3 h. ago The best of the Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 – in pictures

The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns this weekend to London, New York City and Marrakech. It remains the first and only fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and this year sees a total of 30 galleries and more than 70 artists. The show runs 8 to 11 May Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Graydon Carter's London guide: the editor and author eats at Maison François and loves Anderson & Sheppard

The author longs for the return of the Draycott, would take a date along the Embankment, and wishes you could still smoke indoors

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27 h. ago Iconic New York jazz club Blue Note is officially opening a venue in London next year

Iconic New York jazz club Blue Note is officially opening a venue in London next year  Time Out

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47 h. ago This Is the Most Expensive City in the World—and It’s Not New York City or London

This Is the Most Expensive City in the World—and It’s Not New York City or London  Travel + Leisure

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54 h. ago Mark Twain by Ron Chernow review – the story of America’s first literary celebrity, from the author of Hamilton

A definitive new biography takes in adventures on the Mississippi, racist stereotypes and get-rich-quick schemesIn his lifetime, Mark Twain was the greatest literary celebrity the world had ever known. In the US, he hobnobbed with presidents; on his many travels, he would dine privately with the German kaiser, the Austrian emperor, or the Prince of Wales. Visiting England to collect an honorary degree from Oxford University, he was cheered off his ship by the stevedores of the London docks, before making his way to Windsor Castle for tea with the king and queen.He was the bracing, irreverently humorous voice of America. Like Charles Dickens, whom he heard read from his own work in New York, he became a performer as well as an author. In London he was feted when he read passages from his travelogue of the Wild West, Roughing It. Everyone loved the “twang of his drawl”. He went on to take his work in progress, Huckleberry Finn, round more than 100 American towns and cities, earning ha...

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3 d. ago Graham Norton's fans share their concerns after he puts his London home AND New York pad up for sale in one week

Graham Norton's fans have shared their concerns after it was revealed he has put two of his homes up for sale in just one week.

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3 d. ago Graham Norton's fans share their concerns after he puts his London home AND New York pad up for sale in one we

Graham Norton's fans share their concerns after he puts his London home AND New York pad up for sale in one we  Daily Mail

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5 d. ago The most expensive UK city to live in outside of London where locals are priced out

The most expensive UK city to live in outside of London where locals are priced out  Daily Express

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5 d. ago These are the seats passengers will use for the world’s longest flight – launching in 2027

The service will be operated between New York, London and Sydney by Qantas, using modified Airbus A350s with very fancy cabins

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5 d. ago Video: Russell Brand Attends Court Hearing In London For Rape Charges

Video: Russell Brand Attends Court Hearing In London For Rape Charges  The New York Times

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6 d. ago A Different Man’s Adam Pearson to star in new film of The Elephant Man

Pearson, who will be the first disabled actor to play the role in a film, said: ‘I can think of no greater honour than to tell the true story of Joseph Carey Merrick’Adam Pearson, the actor who appeared in Under the Skin and the Oscar-nominated A Different Man, is to play the lead role in a new adaptation of The Elephant Man.According to Variety, Pearson will play Joseph Merrick, whose physical disfigurement led to him becoming a freak show exhibit and then a notable figure in late Victorian London, in a film based on the celebrated play by Bernard Pomerance that became a hit in London and New York after premiering in 1977. Pomerance’s son Moby is writing the screenplay, and shooting is due to begin in 2026. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Capitals’ Taylor Raddysh testifies in Hockey Canada trial about texts from ‘that night in London’

Capitals’ Taylor Raddysh testifies in Hockey Canada trial about texts from ‘that night in London’ - The Athletic  The New York Times

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7 d. ago Man Who Tried to Enter Israeli Embassy in London Charged With Terror Offense

Man Who Tried to Enter Israeli Embassy in London Charged With Terror Offense  The New York Times

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8 d. ago Man Charged With Terror Offense After Trying to Enter Israeli Embassy in London

Man Charged With Terror Offense After Trying to Enter Israeli Embassy in London  The New York Times

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8 d. ago The 2025 London Marathon Overtook New York City for the Largest Marathon Ever

The 2025 London Marathon Overtook New York City for the Largest Marathon Ever  Runner's World

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1 week ago No more ‘subway spaghetti’! New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years

The first major overhaul since 1979 seeks to simplify the map’s old illegible squiggles – but faces opposition from change-averse New YorkersThe New York City subway map has always been tricky to decipher. Unlike those in cities from Boston to London to Tokyo, the longstanding New York map hews fairly closely to the image of the city aboveground.Central Park is clearly depicted, as are the individual bodies of water within it; you can see the shape of each borough and the rivers and ocean framing them. Overlaid across it all is a tangled web of subway lines, daunting to the first-time visitor – especially when it comes to distinguishing between local and express trains. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fanatics begins U.K. trading card push with Lewis Hamilton and massive crowd at London store opening

Fanatics begins U.K. trading card push with Lewis Hamilton and massive crowd at London store opening  The New York Times

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1 week ago Identical twins from York to run London Marathon in memory of loves ones

Identical twins from York to run London Marathon in memory of loves ones  Yahoo News UK

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2 w. ago Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Polydor)After her big breakthrough and West End fame, Rebecca Lucy Taylor works through her worries in real time on her new album – to fascinating and confusing effectLast week, London’s Duke of York’s theatre played host to an elaborate four-night live staging of Self Esteem’s third album. Devised by Self Esteem herself – Rebecca Lucy Taylor – along with Tony award-winning theatrical director and designer Tom Scutt, it was rapturously received by critics, and seemed to speak of an entirely understandable confidence on Taylor’s part.Since 2017, she has completely reinvented herself, from one half of middle-ranking indie duo Slow Club into an on-her-own-terms pop star. Her second album as Self Esteem, 2021’s Prioritise Pleasure, was a critical and commercial success, shifting her into the realm of breakfast TV interviews and appearances on The Graham Norton Show and Celebrity Bake-Off. She also has a burgeoning career as an actor, having played Sally Bowles in a West End production ...

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2 w. ago London has the world's strongest marathon brand says new study

London has the world’s strongest marathon brand beating rivals New York and Paris, according to a new study.

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