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One of Venezuela’s most celebrated musicians, the pianist Gabriela Montero, has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country’s world-renowned youth orchestra as a result of Nicolás Maduro’s alleged theft of this year’s

presidential election

The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela …

The UK has welcomed 2025 with fireworks and celebrations in London, but many events across the country were cancelled due to bad weather.

Tens of thousands of people attended the annual event in the capital, with millions more tuning in on television.

Speaking ahead of the spectacle, the London mayor, …

Barbenheimer. Gladicked. Deadpool & Wonkarine. The big movies of the past couple of years have been cash-splash smashes by mainstream directors loudly airing strong authorial voices. They are films on which studios have taken heavy bets during the rocky post-Covid period and ushered through a landscape potholed with strife and …

We Live In Time

We’re overdue a genuinely good romantic-comedy with a few drops of weepie thrown in. This could be it. Screenwriter Nick Payne and director John Crowley give us a non-smooth-running love story in nonlinear form, in which Florence Pugh’s chef Almut and Andrew Garfield’s breakfast cereal executive …

A survivor of the Manchester Arena attack is calling for greater legal protections from conspiracy theorists after a YouTuber with millions of viewers secretly filmed his family to try to prove they were “crisis actors”.

Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve, now 22, were left with life-changing injuries by the …

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Women led the way in recorded music this year, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), topping the …

Sadiq Khan and Stephen Fry received knighthoods along with the former England manager Gareth Southgate while Emily Thornberry became a dame in the first new year honours list since Labour’s general election win.

The mayor of London, who secured a record third term in City Hall this May, said he …

Talk of homicide is on the rise in films, researchers have found, in a trend they say could pose a health concern for adults and children.

A study found that over the past 50 years there had been a small but significant increase in movie characters talking about murdering or …

As families in Taiwan prepare to gather for lunar new year celebrations in January, a new game that will be released that month promises to offer some war-themed fun over the festive period.

“2045” is a new board game developed by the Taiwanese company Mizo Games. It invites players to …

“Mum”, a drag mistress sporting a severe blonde bob, dresses me in a black tuxedo jacket and tie, chest and belly exposed – then puts me to work ironing knickers. Later, I’m handed a feather duster with which to polish an array of white fibreglass dicks – alternately girthy, proud, …