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850,000 families who were entitled to receive the top-up did not claim the benefit

Jackie Evancho rose to fame on America's Got Talent in 2010 and has candidly opened up on her long battle with anorexia

Tom Fairclough attacked his sister's ex-boyfriend outside a bar, punching him to the ground

Long before Netflix and Amazon Video movies, the city's streets were graced with some truly beautiful cinemas

Elon Musk, 51, welcomed twins with Shivon Zilis, 36, one of his top executives, weeks before he welcomed a child with Grimes via surrogate, court documents revealed.

Boris Johnson's allies have now raised the prospect of taking the 'nuclear option' and asking the Queen to dissolve parliament to trigger an election.

Covid cases continues to rise amid new BA.4 and BA.5 variants

New Zealand PM says Russia’s war in Ukraine is morally bankrupt but should not be seen as a conflict of democracy versus autocracyThe world is “bloody messy” but must take a step back from polarisation and black-and-white...

The duo behind Otolith talk about their complex collaged videos, which tackle everything from lost utopian thinking to the concept of vertical time. Why do they think the apocalypse is already here?Watching the video art of the Otolith Group feels like a productive day spent in a university library, or a jump down a Wikipedia wormhole. Images, arch

‘I started photographing West Sussex Birdman competitions in the 1990s. I’ve seen hats with propellers, people holding helium balloons – and a guy dressed a dinosaur who said his name was Terry Dactyl’In 1994, I started going to Birdman events at West Sussex seaside towns like Bognor and Worthing. People would launch themselves off piers st

Police open cases against Leena Manimekalai for ‘hurting religious sentiments’ with short film Kaali An Indian film director is facing police investigation over the poster for her new film, which depicts the Hindu goddess Kaali smoking a cigarette and clutching an LGBTQ+ flag.Leena Manimekalai, an Indian film-maker based in Canada, has received

Òran Mór, GlasgowThis preposterous pun-laden panto gets everything just right with a lusty dame, a bad-tempered bear and a heroine who channels Kate BushIf you must insist on a summer panto, then Greece is as good a destination as any. It also works for alliteration. And that is all the justification writer and director Andy McGregor needs for th

From the madness of North Korea to memoirs of modern dating and caring for elderly parents, these books show how the best graphic artists can get a laugh out of almost anythingComics have their roots in comedy – the evidence...

David Harewood, Sharon D Clarke and Josette Bushell-Mingo pay tribute to the pioneering star who has died aged 91‘Remarkable, revelatory, inspiring’: Yvonne Brewster on Mona HammondIt is often said that those of us who...

Freud Museum, LondonThe painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couchThree...

Triplets reckon with their puzzling dissimilarity in an enjoyable saga of family dysfunctionNature versus nurture, animal cognition, order and chance, the climate crisis, the structure of the brain and the nature of...

Modern agriculture isn’t working. Two energising books come up with contrasting solutionsThere was one day in each of the springs of my childhood when we moved the ewes and lambs from the fields around the house to land at...

BookTrust which ran the awards said its limited resources would now be directed to disadvantaged familiesThe decision to axe the Blue Peter book awards has been labelled by authors and agents as “devastating” and a...