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Magritte painting sells for record $121m at auction

A painting by René Magritte shattered an auction record for the surrealist artist on Tuesday, selling for more than $121m at Christie’s in New York.The seminal 1954 painting had...

Prado show aims to highlight true colours of polychrome sculpture

In a darkened corner of the Prado, not far from an outsized crucifixion and a sculpture of a...

Minecraft enters real world with $110m global theme park deal

The global gaming phenomenon Minecraft is coming to the real world for the first time in a global...

‘Happy hour in reverse’: where dynamic pricing may creep further

Paying a premium for a flight during the school holidays or a cab at peak hours might be...

After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

It’s Mary Tudor – by a nose. Not in a horse race, but from a comparison of portraits...

Raye loses songwriting books for second album in car theft

The chart-topping British singer-songwriter Raye has said that her second album will be delayed after songs for it were stolen along with her car.She...

Trinny and Susannah’s daughters say pair ‘would be cancelled’ if show made now

Trinny and Susannah, the presenters of the noughties fashion TV hit What Not to Wear, would be cancelled if the show was made today,...

Liam Payne, former One Direction singer, dies aged 31

Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died aged 31 after falling from a third floor hotel room in Buenos...

Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic

After decades away from the theatre, Gary Oldman is to return to the Yorkshire playhouse where he once starred as a pantomime cat. The...

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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells

For more than 200 years, the creation of Edinburgh’s famous Mound has remained something of a mystery.Built on the boggy bed of a drained...