5 d. ago Cameron Myers: from promising schoolboy to contender in greatest middle distance era | Jack Snape

Expectation around the 18-year-old is sky high after the Australian athlete twice broke the under-20 mile recordAt the end of his final day of high school in December, Cameron Myers cut his hair. It was done without forethought or fanfare at his friend’s house in Canberra, as one of the world’s most highly-touted teenage athletes marked the end of one chapter, and the start of another.Cropped short, the new style has stuck, part of a personal overhaul in the past 12 months that has elevated him from schoolboy of promise to contender in the greatest era of men’s middle distance running. “Having short hair is a nice change, and almost just feels like you’re a different person,” he says. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Werner Herzog tells aspiring directors to work in a ‘sex club or lunatic asylum’

Talking to CBS about his ‘film school for rogues’ he advocates his students finance their work by gaining experiences outside the normThe legendary director Werner Herzog has issued unorthodox advice to young aspiring film-makers, urging them to raise funds for their projects by working in brothels and psychiatric institutions.Speaking to CBS, Herzog outlined the fiscal guidance he offers to participants on his 11-day workshop, described as a “film school for rogues”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Celebrity photographer Rankin takes school day portraits for ill children at Great Ormond Street

Rankin has given seriously ill children a sense of normality after taking traditional school day photos

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5 d. ago Celebrity photographer captures ‘milestone’ school day photo for Gosh children

Rankin has given seriously ill children a sense of normality after taking traditional school day photos.

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8 d. ago ‘The DJ’s focus makes time stand still’: Joshua Hasanoff’s best phone picture

Quick work + a quirky concept + a cool neighbour = a winning shot for this young Australian photographerJoshua Hasanoff had been at school on the day he took this photo. The 14-year-old, who lives in Sydney, Australia, is on the shortlist for this year’s Sony World Photography awards youth competition. “The Australian winter sunset is notoriously fast-moving, so I started preparing for the shoot as soon as I got home,” Hasanoff says. “I knew I’d only have a 20-minute window to capture the mysterious light between sunset and darkness, which would contrast with the brightness of a torch.”Holding that torch is Ryuji, Hasanoff’s neighbour and family friend, whom he describes as “extremely cool and charismatic, with great hair, who dresses like a DJ, although he’s actually an art student”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago WWII veterans get letters from school kids and 'pass the baton of memory' for VE Day

Children across the country are being invited to write to a WWII veteran ahead of the 80th anniversary of VE Day - the pioneering project called ‘VE Mail’ aims to build a bond between our war heroes and the youth of today

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1 week ago Terrifying final moments of teen who died in water park prank horror as 'bodies fell from sky'

A fun school day out in California ended in unimaginable tragedy after a group of teenagers decided to break the water park rules and attempt to defeat a school tradition record

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1 week ago Prince William hails Ukraine's resilience as he meets refugees on trip to Russia border

On the first of his two-day trip to Estonia, Prince William visited a school in the capital Tallinn that is for Ukrainian refugees and donned a friendship band in the country's colours

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1 week ago The twisted reason for evil killer's frenzied hammer attack that left his ex

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING. Details of how Lilie James, 21, was bludgeoned to death in a bathroom at a Sydney school has been shared during the second day of an inquest into her death.

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1 week ago New London School Explosion survivor relives the tragic day on the 88th anniversary

New London School Explosion survivor relives the tragic day on the 88th anniversary  KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com

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1 week ago New London School explosion survivor relives tragic day on 88th anniversary

New London School explosion survivor relives tragic day on 88th anniversary  KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com

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1 week ago West Virginia governor attacks NCAA ‘robbery’ after WVU excluded from March Madness

Patrick Morrisey orders state investigation into matterNorth Carolina selected over West VirginiaWest Virginia’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, said on Monday that the state will launch an investigation into the NCAA and the selection committee over how teams were picked for this year’s NCAA Tournament.His move comes a day after his state’s flagship school, West Virginia, was excluded from the tournament. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Edinburgh Zoo celebrates new cheetah with photographs of animal 'settling in'

Edinburgh Zoo is once again home to a cheetah, following the sad passing of Clio last year.

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2 w. ago From a fairytale monastery to elegantly dressed alpacas: Spectacular winners in the Open competition of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards revealed

Over 419,000 images were submitted to this year's awards, which 'celebrates the ability of an individual photograph to capture and distil a singular moment and evoke a broader narrative'.

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2 w. ago The making of Elon Musk: how did his childhood in apartheid South Africa shape him?

The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal oneWith an imposing double-winged redbrick main building, and school songs lifted directly from Harrow’s songbook, Pretoria boys high school is every inch the South African mirror of the English private schools it was founded in 1901 to imitate.Elon Musk, who has rapidly become one of the most powerful people in US politics, spent his final school years in the 1980s as a day pupil on the lush, tree-filled campus in South Africa’s capital, close to his father’s large detached home in Waterkloof, a wealthy Pretoria suburb shaded by purple jacaranda blossoms in spring. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Canadian military flies the flag in frozen north as struggle for the Arctic heats up

Operation Nanook, carried out in conjunction with allies, aims to ‘project force’ in a region attracting growing interest from Russia and ChinaThe winter sun hasn’t yet risen above Inuvik’s jagged horizon of black spruce trees, but already, more than 150 nervous soldiers have gathered in a community recreation centre.Tables clear of their breakfast and fingers fiddle with pens, a giddiness akin to the first day of school settles over the room. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film

Photographer Meyerowitz, 87, and artist and writer Barrett, 78, invited two documentary-makers into their lives for a year. The result, Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other, is an intimate portrait that all couples should seeWe might all have domestic arguments that demand to be preserved on film for their drama, but few of them would ever live up to the intensity, eloquence and glamour of the barneys between American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his English wife, novelist and artist Maggie Barrett.The best (or worst) of those clashes comes toward the end of the extraordinary, intimate documentary of Joel and Maggie’s marriage, aptly entitled Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (their own private update on “till death us do part”). In that final set-to, Maggie conjures all the frustrations of the 30 years they have been together – years in which Joel has become ever more world-famous and celebrated as a photographer, and she has seen her novels rejected by publish...

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3 w. ago World Book Day 2025: Children don adorable fancy dress outfits to celebrate favourite literary characters

Children across the country are going into school dressed as their favourite literary characters to mark World Book Day.

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3 w. ago Secondary school admissions: What to do if you don't get your first choice?

National Offer Day comes at the start of March when pupils learn if they have been accepted into their top secondary school choice

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3 w. ago Thousands of Greater Manchester schoolchildren get a decision on their future today

March 3 is National Offer Day when pupils find out whether they've got their chosen high school place

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