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Blue Planet III review – David Attenborough makes another absolute corker
It’s funny, tense, stunningly forceful – the excellence of this franchise’s return is a bright flash of hopeful defiance
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Strictly Come Dancing Halloween special results – as it happened
Lacey Turner topped the scores in the annual spooktacular. Graeme Hall and Tabby Stoecker were joint bottom. But who would fall in the first ever triple dance-off?
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Juan Atkins, pioneer of Detroit techno sound, dies aged 64
US artist known as Model 500 and as one half of the duo Cybotron had huge influence on dance music worldwide Juan Atkins, one of the pioneers of Detroit techno and a huge influence on dance music more widely, has died aged 64. His agency, Greensmith Artists, confirmed the news to the dance music website Resident Advisor, saying Atkins had been found unresponsive in a hotel room in Mexico City prior to a performance there, and was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital. Continue reading...
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Rosalind Ashford obituary
American singer who was a founding member of Martha and the Vandellas
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Director Michael Mann accidentally shoots himself in the leg at gun range
Mann taken to hospital with superficial injury after a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered
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‘We have effing unbreakable love’: how the maverick Natalie Nakase led the Valkyries to WNBA glory
A coach shaped by basketball’s less glamorous corners built the trust that made Golden State improbable champions just 534 days after their first WNBA game
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Saturday Night Live: Obsession breakout Inde Navarrette fronts a scary good Halloween episode
Despite the odd stumble, the Oscar-tipped young actor helps to pull together the best episode of the season so far
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Historian Lucy Worsley looks back: ‘The story of my life has been – the bookworm shall go to the ball’
The presenter recalls being a ‘weird little nerd’, almost becoming a scientist – and the most revealing costume she’s worn for work
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Love the C word? You might be Australian. Hate it? You might be American
Academics and lexicographers are exploring how swearing is tied to national cultural identities – and how the internet may cause new, creative cursing to ‘flourish’
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Readers reply: with governments asking us to stockpile, can we learn anything from disaster films?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
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Odette on a later-in-life autism diagnosis: ‘It completely revolutionised the way that I exist’
Last year she got sober and an official diagnosis. It’s not the first time a new understanding about herself has reframed the Sydney artist’s music – and life
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Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn
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