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GIRLBOSS TOURNEY ROUND THREE: I'M NOT SURE WHO WOULD KIDNAP WHO FOR TORTURE FIRST

Select which one you think is GIRLBOSSIER, i.e., which one is the better girlboss

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Amanda Young:

Tragically orchestrated her own death because of being a Jigsaw apprentice who decided to kill people she saw as beyond change (said people were cops and one was a shitty abusive asshole so she was right). 1-2 she’s scared and trying to survive and prove herself and 3 she’s an awesome murder wife who still has issues over her worth to jigsaw that she eventually kills the person being tested. Icon.

Bryce Tankthrust:

She's is the very definition of a girlboss! She's CEO of multiple Fortune 500 companies, she's embezzled company funds to build 11 prisons, she's a rich capitalist, she kills people on the regular or has her assistant Donovan literally tear their heads off. She's a homophobic ally, she throws coffee at poor people, she's married to queer super villain terrorist and horniest man alive Bobby Worst, her sex appeal is insane seriously this bitch gets 'serviced' at least once a day. She was president the U.S. for a while and flashed the Senate at one point and threw hands with Joe Biden at some other point, she had hella beef with Queen Elizabeth II. She quite literally has no heart metaphorically AND anatomically speaking, she kidnapped a baby to repeatedly clone it in order to have a) an army of emotionless clones at her disposal, and b) an endless supply of human hearts to harvest because as mentioned she has no heart and needs a transplant every few hours or she dies(or turns into a demonic hellbeast). She originally tried to make an honest living as a young woman and quickly realized that there is now ethical consumption under capitalism (and under rampant misogyny in the 80s) so she decided to just start killing mfs that stood in her way. She's a bad bitch who wears a blood red suit and can sprint at full speed in thin heels while shooting a gun, she is such an evil bitch and I love her, she is THE girlboss.

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All designs from Mirabilia Designs by Nora Corbett: 

#111: The Peony Garden

Exuberant double blossom peonies create a purple haze at twilight. With names like “Cup of shining night”, “Story Enchantress” and “Red embroidered needles ball”, it is no wonder that the peony tree is the center of every spring imperial garden.

#112: Charlotte— December 15, 2010

This treasure of cross stitch is a symphony of fuchsia, teal and lime. The pose is one of elegance and quiet contemplation. The simple flowing satin shows a subtle sheen and give this piece an Art Nouveau feel.

#113: The Red Lady Pirate— February 15, 2011

1500-1534

One of the most ruthless and cunning of the female pirates of the 16th Century.

#114: September Sapphire Fairy— April 15, 2011

The September Sapphire Fairy captures a serene moment of a young fairy. She is inspired by beautiful prints and kimonos of the Far East and butterflies dance about her lovely silk brocade gown. She is a sweetheart that lingers in the amazement of her fluttery friends.

#115: Lady Alexandra— June 15, 2011

This design is midnight velvet, white star silk, Hollywood glamour, glittering diamonds and brocade. A timeless design of beauty and grace, please meet Miss Lady Alexandra

#116: Elizabeth— August 15, 2011

This design is named for my favorite movie icon. I am so inspired with the fearless, beautiful way she lived her life. She swam with sharks and took wild road trips and truly lived. Please meet Elizabeth.

#117: Merchant Mermaid— October 15, 2011

I love Mill Hill Crystal Treasures and beads nestled between silky stitches on cross-stitch handwork.

It seems to me that they could have been harvested by mermaids in deep sea gardens and then sold to merchants traveling the abyss.

#118: Golden Girl Apples— December 15, 2011

Who can resist a sweet apple and the bright logos on the crates? So happy and sunny and promising farm grown wholesome goodness. Our Golden Girl Apples are crisp and juicy with a touch of tart.

#119: Silver Moon Tea— February 15, 2012

Art nouveau ribbons mingle with the curls of steam from a porcelain cup. A lovely lady in shades of deep cherry is surrounded by amethyst roses. The blue light of the moon shines on her sweetly infused Earl Grey tea.

#120: Santa— April 15, 2012

A legendary holiday spirit is stitched in the merriest shades of red and gold. His Nordic mittens hold sparkling gifts wrapped in shiny bows. Gold brocade adorns his jolly coat and his beads glitter in the winter moonlight.

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24/SEVEN Dance Convention, Knoxville, TN: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

Sidekick Solo

1st: Mazie Kemp-’Pure Imagination’

2nd: Molly Stiefel-’If My Friends Could See Me Now’

3rd: Aleena Vazquez-’My Boyfriend’s Back’

4th: Harper Duncan-’I Dreamed a Dream’

Mini Solo

1st: Kate Jarboe-’Hit the Road Jack’

2nd: Skylar Wong-’Unspeakable Joy’

3rd: Dakota Casteel-’Marina Gasolina’

3rd: Emma Cathcart-’Ooh Child’

3rd: Zoe Swope-’S’Wonderful’

3rd:Allie Plott-’The Path’

4th: Sarah Shoup-’Cold Hearted Snake’

5th: Blakely Barton-’Amazing Mayzie’

5th: Savannah Renshaw-’Rainbow’

6th: Aurora Brady-’Hit the Road Jack’

6th: Claire Hansen-’Marathon In Roses’

6th: Ellie Guillaume-’Once Upon Another Time’

6th: Scarlet Murphy-’The Ghost of You’

7th: Nicole Yordanova-’Miss Spectacular’

8th: Maelee James-’Respect’

9th: Caroline Reece-’Coastline’

9th: Tya Tyler-’Hollow’

9th: Payten Childress-’Wildflower’

10th: Lydia McCurry-’All That Jazz’

Junior Solo

1st: Aaliyah Dixon-’Icon’

2nd: Kylie Kaminsky-’Beneath the Surface’

3rd: Haydyn Jackson-’Dex’

4th: Haven Greene-’Diamond’s Are A Girl’s Best Friend’

4th: Leila Winker-’Takt’

5th: Campbell Clark-’Blah Blah Cha Cha Cha’

5th: Kayley Salyer-’Come Healing’

5th: Eva Jimmerson-’Condor Pasa’

5th: Grace Woodbury-’I Feel Pretty’

5th: Stella Benevicz-’Warrior’

6th: Natalie Soza-’Desire’

6th: Kaylin Gabosch-’Locomotion’

7th: Caroline Powell-’How Rare’

7th: Kathryn Roth-’Send in the Clowns’

7th: Braelynn Schaffer-’Stairway to Heaven’

7th: Madilyn Lanman-’Sweet Child O’ Mine’

8th: Taylin Hancock-’Doomed’

8th: Tatum Fischer-’Fabulous’

8th: Vivi Rae Richardson-’I Miss Her’

8th Alexandra Zuccaro-’Stronger’

9th: Anna Hughes-’Second Chance’

10th: Mariah Williams-’Lost Without You’

Teen Solo

1st: Hayley Wilson-’Leaving Song’

2nd: Blanche Arnold-’How to Be Your Own Person’

3rd: Tatiana Hagee-’Harvest Moon’

3rd: Olivia Taylor-’Weightless’

4th: Isabella Pinkston-’Sprig of Thyme’

4th: Ava Cassidy-’Witness’

5th: Jenna Jarboe-’Don’t Let Me Go’

5th: Ella Howell-’Nothing’

5th: Nariah Mullins-’This Place Was A Shelter’

6th: Joely Stupeck-’The Parting Glass’

6th: Johanna Jessen-’The Party’s Over’

7th: Stella Morris-’Embrace’

7th: Olivia Kohler-’Is That Alright’

7th: Kenley Campbell-’Smile’

7th: Liza Grace Cole-’Time’

8th: Hannah Webb-’Holy Water’

8th: Tabbi Courts-’Porcelain’

8th: Hannah Jones-’Snow’

9th: Siena Rick-’Fortune Teller’

9th: Wells McEntyre-’Like Water’

9th: Allie Douglas-’The Bird’

9th: ?

10th: Brooke Phillips-’I’d Hoped to Settle This’

10th: Gabrielle Bradley-’Just A Girl’

10th: Jessica Alexander-’Some Unholy War’

10th: Emily Haas-’You Are So Beautiful’

Senior Solo

1st: Jaylin Sanders-’Elements’

2nd: Braylan Enscoe-’Fur Elise’

3rd: Brooke Cheek-’The Beginning and The End’

4th: Alexandra Jinglov-’Action Reaction’

5th: Destiny Patterson-’What Good Am I’

6th: Makayla D’Ambrosio-’Consider This’

7th: Allie Hazelwood-’Moon River’

7th: Kendall Smith-’Saint Honesty’

8th: Caitlyn Knowles-’Broken Ballerina’

9th: Alexis Reese-’My Way’

9th: Anna Kriofske-’What Am I To You’

10th: Destiny Fields-’Destiny Fields’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: ‘Dance With Me Tonight’-Revolution Dance

2nd: ‘High Enough’-Music City All Stars

3rd: ‘Brave’-Tri-Cities Dance Company

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: ‘Silly Boy’-Revolution Dance

2nd: ‘You Will Be Found’-The Dance Centre

3rd: ‘Shake Shake’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: ‘Wash’-Indy Dance Academy

2nd: ‘Love Triangle’-Dance Elite

2nd: ‘Black and Gold’-Indy Dance Academy

2nd: ‘And the Chaos Within Me Found Balance’-Indy Dance Academy

3rd: ‘Shake It Out’-Elizabeth Williams School of Dance

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: ‘Who Are You’-In Motion Dance Center

2nd: ‘The Eye’-The Difference Dance Company

3rd: 'Still Have You’-The North Augusta School of Dance

Sidekick Group

1st: ‘Not About Angels’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Mini Group

1st: ‘Lord of the Flies’-Acro Arts Company

Junior Group

1st: ‘Son of a Preacherman’-Revolution Dance

2nd: ‘Dream’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

3rd: ‘Luda’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Teen Group

1st: ‘Voices of Doubt’-Just Off Broadway

2nd: ‘Me & My Girls’-The North Augusta School of Dance

3rd: ‘Blood’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Senior Group

1st: ‘Girl Gang’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

2nd: ‘98′-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

3rd: ‘Fall In Line’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Sidekick Line

1st: ‘Doctor Doctor’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

2nd: ‘Takin It Back’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Junior Line

1st: ‘How Bout Dat’-Laura’s School of Dance

Teen Line

1st: ‘Heaven I Know’-Laura’s School of Dance

2nd: ‘Rich Girl’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

3rd: ‘Like That’-The North Augusta School of Dance

Junior Extended Line

1st: ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’-Laura’s School of Dance

Teen Extended Line

1st: ‘Together’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

Senior Extended Line

1st: ‘Born For This’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

High Score by Performance Division:

Sidekick Lyrical

‘Not About Angels’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Sidekick Jazz

‘Doctor Doctor’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Sidekick Hip-Hop

‘Takin It Back’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Mini Contemporary

‘Lord of the Flies’-Acro Arts Company

Junior Tap

‘Me Without You’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

Junior Lyrical

‘Dream’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Junior Jazz

‘Son of a Preacherman’-Revolution Dance

Junior Hip-Hop

‘How Bout Dat’-Laura’s School of Dance

Junior Contemporary

‘Ink Blots’-Dance Elite

Junior Musical Theatre

‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’-Laura’s School of Dance

Teen Jazz

‘Rich Girl’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Teen Lyrical

‘Black Out’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Teen Hip-Hop

‘Me & My Girls’-The North Augusta School of Dance

Teen Tap

‘Bites the Dust’-The North Augusta School of Dance

Teen Contemporary

‘Voices of Doubt’-Just Off Broadway

Senior Hip-Hop

‘Girl Gang’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Senior Lyrical

‘Believe’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Senior Contemporary

‘Fall In Line’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Senior Tap

‘Born For This’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

11 O’Clock Awards:

Sidekick

‘Not About Angels’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Mini

‘Lord of the Flies’-Acro Arts Company

Junior

‘How Bout Dat’-Laura’s School of Dance

‘Ink Blots’-Dance Elite

‘Son of a Preacherman’-Revolution Dance

‘Feel It Still’-Laura’s School of Dance

Teen

‘Voices of Doubt’-Just Off Broadway 

‘Free Room’-Tri-Cities Dance Company

‘Me & My Girls’-The North Augusta School of Dance

‘Rich Girl’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

‘Heaven I Know’-Laura’s School of Dance

Senior

‘Born For This’-Oak Ridge Academy of Dance

‘Girl Gang’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

Studio Showcase Award:

‘Girl Gang’-Brooke Bailey Dance Addiction

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Buhari led quasi-Democratic Nigeria Regime, near Collapse & now all Yoruba legal inheritance/legacy and Law  Practices/legal known-hows which for years acquired, were now being destroyed with the Assistance of disgruntled Yoruba led by Tinubu.

