55 minutes ago Pandora Black Friday 2024 sale: Top deals to shop on charm bracelets and more

Charmed bargains that glisten and sparkle

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55 minutes ago From Bobby Fischer to Magnus Carlsen: 22 of the most famous world chess championship games

The 138-year history of the world chess championship is filled with games of rare precision, imagination and brilliance. Go move by move through 22 of them belowExplainer: World Chess Championship 2024From the middle of the 16th century, there have come down to us the names of chess players who have been widely regarded as the strongest of their time. The earliest of these was the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, after whom one of the most popular openings of modern times is named. Others who followed include the Calabrese Gioachino Greco, François-André Danican Philidor, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Alexander McDonnell, Howard Staunton, Adolf Anderssen, Mikhail Chigorin and Paul Morphy, each of whom are lionized for their contributions to the development of theory and strat...

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58 minutes ago Lewis Hamilton shows true colours with instant response to Max Verstappen F1 title win

Lewis Hamilton was quick to pay tribute to Max Verstappen after the Red Bull driver sealed another world championship, further etching himself into the Formula 1 history books

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1 hour ago Inside the lonely life of Meghan Markle's older sister Samantha: As she turns 60 today she will be celebrating in isolation due to estrangement from BOTH of her daughters

When Samantha Markle heard the news in October 2016 that her half-sister Meghan was the mystery woman who had been secretly dating a British prince she did not have a typical reaction.

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1 hour ago Spotify Wrapped 2024: Who is Artemas, one of the favourites to appear on your Wrapped playlist?

Discover more about UK artist Artemas and what songs of theirs you might see appearing on your Spotify playlist 🎧

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1 hour ago ‘It’s been a lot of detective work’: Madame de Pompadour’s £1m wall lights discovered in Yorkshire hotel

Four gilt-bronze sconces that lit up home of Louis XV’s mistress are set to go on sale at Sotheby’s in DecemberFor almost 140 years, four massive gilt-bronze wall lights have hung in the 18th-century drawing room at Swinton Castle in Yorkshire, now an opulent luxury hotel.Guests will almost certainly have noticed the one metre-high rococo appliques with their entwined branches decorated with leaves, berries and cherubim, and passed them off as impressive reproductions of more valuable original works. Continue reading...

Economics

1 hour ago Without the EU, the joke is on us if Trump gets his tariffs | William Keegan

Stronger ties with the single market is the only way to stop the president-elect from having the last laugh‘As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.”Those were the words of the great American journalist HL Mencken (in the Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920). The impending arrival back at the White House surely fulfils his prophecy. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Citizen: My Life After the White House by Bill Clinton review – convivial without being confidential

In this account of his years after leaving office, Clinton is a hyperactive and loquacious presence, helping out in disaster zones and pontificating about public service – but he reveals little about his private lifeAmerican presidents are supposed to renounce pomp and disappear into private life when their term ends. George Washington enjoyed sampling the whiskey produced by the distillery at his Virginia plantation, while George W Bush currently amuses himself by clearing underbrush on his Texas ranch. Bill Clinton, aged only 54 when he left office in 2001, spurned bucolic oblivion; as he says with scriptural solemnity: “I didn’t think my work here on Earth was finished just yet.” Although he calls his memoir Citizen to signal his reduced status, he admits to hankering after his years...

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1 hour ago I'm a fragrance expert and these are the Amazon Black Friday perfume deals to snap up

We took a look at the impressive Amazon sale options and picked out the four best perfumes to snap up for less

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2 hours ago Amazon's entire Fire TV Stick range reduced up to £25 in Black Friday sale

Amazon has slashed the price of every model popular Fire TV Sticks, including the 4K Max model, in its Black Friday Week sale

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