6 d. ago A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them hereAs you enter the galleries you can’t avoid the slobbish giant. Maybe it is drunk or drugged as it towers and slumps, a red and brown creature with a demonic face and sagging stomach. If the cord suspending it from the ceiling snapped it would just be a pile of hemp on the floor.This monster has all the qualities that make the art of Mrinalini Mukherjee, who was born in Mumbai in 1949 and died in 2015, funny, fascinating and surreal. She created it in 1985, making it, like many of her works, with tightly woven, intensely coloured natural fibres. It is called Pakshi, meaning bird, and now I see it, the feathery flanks and floppy wings. Mukherjee’s sculpture is a hallucinatory but sharply observed response to nature, full of echoes of the Indian landscape and, in this case, India’s skies. If a bird can become an ogre in...

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6 d. ago Baby dies hours after being born to mum who 'tested positive for cocaine while pregnant'

An inquest heard that the baby was born at his mother's home in Builth Wells, Powys in Wales at around 24 weeks' gestation - around 16 weeks prematurely - and died the same day

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6 d. ago Baby dies hours after birth in 'unexpected' tragedy after mum uses cocaine

The baby died only a few hours after he was born through an 'unexpected' delivery and 'following his delivery, emergency services were called and attended swiftly'

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7 d. ago I wish my selfish sister had never been born. When she died at 33 after a life of hedonism, she became a saint in our family... I'll never forgive her for it

Everyone talks about my sister like she was an angel. They say she was taken too soon. And maybe she was. But the truth is she took so much from the rest of us before she went.

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2 w. ago 'All six of my babies died and I went years without answers'

Baby Megan-Jayne died days after she was born - it was only then mum Jessica began to get some answers why her babies were dying

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2 w. ago Obituary: Eleanor Morris, pioneering feminist, town planner and academic

Eleanor Morris PhD, town planner. Born: November 14, 1935. Died: August 16, 2025, aged 89.

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3 w. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Alan McMillan, musician and music teacher

Alan ‘John’ Rouen McMillan RGT LCM EGTA (UK), musician and teacher. Born: 3 February 1972. Died: 23 May 2025, aged 53

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4 w. ago Jilly Cooper Obituary: ‘Queen of the bonkbuster’ who wanted to write ‘happy books’

Dame Jilly Cooper, novelist. Born: February 21, 1937. Died: October 5, 2025, aged 88

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4 w. ago Daryz dazzles in Arc de Triomphe to catch hot favourite Minnie Hauk in dying strides

Seventh winner of prestigious race for Aga Khan colours‘To win the Arc today in these colours is just crazy’Pedigree was the key to the puzzle of the 104th Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe here on Sunday, as Daryz stayed on strongly to collar Minnie Hauk, the favourite, in the storied green-and-red colours of the late Aga Khan IV, his breeder, who died in February. “He was born for this,” Princess Zahra Aga Khan, his daughter, said afterwards. “On both sides, sire and dam, they were Group One winners at the distance, so he was born to get 2,400m and I think it showed today.”Sunday’s race was just the seventh start of Daryz’s career, all in his three-year-old season, and his first at a mile-and-a-half. He is the seventh Arc winner for the racing and breeding operation founded by the third Aga Khan in 1921, a sequence that stretches back to Migoli’s success in 1948, and also the first winner in the green and red silks since the unbeaten Zarkava’s success, with Christophe Soumillon in the sad...

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