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Lip Reader Shares the Hilarious Comment Prince Harry Allegedly Made While Waiting for Meghan Markle to Arrive at Their 2018 Royal Wedding

The Duke of Sussex's anxiety seemed pretty evident.

Marie Claire · May 19, 2025

Ruth Langsford's nails prove that a square French tip is the crème de la crème of manicures

Ruth Langsford just paired spring's trendiest look with this retro nail shape, and the finish is so chic

Woman & Home · May 19, 2025

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked!

Ahead of the author’s much anticipated memoir, we count down the best of her books – from climate dystopias to her world-conquering handmaids

The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2025

Junk science, vaccine refusers and the return of smallpox: what worries one of Australia’s top epidemiologists

More than five years into the Covid pandemic, Guardian Australia asks Raina MacIntyre: what’s the next big threat to public health, and are we up to the challenge?

The Guardian - AU · May 18, 2025

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’

Melbourne man Ander Louis has translated hundreds of pages of the 19th century classic line by line to include Ford Falcons, wankers and drongos

The Guardian - AU · May 18, 2025

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2025

A Danish Groundhog Day or tales of millennial angst… What should win this year’s International Booker?

A headspinning novel from Japan alongside a high concept tale from Denmark, and a French account of migrant tragedy … our critic weighs up the contenders

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2025

Die, My Love review: 'Jennifer Lawrence shines in tale of desire and psychosis'

4/5 Lynne Ramsey’s latest has screened in Cannes, and features Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in a heavy tale of sex, depression and motherhood

Evening Standard · May 18, 2025

Original Sin: book on Biden’s health decline reopens Democratic party’s wounds

The book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson presents a scathing account of a president cocooned from reality – and fuels questions about his role in the party

The Guardian - US · May 18, 2025

Die, My Love review – Jennifer Lawrence excels in intensely sensual study of a woman in meltdown

Lawrence excels as a woman whose bipolar disorder is exacerbated by husband Robert Pattinson’s infidelity, with super-strength direction from Lynne Ramsay

The Guardian - UK · May 17, 2025