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Brigitte Bardot, French cinema icon, dies aged 91

Brigitte Bardot, who has died at the age of 91, swept away cinema's staid 1950s portrayal of women – coming to personify a new...

Banksy unveils Christmas mural in London

Banksy posted a photo to Instagram confirming authorship of a mural above garages on Queen's Mews in Bayswater, west London. The piece depicts two...

2025’s top science breakthroughs

Pig-to-human transplants advance January's fourth US pig kidney transplant to Tim Andrews lasted a record 271 days before rejection, freeing him from dialysis via immunosuppression....

Boxing Day explained: How the day after Christmas took shape

What is Boxing Day? Boxing Day is observed on 26 December, the day following Christmas Day, and is recognised as a public holiday in several...

Blitz survivors remember ‘Victory Christmas’

Eighty years ago, Britain was celebrating its first peacetime Christmas after six long years of war. They called it “Victory Christmas” and for the first...