40 minutes ago Ridley Scott explains why emperors in his films are all ‘crazy’ – the answer is in their water

‘Your choice is water or wine. When you drink water, it’s through a lead system that by then could be 200 years old,’ he says

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40 minutes ago Elon Musk vows to create 'crusaders' team of 'sharpest minds in America' to cut Trump's spending

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has vowed to assemble the 'sharpest minds in America' and create a team of 'crusaders' to make sweeping changes to government departments

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42 minutes ago ITV I'm A Celebrity star's 'culture shock' after 'struggling to adapt' to camp life

Sair Khan, who plays Alya Nazir on ITV soap Coronation Street, has opened up about her time on I\'m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! as she shared a warning for co-star Alan Halsall

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47 minutes ago Bob Geldof responds to Ed Sheeran statement on Band Aid song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

Sheeran said his perspective on the song had changed after listening to fellow musician Fuse ODG

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58 minutes ago ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by the classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hitGreek myth is not a stable thing. There is no such thing as a canonical, “original” version of a Greek myth. The stories that remain to us – the material of classical plays and poetry, and of visual culture from pottery to pediments – are already elaborations and accretions. In the ancient Greek and Roman world, stories were adapted and remade to serve the needs of the moment. The Greek tragedians often took the germ of an idea from the Homeric epics, and built an entire plot from it. Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, for instance, is in dialogue with Homer’s Odyssey: b...

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63 minutes ago ITV I’m A Celebrity star’s ‘culture shock’ as she struggled to adapt to camp life

Coronation Street star Sair Khan appeared on the hit ITV show six years ago, but admitted not all of her memories from the jungle are "positive" ones.

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64 minutes ago New wind warning issued as Storm Bert threatens ‘danger to life’ flooding

The Met Office has warned of the potential for fast flowing or deep floodwater on Sunday.

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66 minutes ago Prince William confesses to the one thing he's worse at than his three kids

Prince William has opened up about his family life with Kate Middleton and their three children; revealing the one thing George, Charlotte and Louis are better than him at.

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67 minutes ago How the collapse of one of Britain’s biggest building firms will hit Labour’s prison and schools plan

ISG, the sixth-biggest builder in the UK, collapsed in September, leaving 2,200 workers immediately redundant and plenty of subcontractors out of pocket

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76 minutes ago Moment in back of prison van after 5 bottles of wine changed mum's life forever

Lilly Lewis's life had been blighted by addiction and toxic relationships - but the 53-year-old mum had a moment of clarity in the back of the prison van as she made her way to jail

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