38 h. ago Zelenskyy employs strategic optimism to highlight Russia’s abundant bad faith

Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’At a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, explaining where initial US-brokered peace negotiations had got to, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, struck a notably different tone. Long gone is the tetchiness on display in London in the aftermath of the Ukrainian leader’s catastrophic trip to the White House. In its place was a degree of optimism so high that it could only be interpreted as political positioning.Though he complained about comments made by Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, that four Ukrainian regions wholly or partly occupied by Russia consisted of people who wanted Moscow’s rule in an “overwhelming majority” – these were “in line with the messages of the Kremlin”, Zelenskyy said – he insisted that had advantages too. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Red Arrows confirm 2025 schedule including 2 London displays

Red Arrows confirm 2025 schedule including 2 London displays - see when  News Shopper

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6 d. ago UFC London: Sean Brady upsets Leon Edwards with dominant display

UFC London: Sean Brady upsets Leon Edwards with dominant display  BBC.com

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9 d. ago Premier League Darts 2025 in Cardiff: Order of play, full schedule and start times including Price, Littler and Humphries

It's Night Seven of the BetMGM Premier League as Cardiff takes centre stage

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1 week ago Worst record covers in the world from nightmarish rabbits to a giant manbaby

A collection of the worst album covers of all time has gone on display in London and the Daily Star is happy to present some of the cringe-worthy LPs being featured

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2 w. ago Elgin Marbles should be returned to their native Greece, a anthropologist and TV presenter Alice Roberts urges

Professor Alice Roberts believes the 30-plus classical Greek monuments, which have been on display in the British Museum in London for more than 200 years, belong 'back in Athens'.

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3 w. ago The Independent’s Influence List goes on display at London’s Outernet for International Women’s Day

This International Women's Day, The Independent has returned to Tottenham Court Road's Outernet — together with Refuge —  to demand Women. Now.

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3 w. ago Princess Beatrice is seen for the first time since giving birth to daughter Athena as she and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi attend gala

The Duke and Duchess of York's daughter put on a radiant display as she attended the occasion at The V&A in London, on Thursday evening.

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3 w. ago Thousands Of Ceramic Poppies Will Fill The Tower Of London In This Breathtaking Commemorative Display

Thousands Of Ceramic Poppies Will Fill The Tower Of London In This Breathtaking Commemorative Display  Secret London

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3 w. ago Castles in the sky: the fantastical drawings of author Victor Hugo – in pictures

Although better known for his sprawling Romantic novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, celebrated French author Victor Hugo spent much of his time drawing. A collection of about 70 of his sketches will soon be on display at the Royal Academy in London, in an exhibition bringing together caricatures, travel drawings and landscapes. Several of the drawings feature castles and ruins. “Hugo was inspired by ‘burgs’ – castles, fortresses or walled towns – that he saw when travelling along the Rhine, but he often drew fantastical castles that fuse memory and imagination,” says the exhibition’s curator Sarah Lea. “Hugo’s castle drawings range in tone from sinister and sublime to highly romantic and exquisitely detailed.”Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1, 21 March to 29 June Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Isaac Newton’s beer mug to go on show in Royal Society exhibition in London

Though scientist was not thought to be a great drinker, he may have used beer as an ingredient in the homemade ink in which he wrote his greatest workIssac Newton has long been a familiar figure in museums around the world. Now, one of the famed scientist’s most prized possessions is due to go on display for the first time in 160 years: his beer mug.The wooden mug will be on public display at the Royal Society, in central London, from 4 March, alongside items including Newton’s greatest work, the Principia, and the scientist’s death mask, which was prepared shortly after his death to serve as a likeness for sculptures. Continue reading...

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