14 h. ago Jasen Kaplan death: Kelly Osbourne leads tributes after death of Finding Prince Charming star at 46

‘Thank you for all the love, laughter and joy you brought my life,’ Osbourne wrote

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38 h. ago Boulanger: La Ville Morte album review – The celebrated teacher’s early opera is brought back to life

Harvey/Rubin/Dennis/Williams/Talea Ensemble/Goren(Pentatone) This early work by Nadia Boulanger - better known as the influential teacher – was never performed and survived only in vocal score. Despite the best efforts of conductor Neal Goren and his hard-working cast it never quite coheresNadia Boulanger (1887-1979) is best remembered now as a hugely influential teacher, who spread the gospel of neoclassicism through several generations of composers on both sides of the Atlantic. She was also a conductor and organist, and at the beginning of her career, at least, had ambitions as a composer in her own right, which she largely abandoned in the early 1920s some years after the deaths of both her enormously talented younger sister Lili, and her mentor, the pianist and composer Raoul Pugno.It was in collaboration with Pugno that Boulanger composed La Ville Morte, a four-act opera based upon a play by Gabriele D’Annunzio; it was scheduled to be premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in...

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53 h. ago The Archers revisits first episode to celebrate 75th anniversary

Listeners will be able to hear The Archers’ very first episode brought back to life by the current cast as the original recording no longer survives.

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5 d. ago Coronation Street and Emmerdale boss Iain MacLeod reveals the future of Corriedale after soap hybrid launched over Christmas

In an historic event, two worlds collide as the residents of Emmerdale and Weatherfield are brought together by a catastrophic, life-changing encounter.

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6 d. ago Sadistic human experiments inside Japan's notorious WW2 Unit 731 where PoWs were infected with plague, raped and buried alive are brought to life in ultra

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of living humans in occupied China.

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6 d. ago ‘Our sea deserves a future’: The fishermen battling to save rare corals on the Costa Brava from climate change

Rising sea temperatures brought on by pollution are decimating the rich marine life in the waters off the popular tourist region. Graham Keeley joins the fishermen who are helping to save corals from the damage

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9 d. ago Rachel Reeves year in review: Chancellor's 2025 is no cause for celebration

City confidence in her is rock bottom — and Rachel Reeves’s high wire act is just one misstep away from a full blown financial crisis, says Jonathan Prynn

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2 w. ago Moon landings with Tom Hanks and legendary fashion shows brought to life in unique 360

'You could do anything with this room - you could walk on the moon in here'

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2 w. ago The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art

The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s SecretJoseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante scholar whose books argue for the relevance of the great Italian art and literature of the late middle ages and Renaissance to our own times. A great populariser and advocate of the humanities in public life, he has done for Dante what his Bard colleague Daniel Mendelsohn did for Homer in An Odyssey and other books.This short volume tells the story of the Hospital of the Innocents in Dante’s home town of Florence, a building Luzzi has been fascinated by since encountering it in 1987 on his college year abroad. The Innocenti, as it is known, was the first institution in Europe devoted solely to the care of unwanted children. The first foundling, named Agata because she was left by its gates on Saint Agata’s Day 1445, had been nibbled at by mice. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago I found a secret speakeasy – and plenty more – on the new Celebrity Xcel cruise ship

Marc Shoffman discovered areas too good to keep hidden on the maiden sailing from Miami

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3 w. ago Teacher who won £4m Omaze home hasn't flogged it one year on – here's why

Opera-singing primary school teacher Hannah Drury, 42, from Somerset won the luxury Lake Coniston property plus £250,000 cash in January – and is now making the prize available for others to enjoy

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3 w. ago Photos of moments of joy brought to life by AP photojournalists in 2025

The joy of being there, of prayer and play, a dance in a bomb shelter, a kiss in a flood and a hug in the mud, kids rolling tires and scooting among the ruins of Gaza are among the defining images of 2025 as people found happiness despite adversity and enjoyed the simple things of life.

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3 w. ago Bruichladdich: How a mothballed Victorian distillery in Scotland was brought back to life

Islay-born Adam Hannett has spent two decades shaping the modern soul of an iconic Islay distillery

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3 w. ago Ancient Glasgow Cathedral well turned into stunning mosaic after centuries in shadows

A sacred 6th-century well linked to St Kentigern — the spiritual spring from which Glasgow itself is said to have grown — has been brought back to life in the cathedral crypt.

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4 w. ago With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration isn’t fun, enjoyable or even aspirational

None of us mere mortals will ever have a Christmas like this, but we can endure Meghan’s Netflix special as numbing content in the background of our holiday season

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