8 h. ago Paramount fumes that Warner Bros. Discovery sale process is ‘unfair’ as Netflix jumps into the lead

While Paramount chief David Ellison thought he had a ‘Trump card’ in his bid to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, it appears he is growing less confident that he’ll add the studio giant to his growing media empire.

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9 h. ago ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilienceAs you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It’s a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo, sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as “home abroad”.The scene, which depicts the childhood home of Coventry-born curator and artist Hardish Virk, is one of several spaces in an immersive exhibition at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. It traces four decades of the experiences of south Asians as they arrived and adapted to the social, political and cultural changes in modern Britain. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics

The guitarist for Booker T & the MGs defined the sound of original R&B, co-creating soul anthems and proving himself one of the most influential musicians of the 60sSteve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84Steve Cropper stood at the side of musical legends and toiled in the shadows of the studio, never a star. But his work with his fellow musicians and singers at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, established him as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 1960s.Actually, pretty much every rock icon of that fabled decade looked up to Cropper, who has died aged 84. The Beatles seriously considered recording at Stax, and the Stones covered songs he played on and emulated his crisp rhythm and lead guitar playing. As a jobbing musician in 1964, Jimi Hendrix drove from Nashville to Memphis to meet Cropper (they chatted about guitars and jammed), while Janis Joplin insisted her new band play Stax’s Christmas party so as to rub sh...

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12 h. ago US teenager sells of family treasure to support Highland museum

The painting could fetch up to £5,000 at auction.

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12 h. ago US teenager sells off family treasure to support Highland museum

The painting could fetch up to £5,000 at auction.

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12 h. ago Top mispronounced words of 2025 from The Louvre to name of popular medication

The theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre in October had many people mispronouncing the name of the world’s most-visited museum

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15 h. ago Egypt says thousands of its artefacts in British Museum are 'part of London's identity'

An Egyptian official claimed the stone was taken from Egypt unlawfully during wartime

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15 h. ago Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan

Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditionalSexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to operate within the genre. Think of the apps that take images of women and remove their clothes, or the AI bots that men and boys can use to generate pornography or depictions of graphic violence against women and girls for the crime of going to the same school as they do or running for office. Think of the influencers of the so-called “womanosphere” who tell their female audiences that women who seek out friendship or equality with men are morons or cows, all through the gleam of a TikTok filter. Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy.But some of the forms of misogyny that have b...

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16 h. ago Cops hunt thief after WWII drawings worth £500k destroyed after van stolen and set ablaze

A thief stole a van in Livingston, and set it on fire, destroying 1,500 WWII-era drawings worth around £500,000, as part of the Royal Engineers Museum archive.

Economics

28 h. ago Leeds 3 Chelsea 1: Blues desperately miss Moises Caicedo as they are humiliated at Elland Road

FORGET 'Cole Palmer FC', maybe Chelsea have evolved into 'Moises Caicedo FC'. Because even with the return of ice-cold Palmer, Enzo Maresca's side look as though they will be frozen out of the title race in December again, starting with defeat at Elland Road. Caicedo, missing through suspension after a red card against Arsenal at...

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29 h. ago Mysterious Chernobyl nuclear site's 'black fungus' could have evolved to eat radiation

The discovery has raised new questions about how life evolves under extreme conditions and whether these organisms could one day help protect astronauts in deep space

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30 h. ago Museum staff ‘devastated’ after drawings worth £500,000 stolen and destroyed

The museum director said she is hopeful that some of the drawings may have survived.

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34 h. ago Taylor Swift is UK’s most streamed artist on Spotify for third year in a row

The 35-year-old released her 12th studio album in 2025.

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35 h. ago An Italian powerlifter defies gravity: Mattia Zoppellaro’s best photograph

‘When I saw him leaning back on the floor, I said, “Donato, please don’t move!” Then I jumped on a ladder and shot him from above’This image is part of a series commissioned by the Italian Paralympic Committee. They asked me to photograph the country’s leading athletes before the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. I probably covered 30 different people over three days – I’m a quick shooter. I started out photographing on film, which is still my preferred medium. Even when I’m shooting digitally, I’m very selective and take care with every click.On a logistical level, it was much easier for me to work in a studio, though that was something I don’t usually choose to do. I’m more of an outside photographer: I like to go on location or shoot people in a park. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Mr Men Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers

David Heyman has joined the French media company StudioCanal with plans to bring one of the bestselling children’s book series of all time to the screenThe film-makers behind the successful Paddington series are to embark on a feature film adaptation of another British family favourite, the Mr Men and Little Miss series of illustrated children’s books.David Heyman, whose Heyday Films produced Paddington and Paddington 2 as well as the Harry Potter series, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and White Noise, is to join with the UK arm of French media company StudioCanal to make the film. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Mr Men and Little Miss feature film in the works from Paddington producers

David Heyman has joined the French media company StudioCanal with plans to bring one of the bestselling children’s book series of all time to the screenThe film-makers behind the successful Paddington series are to embark on a feature film adaptation of another British family favourite, the Mr Men and Little Miss series of illustrated children’s books.David Heyman, whose Heyday Films produced Paddington and Paddington 2 as well as the Harry Potter series, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and White Noise, is to join with the UK arm of French media company StudioCanal to make the film. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson returns to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire but with big twist

Jeremy is returning to the Millionaire studio, but things will be a little different than usual

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38 h. ago Major European city is rewarding tourists with free food, bike hire and museum trips for doing good deeds

The initiative, first piloted in 2024, will reward travellers who make positive contributions to the local community during their visit with free meals, discounted experiences and free bike hire.

Society

39 h. ago Jamie Lee Curtis asked My Girl studio to put trigger warning on poster over Macaulay Culkin bee sting

Actor told Columbia’s head of marketing that the film’s scene showing the death of Culkin, then 10, was going to freak out every child in the USJamie Lee Curtis has said she asked the studio behind the 1991 comedy-drama My Girl to put a trigger warning on the poster, owing to the dramatic death of its central character towards the end of the film.Speaking on The View, Curtis, 67, said she was sufficiently concerned by the incongruously perky publicity materials for the movie to phone the studio’s head of marketing. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago French art museum nicknamed ‘Little Louvre’ reopens after 14 years

The Basque country museum houses an extensive collection of Old Masters said to rival the Louvre’s

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