The  Nigeria President Buhari Shaking Hand with Queen Elizabeth II

Buhari led Quasi-Democratic Nigeria Regime, near Collapse & Worldly known as non-economic, non viable/malfunctioning Regime, analyses as a structural/ethnic polarized unstable Regime, associated  with its malfunctioning non-national Security without prerequisite training & non provision of required Military Logistics & without required Adequate Modern Military Equipment and Devoid of per-requisite standard Military of all Ethnic, Sections’ & Regions’ One National inclusive Formation & belief of Military Mandatory Basic Educational/Professional Army Entries or Army Promotions, equitably for All in a genuinely functioning Federation and it is Sad that North, for whatever Reason could allow Military that brought North to Power, influence and Wealth, could be allowed to die for their unnecessary myopic  or narrow Fulani ethnic Reason or non-intelligent  leadership Bankruptcy.... (Medieval thinking Fulani Sect.) The Nigeria Judiciary was usually led by the Yoruba legal icons/legal knowledgeable practitioners from the time of late Chief Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams CMG (July 14, 1855–March 15, 1915),who was the first indigenous Nigerian lawyer,and  now all Yoruba legal inheritance/legacy and law Practices/legal known-hows which for years acquired, were now being destroyed with the Assistance of disgruntled Yoruba led by Tinubu. Fulani acclaimed mystery is operational characterized & embedded with the Medieval thinking Fulani Sect. Ironically, Fulani Extremists(Medieval thinking Fulani Sect.) have confused & controlled Buhari Regime through its ethnic folk adage or by its idiom crazy syndrome of Fulani are Born to Rule or to Ruin & its Fulani Leadership for ages were secretly guided by Her imperial Majesty with the assistance of  its imperialists/hired or organized Collaborators and these have systematically led to the Today present inefficient Governance & its political/religious polarization or Nigeria political impasse/quasi failed State. When Buhari Regime came to Authority, in order to sensationalize or rationalize its Governance leadership to its Core North Fulani Extremist Base, non-strategically scrap or dismantle the Ex-President Good Luck inherited PDP existed Nigeria Crude Oil Sales Formation & it’s Sold Oil Revenue Collection Arrangement with US/EU Revenue Drift Secret hired Agency, that coarse sold Oil Revenues. From Obasanjo Military/Civilian Regimes to Ex-President Good Luck, before Buhari inherited it and canceled & scraped all existed Oil Sales/Revenue Collection Arrangements/connections were cancelled without a new authoritative arrangement for Replacement, as to be able to efficiently Sell and collect Nigeria Sold Oil with its expectant revenue as anticipated and since Buhari inception till today, all Nigeria sold Oil Revenues were largely not collected as anticipated and Buhari  Regime now, resulted to its known tool of Governance Restriction of imports & starvation of lack of medicine, food/humane items Oversea purchases. In past, ex Regimes were in receipts of sold Oil revenues and fairly finance its past Regimes Budgets and fuel its adequate imports for better Governance and this, might hurt Nigeria Economy badly. Recently Buhari Regime’s Associates/Supporters took political primitive of supporting this Regime lack of food imports, as local Nigeria Rice is better than imported Rice, as imported Rice are quack & substandard & not fit for human consumption with no ingredient/nutrients. Might to their low knowledge that all Rice at harvest, are 100% starch, it underwent several processes to reduce its higher Starch content, as in Thai, Rice upon harvest, are processed and stored for few year in Rice silo for its silage for less of 40% starch, before consumption (long-grain white rice is a relatively good source of energy, carbohydrates, calcium, iron, thiamin, pantothenic acid, folate and vitamin E.) Presently based on wrong national feeding without perquisite human food consumption, Nigerians cannot to be able to compete globally and excel in Academics, business & other human endeavors, as they cannot be bold with poor feeding, except in Occultism or juju, due to lowest knowledge or lack of think tank Reserve as to compete as required. Since, Queen secretly hold in Trust the so called the  Fulani Arwa hidden UK Accounts, being managed and controlled for future Fulani strategically Reserve usage, but when late Ado Bayero, late Emir of Kano, quietly requested that some fund to channeled back to North as Arab loan as to develop North, instead of stacking or piling it without immediate usage, as when will it be used, as of now the  Fulani Arwa hidden UK Accounts, worth more than £2 Trillion Pound sterling. Due to present non-oil sold Revenue collection and Regime cannot be able to execute its programs or Budget or finance its projects as programmed, it is illogical for Buhari/ (Medieval thinking Fulani Sect.) to expect that Queen can assist his Regime with finance from the secret Arwa UK Accounts and now the Regime blame the Nigeria Oppositions for his non-governmental performance. Visit these published Articles' websites. http://maziliteralworks.wordpress.com http://maziliteralworks.blogspot.com https://medium.com/me/stories/public http://disqus.com/home/channel/mazipatrick/ https://maziliteralworks.tumblr.com https://twitter.com/Maziliteraworks Regards, Mazi Patrick  O.,email: akwaba2000@gmail.com Thinker, Writer, Political Strategist, Historian & Psychoanalyst. As to publish our literal work,pls you/your company can assist us with anything..

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A Father’s Daughter (D&D, Annabelle x MC)

Requested by  @esteladannishreyakamilah, this is my VDay D&D entry for the February Challenge by @endlessly-searching-for-you. ❤️

Notice that I wrote this fanfic before the “pistols at dawn” plotwtist so consider this taking place after the trip to Grovershire. It deviates slighlty from the canon in the end (I couldn’t remember the original line of Lady Grandmother and I made up another xD).

Frustrated by the latest events at Edgewater, Elizabeth wrote an impossible letter to her father, drawing similarities between their sentimental fate: why can’t their family understand the true meaning of love? 

Prompt: Forbidden Love

Word Count: 1128

Perma Tag: @brightpinkpeppercorn @psychopathdreamer21 @abunchofbadchoices @bbaba-yagaa @silverhawkenzie @melodyofgraves​ 

Tags: @kennaxval  @kinda-iconic  @countessannabelle (hope you like it sweetheart)

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Dear Father, I hope that this letter you will never receive finds you at peace and finally reunited to your long lost true love, my beloved mother. I miss you both. I know that I hardly knew you but I miss you dearly, cursing all the years we spent separated and unaware of each other. If only you were still here... Since you were gone, things got worse over here in your well-loved Edgewater. Winds of war started blowing and the ominous shadow of a tyrant lingers over us. I'm sure you remember Duke Richards: apparently, Lady Grandmother, the Dowager Countess, fell for his charms and is going above and beyond to make this wedding happen. She still gushes over the Queen's blessing and how rich and noble Mr Richards is. Noble? How can a pompous narcissistic beast like him be even called a man not to mention noble? He may have a gentleman facade but he's one of the meanest people I've ever met. Underneath his accomplished appearance, he hides a big bad wolf and I don't want to be his prey. I will fight until my last breath if need be! He's arrogant and toxic, he belittles everyone he considers inferior to him and the meaning of the word "empathy" is unknown to him. He abuses of his power and even assaulted me! How could I even consider marrying someone like him? Please tell me, Father! I cannot undestand why your Mother doesn't pay the same respect to other men, genuine noble souls, unlike the monster she worships She doesn't listen to my complaints: she "knows best what's good for Edgewater". I'm afraid she will realize the mistake she made too late...

Oh Father, if only I think about our last conversation on your death-bed, what you told me! All you wanted was my happiness: that I marry for love not out of mere convenience. I had a plan to make it happens: good Mr Chambers made me a proposal but Lady Grandmother ruined everything, forcing my engagement with Duke Richards. She would rather see me sacrifice my joy for her greater good -not mine-, her selfish ambition than see me happy with someone I choose on my own. I know it's harsh and I wish I didn't have to speak in such a petty manner of my your mother, but I'm afraid I have no choice. Was she like that with you too when you were younger? I bet she didn't approve mom too. How could you two be of the same kin? She and your Father can't hold a candle to the gentleness and sweetness shining inside of you. They're so stubborn and selfish: I found myself wondering if lady Grandmother actually loves me as her granddaughter. Or anyone else, for the matter. It saddens me that you may have shared similar thoughts when you were among the livings. 

I sneaked away to Grovershire, my old village. I couldn’t be in Edgewater anymore, I couldn’t even bare the sight of her and her beloved Duke Richards. Once I reached the places of my childhood, I breathed again. My life was so easier when I lived there...and I will always belong there no matter what the future holds. Mrs O’Malley, our wondrous tailor, the kids, the extraordinary baker who provides the best apple tarts of whole England, Mrs Daly...they were all there. Oh the wave of memories that hit me, Father! And the surprise of seeing that among them there were other familiar and friendly figures, like Mr Harper, Mr Sinclaire and Prince Hamid! They all came there when they heard the news of my “escape”. Miss Parsons immediatly left Hazelvale too. I had to beg my heart to be still when Briar gestured me to look over my shoulder and she was there, gracefully waving at me on the opposite side of the square.

I can’t find words strong enough to describe how I feel about her, Father. The heart beating in my chest doesn’t belong to me anymore, it’s hers, my mind belongs to her as well since I keep daydreaming of her when she’s not around. Her melodious laugh, the sound of her voice, the gleam in her beautiful dark eyes when we notice me looking at her across the room, the soft smile immediatly forming on her lips...these things never leave me, even when we are apart. And, to be honest, they make my life worth living at the moment. She’s my harbour, my love and -Father pretend not to read this if it makes you blush too- my passion. Did you and mom feel the same way back then? 

I felt on top of the world when in Grovershire I walked down the street with Annabelle on my arm. Nobody stared maliciously at us nor turned their head away disgusted. They just nodded and smiled as they walked by: my heart almost exploded with joy. It certainly went boom when I danced with my fair lady of Hazelvale in the square with my friends and we were all simply merry, careless. I felt free, Father. And oh, how could I describe the joy that kindled inside me when I was crowned Queen of the Harvest Feast and I got to choose Annabelle, sweet, fierce Annabelle as my King!

That joy faded soon though, too soon. Lady Grandmother found me and my freedom was over once again. She made a beeline towards me through the crowd: disdain and fury were written all over her face while she walked imperiously as if she owned the place. And then her eyes fell on me...and Annabelle frozen in place, still down on one knee beside me, courtly holding my hand. Lady Grandmother’s stare grew cold, probably colder than I’ve ever seen, and she hissed, looking at me: “You truly are your father’s daughter, Elizabeth. You’re coming with me. Now.”. And now she forced me back to Edgewater, exactly where she wanted me to be. Oh dear Father, when you were here, Edgewater was such a lovely place to me: it was where we could be together, it meant you. Now, after your death, it's nothing but a trap, sadly. Its now familiar shape in the horizon turned my happiness into sorrow and made my heart tightened. The mere thought of living under the same roof, breathing the same air, the possibility of accidentally bumping into that hideous man in your house Father - your house, not his! - makes me sick. That snake repels me and I will never understand why for the world he's more suitable for me than Miss Parsons, the rare gem I will be eternally loyal and devoted to. Paraphrasing forlorn Hamlet, "something is rotten in the land of her Majesty", something is so very rotten...

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harvest, cider, cinnamon, maize!

Hi Yana ! Always a pleasure to see you in my ask box. :)

Harvest : what fictional character do you most identify with ? Why ?

Eowyn of Rohan (LOTR), purely for her iconic line in response to Aragorn’s question “What do you fear ?” - “A cage. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recalls or desire.”For as long as I can remember, that line has echoed in me. Because I don’t want to be entraped in a single role that I did not choose all my life. I do not want to lay down my weapons, accept a fate that isn’t my doing, and let go of all the opportunities that I could have grabbed simply because someone told me “that’s not what you’re supposed to do”. At the moment I just finished my degree and I’m looking for a job. My grandfather tells me, “it’s all good to look for a job that you like, but you must also think about the financial aspect”. And I want to tell him so badly, “No, no, that’s not who I am - I am not here for the money, I am not here to be just another cog in the machine. I wasn’t born just to accept that my life has no other meaning than get up, make money, go to sleep. That’s not who I am, I don’t accept this. There’s a whole world out there, a world in need of people caring about it, protecting it, maybe even (let’s be vain) saving. I want to be out there. I want to do something, for the world, for the people.”That’s why I love and identify with Eowyn. Because she did not bow down and accept her place. She dared, she went and she was instrumental in the victory against Sauron’s army - and along the way she helped keep Merry’s spirits high, and she became a shoulder to lay on for Faramir, and she was here for Theoden when he died. She was here and she was unashamed, proud and herself to the end. And that’s who I want to be.

Cider : a food that you disliked as a child but now enjoy ?

Cauliflower.

Cinnamon : if you had to live in a time period different than the present, which would you choose and where ?

Good question. I often think about that.Paris during La Belle Epoque, 1870-1914. The entire 19th century in general.The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Oh how I wish I could have lived the 70s and 80s.I wish I could have been born during Elizabeth I’s reign, in the 16th century, became immortal and lived through the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th centuries, in Europe. Travelling the “known” world and going to discover the rest of it. Getting a reputation throughout Europe’s royal courts, and getting to know all the civilisations that got fucked over by Europeans before they were destroyed and killed ... Meet Shakespeare, watch the construction of Versailles ...

Maize : share the weirdest encounter you’ve had with a stranger on the street.

