Britain's Got Talent makes its much-anticipated return to ITV this weekend

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Mario Salcedo recently clocked up his 1,000th voyage with Royal Caribbean and is known as 'Super Mario' in cruise circles.

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EXCLUSIVE: While Prince Harry tries to protect Archie and Lilibet’s anonymity, Meghan Markle is featuring their children – though not showing their faces – in her new ventures

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As Meghan tentatively 'drip-feeds her children' into the public eye, royal expert Duncan Lancombe warns 'it's a tap they won't be able to turn off - royal celebrity never fades'

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He has a prolific career and extensive portfolio, with his images of British life especially iconic. At 72, he tells Miranda Sawyer, he’s still thinking about what to shoot nextAbout 20 years ago, I was on a judging panel for a photography competition, and one of the other judges was Martin Parr. He was charming and affable, almost teddy bear-ish. He was also utterly ruthless. When it came to deciding which photographs were worthy of a prize, he went through the selection swiftly – no, no, yes, no – without hesitation or doubt. His eye was impeccable. Has he always known what makes a good photograph? “Oh yes,” says Parr. “Right from the beginning. Total conviction. I knew I would be a photographer from the age of 13, 14, and I knew what was good even then. I was obsessive about photography. All artists are obsessive, I think.” We are in his agent’s office, a small upstairs flat on a market street in east London. Parr owns the building, and this room used to be packed with his work a...

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The TV presenter, 56, proved once again that age is just a number as she stepped out in Manchester looking sensational.

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The announcement that creative control of 007 would be ceded to Amazon came following reports that the Broccoli-controlled film franchise had been in 'crisis' since Daniel Craig's No Time To Die.

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Sir Jony Ive was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

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With an English degree from Brown University in the US and a master's in creative writing from Oxford under her belt, the movie star is on her way to becoming Dr Watson after starting a PhD.

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Open letter from some of the country’s most distinguished artists ‘strongly protests’ at the removal of Sabsabi and curator Michael DagostinoGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiving artists who have represented Australia at the Venice Biennale over the past five decades – and the estates of a number of now deceased artists who have done the same – have signed an open letter to the board and chief executive of Creative Australia to reinstate sacked artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino.Some of Australia’s most distinguished living artists, including Imants Tillers, Mike Parr, Susan Norrie, Fiona Hall, Judy Watson, Patricia Piccinini and Tracey Moffat have signed the petition, as has the estate of Howard Arkley who represented Australia in Venice more than a quarter of a century ago.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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Membership of 1,800 working men’s clubs and hundreds of Royal British Legion, social, Conservative, Labour and Liberal clubs typically costs from just £20 a year

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Impressionist Will Burns has opened up about fulfilling his childhood dream and his secret royal connection which will make winning Britain's Got Talent extra special

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Fleetwood Mac singer Christine McVie broke the hearts of fans and her bandmate Stevie Nicks when she tragically died at the age of 79 in 2022 following a stroke

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Julie says being married to a footballer often means moving at short notice, so she wanted to run a business that allowed for flexibility.

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As the Austrian capital honours the legacy of its dance king, the race is on to attract the most puntersThe music of Johann Strauss streams through Vienna like the stately Danube. Even the syllables of the composer’s name beat out the rhythm of a waltz, as all Austrian dance teachers know. In their lessons, the words “Jo-hann Strauss” are often swapped in to replace the conventional “one, two, three” step count.Viennese children learn to waltz just like they learn to ride a bike, so the muscle-memory never leaves them. Just as well, because the city is still famous as the home of a 19th-century dance craze that shaped its international image. In this 200th anniversary year of the birth of the “waltz king”, there are rival bids jostling to become the focus of the swirling celebrations. Continue reading...

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The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrongThere are decades when nothing happens (as Lenin is – wrongly – supposed to have said) and weeks when decades happen. We’ve just lived through a few weeks like that. We’ve known for decades that some American tech companies were problematic for democracy because they were fragmenting the public sphere and fostering polarisation. They were a worrying nuisance, to be sure, but not central to the polity.And then, suddenly, those corporations were inextricably bound into government, and their narrow sectional interests became the national interest of the US. Which means that any foreign government with ideas about regulating, say, hate speech on X, may have to deal with the intemperate wrath of Donald Trump or the more coherent abuse of JD Vance. Continue reading...

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Want to know the best way to keep your kicks clean? Looking for a comfy pair that aren’t gross? We’ve got all your trainer questions answeredI bet you know very few people who don’t own a single pair of trainers. Even the most cursory glance at people’s feet on the street, in the office or, occasionally, on a red carpet (Spike Lee is never not in his Air Jordans) is proof that they have transcended their original purpose.But does that mean it’s OK to wear them to work – and if so, which ones? Does wearing black or white ones show your age, as much perhaps as how you wear your socks? What should you actually wear to run in – and, most burning of all, what is the new Adidas Samba in this post-Rishi world (clue: there’s more than one)? Continue reading...

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In a direct message to his majesty, famed US attorney Gloria Allred told him: "We can handle the truth, and the public deserves the truth" over Prince Andrew's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

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Despite having a loyal fan base from her early 2000s heyday, Samantha Mumba's efforts to reconnect with fans have struggled to generate the same level of excitement as other pop icons

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