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Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

But there’s much more to it than you’d expect. Plus: the truth about ballet schools, and Starstruck concludes. Here’s what to watch this evening

More than 1,000 people gathered in Chicago last week to pay tribute to the 80s sitcom. With its message of self-acceptance, the show feels more relevant than ever

Hannah Erganian Robinson, 40, flew her beloved dog over 4,000 miles from Kansas, US, to Cambridge in the UK for a life-saving surgery, after her rescue pup was diagnosed with congestive heart failure

This searing debut novel lyrically follows the after-effects of the 1994 genocide through three generations

Blanche D’Alpuget was born in 1944, the daughter of Lou d’Alpuget and Josie Stephenson, and grew up in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. She attended Sydney Church of England Girls’ Grammar School and, briefly, the University of Sydney before becoming a journalist with the Daily Mirror, rival newspaper of the Sun where…

I was racing against the clock to help her and the sick Chihuahua flies 7,000 miles for life-saving surgery.

She had been given a year to live

Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a 1980s sitcom about four women living in Miami — but it’s also a working restaurant. Reservations have been going fast at the newly opened The Golden Girls Kitchen. Some patrons have come from out of…