Uh. I have a very bad memory and also a few drinks tonight, not helping. Lemme think ...Oh, yeah ! So, 7 years ago, I was finishing high school, living with my grandfather’s, and I would go to and from school alone by foot, a 20-minute walk along a busy road. So one day I was going back home, walking and listening to my music, the usual. And this guy makes signs at me, so 17yo me, still a but naive, a bit too nice, stops and says “Yeah, what do you want ?” (In French of course). And then the guy starts telling me that he’s noticed me and I impressed him (yeaaaah, not weird at all, greAT), and that he has a music band and they’re having a gig in town in the next few days, I’m welcome to drop by, and also he has CDs on him right now, if I want to buy one ... Totally normal things, ya know ? So I tell him, “oh, cool cool cool, um, yeah, I’m a minor and I don’t have no money, and I have to go home, they’re waiting for me” and then I dashed home, making sure I wasn’t being followed, because I may not have had many experiences with creepy men at this point, but I was already hella paranoid and suspicious of anyone. This day I don’t even stop, I pretend I haven’t seen them. Have seen a few men start talking to me and then end up mouth open looking dumb because I just went on my road completely ignoring their existence. Much fun. Anyway. That was my weird encounter in the streets.

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SIDE A 1. Ivor Cutler – Where the River Bends [Live, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 2004] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0-vN8E3FU, from 08:15-09:28. 2. DARTS – Damaskus II : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQaJJQ7UPM 3. Fear of Men – Luna: https://fearofmen.bandcamp.com/track/luna 4. Miley Cyrus – Fade Into You [Session, NPR Tiny Desk Concert (at Home), 21st January 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxn2RzqeqjE 5. Nina Simone – Baltimore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCgNQg9FCQ 6. Mary Coughlan – Ancient Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIdIcZX7fE 7. Self-Esteem – The Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5GSshWU3w 8. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine [Session, Old Grey Whistle Test, 21st November 1972]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJmtaPAAUUw (you might want to turn up the volume when recording the spoken intro) 9. The Agagya Show Band – Tamfo Nyi Ekyir: https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/track/the-apagya-showband-tamfo-nyi-ekyir 10. Baby Arms – Eviscerator: https://babyarms.bandcamp.com/track/eviscerator 11. The Man from Delmonte – My Love Is Like A Gift You Can’t Return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIdIcZX7fE   12. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – I’m Sorry About Your Life: https://theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com/track/im-sorry-about-your-life-2 13. Lenny Kuhr – De Troubador [Live, Grote Songfestivalfeest, 15th December 2019] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIdIcZX7fE, from 0:53-4:28.

SIDE B 14. The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uIHjbt8zw 15. Ruth – Polaroid/Roman/Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhiw6JKQc70 16. Solid Space – New Statue: https://solid-space.bandcamp.com/track/new-statue 17. Amyl and the Sniffers – Hertz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s9wZZfK5UA 18. Willie Williams – Armagideon Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmjx1r1omgY 19. Arrested Development – People Everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGusP7aCCYc 20. Opposite Sex – Combine Harvester: https://oppositesex.bandcamp.com/track/combine-harvester 21. The Thermals – No Culture Icons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf5wlXR9q3c 22. Marcia Griffiths – Everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoE5G051Yxw 23. Slagheap – Power Shower: https://slagheapband.bandcamp.com/track/power-shower-2 24. Colorblind James Experience – I’m Considering a Move to Memphis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIO1kQQilTY

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iVisit... Hayward Gallery to reopen and new events for Southbank Centre’s Inside Out series are announced

The Southbank Centre announces that the Hayward Gallery will reopen on 19 May, with two much-anticipated, solo exhibitions by Matthew Barney and Igshaan Adams.

The announcement comes as a new slate of events for Inside Out, an online season of music and literature are released. This next instalment of the popular digital series will see the Southbank Centre’s Resident Orchestras performing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, marking the first time the much-loved venue has been open since it closed last March due to Covid-19.

The orchestras are joined by a roster of leading international artists, including conductors Ben Gernon, Enrique Mazzola, Fabien Gabel, Robin Ticciati, Rory MacDonald, Ryan Bancroft and Sir Mark Elder and soloists Alexandra Dariescu, Denis Kozhukhin, Paul Lewis, Pavel Kolesnikov and Steven Isserlis.

A further series of Inside Out events will be announced in the coming weeks. The Southbank Centre’s reopening plans will then be announced in due course, subject to government guidance.

Gillian Moore CBE, Director of Music and Performing Arts, Southbank Centre, says: “We’re making a very warm welcome back to our orchestral partners this Spring for our ongoing Inside Out series. It’s going to be wonderful to see them back in the Southbank Centre doing what they do best, performing much-loved music with world-class conductors and soloists. We know these events will continue to bring a little bit of light into our homes as we look forward to reopening our shared spaces later this year.”

HAYWARD GALLERY:

Matthew Barney: Redoubt

19 May – 25 July 2021

From 19 May through 25 July 2021 the Hayward Gallery presents Matthew Barney: Redoubt, an exhibition of the renowned artist and filmmaker’s latest body of work. The exhibition, the artist’s first major museum show in the UK in over a decade, presents a group of monumental sculptures, and more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates. Also included is the UK premiere of Barney’s new eponymous film, a ‘breathtakingly beautiful’ chronicle that explores the complex relationships between humans, and the natural world. Set in the sublime wintry landscape of Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, the feature-length film intertwines themes of artistic creation in a contemporary reworking of the classical myth of Diana and Actaeon.

Redoubt presents a major new direction in Barney’s practice, and advances his notable shift in materials over the past decade, from the plastic and petroleum jelly of his earlier works to the cast metals that figured prominently in River of Fundament, 2014. With Redoubt, Barney combines traditional casting methods and new digital technologies in an unprecedented way to create artworks of formal and material complexity as well as narrative density. The four large-scale sculptures in the exhibition derive from trees harvested from a burned forest in the Sawtooth Mountains. Formed out of molten copper and brass, the unique casts incorporate enlarged militarised elements, giving the sculptures a hybridised aesthetic that is both imposing and intricate.

Matthew Barney: Redoubt was originally organised by the Yale University Art Gallery.

Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust

19 May – 25 July 2021

In May 2021, the Hayward Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of South African artist Igshaan Adams (b. 1982). The 2018 winner of the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Igshaan Adams lives and works in Cape Town. The artist’s cross-disciplinary practice combines aspects of weaving, sculpture and installation whilst exploring concerns related to race, religion and sexuality.

The exhibition consists largely of new work produced during an artist residency Adams undertook at the A4 Foundation in Cape Town and on the occasion of the show. Presented as a single immersive environment with suspended sculptures, large-scale floor based weavings and tapestries hung on the wall, the installation responds to Hayward’s iconic Brutalist gallery space. Each work, and the exhibition as a whole, is composed of multiple patterns that explore the potential of woven material to reflect not only the multiplicities of Adams’ own identity but of broader cultural interchange.

RESIDENT ORCHESTRAS:

The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, and London Sinfonietta return to the Southbank Centre in March and April for streamed concerts featuring world-renowned conductors and soloists, as well as programming for young people. The events announced today will run to 28 April, with subsequent digital programming from 28 April onwards to be announced in due course. Tickets will be available to the general public from 2pm on Friday 5 March.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra presents six concerts filmed by Intersection (formerly Silent Studios) which will be available for audiences to watch for free on Marquee.tv from 24 March. The concerts will be streamed every Wednesday at 8pm from 24 March and will feature conductors Enrique Mazzola, Robin Ticciati and Sir Mark Elder, as well as soloists Steven Isserlis, Denis Kozhukhin and Alexandra Dariescu. Programme details for later concerts will soon be revealed but will include two of the Orchestra’s titled conductors Karina Canellakis and Vladimir Jurowski, who conducts his final concerts at the Royal Festival Hall before stepping into the Conductor Emeritus role.

Tickets will be free for the first seven days after broadcast and concerts will be captured before their premiere date.

The Philharmonia Orchestra presents two global streams to be presented on the orchestra’s own dedicated channel. On Thursday 25 March, the Philharmonia will be joined by conductor Ryan Bancroft and pianist Paul Lewis for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. On Thursday 1 April, Rory MacDonald will then lead the orchestra for a programme of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, with Pavel Kolesnikov performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

Tickets start at £10 and concerts will be captured before their premiere date.

The London Sinfonietta’s ‘Sound Out Online’ is the orchestra’s annual concert for children and young people and goes online for the first time to bring pupils closer to iconic contemporary music from the past century (22 March). As part of the orchestra’s Composition Challenges scheme, the concert features new works submitted by young people, as the London Sinfonietta continues to inspire a new generation of composers to get creative with classical music.

This event is free and will be streamed live on YouTube, exclusively for the Southbank Centre on Monday 22 March from 2 – 2.50pm. It is designed for Key Stage 2.

Previously announced online music and literature events as part of Inside Out include Skin (4 Mar), Black Country, New Road (6 Mar), London Contemporary Orchestra (19 Mar), Bell Orchestre (13 Mar), Hanif Abdurraquib (25 Mar), Out-Spoken (28 Mar), Kazuo and Naomi Ishiguro (5 Apr), Olivia Laing (30 Apr) and Jhumpa Lahiri (6 May). Tickets are onsale.

Elsewhere at the Southbank Centre:

WINTER LIGHT

Winter Light (extended until 28 March) is a free open-air exhibition that enlivens the site’s iconic buildings and the Riverside Walk with luminous, playful and thought-provoking artworks during the darkest months of the year. Featuring a range of leading international artists, Winter Light includes artworks, new commissions and a series of poems that make ingenious use of light, colour and animation whilst touching on diverse concerns.

At a time when we view so much of the world through digital screens, the artists in this exhibition celebrate how the medium of light can transform our physical spaces. Their artworks also explore ideas about nature, politics and society, gender, aesthetics and the act of looking. Winter Light includes artworks by artists including: Simeon Barclay, David Batchelor, James Clar, Shezad Dawood, Kota Ezawa, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Suzie Larke, Tala Madani, Tatsuo Miyajima, Louiza Ntourou, Katie Paterson, Jini Reddy, Tavares Strachan, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Emma Talbot and Toby Ziegler.

IMAGINE A STORY

Coinciding with World Book Day, the Southbank Centre is inviting 40 primary schools to take part in this year’s creative writing project Imagine a Story, giving young children the chance to become published authors. Children’s author Zanib Mian and illustrator Selom Sunu are collaborating on the project, which is open to classes of Key Stage 2 children (years 3 – 6), with online applications closing Sunday 14 March.

In this project inspired by a ‘game of consequences’ each school group writes one segment of a creative story based on a framework devised by Zanib Mian (Planet Omar: Operation Kind – published for World Book Day 2021; Planet Omar: Incredible Rescue Mission; Planet Omar: Unexpected Super Spy), the author of brilliant and diverse children’s fiction, who will inspire them to develop their collaborative work in classrooms to support their development and personal wellbeing.

These chapters will then be combined into a collection of short stories and professionally published by the Southbank Centre, with illustrations by Selom Sunu (Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu; Look Both Ways) Zanib Mian and Selom Sunu will read the final stories which will be live-streamed to participating primary school classrooms in July and each child will receive a copy of the published book.

In addition, the Southbank Centre’s nationwide participation programme, Art by Post has been shortlisted for "Award for the Best Larger Social Prescribing Project" as part of the Social Prescribing Network Awards. The ceremony is on 4 March with winners to be announced from 3.30 – 5pm.

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Lecture

Documentary - Britain’s hidden art history - “Whoever heard of a Black Artist?” Narrated by Brenda Emmanus. 

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this documentary, I needed to watch this documentary because of my shameful lack of knowledge on poc artists. I don’t have anything to critique about the work I saw in the documentary as I was in awe of it all. 

I highly recommend that people watch this documentary, I’ve learnt so much about the art industry I’ll be involved with, and how badly poc artists have been treated and still are treated. It’s shined a new light on what I should be using my  privilege and my knowledge as a white person to stop this discrimination to the best of my abilities, as I will never fully understand what racism/ racial injustice a person of colour goes through on a daily basis. 

Sonia Boyce spent three or more years uncovering work by poc artists in Britain and exhibiting their work, the exhibition was beautiful and I’m sad I am not able to go see it/seen it. 

“The first group of Black artists to find success in Britain were part of the Windrush generation arriving from the Caribbean from the late 40′s” 

This documentary is needed with the BLM movement of today, the more education for me on what I should be know is what I want. 

“Black Artists and Modernism” - Sonia Boyce 

“Black Art Movement of the 80′s” - Sonia Boyce 

“Systemic discrimination in the industry” - Sonia Boyce

Althea McNish was interviewed in the documentary, McNish studied textile design at the Royal College of Art and is best known for the piece “Golden Harvest”. Althea inspired British designers producing her designs to use colour, brands Dior, Balenciaga took inspiration from Althea’s work and she collabed with them all also. 

Althea and other poc artists started The Caribbean Artist Movement to combat discrimination. 

 “She adds sunshine to London’s fog” - The Guardian 

Such beautiful and visually seductive designs, colours and patterns used in Althea’s McNish’s work, and from watching the documentary I do recognize a lot of the patterns and imagery created by her, McNish has had a big impact on the creative industry. 

