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How high-rise forests can transform city life – and make us happier

Eindhoven, Netherlands/ Stefano Boeri Architetti It’s been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan’s Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other

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Clinton on being president and his new thriller

BBC Former US President Bill Clinton and best-selling author James Patterson sat down with the BBC to discuss how real life informed their new political

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How And Just Like That… gave us one of TV’s most bizarre fashion moments ever

Getty Images From Sex and the City to its sequel, heroine Carrie Bradshaw has always pushed the boat out with her fashion. But her latest

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How Hillary and Tenzing survived the ‘death zone’ to conquer Everest

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) To reach Everest’s summit Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had to climb sheer rock, while battling treacherous ice and a

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Succession creator’s nightmare vision of a world run by billionaire tech bros

Fred Hayes/ HBO (Credit: Fred Hayes/ HBO) Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s dystopian feature film debut, premiering on HBO, has “timely resonance” in this “high-tech moment”.

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This outlandish horror about an Aids-like epidemic is a ‘disorientating, maddening whirlwind’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival After winning the Palme d’Or for the shocking Titane, out-there French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another

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This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again set to shock with this

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Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be ‘the feel-bad film of the summer’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is the doomiest

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The provocative Estonian pop song that has caused outrage in Italy

Alina Pyazok One of the most controversial entries in the Eurovision song contest is Espresso Macchiato by Estonia’s Tommy Cash. It mocks Italian stereotypes, and

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The stunning retro space-age homes that are perfect for today

Ligne Roset/ Space Age Design by Peter Martin/ teNeues Space-age style is skyrocketing in pop culture – in celebrities’ homes, at global design fairs and