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ADVERTISEMENTA modern retelling of the 1756 fairytale "La Belle et la Bête" (“Beauty and the Beast”) is published in France today, three months after the French Education Ministry called it inappropriate for children.The new illustrated rendition, written by cartoonist Jul, comes to bookstores with a red banner on its cover saying: “Enfin!” (“Finally!”).The French government

ADVERTISEMENTContent warning: This article contains images which some readers may find offensive.If you’re a music lover and enjoy a bit of drama, you must have heard that controversy is brewing over the artwork of Sabrina Carpenter’s upcoming album ‘Man’s Best Friend’.  The suggestive – but hardly sexually explicit - cover features the buzzy ‘Espresso’ hitmaker on

ADVERTISEMENTA collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.  The documents were discovered in a loft at a property in Bermondsey, London, and were almost destroyed during a house clearance.  Some of the rare items that

ADVERTISEMENTA stone throw's away from the American embassy in Amsterdam this weekend was held a "No Kings" protest. Except it was dubbed "No Tyrants", as countries with constitutional monarchies sought to avoid confusion with anti-monarchic movements. This was one among thousands of similar protests that occurred over the weekend, all with the aim to denounce Donald

ADVERTISEMENTThe sun is shining, birds are chirping, and rabid zombies are fast approaching as we welcome you back for a fresh new week of cultural highlights. Indeed, Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later is stealing the limelight as one of this year's most hotly-anticipated cinema releases. All shot on an iPhone, it follows a group of

ADVERTISEMENTHow does a quarry become the largest and one of the most unique open-air stages in Europe, and the setting for some of the world's most famous operas? Just a few kilometres from Lake Neusiedl, in Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland, Austria, Richard Wagner's opera Der Fliegende Holländer is being staged in a spectacular manner this

ADVERTISEMENTFollowing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcoming plans to air Netflix’s hit show Adolescence in secondary schools, France is following suit, with French Minister of Education Élisabeth Borne stating yesterday that the mini-series will be screened from secondary school level upwards.In an interview for LCI news channel, Borne explained that the producer of the series “gave us the

ADVERTISEMENTOscar-winning American actor and Thirty Seconds From Mars frontman Jared Leto has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. In a report published by Air Mail, multiple women accused the 53-year-old star of Fight Club, Requiem For A Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad of inappropriate behaviour. The allegations date back to the early 2000s