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How being alone can make you happier

SHK/ Hamburger Kunsthalle/ bpk. Photo: Elke Walford From spending time by yourself to making the most of being single, flying solo can be fulfilling –

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The remarkable all-female flying team that helped defeat the Nazis – with wooden planes

Andrei Linde (Credit: Andrei Linde) A new episode of the BBC’s History’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female

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How high-rise forests can transform city life – and make us happier

Eindhoven, Netherlands/ Stefano Boeri Architetti It’s been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan’s Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other

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Clinton on being president and his new thriller

BBC Former US President Bill Clinton and best-selling author James Patterson sat down with the BBC to discuss how real life informed their new political

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10 of the best films to watch this June

A24 From Materialists to 28 Years Later – these are the films to watch at the cinema and stream at home this month. A24 Materialists

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How Hillary and Tenzing survived the ‘death zone’ to conquer Everest

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) To reach Everest’s summit Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had to climb sheer rock, while battling treacherous ice and a

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Succession creator’s nightmare vision of a world run by billionaire tech bros

Fred Hayes/ HBO (Credit: Fred Hayes/ HBO) Succession showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s dystopian feature film debut, premiering on HBO, has “timely resonance” in this “high-tech moment”.

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This outlandish horror about an Aids-like epidemic is a ‘disorientating, maddening whirlwind’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival After winning the Palme d’Or for the shocking Titane, out-there French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another

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This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again set to shock with this

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Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be ‘the feel-bad film of the summer’

Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The opposite of an escapist blockbuster, the eighth and apparently final outing for Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is the doomiest