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Architourism in France: the retro futurist seaside town near Montpellier that’s out of this world

By Mark C O’Flaherty

Built in the 60s and 70s to curb a holiday exodus to Spain, with apartments inspired by Mayan pyramids and featuring ‘intergalactic curves’, La Grande-Motte is having another moment in the sun with fans of modern architecture My dream holiday is a trip back in time. Not to see the results of seismic Pompeii or 15th-century Machu Picchu – although I love both – but somewhere created specifically between the mid 1950s

‘I am so tired’: Jillian Edelstein’s devastating portraits of apartheid and more – in pictures

By Guardian Staff

The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition – alongside intimate images of actors, artists and friends Continue reading...

Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère review – intricate portrait of an elite French family

By Blake Morrison

The author of The Adversary and Yoga unearths a history that includes the Nazis, Russia, and the Académie Française When Emmanuel Carrère’s mother, Hélène, died in 2023, at the age of 94, President Macron spoke at her memorial. She had been “perpetual secretary” of the Académie Française, in effect its head, and 200 people gathered at Les Invalides in Paris to pay tribute. Emmanuel’s father, Louis, was there too, in

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A 16-year-old girl has died from suspected sexual choking. How do we come to terms with this? | Lucy Clark

By Lucy Clark

We can no longer deny that many children get their sex education from online pornography. But the normalisation of violence can lead to tragedy How can we possibly come to terms with reports a 16-year-old girl child may have died as a result of consensual sexual strangulation with her 16-year-old boyfriend? Police are still investigating this case. Meanwhile what do we do, as a society, to contend with children getti

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Dublin Mean Time: When Ireland was 25 minutes and 21 seconds behind Britain

By Cian Morgan

In humanity’s pursuit of the right time, our modern technologies have achieved a level of accuracy far beyond what can be perceived in everyday life

Foster carers praise Dolly Parton's book scheme

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The singer's Imagination Library provides books for children up to age five across the world.

Public pressure forced fuel excise duty shift - Sinn Féin

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Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty has said the Government's move to delay the phasing out of cuts to excise duty on petrol and diesel was the result of public pressure.

Govt in 'doom spiral' over energy crisis, Soc Dems say

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The Government is caught in a "doom spiral" where it is "lurching" from crisis to crisis in its attempt to drive down energy costs, the Social Democrats have said.

Meta’s huge settlement and how useful is an open plan office?

By Peter Flanagan

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

Two Irish among hundreds of tourists missing after deadly flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border

By Jack White

Deadly Nepal flood may have been caused by ice snapping off glacier, scientists say

Man 'written off' by doctors publishes first book

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Jack Marshall shares his story in the book The Boy Who Can't Smile, about his experience growing up.

Bluetongue fears 'on par with foot and mouth'

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650 cases have been confirmed across the UK, with a further 2,460 under investigation

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'Grass fire devastated our business community'

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The blaze which destroyed units at the Locking Farm Industrial Estate is being investigated.

Rare 16th Century book stolen from church cabinet

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A reverend says he hopes the "sacred" object will be returned to the rural church.

TV tonight: Fightland is 50 Cent’s big and bloody boxing drama

By Phil Harrison, Priya Elan, Hollie Richardson and Jack Seale

The rapper executive-produces this story about a champion boxer out for revenge. Plus: a dream wedding turns into a nightmare in Ludwig. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, Sky Atlantic “Boxing is a criminal enterprise,” says Nicholas Pinnock’s slick crime kingpin Kingsley Marshall. “Always has been, always will be.” It’s a highly debatable claim but typical of this big, bloody and somewhat basic drama executive-p

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Impact of drought 'can be seen along River Severn'

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One Worcestershire fisherman said water levels were probably the lowest he had seen.

'I lost my home in a wildfire and waited three years to get it back'

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London residents who lost homes in 2022 say lessons were not learnt before the huge Stourbridge fire.

Concerns over London's Ulez three years on

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Businesses say customers were angry when Ulez expanded, but campaigners point to health benefits.

CAO points and college places: Good news and bad for the class of 2026

By Peter McGuire

For some, the good fortune of high points is countered by the misfortune of random selection

Still plenty of options for those who didn’t receive an offer

By Brian Mooney

Applicants who receive no offer can check the CAO’s ‘available places’ facility, or wait for Round 2

How to study at third level and what to expect in your first year

By Peter McGuire

Many students find the change from learning at second level challenging, but there are a variety of supports in place

Penelope review – Odysseus’s other half sings of her own twists and turns

By Mark Fisher

Underbelly, Cowgate, Edinburgh Grace McLean brings vocal and emotional range in the central role of Alex Bechtel’s Homeric song cycle She is the one played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the central figure in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and the inspiration behind a 2010 play by Enda Walsh. And here she is again, this time alone with her thoughts, a longsuffering woman in white, in a seducti

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‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought

By Sandra Laville Environment correspondent

Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of treated sewage into the River Thames during drought. The data from the pilots is in star

‘Sad moments ahead’: Kew Gardens to fell rare trees in race to save Victorian greenhouse

By Helena Horton and George Francis Lee

Horticulturalists begin moving and propagating plants before the rusty and warped Palm House begins renovation – but some are too tall to save It will be a gut-wrenching moment for the horticulturalists at Kew Gardens when some of the magnificent trees in the Palm House have to be felled. “There are some sad moments ahead,” said Palm House manager, Will Spoelstra, who knows all the plants inside the cathedral-like gr

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for saffron and tomato rice | A kitchen in Rome

By Rachel Roddy

Laborious to harvest and extortionately priced, the sunset-coloured stigmas of the saffron crocus have an extraordinarily warm, pungent taste. Fortunately, however, a little goes a very long way … The saffron crocus has six lilac-purple flowers, three yellow stamens and three orange-red stigmas that extend beyond the petals like the wiry antennae of an insect. The thread-like stigmas have to be picked only by hand wh