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Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2024. A group of teenage girls celebrate their friend's birthday at her house. Music and dancing have been forbidden by the Taliban but women continue to dance and celebrate in the privacy of their homes and behind the closed doors. © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac

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The secret birthday parties of Kabul’s teenage girls

Kiana Hayeri’s anonymous photo is just one of many she took showing the realities of life under Taliban rule for women and young girls since the extremist group returned to power in 2021.

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Latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar unveiled

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Huge diamond necklace linked to Marie Antoinette scandal sells for $4.8 million

Britain's 'best new building of 1996' to be demolished Centenary Building salford

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Award-winning building to be demolished less than 30 years after being built

Samantha Harvey poses with the trophy and her book "Orbital" after winning the Booker Prize award 2024, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize

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The circular homes designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane

A model walks the runway during the CHANEL Cruise 2024/25 Hong Kong Replica evening show at the Hong Kong Design Institute, in Hong Kong, China on November 5, 2024.

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Chanel showcases dreamy resort collection in Hong Kong

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 09: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande attend the Los Angeles Premiere of Universal Pictures "Wicked" at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on November 09, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

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The ‘Wicked’ cast is giving us a lesson in method dressing

Arts

The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments.

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Oldest stone tablet inscribed with Bible’s Ten Commandments to be sold at auction

Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million

Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy

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AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million

Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million

What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth

Charli XCX shared her new remix album with a few hundred fans at a special event at Storm King in New Windsor, New York, on Oct. 10, 2024.

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Collins Dictionary’s word of the year is a confident, messy way of life

The enduring allure of Tim Burton’s macabre world

‘This is what it means to be from Gaza’: Poet captures people’s stories of life, love and loss

Architecture

This photograph taken on October 24, 2024, shows a view of the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. On October 24, 2024, the diocese reiterated the principle of "free admission to churches and cathedrals", defended by the Catholic Church in France, following Culture Minister Rachida Dati's proposal to charge tourists admission to Notre-Dame de Paris.

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Notre-Dame’s bells ring out for the first time since the devastating 2019 fire

The skyscrapers where nobody lives

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Super-thin skyscraper, just one apartment wide, planned for Dubai

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This small suburban school was named the world’s best new building

For buildings of this stature, wind load could also put stress on the structure. To battle this, the design of the structure will change every few floors.

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These buildings would have transformed skylines, but they were never built

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Queen Victoria’s favorite Tuscan villa for sale for more than $55 million

Fashion

Limited Too releases a collection for adults.

Limited Too makes a comeback, catering to grown-up fans

Heidi Klum attends Heidi Klum's 23rd Annual Halloween Party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on October 31, 2024 in New York City.

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Look of the Week: Heidi Klum arrives at annual Halloween bash in elaborate E.T. costume

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Remember when Lindsay Lohan wore the unsexiest Halloween costume ever?

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‘Proof of how hard I fought’: Why Olivia Munn chose to show her mastectomy scars in new Skims campaign

B-Girl Raygun of Team Australia reacts during the B-Girls Round Robin - Group B on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Place de la Concorde on August 09, 2024 in Paris, France.

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These are 2024’s top trending Halloween costumes, according to Google

Zendaya attends the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony streaming on Disney+ at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on October 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Look of the Week: Zendaya pays tribute to Cher in shimmering vintage gown

Andrew Garfield poses with a cut out of fellow actor Florence Pugh upon arrival at the premiere for the film 'We Live In Time' on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in London.

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Look of the Week: Andrew Garfield debuts an unusual red carpet accessory

Gigi Hadid walks the runway during the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Can a troubled Victoria’s Secret successfully write its next chapter? It’s certainly pulling out all the stops

Design

Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Irene Wang

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World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space

A display of "Hello Kitty" items are seen at a press preview of the "CUTE" exhibition at Somerset House in London, England, on January 24, 2024.

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Hello Kitty at 50: The mouthless face that launched an $80 billion empire

Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube.

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This is the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works

Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, stands beside China's moon-landing spacesuit during the opening ceremony of the 3rd Space Suit Technology Forum on September 28, 2024 in Chongqing, China.

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China’s astronauts are aiming to land on the moon by 2030. They now have a new spacesuit to do it

Republicans are red and Democrats blue. But it wasn’t always that way

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Meet the artist transforming tennis balls into furniture

Beauty

Choi Soon-hwa strikes a pose during rehearsals for Miss Universe Korea, on September 27, 2024.

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Meet the 80-year-old Miss Universe Korea contestant proving age is just a number

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Losing my sight as a child took away my self confidence. Makeup gave me it back

Krystyna Pyszková (C) and 7 contestants at the Miss World Grand Finale on March 9, 2024 Mumbai, India.

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Woman challenges rules banning mothers from Miss America and Miss World pageants

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

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D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s bold Emmys statement highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women

ELMONT, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Chappell Roan attends the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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‘It’s not meant to look classically beautiful’: Chappell Roan’s makeup artist breaks down her VMAs look

Chidimma Adetshina, the winner of the Miss Universe Nigeria 2024, reacts during the Miss Universe Nigeria 2024 held at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre on August 31, 2024.

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Beauty queen at center of South Africa xenophobia spat crowned Miss Universe Nigeria

Pamela Anderson walking on the red carpet at the 2024 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala celebrating the opening of the exhibition titled Sleeping Beauties Reawakening Fashion held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)

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Thin eyebrows are back, but should they be?

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - AUGUST 28: Dove Camerson attends the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for MTV/Paramount Global)<br /><br /><br />NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Cardi B attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)<br /><br /><br />LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: Florence Pugh attends the World Premiere of "Dune: Part Two" in London's Leicester Square on February 15, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)

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The creatives pushing nail art to sculptural new lengths

Luxury

14th November 1947: Mr Schur (centre), chief confectioner at McVitie and Price Ltd, standing next to the official cake for Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbatten which is nine feet tall. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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‘Very rare’ 77-year-old piece of cake from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s wedding sells for $2,800

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‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction

SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826; JOHN ADAMS. 1735-1826; AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. Letter signed ("John Adams," "Benjamin Franklin," and "Thomas Jefferson"), to the Envoy Extraordinary of the King of the Two Sicilies seeking negotiations for a Treaty of Amity and Commerce,

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Rare letter signed by Founding Fathers expected to fetch $1 million at auction

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Independent Russian watchmaker upends race to design world’s thinnest wristwatch

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 02: Kim Kardashian attends the 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 02, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

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Kim Kardashian gives Princess Diana’s famed cross necklace its first public outing

George Washington, c. 1803/1805. Artist Gilbert Stuart.

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Lock of George Washington’s hair among historic presidential items up for auction

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Photography

Wall running is part of the training regimen of young practitioners learning martial arts at a training institute in China. This photo, provided courtesy of Magnum Photos, was taken at Shaolin Academy, Henan Province, China in 2004.

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China’s Shaolin monks are known for their incredible acrobatics. This photographer captured them in action

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A man holds a Coca-Cola bottle outside the Forbidden City in 1981.

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