3 h. ago King and Queen’s Christmas card features 20th wedding anniversary portrait

Charles and Camilla send out hundreds of Christmas cards each year to family, friends, world leaders, diplomats and charities.

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7 h. ago Anna Kepner’s stepbrother sent to live with relatives as his father speaks out about investigation

The father of Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother said he did not give his son, now a suspect in her death, permission to go on the cruise

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9 h. ago From Zohran to Acetaminophen: the top mispronounced words of 2025

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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9 h. ago Call the Midwife confirms return of Coronation Street star in sneak peek photo

Call the Midwife's Nurse Trixie Franklin will be delighted as a familiar face returns to Poplar this Christmas

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9 h. ago Trump admin deadnames trailblazing transgender admiral on official portrait: Report

Adm. Rachel Levine made history in 2021 as the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender official

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9 h. ago Moment champion martial artist bundles suspected sex attacker to the floor as woman screams that he grabbed her outside busy Tube station

Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert Ivan Skoko, 29, used a leg sweep before using his knees to restrain the man in busy Moorgate, central London .

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11 h. ago Pub in historic tourist city ordered to scrub off new mural after council officials deemed it an 'eyesore'... but wait until you see what their neighbours look like

The Boat Club, in the centre of Durham, had hoped to bring a splash of life to the area with a vibrant mural painted by a local artist of the iconic Guinness toucan.

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11 h. ago Frank Gehry: maximalist master who created instant icons like the Bilbao Guggenheim

He made buildings that looked like slouching drunks and quarrelling couples but it was the Spanish museum that secured his ‘starchitect’ status – a creation that became something of a curseFrank Gehry once had a cameo in The Simpsons in which he designed buildings by scrunching up pieces of paper. There was a bit more to it than that, but from Prague to Panama City, his scrunched contours were instantly recognisable, expressed in an exuberant parade of buildings that cranked and slumped as if hit by a wrecking ball, or crashed and whirled like dervishes, defying laws of gravity and structural logic. Though Gehry, who has died aged 96, came of age in the era of modernism, it was as if he were physically incapable of drawing a straight line.In his prime, Gehry’s architecture was a rebuff to modernist imperators such as Mies van der Rohe and his po-faced injunction, “less is more”. The American postmodern theorist and architect Robert Venturi turned it on its head, quipping “less is a ...

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17 h. ago ‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari

Zaghari-Ratcliffe made clothes for her daughter while waiting for her eventual release. Now, the idea of creativity as a form of resistance is the theme of a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum and the fabric department of Liberty. When Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returned home to London after six years of arbitrary detention in Iran, she brought back with her a small patchwork cushion. Pieced together from scrap material and made with the single sewing machine available in the prison, it was the product of a communal craft circle.“It’s something very, very precious to me,” she said. So precious, in fact, that she has worked on a new collaboration between London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) and the fabric department of Liberty, creating three new prints that explore experience as a prisoner. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Fans react to Malcolm in the Middle reboot sneak peek including redo of original series’ iconic moment

‘Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’ will welcome the return of most of the original cast

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30 h. ago Frank Gehry, the most celebrated architect of his time, dies at 96

Groundbreaking architect Frank Gehry who was behind the acclaimed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has died

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31 h. ago New York Times sues AI startup for ‘illegal’ copying of millions of articles

Perplexity AI also faces lawsuit from Murdoch-owned Dow Jones and New York Post for its use of copyrighted contentThe New York Times sued an embattled artificial intelligence startup on Friday, accusing the firm of illegal copying of millions of articles. The newspaper alleged Perplexity AI had distributed and displayed journalists’ work without permission en masse.The Times said that Perplexity AI is also violating its trademarks under the Lanham Act, claiming the startup’s generative AI products create fabricated content, or “hallucinations”, and falsely attribute them to the newspaper by displaying them alongside its registered trademarks. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Artist creates smallest sculpture ever which is so tiny it can't be seen by the human eye

David A Lindon's latest sculpture is the same size as a human blood cell, mould spores, bacteria, talcum powder or a fog droplet and is "half the size" of his previous world record

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36 h. ago Enjoy a festive weekend at East Kilbride’s National Museum of Rural Life

Get hands on with nature-inspired crafts in the Learning Centre, make some eco-friendly reindeer food to take home, then follow the festive trail around the museum galleries.

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37 h. ago Daggers, dervishes, Rego and the world’s most expensive egg – the week in art

The British Museum is infused with Sufi spirit, Henry VIII’s storied Ottoman dagger gets its own show, Rego’s art is renewed and a Fabergé sets a new record – all in your weekly dispatchHenry VIII’s Lost DaggerA curious quest for the Tudor tyrant’s lost, highly phallic dagger in the house where modern gothic began. • Strawberry Hill House, London, until 15 February Continue reading...

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38 h. ago This small London museum has been named best in Europe for 2026 – and it’s free

It was recognised by the awards body for empowering younger generations

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55 h. ago Art Basel Miami 2025: Latin American artists take center stage

The Florida-based art gathering is spearheaded this year by artists from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and PanamaWhether it’s literally bringing Panamanian soil to Miami, or subverting the messages of Mexican religious cults by appropriating their iconography into tile murals dripping with sexual innuendo, Latin American artists at Art Basel Miami Beach this year are finding ways to reinvent their cultural heritage as surprising and fantastic pieces of art.The Mexican artist Renata Petersen, originally from Guadalajara, has outfitted her Art Basel booth with three collections that may at first appear disconnected – intricate murals made from tiles and covered slogans and iconography, 80 chrome-blown glass works that look slightly like chess pieces but are actually derived from sex toys, and ceramic vases sporting carefully arranged motifs. For Petersen, these works spring from a childhood lived with her anthropologist mother, where she learned to look at cults and other religious moveme...

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56 h. ago David Hockney at Annely Juda Fine Art: 'The greatest living painter

Artist Daniel Lismore visits Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris to find Hockney at the peak of his powers

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56 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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59 h. ago Mother urges parents to trust instincts after baby daughter dies of pneumonia

Lisa, a makeup artist, described Ophelia as an “old soul” who was very happy, loved people, and was obsessed with bananas.

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