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‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime
The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Euro…
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Why Erling Haaland has become the World Cup’s most entertaining star
Whether he's posing as Norway's 'social media guy' or sharing candid shots in an infrared mask, Erling Haaland is winning over fan…
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BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson taking a break from work due to health issues
The Radio 2 presenter said he was now "concentrating on getting better".
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Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month
(Flee) A treasure trove of field recordings are reshaped into pulsating floor-fillers and sparse baile funk by a range of producer…
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Germany news: Berlin's orchestra eases dress code amid heat
Men are not obliged to wear jackets during the orchestra's end-of-season performance this weekend. Meanwhile, a court has sentence…
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Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and l…
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Downtown Boys: Public Luxury review – a joyful blast of bilingual political punk
(Sub Pop) The Rhode Island five-piece return with a ferocious rallying call to fight for your beliefs, with bouncing basslines, mu…
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‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield
Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising th…
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Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
There are flashes of low-rent fun to be had here but a busy script makes it feel like a limited series inelegantly cut down to mov…
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young by Zayd Ayers Dohrn review – child of the revolution
The son of fugitive leaders of the militant Weather Underground recounts his chaotic, peripatetic upbringing Every aspect of a fam…
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The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance
Mohammad Tahir and his colleagues operate through bombing and blackouts in barely functional hospitals – but there are moments of …
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Jonathan Kuo: Java Dreams album review – young pianist brings unflashy exuberance to complex works
(Rubicon) The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangemen…
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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Supergirl' - Save the puppy, save the world
After a strong start to the rebooted DC Universe last year with 'Superman' comes a new space adventure which follows the Man of St…
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‘Elon Musk is dangerous and crazy. And I kind of used to like him’: Interpol on their political awakening – and making their masterpiece
They were a big 00s buzz band – but looked in danger of fading out. Empowered by fatherhood and anger at war and AI, the New Yorke…
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Missing Glastonbury? There's a festival on your doorstep this weekend
Stars like Fatboy Slim and Becky Hill will play small local venues to celebrate the UK music scene.
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Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical
Dorfman theatre, London The director and writer of the hit 2014 film deliver a stage celebration of togetherness in the face of ad…
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Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return
(Dead Oceans) The US singer took years off after becoming ‘world-weary’ of public life – and in the meantime, her silvery balladry…
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Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard review – Ade Edmondson is still visibly stricken about losing him
Packed with fun memories from Ben Elton and Stephen Fry plus heartbreaking regret from his former partner, the Bottom star is so a…
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Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction
Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins th…
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Blood, Sweat & Tears rocker David Clayton-Thomas dies at 84
The Grammy Award-winning music legend sold more than 40 million records and helped shape the sound of jazz-rock.
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Young people avoiding the news, Reuters report
An alarming number of young people are turning away from the news, according to the Reuters Digital News Report presented at DW's …
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Rocío Molina: Calentamiento review – an electrifying blast of punky flamenco
Sadler’s Wells, London Molina says she wants a show that never finishes – this one is endlessly thrilling and surprising Rocío Mol…
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Outrageous and outsized musical tribute to Claes Oldenburg takes the stage in Los Angeles
In “Enormous Things: The Musical”, the beloved Pop artist confronts a creative block while Jeff Koons taunts him mercilessly and C…
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Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award
‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’ The Box in Plymouth has…