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Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 – in pictures
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Eighty years on from the day Soviet troops arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, survivors, international heads of state and dignitaries gathered at the site in Poland where more than…
Life after Auschwitz – podcast
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Revisited: Ivor Perl and Susan Pollack were 12 and 13 when they were transported to Auschwitz. On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, we revisit a podcast we published markin…
Florida Republicans deliver humiliating rebuke to DeSantis’s immigration plan
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Lawmakers halt his planned crackdown and move on with their own proposals in ‘spirit and letter’ of Trump’s policies
Republicans in the Florida legislature on Monday delivered a humiliating rebuke to …
Dior reinvents Lewis Carroll’s Alice for the Brat era at Paris fashion week
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Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri borrows from Dorotea Tanning’s surrealist paintings for her runway show
The new year has its first new muse: “Punk Alice”. At Dior’s haute couture show in Paris, Lewis Car…
Dark Match review – satanism meets wrestling in backwoods grindhouse gorefest
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There is much gristle and gauzy VHS vision in this high-energy horror, but the knuckle-trailing concept drags it down
Presumably there are easier ways to invoke Satan than organising a multi-bout wre…
Kiss of the Spider Woman review – Jennifer Lopez dazzles in unsteady musical
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Sundance film festival: The star gives her all in Bill Condon’s uneven adaptation of the Broadway revision of a prison-set fantasy
There are certain things one expects from a prime-slot Sundance premi…
Oh, Hi! review – promising romantic comedy takes awkward turn into farce
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Sundance film festival: A couple’s weekend away turns into chaos when they find out they’re not on the same page, a clever concept that soon loses steam
Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) ar…
First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm
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Discovery of H5N9 came alongside detection of the more common H5N1 on the farm, leading to 119,000 birds’ deaths
The first outbreak of a rare bird flu in poultry has been detected on a duck farm in Ca…