An art expert discovered the Irma Stern painting, once sold to help fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence, being used as a noticeboard in a London flat.
Fans of George RR Martin’s books want to know if he’ll live long enough to give them an end to the series, a question he finds pretty offensive.
Mathematics professor scoops bad sex award with "quirky" and "wildly experimental" scenes of lust.
It has taken eight years and more than one million Madagascar golden orb spiders to create a work of art.
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/ 13 January 2012
The survivor of a shooting, US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returns to the scene of the crime a year after 19 people were gunned down in Arizona.
Kelly, a local government finance adviser becomes Britain’s national Scrabble champion.
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/ 3 December 2010
In true Dickensian style, a magnificent gift has arrived at the doorstep of Charles Dickens’s only surviving London home.
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/ 29 October 2010
Museums are increasingly getting cold feet about exhibiting human bodies and body parts, despite surveys showing great public interest.
The National Gallery in London’s Trafalgar Square is about to open its worst exhibition ever.
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/ 3 December 2004
The world’s most prestigious art prize has gone to a political artist who created a video of George W Bush’s ranch, writes Maev Kennedy.