Esh Alladi as Pipli in Great Expectations.
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This adaptation is set in Bengal in 1899, where rumours that the British Empire’s plans for partition have spread.
Pam Grier as vigilante nurse Coffy who seeks to punish drug dealers and corrupt officials.
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Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.
Many of the buildings in Kharkiv that bats roost in have been destroyed or damaged by shelling.
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Shelling may have led to the killing of 7,000 noctule bats in the city of Kharkiv alone
President Joe Biden talks to the widow of Republican senator John McCain at a speech he gave on democracy.
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Biden’s team are about to launch a US$25 million television advertising blitz in key battleground states.
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The SNP are set to lose a seat in a vote triggered by a COVID scandal. But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times.
When Pangea Ultima forms, conditions on Earth will be too inhospitable for most mammals to survive.
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A supercontinent could raise global temperatures to such a degree that it could wipe out mammals.
Keeping up morale: Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, with Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, after talks at Nato headquarters, September 28 2023.
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A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
A woman walks past an ad for HS2 by the Curzon Street station in Birmingham.
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With all delays on this train line over the last decade, it may have been a costly distraction from other projects that could have contributed to levelling up in the meantime.
Armed police are relatively rare in the UK.
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An expert explains how militarisation is changing policing and eroding public trust.
Dior Men summer 2023 group shot in front of a Charleston reconstruction.
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The Bloomsbury group’s distaste for formality helped to set the foundations for how we dress today.
Russia claims to have signed up at least 300,000 new military recruits since January 2023.
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It is Kyiv, not Moscow, that is feeling the pressure as the war drags on with no end in sight.
David Olusoga is calling on schools to teach more about the histories of the other nations of the UK in his new BBC show, Union.
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If history is to be of any use to those who study it, it ought to help them understand the nature of the country and society they live in.
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal in Strange Way of Life.
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The most distinctive aspect of Almodóvar’s film, beyond its acknowledgment of same-sex desire, is its focus on mid-life intimacy.
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A staggered age of consent has been suggested, which would make it illegal for adults to have sex with under-18s.
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Messages from teachers like ‘if you do not work hard, you will fail your GCSEs and you will not get into college’ are known as fear appeals.
Imponderabilia at the RA.
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Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
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If we decide that AI helps us think freely, we may need to give it rights too.
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Inaction on gendered abuse is making it an even more effective tool for discouraging women from taking public office.
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Research shows why people in more diverse communities tend to rely less on negative stereotypes.
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The prime minister’s decision to delay or scrap green measures will make it harder for the UK to keep its climate commitments.