3 h. ago China 'shoots down meteor or UFO' as fireball blasts through sky before exploding

The flaming object was seen tearing through the night above the Shandong province last Friday.

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5 h. ago China 'intercepts meteor or UFO' as fireball blasts through sky before exploding

A flaming object was seen tearing through the night above China's Shandong province last Friday (September 12) but appears to explode mid way through its flight

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5 h. ago China 'intercepted meteor or UFO' as fireball streaks over sky before exploding

Footage of an explosion in the sky above China's Shandong province has fuelled speculation the Beijing authorities ordered the shooting down of either a meteor or UFO

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6 d. ago Radical Harmony review – Seurat’s shimmering visions blow away his spotty dotty imitators

National Gallery, London The tradition of neo-impressionism begun by Georges Seurat was radical, even revolutionary, but this po-faced showcase is sadly lacking its joyful dazzleGeorges Seurat had kaleidoscope eyes. He saw in limitless colours, that swarm and bubble on his canvases in galaxies of tiny dots. Choosing random, barren subjects – an empty harbour, a rock – he found endless wonder in the most banal reality. In his 1888 painting Port-en-Bessin, a Sunday, myriad blues and whites create a hazy sky and mirroring water while a railing in the foreground explodes into purple, brown and orange as if it had a lurid spotty disease. Seurat only lived to the age of 31, but he inspired an entire art movement, the neo-impressionists, who copied his “pointillist” method.Yet in a coarse-grained approach to this fine-grained art style, the National Gallery struggles to tell a different story. The neo-impressionists didn’t just paint dots, they dreamed of revolution. And by the way we shou...

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2 w. ago Horror as plane plummets from the sky and explodes into a 'fireball' at air show

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT The harrowing scenes were captured on camera by a stunned onlooker as the F16 fighter jet plummeted from the skies to the ground before bursting into flames

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3 w. ago Poland refuses to rule out 'Russian sabotage' after mystery object falls from sky and explodes near Ukraine border

The object fell and detonated in a cornfield in the village of Osiny, located in Lublin province, near the Ukrainian border.

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