6 h. ago Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelistA book featuring Han Kang’s Nobel prize lecture sold 10,000 copies in its first day on sale online.Light and Thread, which takes its title from Han’s December lecture, is her first book to be published in South Korea since she was announced as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature last October. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Rare 1p coin sells for £127,000 as people urged to check their change

People have been emptying their piggy banks in search for a rare coin that could earn them almost £130,000 when sold at auction - but many have their doubts over ever finding one

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39 h. ago British artist claims he has created paint in ‘new’ colour announced by scientists

Stuart Semple is selling product for £10,000 (or £29.99 to fellow creatives) – but scientists say hue cannot be replicatedA British artist claims to have replicated in paint a colour that scientists say they discovered by having laser pulses fired into their eyes.Stuart Semple created his own version of the blue-green colour based on the US research published in Science Advances, which he is selling on his website for £10,000 per 150ml jar – or £29.99 if you state you are an artist. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Serial killer Rose West's underwear sells for £2,000 and goes on public display

The pants of killer Rose West went for thousands of pounds after being found at HMP Bronzefield – Europe's largest female prison and current residence of Lucy Letby

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58 h. ago Police smash shoplifting gang using DNA to trace 5,000 stolen items: Officers raid corner shops selling £150K worth of goods swiped on order from major supermarkets

Metropolitan Police detectives tagged 5,000 commonly stolen items such as alcohol and chocolate with SelectaDNA, a fluid only visible under ultraviolet (UV) light.

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5 d. ago The Nobel is just the start: 16 imagined victories for Donald Trump | Ariel Dorfman

The president has made clear he wants the prestigious prize. That’s just one of many honors to comeFrom the start of his first campaign for president 10 years ago, Donald Trump has incessantly presented himself as a winner, the only man in the world who had the temperament to make America great again. As he said in 2016:“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say: ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it any more, Mr President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say: ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”Ariel Dorfman, a distinguished professor emeritus of literature at Duke University, is the Chilean American author of the play Death and the Maiden and the novel The Suicide Museum and, more recently, Allegro, narrated playfully by Mozart Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'Extremely rare' Charles Rennie Mackintosh cutlery sells for over £175,000

Expected to fetch £20,000–£30,000, the 1902 cutlery set soared to £175,200.

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8 d. ago Cutlery designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh sells for more than £175,000

The cutlery sold for nearly six times its estimate.

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8 d. ago Putin's Russia is using mass rape as a 'weapon of war' against Ukrainian civilians, Nobel peace prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk tells the Mail's 'Apocalypse Now?' podcast

Matviichuk works to catalogue Russian war crimes in Ukraine, in hopes that once the invasion is repelled, those implicated will face justice.

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1 week ago Titanic victim’s pocket watch 'frozen in time' set to sell for £50,000 at auction

The watches movement is frozen in time at the moment the doomed vessel sank

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1 week ago Mario Vargas Llosa, giant of Latin American literature, dies aged 89

Nobel laureate, a star of the international boom in Latin American literature, also once ran for president in PeruInterview: ‘The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year’Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the pivotal figures who ignited a global boom in Latin American literature, has died aged 89.His death on Sunday was announced in a statement from his children, Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear finally sells her eccentric £1.3million mansion after knocking a whopping £200,000 off the asking price

The actress, 82, who played Bet Lynch on the soap from 1970 to 1995, put her four-bedroom farmhouse up for sale back in October for £1.5million.

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1 week ago The special café that started life in a tiny train station broom cupboard and now sells 150,000 drinks a year

'There is a real pride in what we do'

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1 week ago Scots set to splurge £10m on Scottish Grand National as scorcher continues

A sell-out crowd of 15,000 people is heading to Ayr Racecourse with many more watching the race on TV.

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2 w. ago 'Super rare' £2 coin that collectors are 'going crazy' for could sell for more than £1,000

People are being urged to check their change for this old pound coin from 2014

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2 w. ago Now Fox News is suggesting Trump could win Nobel Peace Prize over tariffs

‘Is there a Nobel Prize in trade? I don’t know, but maybe he might be up for that one,’ Fox News anchor John Roberts declared on Tuesday

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2 w. ago Sky Sports told to 'rethink' pub footy prices as boozers forced to sell '2,000 extra pints'

EXCLUSIVE: The man behind the Great British Pub Crawl said he feared approaching a point where only the very biggest companies with massive contracts with Sky would be able to afford to show games anymore

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2 w. ago Win a BMW M3 Competition for under 5p with BOTB’s latest prize draw offer

BOTB is offering tickets for just 4.8p for a chance to win a BMW M3 Competition worth over £50,000. Hurry, the prize draw is selling fast

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2 w. ago ‘The anger became bigger than shame’: the writer whose memoir of child abuse has taken France by storm

As Neige Sinno’s critically acclaimed memoir about being sexually abused by her stepfather is published in English, she reveals how writing her story has helped set her freeWhen it came out in France, Neige Sinno’s heart-stopping Sad Tiger, which pieces together in fragments the lifelong impact of the sexual abuse of a girl in the French Alps by her mountain guide stepfather, blew the literary world apart. Its experimental form of creative nonfiction – a memoir that ditches linear narrative, yet races along like a thriller – was hailed as groundbreaking, the book an instant classic. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies, won a swathe of prizes and became one of the most borrowed books in libraries across France when it was published in 2023. The Nobel prize-winning French author Annie Ernaux was so impressed that she made a public appearance in conversation with Sinno, saying: “Reading Sad Tiger is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to see, ...

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3 w. ago He made £61,000 selling drugs from around the world, but he'll pay back a fraction of that after getting caught on a train

Harley Hall, 28, was outed as a drug dealer after his colleague Jordern McCourt-Knight, 30, left a carrier bag containing a kilogram of ketamine on a train between Bristol and Cardiff

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