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Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’

Offering guests hourly rates and privacy, “love hotels” can be found across Japan. But as photographer François Prost documents, their architecture can be far from discreet.

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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

Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac

The secret birthday parties of Kabul’s teenage girls

The circular homes designed to withstand a category 5 hurricane

Celestial dancer (Devata). Central India, Madhya Pradesh. mid-11th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

US returns looted antiquities worth $10 million to India

A rare penthouse inside a glimmering gold dome is up for sale in New York City.

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Lavish gold-domed penthouse in New York City on sale for $25 million

Miss Denmark, Victoria Kjær Theilvig, is crowned as Miss Universe 2024 in The 73rd Miss Universe Competition - show at Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 16, 2024.

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Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024

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

Barry Keoghan attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 15th Governors Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

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Look of the Week: Barry Keoghan makes the case for the male pussy-bow

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Latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar unveiled

Modern and contemporary fake artworks including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol are displayed following an Italian Carabinieri operation against a large-scale pan-European forgery network, in Pisa, Italy, November 9, 2024.

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

Arts

circa 1500: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), an Italian diplomat and political theorist. He served in the Florentine government until the Medici restoration in 1512, and in 1513, wrote his most famous work, 'The Prince'. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Rare first edition of Machiavelli’s famous leadership treatise, ‘The Prince,’ goes up for auction

Viral banana artwork has sold again — this time for $6.24 million

Stained-glass Tiffany window sells for record $12.48 million at auction

Italy's Carabinieri presents recovered Etruscan archaeological artefacts, in Rome, Italy, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

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Italy recovers Etruscan artifacts dug up by ‘amateurish’ tomb raiders

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies after falling from building

British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion

René Magritte's L'empire des lumières

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René Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ sells for record $121 million

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

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

Architecture

UFOs, boats and castles: Surreal photos of Japan’s most peculiar ‘love hotels’

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

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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‘Hotel in nature’: Inside the world’s best new skyscraper

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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Construction of world’s tallest skyscraper resumes after years-long hiatus

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

Fashion

Jacquemus Spring 2020

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How a humble strip of walkway changed fashion forever

Limited Too releases a collection for adults.

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

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

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

Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls, 2004.

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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

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

Mathilde Wittock - Soundbounce.

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Meet the artist transforming tennis balls into furniture

Beauty

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 14: Miss Chile Emilia Dides participates in the The 73rd Miss Universe Competition - Preliminary Competition at Arena Ciudad de Mexico on November 14, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

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See the best — and most outlandish — national costumes from Miss Universe 2024

Reed Putnam poses for a photo with onlookers of the Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest in Washington Square Park, New York City, on October 27.

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What looking like Timothée Chalamet taught me about fame

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

Freya Rogers

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

Luxury

Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million<br />Rare Coin Found in a Piece of Old Furniture Breaks World Record

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Rare silver coin struck before the American Revolution sets auction record, selling for $2.52 million

Captain Rostron's gold pocket watch sold for a record-breaking £1.56 million at auction.

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Gold watch gifted to Titanic hero who saved 700 lives sells for record £1.5 million

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

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

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‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction

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A series about the origins of certain societal standards and the forces rapidly expanding our definition of beauty today.

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At afternoon tea overlooking his most famous creation, the architect reflects on icons, idealism and redefining skylines.

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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How this dream-like photo challenges the male gaze

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Life in limbo: Photographer documents ‘Kafka-esque’ migrant experience

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This photo of male intimacy in 1980s India was more subversive than it seems

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How this photographer makes sublime landscapes of the American West

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

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Photo of a man posing with a Coca-Cola bottle symbolized a cultural shift in China