The Caribbean Artist Movement put on group exhibitions in London’s commonwealth institute.

“The art establishment never let the artists move out of the label of Caribbean Artists”. 

Avinash Chandra 

Anwar Jalal Shemza - one of the first artists to mix Islamic writing/calligraphy with abstract art. 

Aubrey Williams 

Ronald Moody 

Frank Bowling - Left London found success in New York City. 

Rasheed Araeen 

“The Black Art Group” 

Marlene Smith Rooney

Keith Piper 

Lubiana Himid

Isaac Julien 

Brenda Agard

Donald Rodney

Claudette Johnson 

John Akomfach 

Zarina Muhammed 

Maud Sulter 

Jay Labinjo 

I have recently been listening to podcasts by people of colour particularly women of colour. “Slay your Lane” on apple podcasts by Elizabeth Uviebeneńe & Yomi Adegoke, they speak with musicians, authors, journalists and more to use their voices on the problems they face daily, to the amazing work they put out for the world. Coming across these amazing people that I can look into using social media, it gives me more references for new ideas of work, I can even use the people in the podcast as deliberate references in my work such as painting them, this doesn’t tip toe from what I’m trying to deliver to the audience. Using iconic, and strong creators in my work shows that I’m finding new people to look up to, which shows self growth not just in myself but in my work.

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Under-appreciated light novels recommendation list, ranked in terms of PLEASE READ, to ehh, I’ll just put it in anyway:

Legend of Sun Knight (Completed Translation+Series): Set in a world of knights and magic, this series is golden comedy because the MC literally carries the plot. He’s smart, snarky and sleazy… but in a good way. I wrote about it here, but this series is for people who love comedy and political-castle-intrigue-level manipulation. ANYWAY PLEASE READ IT IT’S UP THERE ON MY TOP TEN BOOKS TO READ. No anime or manga translation. WHY.

Rakuin no Monshou (Completed Translation): For people who love the switching-the-royal-prince-with-a-body-double trope, political manoeuvring, military tactics, having the main character travel to different countries and exploring their governing system, and major character growth. No ecchi scenes, mentions of sex and rape (if any) are not elaborated on. Love between the MC and the female lead is more of a stranger to mutual respect to love, but since the female lead is literally 14-15 (they’re engaged to foster peace between two countries and not some lolicon thing), there are literally 0 sexy/blushy blushy/kissing/intimacy scenes between them. In the story their relationship feels less like a lovey dovey couple and more like the relationship between two generals that trust each other. This doesn’t have an anime or manga series after it. Why.

Only Sense Online (Ongoing Translation, Ongoing Series): Unlike the recent isekai and trapped-in-an-online-game-and-if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-for-realsies trends that are going around right now, this is just a game where the MC has fun playing a normal VRMMO and makes new friends in it. …In fact, the MC isn’t an otaku or a game maniac, his sister and childhood friend are the ones crazy about levelling up and doing all the main subjugation-monster quests and everything, he’s more of the chill type who’d rather hang back and craft stuff to sell in his shop. He likes doing things at his own pace and learning how to craft new things in his own time. Instead of battling monsters and levelling up, he’s more likely to be seen harvesting items and mining rocks. Oh, and also at the start of the game he mis-clicked and is stuck in a female avatar, and combined with his mothering, take-care-of-everyone personality, everyone treats him like like a ‘nanny’ and is in awe of his ‘moe-ness’, even though he keeps insisting he’s a guy. One of the story’s underlying message is that different people have different ways of enjoying the same game, be it doing quests in a party, creating items to support players, roleplaying, and even PKing, and that’s okay because that’s what a game is for. No angst or permanent character deaths (it is a game after all), tis for warming your heart with the sheer sunny goodness that is the MC. No ecchi. Has an ongoing manga series, but no anime.

Hidan no Aria (Ongoing Translation, Completed Series): MC goes to a 'military’ school that trains students to be armed detectives, or as they say, ‘Butei’ (Busou Tantei). Think mercenaries. Female MC is a OP genius and major tsundere, only out-shadowed by our MC. MC considers himself weak, and because of his genes, his innate OP powers is only triggered when a certain condition is met: aka when he is sexually aroused. (Insert sexy times.) In this mode he doesn’t get flashy superpowers or anything (at least, by the world’s standard) — all it does it accelerate his brain’s thought process, but it gets so OP to the point where can deflect bullets with his own bullets and slice bullets in two with his knife. OP God Mode. This trigger also turns him into a major flirt and gigolo that can’t say no to a girl, which caused him to actively seek to avoid situations where he is in close contact with girls to prevent being triggered. Has a ‘harem’ of girls if you wanna call it that way, but even though the story is halfway translated as of now, it’s obvious he’s fallen for the main female lead. You’d only want to read this story to find out the next BS thing the MC does when he’s triggered, and it can only get higher and higher. Seriously, the moment where he catches a bullet in his teeth (way later in the story) gives you the best feeling ever. To put it in the Female MC’s words: "How about that rating, Kinji? Being classed by the world as a dangerous character who fights non-humans? Tell me how do you like that?” And his words: "–I’m a senior high school student. My grades are slightly below average, and I attend a violent school.”, and his monologue: [At least that was what I want to be. Honestly…] Had a 2011 anime and ongoing manga series, as well as a Yuri spinoff series (as per the usual anime law decreeing that all spinoffs have to have Yuri plot in them, see Soul Eater and Fate Prisma).

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu (Completed Translation + Series): Idiots doing idiotic things in school. Interesting battle system, with loads of comedy. Loads. Of. Comedy. No ecchi scenes. Had an two-season anime series in 2010 and 2011, and a manga series.

Chrome Shelled Regios (Completed Translation + Series): Main character is OP but gets debuffed at the very start, tries to restart his life as a normal person but realises that his innate talent for fighting doesn’t allow him to. Has many female love interests but at the end MC only chooses one. ‘Magic’ system works a little differently from conventional sources, nearing more to martial arts style, and telekinesis-telepathy combination rather than enchanting-spell type. What else can I say other than the MC controls a weapon made of thousands of infinitely thin and sharp wires that he uses to slice bugs (the main enemy) up with... which is so badass. (Though his main weapon is a sword.) No ecchi scenes. The sideplot about ‘fate’ and the history of the setting gets a little confusing though. This had an anime, but since the director died right before the 2009 anime ended it’s unlikely that a second season will come out. It does have a manga side plot series that is completed and a great accompaniment to the main light novel.

CubexCursedxCurious (Completed Translation + Series): MC lives in a house that is apparently so holy that cursed weapons journey there to get purified and lift their cursed. Oh yeah, and some cursed weapons can turn into people too (Soul Eater style?). Wielding the weapons will obviously give you great power, but it also has serious drawbacks, e.g. A sword cursed to be able to slice through anything, drawback is that their owner will be consumed by bloodlust and is compelled to draw blood with that sword (in other words, the old regular cursed sword rule). MC is of course immune to curses (and so he can wield that sword) because he was born in that holy place. Female lead is originally a torture device made of 32 different torture tools, including Iron Maiden, Guillotine, Pendulum, etc. Literally the first scene is the female lead found naked (since her real form is a mcfreaking cube I would not be surprised) in the MC’s kitchen looking for food to eat so let there be a representative of the subsequent ecchi scenes to be found. The cursed tool system is cool, anyway. MC doesn’t end up with anyone is particular. Plus point: Not all female characters introduced are in love with the male MC. Just three (3) girls. Also, the second light novel doesn’t feature the ‘second’ heroine’s backstory arc like a lot of light novels do... but instead a couple of a girl and a genderfluid character. Cool stuff. Had a 2011 anime and (very behind) manga series.

Other more well known ones:

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku (Up to Date Translation, Ongoing Series): Think Battle Royale x Danganronpa x the Mahou Shoujo Trope. Lots of blood and death, so don’t bother if you don’t want to see your favourite character die/put through lots of angst and depression. Each Magical Girl has different superpowers and you’d only want to read it in hopes of seeing your favourite character live to the end/have a cool death scene/have cool action scenes in general. One of the underlying themes was that it’s not a given that powerful people will always win; the strong can be overthrown by the weak (I can think of at least two occasions), a person can win a killing game without any blood on their hands, and the magical government is pretty much corrupt. Had a recent 2016 anime series and a manga series.

Hyouka (Up to Date Translation and Series): Based on Agatha Christie stories, think mysteries but without any actual murder.

And then I’ll throw in a few English books to show that I have good taste in books:

Captive Prince by CS Pacat: Gayyyyy + lots of politics. THE ROMANCE THOUGH.... enemies to tentative friends to hostile ‘ah we’re supposed to be on opposing sides as enemies of each other’s nation’ to lovers YEAAHHHHHHH. Some parts are explicit, yeah.

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan: MC was dragged into a magical military academy in a magical land to be a child soldier, but instead of being typical Harry Potter he is snarky, sarcastic and actually raises valid questions like why the heck are they raising child soldiers??? Bisexual icon male MC who is also a pacifist I love him he must be protected

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein: War story narrated by a spy who was caught by enemy soldiers and forced to reveal her state secrets in the form of written narrative. Mystery and unreliable narrator time! If you can survive the first few draggy chapters and then a little more the reveal is SO. REWARDING. Female MC.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: I tried recommending this to my friend and sadly I realised that if you have no background knowledge on Christianity and what the apocalypse details you may not find this interesting. It’s a shame because it’s so funny. EDIT: I’m so glad it got a TV series??? That means more people will read the book, which is amazing, right??? 

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope: Female MC and the story of her ancestor’s romances (think short story-style but all connected together). Straight romance. Female MC.

Any book by Brandon Sanderson: Yes. Just… yes.

Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn: A bastard girl stays in the castle with her royal relatives for the summer. (If you’re wondering there is discrimination against her as a commoner but overall she is loved by her family there.) Somehow the only page I have bookmarked in this book is the part near the end where the MC commits royal crimes, and is slapped by the king, giving the reader no small amount of satisfaction. Fantasy-style with small amount of political intrigue, female MC is a apprentice hedgewitch so she knows herbal knowledge (which is a prominent part of the book when she uses it?). Anyway, please read.

A Posse of Princesses by Sherwood Smith: Female princess MC is invited to a large one week (?) party with the other country’s princes and princesses to celebrate this big county’s prince’s great birthday or smth. Some political intrigue and also great plot twist. At the end of it I got really invested in the romance between the side characters bc they were really well developed lol..

The Queen’s Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner: The third book is my favourite book because I love the MC (Costis!!!!!), bless his innocent soul (COSTIS!!!!!!) caught up in the nefarious plots of the first book MC. Little romance and more of political plots.

Warriors by Erin Hunter: I had to include at least one joke book and this was it. Anyway this was the series I grew up reading, honestly the third series had the best MC in the blind, grumpy, no-nonsense healer who is so refreshingly different from a normal ‘hero archetype’ MC. (*whisper* You gotta talk about the furries, troof!) Oh. Oh yeah, they’re all cats.

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These Are Some Crazy Expensive Sustainable, Stylish $hoes!

Hey y’all, it’s just another week, which means it’s another post from Sensible Soles. This week, we are going to slightly switch gears for today’s blog because it’s always good to have different perspectives. Don’t worry, it's still about being sustainable and stylish........ but this time we’re looking at some [$$$$]hoes. Sensible for the earth? Yes. Sensible for our bank account? Questionable. 

Irwin Garden

Based out of New York, ready to wear clothing brand Irwin Garden produces ethically and sustainably clothing and shoes, using all natural and biodegradable materials as well as supporting domestic manufacturers and maintaining its support to American craftsmanship to make their collection. Irwin Garden’s purpose is to “celebrate femininity and a return to timeless pieces that make a woman feel like the best version of herself with every wear.”

The Kitty Pleated Slide in Taupe ($495)

Unique appearance with the plethora of pleats on the upper. Pretty sure you’ll be asked where’d you get these slides at. (Maybe not mention the price tag...)

Slightly square shaped toe. Super soft footbed, with vegetable tanned leather sole. Upper in pleated silk taffeta. Slight heel. 

Available on Maison De Mode here

Source of photo

Sally Woven Slide in White ($495)

Simple, fashionable, great for everyday wear in beautiful sunny weather!

Sally woven leather peep toe slide. Slightly square shaped toe. Super soft footbed, with vegetable tanned leather sole. Slight heel.

Available on Maison De Mode here

Source of photo

Maggie Twist Slide in Floral Print ($495)

Stand out from the rest! The colors reminds me of watermelon, something delicious and healthy you can enjoy out on a beautiful sunny day while you’re wearing these floral slides

Silk and leather peep toe slide. Slightly square shaped toe. Super soft footbed, with vegetable tanned leather sole. Upper made of floral silk with a knotted twist for a special detail. Slight heel.

Available on Maison De Mode here

Source of photo

Taylor + Thomas

In 2018, a new ethical luxury footwear brand was created by two women, Jessica Taylor Mead & Elizabeth Thomas James. They are determined to bridge “conscious consumption with elevated taste”, thus having a brand that is determined to hold responsibility to the health of our planet and the people and animals who inhabit it, today and for generations to come. They use sustainable materials that are carefully sourced from Italy and Japan. 

