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SPECIAL REPORT: World affairs editor Sam Kiley joins RAF support patrols over Poland on what is effectively Nato’s eastern flank against Vladimir Putin’s Russia – and sees a war without end

INTERVIEW: Two years after the live-action ‘Little Mermaid’ shot him to fame, the British actor is now entering his romcom era via a provocative yet tender-hearted new movie. He talks to Olivia Petter about frustrated musicianship, class privilege and his unlikely love of a good cleaning product

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: No one has done more to bring performance art into the mainstream. Ahead of her largest, most ambitious show to date, an erotic spectacle tapping into her Balkan heritage, the artist speaks with Annabel Nugent about creating art from the soul, the headline that got under her…

COMMENT: With the latest edition of his ‘Monster’ series, the showrunner leans, yet again, into his icky instincts and leaves nothing to the imagination, writes Nick Hilton

WELL ENOUGH: The Gut Health Doctor is changing everything you thought you knew about food and mood. She tells Emilie Lavinia about her latest piece of research

COMMENT: The most-discussed song on ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sees Swift apparently stoke up a feud with one-time pal Charli xcx. Katie Rosseinsky explores why rivalries like this provoke such fascination

The Met Office said the highest recorded gust on Friday was at Tiree in the Hebrides at 96mph.

Matmo has regained strength, becoming a typhoon again as it left the Philippines and moved toward southern China’s Hainan province, after it had earlier weakened into a storm

Maldives police have arrested eight people during an overnight public protest accusing the government of corruption and curtailment of basic freedoms

A nonprofit group in Miami is helping reduce the strain on emergency rooms by providing homeless people with health care where they live

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