99 m. ago First picture of man accused of assisting woman to take her own life

Miles Cross, 33, appeared in court accused of assisting with the death of a woman and the attempted suicides of three other people

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22 h. ago Behind the curtain: a fresh take on Black life – in pictures

Tyler Mitchell takes inspiration from skateboarding, art history and British style mags to show how beauty, intimacy and empowerment are at the heart of the Black experience Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Experimental, sensual and political, D’Angelo radically redrew the boundaries of soul music

The late singer may have suffered from setbacks and only released three studio albums, but the range he displayed in this perfect catalogue was astonishingD’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51D’Angelo – a life in picturesIn the mid-90s, the Roots’ drummer Questlove was approached to work on the first album by a new soul singer. He turned the offer down out of hand: “I was like, ehhh, soul singers in the 90s – whatever,” he later remembered. “I’m not doing this. Nothing about soul singing had moved me, from any 90s offering, the same way it did with Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls.”A year later, with D’Angelo’s debut album Brown Sugar on the shelves, Questlove had radically reconsidered his opinion: when he spotted the singer in the audience at a show the Roots were playing, he “thwarted and threw off the entire show” by suddenly playing “an obscure Prince drum roll” in a (successful) attempt to attract his attention. “The only person that mattered to me that...

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4 d. ago 'I fought for this country and it means nothing': Haunting last words of veteran who killed himself after being refused a house by council who said he 'wasn't a priority'

Homeless veteran Rob Homans (pictured) was just 35 when he took his own life. His mother has blamed the local council for not offering him his own house.

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7 d. ago Ricky Hatton's incredible life in pics as beloved boxer laid to rest at funeral

Ricky Hatton's funeral takes place on Friday, October 10, and Daily Star Sport has a look at his incredible life in pictures as boxing fans can say their final goodbye

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7 d. ago Victoria Beckham reveals what life is like with husband David behind closed doors

The power couple are known for their jet set lifestyle, enviable looks and picture-perfect life.

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1 week ago Gilbert & George review – a pulsating panorama of sex, violence and glorious urban grime

Hayward Gallery, LondonFrom the calling cards of male sex workers to shocking headlines about murder, the octogenarian pair see and incorporate everything, resulting in a show that seethes with lifeThe first picture in Gilbert & George’s retrospective of their art of this century is a portrait of them sitting in a cemetery amid floating drug baggies, their suits bright purple (George) and green (Gilbert) against the grey gravestones. It sums up a stillness, a sadness and a romantic passion that breathes in this show – but you won’t notice it straight away. Instead you’ll be carried along in a rush of cheeky provocations and ludicrous juxtapositions of word and image: a joyous embrace of modern life or even, pardon my French, a jouissance.The pictures tower and expand in this perfect brutalist setting as if you’re walking through a city of art – a dirty, disreputable city. Ages (2001) is a yellow and red slab almost the scale of a cinema screen on which their blandly smiling face...

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2 w. ago Scotland in 1966 in Pictures: Here are 24 fascinating photos of Scottish life 59 years ago

Scotland was a very different place in the mid-60s.

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2 w. ago Scotland in 1958 in Photos: Here are 26 amazing pictures showing Scottish life 67 years ago

Scotland looked very different nearly seven decades ago.

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2 w. ago Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Sir Terry Farrell’s best buildings – in pictures

Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87• ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dad who 'strangled daughter, 5, to death' before taking own life pictured

Bus driver Krzysztof Daczkowski, 50, has been pictured for the first time. He is alleged to have strangled his daughter to death before ending his own life at his home in Ireland

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3 w. ago Claudia Cardinale: toughness and charisma went with the sensual allure

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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3 w. ago Claudia Cardinale had toughness, charisma and sensual allure. Yet Hollywood just couldn’t do her justice

The smouldering star of Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½ and The Leopard had her best roles for Italian directors• Claudia Cardinale, star of The Leopard, dies aged 87• Claudia Cardinale: a life in picturesClaudia Cardinale was part of the great wave of Italian movie stars whose postwar career took them from Europe to Hollywood; these included Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Monica Vitti, who the American film industry prized not merely for their beauty but also for their mystery: an exotic feline allure and sense of toughness and survival, and even tragedy. But Cardinale perhaps had something her contemporaries didn’t: a kind of simplicity and frankness to go with the sensual allure. She often played opposite Alain Delon, whose own beauty complemented – almost merged with – hers.In Visconti’s early masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers from 1960, Cardinale played Ginetta, engaged to one of Rocco’s brothers from the uncouth south and her parents are openly hostile when their son-in...

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3 w. ago Scotland in the Fifties: Here are 23 amazing pictures showing Scottish life in 1959

Scotland was a very different place at the end of the 1950s.

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3 w. ago ‘Monochrome is a way of finding poetry in everyday life’: Mélissa David’s best phone picture

Strangers passing by an image of a girl holding balloons gave the French photographer an opportunity to play with shadowsThe public square in front of Paris’s city hall was undergoing construction work when Mélissa David took this photograph as she passed by en route to an appointment. She had taken her camera along in the hope of taking some pictures, but when she realised she had forgotten to charge the batteries, she used her phone instead.“It seemed like an ordinary sunny day in Paris, the city full of busy people,” the French photographer recalls. “There were these big panels with images printed on them installed in front of the city hall to shield some of the building work. The light was beautiful, and I wanted to capture the strong shadows of these strangers passing by around the girl with the balloons.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago A dog’s life is cushier than mine: the Edith Pritchett cartoon

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3 w. ago Scotland in 1970: Here are 19 amazing pictures of life in Scotland 55 years ago

Scotland was a very different place five-and-a-half decades ago.

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4 w. ago Scotland in 1962: Here are 23 remarkable pictures of Scottish life 63 years ago

Scotland was a very different place in the first part of the 1960s.

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4 w. ago Scotland in 1960: Here are 19 incredible pictures of life in Scotland 65 years ago

Things looked very different in Scotland at the start of the 1960s.

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last month Segregation, swines and social gatherings: A slice of Black life in Texas – in pictures

A new exhibition showcasing African American photography in rural and urban areas of Texas underscores the role of the community photographer in documenting local life and culture Continue reading...

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