Talitha ($385)

In honor of the late Dutch actress and model Talitha Getty, this is a modern-day babouche, updated with an asymmetric topline, a western-inspired welted outsole, and a collapsible heel cup.

Recyclable rubber outsole

100% vegan and cruelty-free

Available on Taylor + James in Blackbird (seen above), Ivory, and Saddle

Source of photo(s) here

Patti ($385)

A tribute to the iconic singer & poet Patti Smith, this is their version of the traditional Chelsea boot, with a slim silhouette, almond toe, and cylindrical wood heel.

FSC-certified sustainably harvested beech wood heel

Recyclable rubber outsole

100% vegan and cruelty-free

Available on Taylor + James in Blackbird, Mustard (seen above), and Saddle.

Source of photo(s) here

Jane ($585)

A nod to the iconic Jane Birkin, their loafer features a square toe, an angled wood heel, and a twisted strap with signature T+T wax stamp hardware.

FSC-certified sustainably harvested beech wood heel

Life Nappa upper and lining

Recyclable rubber outsole

100% vegan and cruelty-free

Available on Taylor + James in Blackbird, Mustard, and Saddle (seen above).

Source of photo(s) here

Hopefully, you enjoyed this week’s post, and perhaps drew inspiration from these brands. It’s great to see high end fashion being more mindful of the earth.

Post the hashtag #SensibleSoles to be featured and make sure to follow the hashtag #SensibleSoles on all social media platforms. 

Come back next week for Daisy’s post!

- Anthony Nguyen

Sensible Soles

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Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation (Enhanced Edition) - Elizabeth Pisani

Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation (Enhanced Edition) Exploring the Improbable Nation Elizabeth Pisani Genre: Travel & Adventure Price: $14.99 Publish Date: June 23, 2014 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Seller: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Contains 12 videos, 22 slideshows, 39 stand-alone photographs, 2 audio recordings, 11 archival documents, 12 maps, 13 illustrations, 37 hand-drawn icons. Indonesia is one of the most compelling countries on earth; it offers unexpected adventures that range from taking tea with a corpse or a sultan to negotiating crowds of thugs dressed as Islamists protesting against pop star Lady Gaga. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation has been celebrated by The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and many other publications as a lively and deeply insightful account of the country’s complexities, but many readers have yearned for illustrations; Indonesia is also visually compelling. This enhanced edition is the answer: it includes videos, slide shows, and archival material collected by the author during her 22,000-kilometer trek around the country in 2012 as well as old letters from generals and rebels harvested from the archives she has kept in her twenty-five-year association with the country. The videos, edited and voiced by Elizabeth Pisani herself, provide an extra insight into the things she found most striking or curious. You don’t need to be online to access any of the content, and the analog-look design ensures that the multimedia materials never get in the way of a good, old-fashioned read. This is a very large file (200 MB), and it works best on an iPad. http://bit.ly/2VuZo6z

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20 Things To Do In Perth For Under $50

Check out these experiences in Perth for under $50! There is so much to see and do in Perth the hardest thing is decinding what to do and of course make sure it doesnt break the bank. We have a list of some of the best things to do in Perth for less than a pineapple. Perfect for travellers who want to experience the best of Perth on a budget. Or alternatively, if youre a local and looking for things to do in Perth on the weekend. 1. Penguin & Sea Lion Cruise $42

Enjoy a leisurely 45 minute cruise on a glass bottom boat through Shoalwater Bays wildlife sanctuary zone to see wild dolphins and rare Australian sea lions. Get up close with the worlds smallest penguins when you join the island rangers present penguin feeding and a talk. Plenty of time to explore the sandy bays too! BOOK NOW 2. Nostalgia Box $17

Relive your childhood with a trip to Australias only video game museum right here in Perth! Play old favourites such as Pong, Atari 2600, Super Mario Bros, Alex Kidd, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot and many more! A great visit with the kids on the weekend or school holidays. BOOK NOW 3. The Bell Tower $18

Located overlooking the Swan River, The Bell Tower is one of Perths most visited attraction and its home to the famous royal bells of St Martin-in-the-Fields, which chimed for James Cook as he departed on his voyage of discovery to Australia. Definitely one of Perths iconic landmark and located right in the heart of Elizabeth Quay. BOOK NOW 4. The Perth Mint $19

Watch a molten gold pour and see precious gold bars and coins being struck at the award-winning Perth Mint. Marvel at Australias largest collection of natural gold nuggets, including the second largest gold nugget in existence, weighing in at 25.5 kilograms. Guided talks operate every hour. BOOK NOW 5. Lancelin 4WD Sand Dunes Boarding Adventure $30

Enjoy this 45 minute adventure onthis thrill ride which takes you up and down some of the biggest dunes in Western Australia with the magnificent crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean as the backdrop. Lancelin is located around 70kms north of Perth so a great activity if you have your own vehicle and self-driving. BOOK NOW 6. Caversham Wildlife Park $28

Spend the day at one of Perths most incredible and popular attractions, showcasing the largest private collection of native wildlife in Western Australia. There is nothing like hand feeding the kangaroos before joining the interactive farm show, touch a possum or lizard, meet a wombat and have your photo taken with very cute koalas! BOOK NOW 7. Mandurah Dolphin and Canal Cruise $32

View spectacular wild dolphins, in their natural environment, on the pristine and calm inland Mandurah waterways with Mandurah Cruises. Less than an hour south of Perth and Mandurahs number one tourist attraction thisone hour Dolphin and Scenic Canal Cruise visits the world class Ocean Marina as well as the luxurious homes, with no expense spared, on the canals. BOOK NOW 8. Fremantle Tram Pass $28

Start your sightseeing tour at any of the six conveniently situated stops around the city. Your driver will provide an entertaining and informative commentary as we tour Fremantle City and allowing you to jump on and off where you feel the need to spend a little more time. With photo opportunities along the way we can ensure you will not miss anything that the historic port city of Fremantle has to offer. BOOK NOW 9. AQWA Aquarium $30

Enjoy exploring all of AQWAs stunning exhibits discovering WAs spectacular marine life as you explore Australias largest single aquarium. Encounter giant sharks, stingrays and turtles, meet rare, unique and deadly sea creatures. Touch a starfish or baby shark at our child friendly discovery pool plus experience the wonder of one of the worlds largest living coral reef exhibits, before relaxing by a coastal lagoon or enjoying our new toddler playground. BOOK NOW 10. Perth Coffee, Culture & Art Tour $40

The tour will explore the Heritage Precinct of Perth, the old theatre district as well as former educational precincts. Enjoy a coffee/tea at popular local cafe (included) and enjoy a wonderfully re-purposed heritage space in a forgotten area. Visit secret gardens, discover hidden artwhile learning some of the more interesting anecdotes about the city. BOOK NOW 11. Learn to Surf $40

Learn to surf in Perths northern suburbs! The lesson will take you through ocean awareness, surf safety and surfing technique. All lessons are conducted in a safe and controlled environment making the class the perfect way to ease you into the sport of surfing. All of our instructors absolutely love their job and their enthusiasm and teaching skills will ensure you have a great time. BOOK NOW 12.Twilight Cruise of the Swan River $35

There is no better way to finish your day than aboard a twilight cruise along the Swan River while enjoying sundowner drinks. The scenic cruise takes in the Old Swan Brewery and South Perth foreshore before heading upriver to bask in the glowing city skyline. A complimentary drink is included, along with light snacks available to purchase on board. BOOK NOW 13. Perth Optus Stadium $25

With views of the picturesque Swan River and Perth city in the west and the foothills in the east, this 60,000 seat, world-class, multi-purpose Stadium will host a variety of sports and entertainment events including Australian Football League, International and Big Bash League cricket, soccer, rugby league and union plus concerts. BOOK NOW 14. Live Pearl Harvest $15

Experience the wonder of a live pearl harvest and uncover the journey of the Pearl of Western Australia from shell to showroom at Elizabeth Quay. The most beautiful and valuable pearls in the world are grown in Western Australia and our live pearl harvests allow guests to have a truly unique experience, right in the heart of Perth city. BOOK NOW 15. Hop-On Hop-Off Bus $35

Tour around Perth and Kings Park on an iconic open top bus. No other tour vehicle can offer such a birds eye view of the top attractions. Take great photographs from the top deck no glass window to spoil the view! If you stay on all the way round, the tour takes approximately 2 hrs to complete. Or you can use the hop on hop off facility and make a whole day of it! BOOK NOW 16. Swan River Scenic Cruise $40

Cruise down the beautiful Swan River past all the sights including Perths impressive Bell Tower, the restored Swan Brewery, Kings Park, Royal Perth Yacht Club.See magnificent homes overlooking the river and Fremantles busy inner city harbour to explore Fremantles galleries, boutiques, colonial history and laid-back lifestyle. BOOK NOW 17. Caversham Wildlife Park with transfers $39

Spend the day at one of Perths most incredible attractions, showcasing the largest private collection of native wildlife in Western Australia with return transfers from Perth CBD hotels. Hand-feed the kangaroos, join the interactive farm show, touch a possum or lizard, meet a wombat and have your photo taken with koalas. BOOK NOW 18. Tree Top Climbing Adventure $45

Join Australias premier tree top adventureropes experience. Lane Poole Adventure Parks features a number of exciting and challenging obstacle courses high up in the tree canopy, that will have all the family swinging, leaping, climbing and flying through the forest allowing thrill seekers and nature enthusiasts to experience the trees like never before. BOOK NOW 19. Convicts & Colonials $45

This tour winds its way through Fremantle, which is renowned for its well preserved architectural heritage, including convict built colonial year buildings and one of the most notorious prisons in the British Empire, the World Heritage Listed Fremantle Prison. BOOK NOW 20. Oliver Hill Train & Tunnel Tour $29

Journey to the historical Oliver Hill Guns and Tunnels Fortification on board the unique Captain Hussey trolley train. This tour begins with an informative train ride passing some iconic and historical landmarks and a guided tour through the stunning tunnel system that once played a crucial role in Australias military defence World War II. Price excludes ferry fare to Rottnest Island. BOOK NOW Explore more of Perth and WA There are so manymore great Things to Do in Perth, luckily we have this latest guide to help. https://soperth.com.au/20-things-to-do-in-perth-for-under-50-25416

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From the royal wedding to World Cup mania: The biggest news stories of the year in 2018 - Evening Standard

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From the royal wedding to World Cup mania: The biggest news stories of the year in 2018 - Evening Standard

2018 was an enormous year in the world of news, from the nation united in joy for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding, to Britain facing months of chaos over Brexit, here’s a look back at the biggest stories of the year.

January

Trump abandons UK visit

Donald Trump scrapped plans to visit the UK for the opening of a new £750m embassy. He backed out due to fears he would not be welcome in the country, and the possibility of mass protests.

Mr Trump confirmed the decision on Twitter but put it down to his disapproval of the location and price of the new embassy.

He wrote: “Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars.

“Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!”

News Review of The Year 2018 – In Pictures

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Giant waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham as the “Beast from the East” brings heavy snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country

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Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland

AP

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Military personnel wearing protective suits remove a police car and other vehicles from a public car park as they continue investigations into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal

Getty Images

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Former employee Christopher Wylie exposed how Cambridge Analytica had allegedly harvested date from millions of Facebook users to influence the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill,

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Looking west toward the White House, people fill Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington during the “March for Our Lives” rally

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez(C) listens with other students during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington

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Britain’s Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wave as she holds their newborn son outside St. Mary’s Hospital

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North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) shake hands over the military demarcation line upon meeting for the Inter-Korean Summit

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Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex kisses his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex as they leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor

AFP/Getty Images

11/21

US President Donald Trump (R) gestures as he meets with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore

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12/21

Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud of France lift the World Cup trophy to celebrate with teammates after the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium

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Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump make their way to a joint press conference following their meeting at Chequers

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Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville

AP

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A demonstrator holds a poster with a picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul

REUTERS

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Demonstrators carry banners and flags as they participate in the People’s March demanding a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal, in central London

AFP/Getty Images

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Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle following their wedding at St. George’s Chapel

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Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May dances a few steps as she takes the stage to give her keynote address on the fourth and final day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

AFP/Getty Images

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Members of the British government, junior and senior ministers, that have resigned over their opposition to Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of the Brexit negotiations

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Firefighter Jose Corona sprays water as flames from the Camp Fire consume a home in Magalia, Calif

AP

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Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan walk down the stairs of the iconic Opera House to meet people after announcing pregnancy

AFP/Getty Images

1/21

Giant waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham as the “Beast from the East” brings heavy snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country

PA Archive/PA Images

2/21

Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland

AP

3/21

Military personnel wearing protective suits remove a police car and other vehicles from a public car park as they continue investigations into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal

Getty Images

4/21

Former employee Christopher Wylie exposed how Cambridge Analytica had allegedly harvested date from millions of Facebook users to influence the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election

Getty Images

5/21

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a joint hearing of the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill,

AFP/Getty Images

6/21

Looking west toward the White House, people fill Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington during the “March for Our Lives” rally

AP

7/21

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez(C) listens with other students during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington

AFP/Getty Images

8/21

Britain’s Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, wave as she holds their newborn son outside St. Mary’s Hospital

AP

9/21

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) shake hands over the military demarcation line upon meeting for the Inter-Korean Summit

10/21

Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex kisses his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex as they leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor

AFP/Getty Images

11/21

US President Donald Trump (R) gestures as he meets with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore

AFP/Getty Images

12/21

Hugo Lloris and Olivier Giroud of France lift the World Cup trophy to celebrate with teammates after the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium

Getty Images

13/21

Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump make their way to a joint press conference following their meeting at Chequers

Getty Images

14/21

Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville

AP

15/21

A demonstrator holds a poster with a picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul

REUTERS

16/21

Demonstrators carry banners and flags as they participate in the People’s March demanding a People’s Vote on the final Brexit deal, in central London

AFP/Getty Images

17/21

Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle following their wedding at St. George’s Chapel

18/21

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May dances a few steps as she takes the stage to give her keynote address on the fourth and final day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham

AFP/Getty Images

19/21

Members of the British government, junior and senior ministers, that have resigned over their opposition to Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of the Brexit negotiations

AFP/Getty Images

20/21

Firefighter Jose Corona sprays water as flames from the Camp Fire consume a home in Magalia, Calif

AP

21/21

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan walk down the stairs of the iconic Opera House to meet people after announcing pregnancy

AFP/Getty Images

Carillion collapse

377 workers will be made redundant (PA)

The UK’s second-largest construction company collapsed in January after it found itself £1.5bn in debt.

