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The British wife of Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad would likely have any plan to head back to the UK for medical treatment blocked with reports that she has leukaemia

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5 hours ago Ariana Grande makes huge donation to Manchester hospital seven years after arena tragedy

Singer and Wicked actress Ariana Grande has made a donation to hospitals across Manchester for Christmas almost seven years after the tragic bomb at her concert in the city

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6 hours ago Ariana Grande makes generous Christmas donation to children in Manchester hospitals

The 'Wicked' actress and singer - who has remained close to the UK city following the 2017 terror attack which killed 22 people at her concert with hundreds more left injured - has sent gifts to the Manchester Foundation Trust Charity this year

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21 hours ago Ariana Grande's incredible gesture for poorly children in Manchester hospitals

The global superstar, 31, donated the presents in time for Christmas

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29 hours ago Ariana Grande makes huge change to Ethan Slater romance after wife's heartbreaking admission

Ariana Grande has taken to Instagram for the first time since Ethan Slater's ex-wife Lilly Jay penned a heartbreaking personal essay about her split from the pop star's boyfriend

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30 hours ago Gen Z’s politics are hard to categorize – and a harbinger of a new political order | Ross Barkan

The great clashes to come will be less between left and right than between those inside and outside a dying establishmentWe live, at first blush, under the absolute dominion of celebrity. The former and future president of the United States spent more than a decade as a reality TV star. Taylor Swift just concluded the largest and most lucrative pop music tour in the history of the world. Mass entertainment vehicles remain star-driven – just ask anyone flocking to see Wicked (Ariana Grande) or Gladiator II (Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington) this holiday season. And that’s not to mention all the petty dramas of the attractive and famous that still keep us all gossiping.It might be strange, then, to make a completely counterintuitive claim: that we are leaving the age of traditional mass celebrity. And not only are we leaving it, but we are drifting into a new, uncertain era, one where fresh hostility has emerged against those who, even a few years ago, would have received blind worship...

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