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The singer Shirley Bassey, the England goalkeeper Mary Earps, the Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis and the Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke are among the famous names recognised in the new year honours list, while the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, leads those rewarded for their work on the coronation of King Charles III.

Italian artist and photojournalist Eduardo Castaldo turned the streets of Naples into a canvas to amplify the voices of Palestinians. After four years documenting life under Israeli occupation, Castaldo turned his photos into street art as a means of resistance and to strengthen Naples’ identity as an anti-Zionist city. His work has helped turn the city into a battleground for justice and the anti-colonisation struggle.

Israel's use of religious symbols in its genocide of Palestinians is an affront to Judaism and has robbed Jews of a faith practice divorced from nationalist barbarism

Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he’s found, are the ones that the directors meant.

Anticipation is building as the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) opens its doors to the highly acclaimed "Tutankhamun – The Immersive Exhibition". In collaboration with Madrid Artes Digitales, this groundbreaking exhibition invites visitors to embark on an epic odyssey, walking alongside King Tutankhamun, the Golden King whose story has captivated the world for millennia. 

Over 13 years after the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla, Israeli forces have destroyed a monument built in Gaza to honour the victims.

Our family has two cats, and I’ve often found myself wondering what it’s like to be them. I imagined them driven by a host of competing innate instincts—desire for food, affection, sleep, etc.—and ultimately following the ones that are the strongest at the moment. Humans, on the other hand, can intentionally regulate and suppress instincts that we find unproductive or harmful. But in the end, I’ve concluded that humans and cats are so deeply different that I can’t accurately imagine their experience, so I’ve given up trying.

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has recently added Kandovan, the rocky village in Northwestern Iran, to its Best Tourism Villages Network. The 25th session of the UNWTO General Assembly convened in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 16-20 October 2023.

Arab publishing bodies have withdrawn from a German book festival after a planned award to a Palestinian author was scrapped, the National has reported.

The Japanese government decided Thursday to seek a court order to dissolve the Unification Church after a nearly yearlong probe into the controversial group over its history of coercing members into making large donations, culture minister Masahito Moriyama said.