18 m. ago Melania Trump’s dress creates optical illusion – but what colour do you see?

First Lady’s outfit appears to be different colour in separate photos

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43 m. ago AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it | Jonny Geller

Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaughtJonny Geller is a literary agent and CEO of The Curtis Brown GroupThe single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture, is not short attention spans. It is AI.The UK publishing industry – worth more than £11bn, part of the £126bn that our creative industries generate for the British economy – has sat by while big tech has “swept” copyrighted material from the internet in order to train their models. Recently, the AI startup Anthropic settled a $1.5bn copyright case over this issue, but the ship has undeniably left the harbour and big tech is sailing off with the goods.Jonny Geller is CEO of The Curtis Brown Group Continue reading...

Culture

86 m. ago I ate at Jeremy Clarkson's and James May's country pubs — there's 1 obvious verdict

Jeremy Clarkson's new Cotswolds pub, The Farmer's Dog, is hugely popular — but he faces major competition from his former The Grand Tour co-star's own venue not far away

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91 m. ago Grey's Anatomy actor and celeb photographer dies aged 46 after horror car crash

Brad Everett Young has died aged 46 after a devastating car accident in California involving a driver travelling the wrong direction

Events

1 hour ago Ghost Trail review – pain and paranoia as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer

Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of painThe face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016, having suffered torture in Damascus’s notorious Sednaya prison, and the killing of his wife and infant daughter.Hamid asks expatriate Syrians if they know a certain man, showing them a hazy photograph, claiming that this is his cousin. In fact, it is a man who tortured him and Hamid is a member of a ring dedicated to tracking down Syrian war criminals all over Europe. Haunted, exhausted and unhappy, Hamid’s only real relationsh...

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2 h. ago Rochelle Humes' 'stylish' padded coat is 'shower resistant' and slashed to £32

The stylish and practical coat from the presenter's own collection has been praised by shoppers

Economics

2 h. ago Brigitte Macron to provide evidence she is a woman after Candace Owens claims

The Macron's lawyer said the leader and his wife Brigitte will present the photographs in support of their defamation case against right-wing influencer Candace Owens

Politics

2 h. ago Photographer Joy Gregory on her new project, decades in the making: ‘A lot of people I worked with on it have died’

A new retrospective by the Black British artist plays with everything from the Victorians’ use of flowers to Eurocentric beauty standards – including one piece she started in 2003There weren’t many Black students at the Royal College of Art when Joy Gregory was a student in the 1980s, but she did study alongside artist and Blk Art Group founder Keith Piper, who was putting together a Black photography exhibition. “He asked me if I would submit some work,” says the 65-year-old artist.Piper had liked her work, which explored themes of colonialism, beauty, gender and race. However, her submission was rejected by the organisers on the basis that it simply wasn’t Black enough. “You have to recognise the political climate at that time around practice and making a mark and I was basically taking pictures of flowers,” says Gregory. “For me, you have the right to make whatever work you want. By shutting down what can and cannot be, you start to censor yourself. I was a bit pissed off, thinki...

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2 h. ago Jameela Jamil says 'clothes should be cherished' in bid to stop fashion overconsumption

Actress Jameela Jamil has joined Oxfam in its bid to help people become more sustainable with the launch of Second Hand September - and here's how to participate

Politics

2 h. ago Prince William 'furious with Prince Andrew' at Duchess of Kent's funeral

The Prince of Wales has reportedly been keen 'not be photographed' with his uncle recently

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3 h. ago Brigitte Macron will provide 'scientific and photographic evidence' she is a woman to US court, her lawyer reveals

The couple launched their defamation suit in July, accusing the influencer of propagating 'outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions'

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3 h. ago A walk in the park! The exhibition set in the great outdoors – in pictures

Set within the grandeur of Dalkeith Palace and its grounds, 17 leading photographers create work that responds to nature – including beaming family members’ faces on to trees! Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Photos show Ghana's female oyster farmers sustaining a generational practice

In Ghana’s coastal mangroves, women are making efforts to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves.

Culture

4 h. ago In coastal Ghana, female oyster farmers try to save an old practice threatened by climate change

In Ghana, women are struggling to sustain oyster farming, a key livelihood in coastal mangroves

Society

4 h. ago On the road with the minister tasked with defending Britain’s painful aid cuts to Ghana

Jenny Chapman is shown the impact of her government’s ever-diminishing assistance on her first trip since taking charge of developmentIt is mid-afternoon on an overcast day in a suburb of Accra, Ghana’s capital. A crowd, including two government ministers, a World Bank director, diplomats, NGO workers and camera-wielding media, has descended upon a classroom where pupils sit around tables playing with plastic bottle tops.This is a catch-up class for out-of-school children, aged between eight and 16, run by Ghana Education Outcomes Project that is almost entirely (85%) funded by the UK government. The resulting circus is because Jenny Chapman, the UK’s development minister, has come to see the impact of her government’s diminishing aid budget. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Clarks opens up a shoebox of memories with museum to mark 200th year

Shoemakers Museum in Somerset village of Street displays everything from school shoes to Wallabees and Desert BootsFor some visitors, the museum may bring back memories of being fitted for their first pair of school shoes on a rather chilly metal gauge. For others, the cabinets of pristine Wallabees and Desert Boots may recall teenage obsessions with US hip-hop or Britpop movements.Memories will also flood back for the many local people whose families made Clarks shoes for generations, when the box-fresh Shoemakers Museum opens in the Somerset village of Street, near Glastonbury, on Thursday. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Takeaway worker pestered by sleazy chef hits out after creep took photos without her consent

The female employee endured weeks of lewd comments from dad of three Ladi Haderi.

Events

7 h. ago Countries that could require your photo and fingerprints from next month

The European Union's (EU) new Entry/Exit System (EES) will begin next month, which will change requirements for British citizens travelling to the Schengen area

Culture

8 h. ago American assassins: Latest episode of Daily Mail's Photo Evidence examines side

Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk were both shot at by young gunmen in two of the most shocking assassination attempts in recent American history.

Culture

9 h. ago I'm a fashion editor and I have tried every trench coat on the High Street. Here are the seven most flattering styles

One piece of outerwear a fashion editor returns to time and time again has to be the classic trench: effortlessly chic yet utterly practical.

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