3 d. ago Bill Murray, Elle Fanning and Elvis Costello celebrate Sofia Coppola at MoMA benefit

Sofia Coppola has been honored at the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit in New York for her filmmaking achievements

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4 d. ago Family court judge blasts 'astronomical' £300k cost for boy to attend specialist outdoor activity care placement

Liverpool Family Court heard the child, who had been involved in organised crime, would 'benefit enormously' from the 17-week placement.

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5 d. ago Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the opening of new premises in St James’s.Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. “We’d sit down for dinner together every night, we’d go to church every Sunday, we’re polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Sidcup Family Golf staff 'saved boy's, 5, life' after horror wall collapse at mini

Staff at Family Golf on Sidcup Bypass have earned praise from members of the public, who have said they may have saved the life of a young boy who sustained a head injury

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8 d. ago Family of boy killed by a train on his way to school furious after he was blamed for being distracted by his iPhone

A review carried out by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found that 11-year-old Jaiden Shehata was 'probably' distracted by his iPhone as he crossed the Bourneview footpath.

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8 d. ago Scots blast neighbour's 'eyesore' garden as they are dealt major legal blow

Homeowners in Dalgety Bay have been battling with a local artist over a display of "modern art" in his garden

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9 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing star's emotional statement after 'disappointment'

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden gave her fans a poignant update

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9 d. ago Traditional baby boy names set to become 'even more popular' — top 10 list

The most popular name, meaning "beloved", is used in 113 countries.

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1 week ago London mayor’s message for Zohran Mamdani: ‘In our cities, hope and unity will always triumph’

Sadiq Khan says: ‘We are united by something far more fundamental, our belief in the power of politics to change people’s lives for the better’ While the soon-to-be first Muslim mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, was in the final throes of his mayoral campaign on a brisk day in New York, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim of mayor of London, was wrapping up a two-day climate summit in a steamy if overcast Rio de Janeiro.“Hope is not gone,” Khan told the 300 city mayors gathered in the Brazilian city’s museum of modern art. Continue reading...

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1 week ago London mayor sees parallels in Zohran Mamdani’s victory: ‘Hope won’

Sadiq Khan, the city’s first Muslim mayor, says: ‘We are united by something far more fundamental, our belief in the power of politics to change people’s lives for the better’While the soon-to-be first Muslim mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, was in the final throes of his mayoral campaign on a brisk day in New York, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim of mayor of London, was wrapping up a two-day climate summit in a steamy if overcast Rio de Janeiro.“Hope is not gone,” Khan told the 300 city mayors gathered in the Brazilian city’s museum of modern art. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective

The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovationAlthough he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA’s blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream.The product of years of work and dozens of collaborations with institutions and collectors around the world, When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream shows the entire sweep of a career that straddled eras. Lam is best-known for agglomerations of elongated and mysterious figures that borrow from cubism and surrealism, although the exhibition also shows different sides of this artist: lushly colored and textured pieces that verge on abstraction, sculptural heads that point toward the artist’s African roots, early figura...

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1 week ago Anthony Hopkins' admits he was in 'big, big trouble' as he makes poignant health update

Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins has shared an emotional health update

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1 week ago BREAKING: Teenager's family 'cried out for support' before body of boy, 14, was found

Logan Slater, 14, was found dead in Brighouse, West Yorkshire in October 23 last year after going missing for two days

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2 w. ago Family's £3,000 Thailand holiday 'ruined' after boy, 13, denied boarding over 'sticker'

Meghan Law, 33, was left fuming after check-in staff at Edinburgh Airport told her there was a 'luggage sticker mark' on her son Alix Dawson's passport, which they said constituted 'damage'

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2 w. ago Family so worried about boy's energy drink addiction they got a doctor involved

He was just 12 when his parents took him to his GP over the addiction and he's still receiving support but he says things are now so much better

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2 w. ago Scots boy denied boarding Qatar Airways holiday flight with family over mark on passport

The family were turned away at Edinburgh Airport - but later were allowed on a Qatar Airways flight in Glasgow.

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2 w. ago ‘Bats out for Benny’: Teenager killed by cricket ball honoured with #batsoutforben campaign

17-year-old not wearing neck guard when fatally hit in practice netsCricket officials say priority is Ben Austin’s family and boy who threw ballAustralia’s cricket community have begun to put their bats out in a gesture to remember teenage cricketer Ben Austin after he was killed by a ball hitting his neck in a practice session, in an incident in Melbourne on Tuesday described as similar to the death of former Test player Phillip Hughes in 2014.The 17-year-old was wearing a helmet but not a neck guard, and while the incident is likely to trigger calls to make such protection mandatory at the community level – as it already is among elite players – cricket officials said the priority must be around supporting Austin’s family and the boy who threw the ball with a training tool known as a sidearm or “wanger”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Bats out for Benny’: teenager killed by cricket ball honoured amid debate over neck guards

Ben Austin not wearing neck guard when struck in netsOfficials say priority is family and boy who threw ballAustralia’s cricket community have begun to put their bats out in a gesture to remember teenage cricketer Ben Austin after he was killed by a ball hitting his neck in a practice session, in an incident in Melbourne on Tuesday described as similar to the death of former Test player Phillip Hughes in 2014.The 17-year-old was wearing a helmet but not a neck guard, and while the incident is likely to trigger calls to make such protection mandatory at the community level – as it already is among elite players – cricket officials said the priority must be around supporting Austin’s family and the boy who threw the ball with a training tool known as a sidearm or “wanger”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Teenage cricketer killed by ball remembered as ‘classic Australian child’ amid debate over neck guards

17-year-old not wearing neck guard when fatally hit in practice netsCricket officials say priority is Ben Austin’s family and boy who threw ballTeenage cricketer Ben Austin has been remembered as a “classic Australian child” and “a very bright light that has been dimmed” after he was killed by a ball hitting his neck in a practice session, in an incident in Melbourne on Tuesday described as similar to the death of former Test player Phillip Hughes in 2014.The 17-year-old was wearing a helmet but not a neck guard, and while the incident is likely to trigger calls to make such protection mandatory at the community level – as it already is among elite players – cricket officials said the priority must be around supporting Austin’s family and the boy who threw the ball with a training tool known as a sidearm or “wanger”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago You could own a stake in a giant 186kg solid GOLD cube after movie tycoon goes bankrupt – but the value is eye

A TYCOON who invested in a giant block of solid gold has gone bankrupt - and punters now have the chance to own a slice of the $23million cube. The Castello Cube, a modern art piece made entirely from 24-carat gold, is up for grabs after real estate mogul Klemens Hallmann went broke. The Austrian...

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