14 h. ago ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door Early on the morning of 3 August 1944, a unit of heavily armed German soldiers arrived at the Villa Il Focardo outside Florence.They didn’t knock. They didn’t ring the bell. They simply smashed through the front door, marched in and started shouting for the villa’s owner, Robert Einstein, cousin of the world-famous scientist Albert Einstein. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self

PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t NodThe concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonantOne thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995. In the first instalment, they form a band, discover an old shack in the woods to use as a clubhouse, and encounter a supernatural force emanating from a deep hole they discover nearby. But as autumn draws in and the girls plan a climactic rock gig, tragic secrets are uncovered.Cleverly, the story is told mostly in flashback, as the characters meet again, decades later, in their long-abandoned home town – they’re older, wiser and with new pers...

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3 d. ago Netflix viewers rave over 'one of the best war films EVER' with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as 'haunting and visceral' scenes 'blow them away'

Set at the end of the Second World War , the drama is available to stream on Netflix and delves into the story of the tragic accidental bombing of a school.

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3 d. ago Tragic story of one of Titanic's 'unluckiest' passengers who was only on doomed ship because of twist of fate

The item belonged to Ernest Tomlin and is part of a remarkable unseen archive of documents relating to him and the Titanic disaster his family have kept hold of.

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8 d. ago Next Top Model's Lucy Markovic's family made heartbreaking plea hours before tragic death

Next Top Model star Lucy Markovic has died at the age of 27. Hours before her tragic death was announced, her family took to her Instagram story to share a heartbreaking request

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2 w. ago The tragic story behind Nick Rockett owner Stewart Andrew's Grand National win

Stewart Andrew suffered a heartbreaking loss ahead of his Grand National victory

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2 w. ago The tragic story behind Grand National 2025 winner Nick Rockett

Owner Stewart Andrew paid tribute to his late wife following their Grand National win

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2 w. ago Annaliese is dying at just 25 years old. Now she hopes her unimaginable story can save others from her tragic fate

The 25-year-old from Adelaide has endured unimaginable pain, the loss of independence, and the heartbreaking realisation that she will never live out her dreams.

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2 w. ago Emmerdale fans predict icon's 'return' as tragic April Windsor story takes turn

Emmerdale viewers are convinced that a former character is set to make a return to the village in the coming weeks, in a bid to help April Dingle as she continues to spiral out of control

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3 w. ago Inside doomed Sindbad submarine: Footage from inside vessel shows what it was like for passengers on board before disaster struck

Footage from inside the Sindbad submarine reveals what it might have been like onboard the doomed vessel before disaster struck.

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3 w. ago A sinner, a killer and a very controversial erection: has director Alain Guiraudie surpassed Stranger By the Lake?

He caused a scandal with his erotic tale of lakeside cruising. Now the French film-maker is back – with a funny yet tragic story of lofty ideals, base passions and a lusty priestThere’s a wonderfully frank clifftop scene in Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie’s new rural thriller, in which a priest seems to give absolution to a murderer. Not through some great act of clemency, though, but because of what he wants in return. “He’s a lot like me,” says the director, laughing. “He’s navigating between his greater ideals and his desires as a man. I think a lot of us do that.”Morally flexible clergymen, vacillating killers, characters whose desires lead them into terra incognita – this is Guiraudie’s morally unstable terrain. Misericordia is the mirror image of his much-praised 2013 psychological drama Stranger By the Lake. Where that film made a murderer a dimly grasped object of desire, here the point of view is the killer’s. Jérémie stirs up dormant passions when he returns to his childhood...

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