62 minutes ago Lizzo and Usher to campaign with Harris, as Trump prepares to work at McDonalds: Live

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both held rallies in Michigan on Friday night as former president Barack Obama campaigned for the vice president in Arizona

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87 minutes ago Good with numbers: the sketchbook art of director Tim Burton – in pictures

In the early 1980s, while working as an apprentice animator at Disney, a young Tim Burton channelled his creative energies into personal projects. One of these was this series of extravagantly decorated numbers, created for an unpublished children’s book; they were later repurposed as chapter headings for The Art of Tim Burton , a 2009 book bringing together 40 years of his artistry. “Anthropomorphic creatures feature heavily across Burton’s work,” says Maria McLintock, curator of a new exhibition displaying more than 600 Tim Burton designs and objects including costumes and storyboards. “He sketches voraciously, often engrossed in a pocket-sized sketchbook with a small watercolour kit in tow. The genesis of almost every shot in his films is a drawing.”The World of Tim Burton is at the ...

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2 hours ago Sue Barker reveals how she really felt about Question of Sport axe after 'painful' issue

The original BBC A Question of Sport stars have opened up about the show and its reboot, which was fronted by Paddy McGuinness, Sam Quek and Ugo Monye, and later axed

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2 hours ago Kamala Harris joined by Lizzo at campaign event; Donald Trump rallies in Pennsylvania – live

Vice-president is hosting a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit for the city’s first day of early voting, alongside Michigan-born rapper LizzoHarris is panicking over the Black male vote – but polls don’t show full pictureWith the US election only 17 days away, Kamala Harris is courting one demographic with particular fervor: Black male voters. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Environmentalists acquitted after contentious murder trial in El Salvador

Former guerillas were accused of 1989 killing, but supporters say government wants to intimidate activistsSix former guerrillas, whose trial for a civil war-era murder was criticised by fellow environmentalists as politicised, have been acquitted by a court in El Salvador.Prosecutors had sought up to 36 years in prison for the former rebels of the hard-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Tom Holland reveals what he did to avoid ruining a major Marvel announcement

‘That was a tough secret to sit on because I have a reputation for ruining things,’ said the star

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2 hours ago ‘Appreciate winter for what it is, without wishing it were something different’: psychologist Kari Leibowitz on beating the seasonal blues

The researcher spent 10 years studying how attitude affects mood and behaviour, and her new book shares ways in which we can learn to value the colder monthsKari Leibowitz holds a PhD in social psychology from Stanford University, where she studied the role of our mindsets on our health and wellbeing. For the past 10 years, Leibowitz has been investigating people’s attitudes to winter and the ways they can powerfully affect our mood and behaviour – research that has culminated in her debut book, How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive in Cold, Dark Or Difficult Times.As a Fulbright scholar, you moved from Atlanta to the University of Tromsø in Norway. The polar night there lasts for almost two months. How did that experience inform your views of winter?I was looking for a resea...

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2 hours ago Sir Ben Ainslie vows to fight on as Great Britain beaten in America’s Cup

Ainslie’s Ineos Britannia challengers were the first British team to enter the America’s Cup in 60 years.

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2 hours ago Kamala Harris promises full marijuana legalization – is that a gamechanger?

The Democrat says she will end cannabis prohibition and seek to help Black men profit from the industry if electedKamala Harris announced on Monday that if elected president, she would fully legalize adult recreational cannabis on the federal level – the first time a presidential nominee has taken such an unambiguous stance on ending cannabis prohibition.As part of her pledge, she said she would take steps to ensure that Black men, disproportionately incarcerated and disenfranchised by the war on drugs, would stand to profit from the industry. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Strictly Come Dancing's Wynne Evans' preparations at home as he fears 'career will end'

Strict, Come Dancing and Go Compare star Wynne Evans has claimed that he has a cupboard full of one food item in case his career suddenly comes to an end

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