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In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory - a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy commander told the BBC about securing Rockall.

Prefiguring Banky's latest Royal Courts of Justice mural depicting a judge attacking a protestor, are centuries of art history where works have been censored or edited.

From pop queens to rap duos, and rave-loving singers to hardcore rockers, we pick our favourite music of 2025 for you to listen to now.

The Long Walk imagines young men competing in a deadly marathon for entertainment. A new film version is a reminder of how it anticipated our reality TV age.

Why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? For centuries, the humble pocket has been a flashpoint in the gender divide of fashion. Is that finally set to change?

Mostly miserable and even "unforgivably cruel", Jane Austen's famous romantic hero is not what he seems, writes the author Sebastian Faulks, in an exclusive extract.

Martin Scorsese's crime epic was released 35 years ago. In 1990, the director and his stars, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, revealed its secrets to the BBC.

Daniel Craig returns as Benoit Blanc and Josh O'Connor nearly steals the show in the "darkest" but also "most playful" instalment of the Knives Out franchise so far.

Sydney Sweeney's remarkable transformation into champion boxer Christy Martin can't fix the film's flaws nor distract from the star's real-life persona.

At the Venice Film Festival, no film has been more talked about than Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab, which recounts the story of a six-year-old girl killed in Gaza.