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Star gazing: Spectacular images to inspire you to enter Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 competition

There are just over two weeks left to enter the world's biggest space photography contest.

Mar 23, 2017

By David Sim

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Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen to reprise his role as Gandalf to save London theatre

British actor will sample his most iconic roles in a one-person show to raise funds for London's Park Theatre.

Mar 23, 2017

By Amy West

Sgt Pepper at 50: Liverpool gears up for anniversary of Beatles' iconic album with arts festival

The three-week extravaganza will centre events around each of the tracks on the album.

Mar 23, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Priceless Van Gogh paintings stolen 14 years ago returned to Amsterdam museum

Van Gogh Museum is hosting an exhibition to welcome masterpieces home.

Mar 21, 2017

By Sofia Lotto Persio

See the Fourth Plinth Trafalgar sculptures for 2018 and 2020

A giant dollop of fly-infested cream and a VW camper van were among the five nominees – but who won?

Mar 21, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Chelsea Clinton to write children's picture book on women who shaped America

She Persisted takes its title from barbed putdown aimed at Elizabeth Warren in Senate.

Mar 17, 2017

By Nicole Rojas

Did World War II start in 1937 in Asia and not in 1939 in Europe as our history books claim?

Oxford historian Rana Mitter claims great global conflict truly began when Japan attacked China.

Mar 16, 2017

By Rachel Middleton

Trump's first wife set to release memoir about raising the president's children

Ivana Trump's autobiographical Raising Trump will be published in September.

Mar 16, 2017

By Harriet Sinclair

Donald Trump

Can S-Town live up to Serial? Gripping first three minutes of murder spin-off podcast released

New true crime podcast will release all seven episodes via iTunes on 28 March.

Mar 15, 2017

By Alicia Adejobi

Behind Amy Winehouse's 'ordinary Jewish upbringing' as intimate exhibition returns to Camden

IBTimes UK took a tour of Winehouse's personal, iconic items at The Jewish Museum in London.

Mar 15, 2017

By Alicia Adejobi

Hunting the heathlands: A journey through ancient landscapes of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Flâneur in an Ancient Landscape is photographer Tom Hunter's journey covering parts of the medieval Sherwood Forest, through to the East and to the Peak District to the West.

Mar 15, 2017

By Alex Wheeler

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Graham Norton discovers third cousin after Irish artist paints him for art competition

Gareth Reid was crowned Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2017.

Mar 15, 2017

By Amy West

Feral children: Beautiful photos portray real-life stories of growing up without human contact

Julia Fullerton-Batten's series of images interprets and duplicates the feelings and actions of each feral child living their experience.

Mar 14, 2017

By Alex Wheeler

Arts pictures

Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai receives offer to study at Oxford University

Lady Margaret Hall has offered the 19-year-old activist a conditional place.

Mar 12, 2017

By Priya Joshi

Pakistan

Sir Elton John drops $200 on vinyl in Vancouver after asking for rapper Tech N9ne

Flanked by bodyguards, the rock legend picked up some records during his world tour.

Mar 10, 2017

By Graham Lanktree

China says no to Peppa Pig? Beijing to cut number of foreign picture books published for children

Move aimed at curbing influence of foreign ideas on children.

Mar 10, 2017

By Rachel Middleton

What to read on International Women's Day? Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction offers suggestions

All-female panel has finalised a longlist of possible winners for the literary award.

Mar 8, 2017

By Sofia Lotto Persio

Science is beautiful: Winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2017

This year's 22 award-winning images include a 3D model of a pig's eyeball, a parrot's intricate system of blood vessels and a visualisation of tweets about breast cancer.

Mar 6, 2017

By David Sim

Science pictures

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