It went into liquidation with £7bn in liabilities, leaving the government to step in and ensure work on its 420 public sector contracts continued.

The collapse is set to cost taxpayers £148m, and its pension pot will have to be compensated by the Pension Protection Fund.

February

Parkland school shooting

The shooting in Florida was the deadliest high school massacre ever to happen in the US (AP)

17 students and staff members were killed when former Stoneman Douglas High School student Nikolas Cruz opened fire at his former school in Parkland, Florida.

17 more were injured during the deadliest high school shooting in US history, and the deadliest mass shooting of 2018. 

It led students to form protest group Never Again MSD and sparked nationwide gun control protests.

Beast from the East

UK Weather: Beast from the East freeze – In pictures

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Snow storm over London

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The frozen canal at Little Venice, London

Jeremy Selwyn

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A multi-car collision on the M66 NEAR Ramsbottom and Bury

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)

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Ice climbers at Kinder Downfall, High Peak in Derbyshire

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Royal Navy warship NHS Tidespring battles the Beast from the East

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Members of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards take part in a snow ball fight prior to the combined St David’s Day celebration and pre-deployment service at Elizabeth Barracks, Pirbright, Surrey

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A police car on fire on the M62 near Huddersfield.

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Andrea Geile skies along Princes Street in Edinburgh

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Heavy snowfall hits St Paul’s Cathedral

Zuma / Splash News

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Storm clouds over Dublin Bay

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Paddington Station today

Jeremy Selwyn

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The M876 to Glasgow is closed

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A man walks in the snowy conditions in Larbert

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Edinburgh Castle in the snow

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Members of the public make their way through snow the streets in Alexandria, Scotland

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Jock the Shih Tzu plays in the snow

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Waterloo Station tracks covered in snow

Jeremy Selwyn

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A man clears snow in Alexandria, Scotland

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Snow-covered members of the public walk through heavy snow in Westminster

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A stranded car covered in snow in Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear

PA

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Police push a car on the on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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A blizzard hit Trafalgar Square

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School children from Wearhead Primary School, in County Durham, which stands more than 1,100 feet (335m) above sea level and which remained open despite blizzards thanks to teachers battling through the elements and a parent with a digger

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Snow continues to fall in Westminster

Jeremy Selwyn

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A man clears snow from a car in Larbert

PA

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Fabio Fodaro cycles during a blizzard at Helix Park in Falkirk

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The scene on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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Police push a car on the on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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Huge crowds outside Oxford Circus Tube station

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People walk in the snow on Horse Guards Parade

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Whiteout: Londoners brave the snow in Piccadilly Circus

Tony Villalon

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Three-year-old Wilfred Martin, enjoys sledding in the snow in Richmond Park, Londo

PA

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Victor the polar bear enjoys the snow at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster

PA

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Giant waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham as the “Beast from the East” brings heavy snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country

PA

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Spectacular sunrise over Canary Wharf

James Burns/London from the Rooftops

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Vehicles get stuck on a hill on the A30 near Land’s End in Cornwall following heavy snow that made driving conditions difficult

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Battersea looking beautiful in the snow

Hatty Collier‏

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People walk their dogs on Blyth Beach in Northumberland

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A swimmer braves the snowy conditions at King Edwards bay near Tynemouth

PA

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Frozen foutains at Trafalgar Square

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Stationary traffic on the M20 near Ashford, Kent

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Pedestrians cross Whitehall as snow falls

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Pedestrians walk across millennium bridge in front of St Paul’s as heavy snowfall hits London

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A snow-covered Tube train early today Londoners woke to wintry scenes

Jeremy Selwyn

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A lorry shed its load on the M20 overnight

Kent Police RPU

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Snow falls on Wimbledon Common

Alex Lentati

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A London bus travels through the snow in Oxford street

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Snow surrounds the Angel of the North in Gateshead

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People walk past Buckingham Palac

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People walk along Bankside, London in the snow

PA

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Snow at Horse guards in London

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Rare snow seen at Brighton Beach

James Mayes

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Toby Stanton walks to school in Ashford, Kent, as heavy snowfall is affecting roads across the UK

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Cars travel through Great Chart in Ashford, Kent

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A Eurostar train passes through Ashford, Kent

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Vehicles on the M20 between Junctions 8 and 9, as heavy snowfall is affecting roads across the UK

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A double decker bus carefully makes it way through the snowfall in London

Jeremy Selwyn

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Cars drive through falling snow on the A41 in Hemel Hempstead

Jeremy Selwyn

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Parents walk their children to school in Ashford, Kent

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Newcastle Quayside following heavy overnight snowfall

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Walkers in the snow near to Another Place by Anthony Gormley, on Crosby Beech near LiverpooL

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Fishing boats moored in Scarborough harbour

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Commuters battle the snoiw across London Bridge

Jeremy Selwyn

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Snow storm over London

NPASLondon/Twitter

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The frozen canal at Little Venice, London

Jeremy Selwyn

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A multi-car collision on the M66 NEAR Ramsbottom and Bury

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS)

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Ice climbers at Kinder Downfall, High Peak in Derbyshire

PA

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Royal Navy warship NHS Tidespring battles the Beast from the East

Royal Navy

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Members of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards take part in a snow ball fight prior to the combined St David’s Day celebration and pre-deployment service at Elizabeth Barracks, Pirbright, Surrey

PA

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A police car on fire on the M62 near Huddersfield.

PA

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Andrea Geile skies along Princes Street in Edinburgh

PA

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Heavy snowfall hits St Paul’s Cathedral

Zuma / Splash News

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Storm clouds over Dublin Bay

PA

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Paddington Station today

Jeremy Selwyn

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The M876 to Glasgow is closed

PA

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A man walks in the snowy conditions in Larbert

PA

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Edinburgh Castle in the snow

PA

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Members of the public make their way through snow the streets in Alexandria, Scotland

Getty Images

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Jock the Shih Tzu plays in the snow

Getty Images

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Waterloo Station tracks covered in snow

Jeremy Selwyn

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A man clears snow in Alexandria, Scotland

Getty Images

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Snow-covered members of the public walk through heavy snow in Westminster

Getty Images

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A stranded car covered in snow in Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear

PA

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Police push a car on the on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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A blizzard hit Trafalgar Square

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School children from Wearhead Primary School, in County Durham, which stands more than 1,100 feet (335m) above sea level and which remained open despite blizzards thanks to teachers battling through the elements and a parent with a digger

PA

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Snow continues to fall in Westminster

Jeremy Selwyn

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A man clears snow from a car in Larbert

PA

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Fabio Fodaro cycles during a blizzard at Helix Park in Falkirk

PA

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The scene on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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Police push a car on the on the M80 Haggs in Glasgow

PA

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Huge crowds outside Oxford Circus Tube station

@_kathyharvey

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People walk in the snow on Horse Guards Parade

Reuters

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Whiteout: Londoners brave the snow in Piccadilly Circus

Tony Villalon

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Three-year-old Wilfred Martin, enjoys sledding in the snow in Richmond Park, Londo

PA

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Victor the polar bear enjoys the snow at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster

PA

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Giant waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham as the “Beast from the East” brings heavy snow and freezing temperatures to much of the country

PA

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Spectacular sunrise over Canary Wharf

James Burns/London from the Rooftops

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Vehicles get stuck on a hill on the A30 near Land’s End in Cornwall following heavy snow that made driving conditions difficult

PA

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Battersea looking beautiful in the snow

Hatty Collier‏

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People walk their dogs on Blyth Beach in Northumberland

PA

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A swimmer braves the snowy conditions at King Edwards bay near Tynemouth

PA

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Frozen foutains at Trafalgar Square

Jeremy Selwyn

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Stationary traffic on the M20 near Ashford, Kent

PA

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Pedestrians cross Whitehall as snow falls

AP

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Pedestrians walk across millennium bridge in front of St Paul’s as heavy snowfall hits London

AFP/Getty Images

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A snow-covered Tube train early today Londoners woke to wintry scenes

Jeremy Selwyn

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A lorry shed its load on the M20 overnight

Kent Police RPU

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Snow falls on Wimbledon Common

Alex Lentati

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A London bus travels through the snow in Oxford street

EPA

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Snow surrounds the Angel of the North in Gateshead

PA

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People walk past Buckingham Palac

PA

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People walk along Bankside, London in the snow

PA

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Snow at Horse guards in London

Jeremy Selwyn

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Rare snow seen at Brighton Beach

James Mayes

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Toby Stanton walks to school in Ashford, Kent, as heavy snowfall is affecting roads across the UK

PA

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Highways England/Twitter

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Cars travel through Great Chart in Ashford, Kent

PA

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A Eurostar train passes through Ashford, Kent

PA

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Vehicles on the M20 between Junctions 8 and 9, as heavy snowfall is affecting roads across the UK

PA

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A double decker bus carefully makes it way through the snowfall in London

Jeremy Selwyn

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Cars drive through falling snow on the A41 in Hemel Hempstead

Jeremy Selwyn

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Parents walk their children to school in Ashford, Kent

PA

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Newcastle Quayside following heavy overnight snowfall

PA

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Walkers in the snow near to Another Place by Anthony Gormley, on Crosby Beech near LiverpooL

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Fishing boats moored in Scarborough harbour

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Commuters battle the snoiw across London Bridge

Jeremy Selwyn

The UK was battered by blizzards, strong winds and widespread disruption when the Beast from the East combined with storm Emma to create some of the worst weather Britain had experienced for decades.

Red weather warnings were issued across the country, with roads and rail grinding to a standstill and up to 20 inches of snow falling on high ground.

17 people died during the extreme cold spell, which lasted from February 24 until March 4.

A mini Beast from the East followed two weeks later.

March

Salisbury poisonings

Amber Rudd visits police cordon in Salisbury

Sergei and Yulia Skripal suddenly collapsed in the centre of Salisbury on March 4, sparking an international diplomatic incident.

Samples tested at nearby Porton Down revealed the father and daughter had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, which was believed to have come from Russia.

Russian spy ‘poisoning’: Sergei and Yulia Skripal spent weeks fighting for their lives in hospital (PA)

Large areas of the sleepy cathedral town, including the Zizzi where they had eaten, were sealed off while police investigated.

It led to 153 Russian diplomats being expelled from 29 countries.

Cambridge Analytica

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘sorry’ for Cambridge Analytica Facebook ‘breach of trust’

The company was exposed in March for harvesting data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without people’s consent.

The data was used to predict the choices of and influence voters. The scandal emerged after whistleblower Christopher Wylie went public.

It caused a massive drop in Facebook’s value and sparked international criticism of Mark Zuckerberg and the firm’s working practices.

Zuckerberg was eventually forced to testify before congress.

March for Our Lives after Parkland shooting

People across the US marched in support of stronger gun controls (AP)

Hundreds of thousands of students joined the March for Our Lives in Washington DC on March 24 following the Parkland school shooting.

They called for stronger gun control measures, and asked for measures which had been introduced in Florida, such as banning bump stocks and raising purchase ages, to be rolled out across the country.

Satellite protests also took place in New York City, Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.

April

Royal Baby Louis is born

Baby Louis is about to celebrate his first Christmas (Matt Porteous/Kensington Palace via AP)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s third child, baby Louis, was born on March 23, weighing 8lb 7oz.

Korea summit

Kim Jong Un steps into history at South Korea summit

Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in met for a historic summit between the North and South to discuss the 2018 Winter Olympics and denuclearisation.

