know it’s quite difficult and if you can’t I hope this video has highlighted the fact that other options are pretty great too.”