37 minutes ago Less Miserable! Theatrical megahit Les Miserables is finally a smash in Paris after writers make one subtle change to appease the grumpy French

Les Miserables is finally a smash hit in Paris after the musical's writers reworked the script to appease the French.

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43 minutes ago Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line

Bernheim Gallery, LondonNow aged 95, the great polymath had trouble finding the right chipboard in Britain – but this is still a show of disarming simplicity with one stunning standout workSometimes a work gets to you and blows everything else away. It begins with a narrow black line, about the breadth of a pencil, running at waist-height around the walls of the ground floor gallery. The line negotiates the mouldings, runs under a mantelpiece, takes the corners and recesses, makes a turn, gets interrupted by a set of French doors and disappears from view. The line leads us from room to room. Regular, unvarying and relentless, it sometimes leaves a breathy residue on the wall or a build-up of fine graphite dust in the corners and crevices of a window-frame as it passes.Drawn using fine c...

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48 minutes ago Insurance data reveals the most common and costly winter sports injuries

How much could a winter sport injury set you back?

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58 minutes ago Pilot who rescued hundreds of animals from disaster areas dies in plane crash

Two dogs on board at the time survived in Seuk Kim’s final rescue mission

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59 minutes ago Ruben Amorim press conference LIVE Manchester United injury updates ahead of Europa League clash

Live updates from Ruben Amorim's pre-match press conference as Man United prepare to face Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League.

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61 minutes ago Former PMs Boris Johnson, Theresa May and Liz Truss oppose assisted dying law ahead of crunch Commons vote

Ahead of a crunch House of Commons vote on Friday, the three ex-premiers were said to be against proposed legislation.

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74 minutes ago ‘The constitutional court is easy to crack’: the threats to German democracy go on stage

Legal journalist Maximilian Steinbeis’s play A Citizen of the People shows how easy it could be for a party like AfD to upend the country’s 75-year-old democracyA smile so sweet it will melt your heart, a handshake so earnest it will make you want to buy him a beer, and a stare from deep-set eyes so intense you will tremble for your children’s future: Dominik Arndt has the suave moves and terrifying looks typical of the rightwing politicians that are knocking on the gates of power all over Europe. Specifically, the lanky and youthful actor who plays Arndt, Fabian Hinrichs, looks a lot like Björn Höcke, the Thuringian politician many see as the boss in all but title behind Germany’s ascendant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party.But what makes Arndt so unsettling – and the play A Citi...

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92 minutes ago UK politics live: Assisted dying vote will be ‘very close’ says Leadbeater, as Starmer faces PMQs

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said there are ‘strongly held’ views on her private members bill that will be voted on by MPs on Friday

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92 minutes ago New York is finally learning how to stop its rat infestations. The answer is bins

The sight of piles on bin bags on New York’s street could be over

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93 minutes ago Drivers using Silvertown and Blackwall tunnels WILL have to pay £4 at peak times TfL confirms

Driving through London is about to get even more expensive for motorists, with both the Blackwall Tunnel and the newly constructed Silvertown Tunnels set to see toll charges introduced.

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