The April 27 summit was the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953 that a North Korean leader entered the South’s territory.

May

Harry and Meghan’s wedding

Royal Wedding 2018: The best pictures you might have missed

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex emerge from the West Door of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk after their wedding in St George’s Chapel

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Princess Charlotte sticks out her tongue as she rides in a car to the wedding at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George leave after the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel

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Zalie Warren arrives at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle for the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wave as they ride a horse-drawn carriage after their wedding ceremony

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Royal fans in Windsor for the wedding celebration

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Doria Ragland and the Prince of Wales leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Prince Harry’s brother and best man Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wait in the chapel ahead of his wedding

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married at St Georges Chapel

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Students of Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School watch a live broadcast of the wedding of Meghan Markle, who graduated from Immaculate Heart in 1999

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk down the steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry looks at his bride, Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor Castle after their wedding in St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor

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Crowds at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Pinky Ghelani and Suzzy Wokabi watch a TV broadcast of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding at the Windsor golf and country club in Nairobi

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The Duke of Cambridge with Prince George leave St George’s Chapel

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Meghan Markle arrives at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan (R), Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle after their royal wedding ceremony

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A town crier poses after watching the carriage procession

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss as they leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following their wedding.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss as they leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following their wedding.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor Castle after their wedding

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during the procession after getting married St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leaves Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage

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The Prince of Wales leads Meghan Markle up the aisle of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle for her wedding to Prince Harry

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Prince William, Prince Charles, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of York, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, from let, during the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex walk down the west steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle after their wedding.

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Crowds gather ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

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George Clooney and his wife British human rights barrister Amal Clooney (R) arrive for the royal wedding ceremony of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel

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Prince George leaves St George’s Chapel

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The Duke of Edinburgh leaves St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Oprah Winfrey leaves St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle after the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

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Royal fans watch the wedding

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The Duchess of Cambridge arrives with the bridesmaids at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Windsor,

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss on the steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry gestures next to his wife Meghan as they ride a horse-drawn carriage

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex emerge from the West Door of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk after their wedding in St George’s Chapel

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Princess Charlotte sticks out her tongue as she rides in a car to the wedding at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George leave after the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel

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Zalie Warren arrives at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle for the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wave as they ride a horse-drawn carriage after their wedding ceremony

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry ride in an Ascot Landau carriage up the Long Walk at Windsor Castle after their wedding

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Royal fans in Windsor for the wedding celebration

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel

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Doria Ragland and the Prince of Wales leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Prince Harry’s brother and best man Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wait in the chapel ahead of his wedding

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married at St Georges Chapel

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Students of Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School watch a live broadcast of the wedding of Meghan Markle, who graduated from Immaculate Heart in 1999

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk down the steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex leave Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married at St Georges Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry looks at his bride, Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor Castle after their wedding in St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Crowds at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Members of the Royal family watch as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor Castle after their wedding in St George’s Chapel

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Pinky Ghelani and Suzzy Wokabi watch a TV broadcast of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding at the Windsor golf and country club in Nairobi

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married

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The Duke of Cambridge with Prince George leave St George’s Chapel

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Meghan Markle arrives at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage during a procession after getting married at St Georges Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan (R), Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle after their royal wedding ceremony

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle after their wedding in Windsor Castle

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A town crier poses after watching the carriage procession

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss as they leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following their wedding.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss as they leave St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following their wedding.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ride in an open-topped carriage through Windsor Castle after their wedding

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex exit St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex ride in the Ascot Landau carriage during the procession after getting married St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leaves Windsor Castle in the Ascot Landau carriage

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The Prince of Wales leads Meghan Markle up the aisle of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle for her wedding to Prince Harry

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Prince William, Prince Charles, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of York, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, from let, during the wedding ceremony of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex walk down the west steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle after their wedding.

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Crowds gather ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

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George Clooney and his wife British human rights barrister Amal Clooney (R) arrive for the royal wedding ceremony of Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle

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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave from the West Door of St George’s Chapel

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The Duke of Edinburgh leaves St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle

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Oprah Winfrey leaves St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle after the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

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Royal fans watch the wedding

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The Duchess of Cambridge arrives with the bridesmaids at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Windsor,

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kiss on the steps of St George’s Chapel

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Prince Harry gestures next to his wife Meghan as they ride a horse-drawn carriage

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Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot in front of millions on May 19 with a stunning ceremony at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Former Suits actress Meghan became The Duchess of Sussex and wore a custom designed Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy dress, followed by a Stella McCartney halterneck number in the evening.

June

Amesbury poisonings

Dawn Sturgess died in July (PA)

On June 30, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital after falling ill in nearby Amesbury.

Police quickly established that they had been contaminated with the same nerve agent as the Skripals almost four months earlier.

Charlie Rowley fell ill in June following exposure to the nerve agent Novichok (AFP/Getty Images)

They had found a small “Nina Ricci” perfume bottle, which Mr Rowley had attached a small spray dispenser to and given to Ms Sturgess, who had sprayed it on her wrists.

She died on July 8, with Mr Rowley regaining consciousness two days later.

World Cup mania

England fans celebrate World Cup quarter-final victory

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An England supporter is held aloft as fans celebrate in the street beside Borough Market

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England fans set off smoke bombs after the match in front of The Shard

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Red flares are let off in London Bridge

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England fans celebrate as the second goal is scored against Sweden

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Fans sing their joy from traffic lights

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‘It’s coming home’: England fans supported their team at bars and pubs across the UK

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England faced Sweden in their quarter-final match of the World Cup on Saturday

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Fans watch the Sweden game in Millennium Square, Leeds

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A fan cheers on England during the game

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England fans in the stands during the FIFA World Cup

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Jubilant scenes erupt s at Ashton Gate World Cup fans village at the Bristol City football club

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Supporters celebrate as England’s defender Harry Maguire scores the opening goal

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Joyous fans celebrate England’s goal

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Londoners watching from a public screen were overjoyed

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The Three Lions were playing for their spot in the last four of the tournament for the first time in 28 years

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Flat Iron Square in London was filled with happy fans

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Fans watch the nail-biting game

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England fans celebrate as England’s defender Harry Maguire scores the opening goal

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Fans react to England’s second goal from Dele Alli

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England fans react during the game

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An England supporter is held aloft as fans celebrate in the street beside Borough Market

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England fans set off smoke bombs after the match in front of The Shard

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Red flares are let off in London Bridge

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England fans celebrate as the second goal is scored against Sweden

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Fans sing their joy from traffic lights

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Three jubiland fans jump onto a bus in London Bridge

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Another two take a ride on the top of a bus

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‘It’s coming home’: England fans supported their team at bars and pubs across the UK

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England faced Sweden in their quarter-final match of the World Cup on Saturday

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Fans watch the Sweden game in Millennium Square, Leeds

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England fans in the stands during the FIFA World Cup

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Jubilant scenes erupt s at Ashton Gate World Cup fans village at the Bristol City football club

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Supporters celebrate as England’s defender Harry Maguire scores the opening goal

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Joyous fans celebrate England’s goal

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Londoners watching from a public screen were overjoyed

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The Three Lions were playing for their spot in the last four of the tournament for the first time in 28 years

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Flat Iron Square in London was filled with happy fans

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Fans watch the nail-biting game

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England fans celebrate as England’s defender Harry Maguire scores the opening goal

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Fans react to England’s second goal from Dele Alli

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World Cup fever is building among England fans

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Fans were also seen celebrating in Manchester

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England fans react during the game

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England’s World Cup journey kicked off on June 18 with a 2-1 victory against Tunisia, turning the nation into football experts and filling up pubs for the rest of the month.

Our incredible 6-1 win against Panama, including a hat trick from Kane, felt like it united the nation.

The team even managed to win one game, against Colombia, on penalties, despite our reputation for bombing out in shootouts.

Despite it finally feeling like football was coming home, England were knocked out on July 11 in a 2-1 semi-final defeat by Croatia.

July

Thai footballers cave rescue 

Thai cave rescue news football team and coach found ALIVE after being trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave for nine days

The world watched avidly as the junior football team trapped in Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai, Thailand, were rescued.

The 12 team members, aged 11 to 17, and their 25-year-old assistant coach, entered the cave on June 23 before it was flooded, trapping them inside.

It took more than 10,000 people 18 days to finally rescue all the boys. One diver died during the rescue effort.

Trump’s UK visit

Trump Protests in London – In Pictures

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Demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square, London during a ‘Stop Trump’ march as part of the protests against the visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK.

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Tens of thousands of people take part in a Stop Trump Coalition – Stop the War Protest against the US President Donal J. Trump visit at Trafalgar Square in London

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square after marching through London

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Tens of thousands of people marched today in protest at Donald Trump’s UK visit

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square after marching through London

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Regent Street in London

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The protesters took to the streets in anger at the US president’s controversial visit

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square after marching through London

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Protestors hold banners during the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March in London

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Donald Trump earlier gave a bombshell interview with the Sun in which he criticised the Prime Minister’s approach on Brexit

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Regents Street in London

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Demonstrators also inflated a blimp effigy of Donald Trump

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An aerial view of the women’s march in progress

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Donald Trump will meet the Queen later on today

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March hold banners in London

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Thousands more people are expected to march later on

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As many as 70,000 people took to the streets

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People held aloft placards that read: “Trump Not Welcome”

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Bianca Jagger joins protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March in London

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The protesters hold balloons with anti-Trump messages on them

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Trump’s visit was criticised heavily

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Oxford Circus

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Tens of thousands of people take part in a Stop Trump protest

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Protesters gather in central London to demonstrate against President Trump’s visit to the UK

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A drag queen joins protesters against the UK visit of US President Donald Trump

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Huge crowd: a bigger protest is due later today

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March pass along Whitehall in London

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Protesters against the UK visit of US President Donald Trump hold up placards as they take part in a march and rally in London

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James O’Brien sells Donald Trump toilet paper, as part of the protests against the visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK

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Demonstrators protest against the visit of US. President Donald Trump

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A man dressed as President Trump poses for a photograph as protesters against the UK visit of US President Donald Trump

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March pass along Whitehall in London

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March pass near to Trafalgar Square in London

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Protesters join a Women’s march in central London to demonstrate against President Trump’s visit to the UK

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Tens of thousands of people take part in a Stop Trump Coalition – Stop the War Protest against the US President Donald J. Trump visit in London

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Drag queens take part in the Drag Against Trump protest in Piccadilly Circus

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Drag queens take part in the Drag Against Trump protest in Piccadilly Circus

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The “Trump Baby” balloon joins demonstrators as they march to Parliament Square in London

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Demonstrators protest against the visit of US President Donald Trump

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Tens of thousands of people take part in a Stop Trump Coalition – Stop the War Protest against the US President Donal J. Trump visit in London

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Tens of thousands of people take part in a Stop Trump Coalition – Stop the War Protest against the US President Donal J. Trump visit in London

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Demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square, London during a ‘Stop Trump’ march as part of the protests against the visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK.

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Tens of thousands of people marched today in protest at Donald Trump’s UK visit

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Regent Street in London

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Donald Trump earlier gave a bombshell interview with the Sun in which he criticised the Prime Minister’s approach on Brexit

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Regents Street in London

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Demonstrators also inflated a blimp effigy of Donald Trump

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Donald Trump will meet the Queen later on today

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Thousands more people are expected to march later on

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As many as 70,000 people took to the streets

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People held aloft placards that read: “Trump Not Welcome”

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Trump’s visit was criticised heavily

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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through Oxford Circus

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A drag queen joins protesters against the UK visit of US President Donald Trump

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Huge crowd: a bigger protest is due later today

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James O’Brien sells Donald Trump toilet paper, as part of the protests against the visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK

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Demonstrators protest against the visit of US. President Donald Trump

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March pass along Whitehall in London

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Protesters for the ‘Stop Trump’ Women’s March pass near to Trafalgar Square in London

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Drag queens take part in the Drag Against Trump protest in Piccadilly Circus

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Drag queens take part in the Drag Against Trump protest in Piccadilly Circus

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The “Trump Baby” balloon joins demonstrators as they march to Parliament Square in London

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Demonstrators protest against the visit of US President Donald Trump

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The President’s trip to Britain in July caused widespread protests, with a Trump Baby blimp being launched in Parliament Square in his honour.

Tens of thousands lined the capital’s streets, prompting Mr Trump to hold all his meetings outside London.

While he was at his Scottish golf resort, Turnberry, Greenpeace launched their own protest, with a paraglider swooping past the terrace holding a banner which said “Trump: Well below par.”

August

House of Fraser collapse

At least 10 stores will close next year after the chain went into administration (Getty Images)

The retail giant collapsed into administration on August 10 after months of struggle, but was saved by Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct chain for £90 million.

10 stores are set to close next year, with many more at risk of closure as Mr Ashley restructures the business.

Mr Ashley said he wanted to turn the firm into the “Harrods of the high street.”

September

Russians named as poisoning suspects

Suspects in Skripal poisoning claim they went to Salisbury to ‘visit cathedral’

On September 5, British authorities identified two Russian nationals using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as suspects, claiming they were active Russian military intelligence officers.

