Not much has changed for Ricky Gervais in lockdown. He didn't go out much anyway, and he's got enough booze in the house for a nuclear winter. Dave Itzkoff took the chance to speak to him about targeting celebrity culture at the Golden Globes and the new series of 'After Life'

Actor and writer also shared what he felt were the hardest things about life during lockdown

Reunited for a good cause, if separated by the coronavirus lockdown, the Parks & Rec cast provided easy, nostalgic laughs

Experts accused programme of being 'triggering' for people who struggle with eating disorders

As Claire Danes puts Carrie Mathison to pasture, Jacob Stolworthy looks back at the series that justified its existence to the bitter end

TV host went into a detailed analysis of the low testing rate in the US amid the coronavirus pandemic

The actor has joined Phoebe Waller-Bridge's acclaimed spy thriller for its third season. She talks to Alexandra Pollard about the joy of not wearing a corset, the limitations of Shakespeare's heroines and why she thinks people should think carefully before changing their pronouns

The bowler hat was used by Goldfinger's henchman Oddjob

'We tried to tell that story, but it defeated us every time'

'Is there anyone on Earth who enjoys the ending?'

Holmes came under fire for giving validity to a conspiracy theory linking 5G to coronavirus

The Hoover Dam holds back 10 trillion gallons of water. That's enough to cover the state of Connecticut 10 feet deep. How much damage would be done if the dam broke?

Are these just different names for the same beast or are there subtle differences? We talk with the owner of a Bigfoot museum who's had a close encounter.

Every April, the Lyrid meteor shower fills the sky with shooting stars. Here's how to see them.

A startup is recycling tons of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?

If you think asphalt is what hot tar roads are made of, you'd be wrong. Asphalt is only one ingredient in the recipe that makes up our roads. And it has a very long, very interesting history.

From a kidult superhero movie to a spooky period melodrama, these films will provide entertainment for all the family

Kidult superhero movies are nothing new, but this 2018 animated splinter off the Sony-Spidey combine does something really smart with the money-spinning multiverse concept. In Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey’s version, Spider-Man is reborn across the dimensions – as Gwen, as a private eye, as a pig – and the result is a fruitfully mind-bending recalibration of the entire mythos.

In the past year Australia’s energy minister has been swept up in two scandals. The past week has brought developments in both. Anne Davies explains what questions he has yet to answer

You can read Lisa Cox’s and Anne Davies’ latest updates on the Jamland grass poisoning here and more on the doctored document saga here.

Ugly makeup is imperfect, sloppy, chaotic – and only worn to please the wearer, against social expectations

In 2018, Rosanna Meikle felt like a failure. She was toiling through beauty school, and she hadn’t been able to find much work nor garner much attention for her creations online. She was exhausted from the sameness she saw around her, “a sea of beautiful girls, smoky eyes and plumped lips”, she remembers. “My school was in an expensive area of Auckland, which made me feel so out of place. I couldn’t afford the products or the clothes, my kit wasn’t ‘professional’ enough and neither was my look.”

Related: ‘It makes me feel human’: 11 women share their lockdown beauty regimens

Weekly meat tray giveaways, craft beer deliveries and trivia held over Zoom. As pubs stand empty, those that run them look to the internet

Across Australia, pubs stand empty because of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Some venues have shut entirely, others have pivoted to takeaway businesses, and the majority have had to make changes to their staffing.

While the future of physical pubs remains very uncertain for the coming months, the entertainers, brewers and chefs that rely on pubs for their livelihood are finding ways to recreate pub experiences in patrons’ homes.

The app will ask for your name (or pseudonym), age range, postcode and phone number. Scott Morrison says the Australian government’s covid safe tracking app won’t be mandatory to download and install, but its uptake numbers could play a part in easing Covid-19 restrictions

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The Australian government has launched Covidsafe, an app that traces every person running the app who has been in contact with someone else using the app who has tested positive for coronavirus in the previous few weeks, in a bid to automate coronavirus contact tracing, and allow the easing of restrictions.

