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Visually-impaired artist Amy Izat spends days and weeks creating her drawings and then gets a fellow artist to erase the area of the subject she can no longer see. The 27-year-old from Berwick says the blank space on her work symbolises the process of every time she went into hospital, when a bit of her

Hundreds of people have stripped naked by the Dead Sea in Israel to draw attention to its dramatically receding shoreline. The event was part of a live installation by the artist Spencer Tunick, who’s used similar photo-shoots around the world to highlight environmental change. Produced by Tom Bateman, Anastassia Zlatopolskai and Gidi Kleiman.

It’s been described as the most anticipated song of the year and at midnight on Thursday, UK time, Adele finally released her first single for six years. Easy on Me reflects on her feelings after going through a divorce and offers fans the first glimpse of her ‘divorce album’, entitled 30.

Myleene Klass has been in the public eye as a pop musician, broadcaster and classical pianist for two decades. But last October she broke her silence about a matter that had redefined her life. In an Instagram post she talked about her miscarriages – not one, but four – and the agony she had experienced

Star Trek actor William Shatner has been explaining why he wants to go into space as part of a four-person crew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company has pushed the launch of its New Shepard craft to Wednesday because of high winds. It is set to be the

Lucien Santus has been a clown since he was four years old, and is the seventh generation of a travelling circus family. The 25-year-old performer describes circus life as being “very hard”, but says it comes with glitz, glamour and “a lot of mud”. He has returned to the big top after the pandemic forced

It’s just over nine months since the death of Barbara Windsor. The EastEnders and Carry On star spent her final years campaigning to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s. By her side through those years was her husband, Scott, and this weekend he’s running the London Marathon in her memory. The BBC’s David Sillito meets him to

An Arab citizen of Israel and an Israeli academic have taken on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in an unconventional way. In their rap song, Let’s talk straight, Uriya Rosenman and Sameh Zakout don’t seek to celebrate common grounds, but rather expose hidden prejudices from both sides. Their aim with the song is to encourage change among

What do Cara Delevingne, Andy Serkis, Richard Curtis and Taika Waititi all have in common? They are just some of the celebrities turning their environmental concerns into comics. It is all the idea of Paul Goodenough, a writer and producer who has spent the last two years leading a campaign pairing stars with eco-experts and

The latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, was delayed due to Covid three separate times. The stars of the movie are finally hitting the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday evening. Daniel Craig, in the titular role of James Bond, spoke to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba.

As September’s fashion weeks across Europe draw to a close, a spotlight has been shone on backstage beauty for black models. Nyasha Matonhodze had hits and misses with the treatment of her hair and make-up so decided to put together a care package for models like her to use as back-up. And she is not

An 11-year-old girl who took up DJ-ing during lockdown has been receiving plaudits from some of Britain’s top music presenters, including former BBC Radio 1 star Annie Mac. Liv, from Stenson in Derbyshire, learned how to DJ from her dad Mark and has since presented live sets on Facebook and played her first real gig

The new series of Strictly Come Dancing is starting and for the first time, one of the stars in the show is profoundly deaf. Eastenders actor Rose Ayling-Ellis is paired with professional dancer Giovanni Pernice. The duo took time out from rehearsing their first dance to talk about how they’ll be learning their moves. Producer:

The UN general debate opened on Monday night with a pre-recorded performance from K-pop band BTS. The group has been made Special Presidential Envoy for Future Generations and Culture by South Korea’s president Moon Jae-In. The South Korean pop band also delivered a speech, where they praised the younger generation’s resilience during the pandemic, and

The Netflix drama The Crown and the Apple TV Plus comedy Ted Lasso were the stars of the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. It is the first in-person event held by America’s TV academy since the pandemic. Other notable winners included Michaela Coel, outstanding writing for a limited series for her drama I May Destroy

A music cafe is helping people with dementia sing, play instruments and even dance after coronavirus lockdowns. Manchester Camerata is offering free music therapy workshops to people with dementia and their carers as part of its Music in Mind initiative. David Tollington, a french horn player, said some people taking part do not “remember what