The two were later identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, a Hero of the Russian Federation, and Dr Alexander Mishkin.

The pair gave an interview to Russian TV in which they claimed they had merely visited Salisbury to see the Cathedral’s famous spire.

October  

Jamal Khashoggi murdered

A demonstrator holds a poster of Jamal Khashoggi outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul where he was killed (AFP/Getty Images)

The Washington Post columnist was murdered on October 2 during a visit to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul.

The journalist, who was an outspoken critic of the kingdom’s government, was attacked moments after going into the consulate to collect documents for his upcoming wedding. 

Mystery has surrounded the events which led to his death, with Saudi Arabia accepting he died in the building. The investigation into his death is still ongoing with Saudi Arabia’s leaders facing international condemnation.

People’s Vote march attracts 700,000 

Hundreds of thousands of protesters attended a march through London seeking a referendum on the final Brexit deal, including politicians and celebrities.

Eugenie’s wedding

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Princess Eugenie of York and Jack Brooksbank tied the knot on October 12 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

Guests included members of the Royal Family, celebrities, musicians and models.

Meghan and Harry royal baby announcement

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced that they were expecting on October 15, and that the baby is due in Spring.

They made the announcement as they landed in Australia for their first royal tour together.

The baby will be seventh in line to the throne.

November

Government resignations 

Brexit secretary Dominic Raab also resigned from the Cabinet (AFP/Getty Images)

Beginning with Jo Johnson, former transport minister, waves of resignations hit Theresa May’s Government in November.

Ministers, aides and private secretaries all stepped down amid rows over the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal.

California wildfires 

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Travis Lee Hogan, of Paradise, comforts his mother, Bridgett Hogan, while they stay at a makeshift evacuation center for people displaced by the Camp Fire in Chico, California

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aerial photo, a burned neighborhood is seen in Paradise, California on November 15, 2018.

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Trish Moutard (C), of Sacramento, searches for human remains with her cadaver dog, I.C., in a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise

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The Santa Monica Mountains are seen left blackened by the Woolsey Fire near Malibu, California

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Members of the California Army National Guard take a break at they search burned homes for human remains at the Camp Fire

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Ashley Dancin, 30, who was displaced from her home in Concow by the Camp Fire, looks through free clothing at a makeshift evacuation center in Chico, California

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Ashley Sheppard, whose house burned down, tends to her baby at an evacuee encampment in a Walmart parking lot in Chico, California

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An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California.

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Residences were leveled by the wildfire in Paradise

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Rescue workers search for human remains at a home that was burned by the Camp Fire

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Scorched hillsides are seen where the Woolsey Fire reached the ocean on November 14, 2018 near Malibu, California.

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Volunteer Cathryn Flores classifies clothes at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California

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The ruins of an ocean view home are seen in the aftermath of the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, California

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A cadaver dog named I.C. searches for human remains in an area destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California

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NASA’s Operational Land Imager satellite image shows the Camp Fire burning at around 10:45 a.m. local time near Paradise, California, U.S., on November 8, 2018.

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A NASA Terra satellite image shows smoke continuing to spread west from the Camp Fire and two more fires, the Hill and Woolsey Fires in southern California, U.S., on November 9, 2018

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A long line of residents seeking to return to Malibu,

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Katherine Marinara and her son Luca return to their fire-ravaged home along Busch Drive in Malibu, California

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A melted fence runs along a hillside as firefighters continue to battle the Woolsey Fire burning in Southern California

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Firefighters inspect a property destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California

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The remains of burnt down homes and vechicles resulting from the Woolsey Fire are seen on Busch Drive in Malibu, California

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Katherine Marinara and her son Luca find what they came back to look for, old family photographs, at their burnt down house resulting from the Woolsey Fire on Busch Drive in Malibu

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A fireplace and chimney are all that remains of a house on Busch Drive, a casualty of the Woolsey Fire, on November 13, 2018 in Malibu, California.

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Roger Kelton searches through the remains of his mother-in-law’s home leveled by the Woolsey Fire

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A children’s toy destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradise, California, U.S.

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Cal Fire firefighters comb through a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S

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A cadaver dog and his handler search for victims in a burnt-out residential street ravaged by the Camp Fire in Paradise

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A large plume of smoke from a wildfire near Lake Sherwood can be seen from Malibu

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A large wildfire plume from a recent flareup near Lake Sherwood, Calif., is visible from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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A truck destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradise, California

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Cal Fire firefighters comb through a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California,

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Firefighters battle the blaze as it tears through Paradise, California

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A fire burns at the Salvation Army Camp

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A firefighter battles a hotspot caused by the Woolsey Fire in Malibu,

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Firefighters work to extinguish a flare-up of the Woolsey Fire on a hillside in West Hills,

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Yuba and Butte County Sheriff officers inspect a burnt vehicle

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A burnt vehicle , rests against a tree in Concow, California

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Power lines rest on cars that were burned by the Camp Fire

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Firefighters battle a blaze at the Salvation Army Camp

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The Camp Fire burns along a ridgetop near Big Bend

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A view of homes destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradis

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A firefighter monitors a wildfires burning along a hillside

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The fire broke out on Thursday north west of Los Angeles

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A vehicle drives through smoke from a wildfire near Pulga

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75,000 properties have been evacuated in Malibu

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An aircraft drops flame retardant as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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An aircraft drops water as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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An aircraft drops water as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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Burned cars and property sit across from an intact home, after a wildfire tore through the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park, in Agoura Hills

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Smoke is seen as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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Properties burned and destroyed from wildfires sit across from intact homes in the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park

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Members of hand crew work rest on a hillside in West Hills

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A firefighter sprays water on the remaining hot spots

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Firefighters spray water from a fire truck as they battle the Woolsey

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As the Camp Fire burns nearby, a scorched car rests by gas pumps near Pulga

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An American flag is draped over the charred remains of an old pickup truck entering Point Dume along the pacific coast highway in Malibu

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A burned out hot tub and a fireplace are all that remains of a house in Point Dume

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Santos Alvarado, right, and his son Ricky recover a safe deposit box from their destroyed home

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A home burns as the Camp Fire moves through Paradise, California

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Donna Phillips shows a charred Route 66 sign she found among the possessions of her friend Marsha Maus

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Santos Alvarado, right, and his son Ricky search for belongings at their destroyed home

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Ricky Alvarado is framed by a hole in his roof as he looks over the charred remains of his home

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Firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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The burning area by the Camp Fire near the town of Paradise is nearly 110 square miles in size

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Statues are seen on a smouldering property in Paradise, California

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Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California

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Travis Lee Hogan, of Paradise, comforts his mother, Bridgett Hogan, while they stay at a makeshift evacuation center for people displaced by the Camp Fire in Chico, California

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Trish Moutard (C), of Sacramento, searches for human remains with her cadaver dog, I.C., in a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise

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The Santa Monica Mountains are seen left blackened by the Woolsey Fire near Malibu, California

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Members of the California Army National Guard take a break at they search burned homes for human remains at the Camp Fire

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Ashley Dancin, 30, who was displaced from her home in Concow by the Camp Fire, looks through free clothing at a makeshift evacuation center in Chico, California

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Ashley Sheppard, whose house burned down, tends to her baby at an evacuee encampment in a Walmart parking lot in Chico, California

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An aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 15, 2018 in Paradise, California.

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Residences were leveled by the wildfire in Paradise

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Rescue workers search for human remains at a home that was burned by the Camp Fire

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Scorched hillsides are seen where the Woolsey Fire reached the ocean on November 14, 2018 near Malibu, California.

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Volunteer Cathryn Flores classifies clothes at a donation fair for fire evacuees camping at a parking lot in Chico, California

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The ruins of an ocean view home are seen in the aftermath of the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, California

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A cadaver dog named I.C. searches for human remains in an area destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California

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NASA’s Operational Land Imager satellite image shows the Camp Fire burning at around 10:45 a.m. local time near Paradise, California, U.S., on November 8, 2018.

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A NASA Terra satellite image shows smoke continuing to spread west from the Camp Fire and two more fires, the Hill and Woolsey Fires in southern California, U.S., on November 9, 2018

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A long line of residents seeking to return to Malibu,

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Katherine Marinara and her son Luca return to their fire-ravaged home along Busch Drive in Malibu, California

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A melted fence runs along a hillside as firefighters continue to battle the Woolsey Fire burning in Southern California

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Firefighters inspect a property destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California

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The remains of burnt down homes and vechicles resulting from the Woolsey Fire are seen on Busch Drive in Malibu, California

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Katherine Marinara and her son Luca find what they came back to look for, old family photographs, at their burnt down house resulting from the Woolsey Fire on Busch Drive in Malibu

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A fireplace and chimney are all that remains of a house on Busch Drive, a casualty of the Woolsey Fire, on November 13, 2018 in Malibu, California.

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Roger Kelton searches through the remains of his mother-in-law’s home leveled by the Woolsey Fire

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A children’s toy destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradise, California, U.S.

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Cal Fire firefighters comb through a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, U.S

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A cadaver dog and his handler search for victims in a burnt-out residential street ravaged by the Camp Fire in Paradise

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A large plume of smoke from a wildfire near Lake Sherwood can be seen from Malibu

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A large wildfire plume from a recent flareup near Lake Sherwood, Calif., is visible from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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A truck destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradise, California

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Cal Fire firefighters comb through a house destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California,

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Firefighters battle the blaze as it tears through Paradise, California

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A fire burns at the Salvation Army Camp

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A firefighter battles a hotspot caused by the Woolsey Fire in Malibu,

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A wildfire burns at the Salvation Army Camp

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Firefighters work to extinguish a flare-up of the Woolsey Fire on a hillside in West Hills,

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Yuba and Butte County Sheriff officers inspect a burnt vehicle

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A burnt vehicle , rests against a tree in Concow, California

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Power lines rest on cars that were burned by the Camp Fire

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Firefighters battle a blaze at the Salvation Army Camp

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A wildfire burns at the Salvation Army Camp

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The Camp Fire burns along a ridgetop near Big Bend

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A view of homes destroyed by the Camp Fire is seen in Paradis

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A firefighter monitors a wildfires burning along a hillside

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The fire broke out on Thursday north west of Los Angeles

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A vehicle drives through smoke from a wildfire near Pulga

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75,000 properties have been evacuated in Malibu

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An aircraft drops flame retardant as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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An aircraft drops flame retardant as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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An aircraft drops water as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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An aircraft drops water as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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Burned cars and property sit across from an intact home, after a wildfire tore through the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park, in Agoura Hills

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Smoke is seen as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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Properties burned and destroyed from wildfires sit across from intact homes in the Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park

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Members of hand crew work rest on a hillside in West Hills

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A firefighter sprays water on the remaining hot spots

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Firefighters spray water from a fire truck as they battle the Woolsey

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As the Camp Fire burns nearby, a scorched car rests by gas pumps near Pulga

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An American flag is draped over the charred remains of an old pickup truck entering Point Dume along the pacific coast highway in Malibu

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The burnt wreckage of a vehicle

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A burned out hot tub and a fireplace are all that remains of a house in Point Dume

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Santos Alvarado, right, and his son Ricky recover a safe deposit box from their destroyed home

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A home burns as the Camp Fire moves through Paradise, California

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Donna Phillips shows a charred Route 66 sign she found among the possessions of her friend Marsha Maus

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Santos Alvarado, right, and his son Ricky search for belongings at their destroyed home

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Ricky Alvarado is framed by a hole in his roof as he looks over the charred remains of his home

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Firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire as it continues to burn in Malibu

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The burning area by the Camp Fire near the town of Paradise is nearly 110 square miles in size

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The raging blaze has forced thousands from their homes and ravaged the landscape

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The community of Paradise, California has been ‘destroyed,’ firefighters said

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A firefighting DC-10 makes a fire retardant drop over a wildfire in the mountains near Malibu

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Burned hills are seen as firefighters battle the Woolsey Fire

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Flames and smoke light up ridge lines from the Woosley Fire in California

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Statues are seen on a smouldering property in Paradise, California

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Search and rescue teams scramble to evacuate patients as the Feather River Hospital burns during the Camp fire in Paradise, California

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California suffered from its most destructive ever wildfires, with more than 1.89 million acres covered and 104 deaths.

Thousands of homes, including those of Miley Cyrus, Neil Young and Gerard Butler, were destroyed.

December

Brexit sparks leadership crisis for PM

Theresa May on March 29, 2017, after she announced Article 50 had been triggered (PA)

The Government was thrown into even more chaos in December when at least 48 MPs submitted letters of no confidence in Theresa May to the 1922 Committee, prompting a vote over her leadership.

The letters came flooding in after Mrs May agreed the terms of Britain’s withdrawal from Europe.

She survived the vote with a majority of 83, with 200 voting for her and 117 voting against.

She secured victory after announcing that she would not run for PM in the next General Election planned for 2022, but her Brexit plan has not yet been agreed on by MPs and the UK is facing the prospect of leaving the bloc with no deal in place.

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