Here’s what we know about the app so far.

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has detailed a gradual opening up of society with the timing the stages to be determined by the states

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Scott Morrison and the chief medical officer, Brendan Murphy, have laid out a three-step plan to reopen Australia after the coronavirus crisis. Morrison said he hoped step three could be achieved in July, but it would be up to each state and territory when they moved from one step to the next.

Below are some of the areas that will be opened up at each stage, according to the plan – and you can see the timeline for easing restrictions in each state here.

The morality brigade loathed the hit teen horror on release but hockey mask-wearing villain Jason Voorhees has been with us ever since

Before production on the teen slasher A Long Night at Camp Blood had even started, before a final draft of the screenplay had even been submitted, thirtysomething writer-producer-director Sean S Cunningham decided to make an audacious statement. Not only would he use an advert in the industry paper Variety to confirm an inarguably ingenious title change but he would also use it to declare that his next film would be the most terrifying ever made, after a decade that saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last House on the Left (which he also produced), The Exorcist and Halloween.

Related: Final Destination at 20: the bleakest teen horror film ever made?

Some people have found returning to the family home a blessing, but for others it has been anything but smooth sailing

Covid-19 has reshaped geographic boundaries. It has left many financially distressed. Expatriates have returned from overseas for indefinite periods of time, and vulnerable people require more help than usual. For all these reasons, and many more, adult children have found themselves doing something that might previously have been unthinkable: moving back in with their parents.

Some are finding the experience transformative. One woman, who left New York for her parent’s rural home, told me that the space and country air have made her reconsider whether she will ever return to the city. But there are also downsides. “I’m craving male attention more than I ever have before,” she confessed. When flirting over apps stopped cutting it, she wound up ordering a vibrator in an unmarked box, and fended off her younger siblings in order to retrieve it from the mailbox.

It's been years since Coyote Peterson was stung by a Japanese giant hornet -- a subspecies of the Asian giant hornet -- but the American wildlife educator vividly remembers how the sting immediately felt like a 'red hot fire poker' being shoved into his skin, followed by residual, almost unbearable pain that lasted for hours.

The Toronto Zoo announced on Wednesday it had successfully hatched a baby Madagascar spider tortoise, its first successful hatching of the critically endangered species.

The singer said the milestone would be a "very special moment".

The actress has resurfaced as a TikTok star

O'Porter and Flack were good friends

Facebook oversight board members will decide what Facebook and Instagram users can and cannot post on the platforms.

Katie Strick speaks to Dr James Gill, Locum GP & Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Warwick Medical School about what to do if you suspect you've had COVID-19

Jane Goodland, corporate affairs director at investment and wealth manager Quilter, on how to best approach loan payments during Covid-19

Age UK's head of health and care answers our questions on how care homes are being affected by COVID-19

​Use this enforced downtime to dream up your perfect honeymoon. Stay home and start planning, says Suzannah Ramsdale

One of London's top dentists shares her tips on how to manage a dental crisis during the lockdown

Always consult your midwife and get kitted out online — resident expert Karen Dacre has a guide to growing a human in lockdown

Each year, thousands of people mark what is now known as 'Weed Day'

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day

Covid protection, but make it fashion

Coronavirus: The symptoms

Red and yellow and pink and blue, which one is most you?

Travellers may have to quarantine for two weeks on arrival to UK - but why hasn't this been implemented sooner?

You're opening the rosé at 4pm and have introduced Margerita Mondays, what started as a WFH novelty can easily spiral. What to do if you are concerned about your drinking...

'I hoped to raise £5k with Run For Heroes ... now the total is over £5m'

Have you got bags of style?

Catch up with up to three friends via Whatsapp's group video call feature

New laws are being introduced to deter young people from smoking

As Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson welcome a baby boy just one month after the Prime Minister was diagnosed with COVID-19, we examine what to do if you have a new baby in the time of coronavirus