Will this Frida Kahlo work fetch a record-breaking $60m at auction? Experts weigh in
Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) is being auctioned off by Sotheby’s
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Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial
Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, says ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’Audiences left hungry for more suspense after the nail-biting Celebrity Traitors finale should visit the ultimate murder mystery, The Mous…
Kiren Rijiju Signs India–Saudi Bilateral Haj Agreement, Strengthens Coordination For 2026 Pilgrimage
Union Minister for Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, concluded an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 7 to 9 November 2025.The visit, undertaken at the invitation of Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Tawfiq bin Fawzan Al Rabiah, focused on reinforcing bilateral cooperation and reviewing preparations for the upcoming Haj 2026 pilgrimage.The Indian delegation
Documentary explores whether JMW Turner may have been neurodivergent
Programme uses artist’s sketches, drawings and watercolours to build unprecedented psychological portraitHe is widely regarded as England’s greatest painter, but despite his extraordinary output, elements of JMW Turner’s personality have remained a mys…
‘I have to take ultimate responsibility’: Tim Davie’s BBC resignation statement
Full text of director general’s note to staff and the resignation statement from head of news Deborah TurnessDavie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverageBBC bias row: how a week of hostile headlines…
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prisonIt started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worth…
Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths
Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriorsA groundbreaking samurai exhibition that promises to challenge “everything we think we know about Japan’s warrior elite” spanning a mi…
The week in pictures: New York Mayor Mamdani, Shein arrives in Paris and a baby hippo
New York elected democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani its new mayor, Chinese e-commerce giant Shein faced suspension in France as it opened its first-ever physical store in Paris and a baby hippo made her debut appearance at Berlin zoo. FRANCE 24 takes…
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts centerThe Washington National Opera (WNO) is considering moving out of the Kennedy Center, the company’s home since the US’s national performing ar…
Lee Tamahori, director of Once Were Warriors and James Bond movie Die Another Day, dies aged 75
New Zealand film-maker became a Hollywood fixture in the 90s and 00s, including making Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 movie, before returning to his home country Lee Tamahori, the New Zealand director of Once Were Warriors and Die Another Day, has died aged…