38 h. ago 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto PinochetThis is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy – part history, part moral investigation, part memoir – that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now in Ukraine, whose Jewish population either fled before Nazi occupation or, like many of Sands’s extended family, was thereafter wiped out. Two Jewish lawyers who got out early were instrumental in creating the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide that were introduced at the Nuremberg trials. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Chewbacca's crossbow from original Star Wars trilogy sells for £600,000

The Wookie's weapon was described by auctioneers Propstore as 'one of the rarest Star Wars hero props in existence', beat its estimate of between £198,000 to £397,000.

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8 d. ago War Paint – Women at War review – female conflict artists get their moment in the spotlight

From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to warMargy Kinmonth’s latest feature documentary represents the third in a trilogy of films about artists and war, following Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War, which focused on the second world war artist of the title, and the more first world war-skewed War Art with Eddie Redmayne, which showed on ITV. This time the focus is on female artists and war – as the title suggests with its cringe-inducing pun on a slang term for makeup.It’s a perfectly valid and potentially fruitful subject, but the analysis here is often frustratingly superficial. Kinmonth puts herself front and centre as the onscreen interviewer and narrator, so one has to blame her directly for the daftness of some her questions. For instance, she asks sculptor Rachel Whiteread: “I’m wondering, is there a difference in the perception of female artists to men, a...

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1 week ago Comic Relief 2025 presenters from Strictly Come Dancing stars to Masked Singer judges

It's Comic Relief's Red Nose Day, which culminates in an evening of live entertainment on BBC One and Two, hosted by some well known faces, including a Masked Singer star and one of the event's original hosts

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1 week ago Love Island star Jack Fincham grins and gives a thumbs up as he's spared prison over dog attack that saw his cane corso maul runner

The 32-year-old reality TV star was originally sentenced in January 2025 after his black Cane Corso, Elvis, injured runner Robert Sudell in Swanley, Kent, in September 2022.

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1 week ago Love Island star Jack Fincham grins as he's spared prison over dog attack that saw his cane corso maul runner

The 32-year-old reality TV star was originally sentenced in January 2025 after his black Cane Corso, Elvis, injured runner Robert Sudell in Swanley, Kent, in September 2022.

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1 week ago Shamed Love Island star Jack Fincham walks free from court after winning appeal against prison sentence for dog attack committed by his cane corso

The 32-year-old reality TV star was originally sentenced in January 2025 after his black Cane Corso, Elvis, injured runner Robert Sudell in Swanley, Kent, in September 2022.

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1 week ago Inside NCIS Origins star Kyle Schmid's life from Mad Men star wife to heartbreaking family loss

NCIS Origins takes a step back in time when the iconic Agent Gibbs first started out at Camp Pendleton in the early 1990s under the watchful eye of his boss Mike Franks.

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2 w. ago Disney's woke Snow White is slapped with trigger warnings about a 'woman deliberately poisoned' and 'girl surrounded by ominous trees'

The two hundred-million-pound movie has been plagued by controversy from replacing dwarf actors with CGI and its lead star panning the original Disney cartoon for its 'sexist' romance plot.

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2 w. ago Mums slam woke Snow White star Rachel Zegler for claiming Disney original is 'weird and sexist'

Mothers were left outraged after learning the iconic 'Someday My Prince Will Come' song will not be included in the remake amid a backlash over star Rachel Zegler's comments about the tale's storyline.

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4 w. ago Devastating death of original Cinderella actress dubbed 'legend' but forgot she was a star

Ilene Woods was the original voice of Cinderella which was released back in 1950 - but still remains one of the brand's most famous and loved films to this day

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