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Music Box session #11 - Bastille
One of the UK's biggest bands dropped into play a stripped-down session for the final episode of our first Music Box series.
Robert Fisk Donald Trump hasn’t quite thought through his first foreign trip
Jerusalem will be a great gig because Trump will be able to ask Netanyahu for help against Isis without – presumably – realising that Israel bombs only the Syrian army and the Shia Hezbollah in Syria but has never – ever – bombed Isis in Syria
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Paedophile caught after police video trick lures him out of Dark Web
The 59-year-old was a member of Website 19, which was operational from 2012 to December 2014
- Tech culture
Prey is the first-person shooter that lets you play as a coffee mug
We previewed Bethesda and Arkane Studios' innovative sci-fi adventure that leaves you with infinite ways to play
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Samsung Galaxy S8: Everything wrong with the new phone
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Are £20 tickets & tiny electric planes the future of American travel?
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Windows 10 Creators Update: What you need to do before downloading it
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How to download the vast amount of information Facebook stores
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Facebook friend requests from dead people hint at 'profile cloning'
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- Gaming
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe review: Nintendo Switch's second 'must have' game
£41.99 - Nintendo Switch - Nintendo
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Yooka Laylee review: Celebrating a golden era of platforming
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Rick and Morty VR game Virtual Rick-Ality gets 4/20 release date
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How Hearthstone's latest expansion has put off the casual player
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer leaks ahead of Orlando Celebration
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Lego City Undercover review: A worthy remake
- Tech reviews
Egypt could start ‘charging people to use Facebook’
Parliamentary committees examining proposal for stricter controls on social media use in name of counter-terrorism efforts
- Film
New trailer for Christopher Nolan WWII epic Dunkirk released
The war drama stars Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy
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How Hollywood's finest shot the Second World War
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The Wonder Woman film has made a questionable advertising choice
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Christopher Nolan linked to Bond 25 amid reports Syncopy will produce
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St Vincent on her directorial debut in all-female horror anthology XX
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Mindhorn's Julian Barratt on The Mighty Boosh and Nathan Barley
- Music
Enderby's Room artist Dan Mayfield on music workshops for young people
Workshops have been toured around festivals in the UK and resulted in a performance at Union Chapel last year
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Feeder to play Chepstow Racecourse for special one-off gig
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Stormzy blows his audience away at the O2 Academy Brixton - review
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Harry Styles tickets for his first solo tour on sale today
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Pete Doherty joins anti-Marine Le Pen rally in Paris
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Standon Calling festival - Laundry Meadows stage lineup announced
- art
Hyperrealistic paintings of women 'living in nature without malice'
The reaction to Yigal Ozeri's astonishing paintings, composed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, has two elements to it. There's an immediate hit of 'holy shit, that's not a photograph' and then a sense of hollowness, of sadness - perhaps even existential unease, as you realise how a combination of paint can look just as alive and present as a real human being.
- books
All the most scathing reviews of Ivanka Trump's new book
'Reading it feels like eating scented cotton balls'
Colin Kaepernick donates old suits to parolees looking for jobs
Kaepernick has vowed to donate a million dollars to “oppressed communities” this year
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London-born Melifonwu picked by Oakland after being forced to wait
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NFL draft 2017: Round one is out of the way, now two Brits await
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NFL team selects player accused of rape as first-round Draft pick
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Browns select Garrett as first overall pick of 2017 NFL Draft
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Mock draft 3.0: Who will go where in the first round?
Rashford not yet the finished article, warns Lingard
Rashford responded to criticism for an apparent dive against Swansea by scoring a crucial free-kick winner in United's Europa League semi-final
- Fashion
Kendall Jenner's Vogue India cover sparks backlash
'Vogue India, you are aware that Kendall Jenner is 100% a white woman and does not embody or represent a real Indian woman?' an angry commenter wrote
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The worrying difference between male and female shop mannequins
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3 items of clothing that everyone should own
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Kim Kardashian West attends Met Gala wearing simple white dress
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Princess Charlotte's John Lewis jumper from birthday photo sells out
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The best investment handbags to buy, from Chanel to Louis Vuitton
- Food + drink
The diet for those who want to eat less meat but not go vegetarian
Founder of the movement talks to The Independent about why he wants to change the conversation surrounding veganism, vegetarianism and even meat-consumption
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