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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

Arts pictures

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

Nominations open for Basque Culinary World Prize to be judged by Heston Blumenthal

Winner will be awarded €100,000 to devote to a project of their choice.

Mar 3, 2017

By Callum Paton

Spain

World Book Day quiz: Do you know which books these opening lines come from?

From Harry Potter to Roald Dahl classics, see how many you can get right.

Mar 2, 2017

By Staff Reporter

Happy World Book Day! Most amazing literary costumes from Lemony Snicket to the Mad Hatter

These are some of the most inventive costume efforts - including Begbie from Trainspotting.

Mar 2, 2017

Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen join forces to release satirical book on Donald Trump

The book, out in November, will be written based on Baldwin's SNL impersonation of the president.

Mar 2, 2017

By Nicole Rojas

Donald Trump

People Places and Things: Historical black-and-white images of daily life in Derby over 165 years

Coming to the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, a range of photos from the W W Winter archive offers an important record of the city.

Mar 1, 2017

By Alex Wheeler

Arts pictures

Sony World Photography Awards 2017: Open shortlist revealed in world's biggest photography competition

A selection of shortlisted images in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017.

Feb 28, 2017

By David Sim

Photography Competition Pictures

Sony World Photography Awards 2017: Professional shortlist revealed in world's biggest photography competition

The Sony World Photography Awards represents the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the last year, and displays a huge diversity of extraordinary images in terms of genres, styles and subject matter.

Feb 28, 2017

By David Sim

Photography Competition Pictures

Pancake Day 2017: Four easy sweet and savoury pancake recipes for Shrove Tuesday

Try something new instead of lemon and sugar.

Feb 27, 2017

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