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It’s one of the biggest streamed metal songs of all time, but what role did the hand of fate play in its origin?

The movie is titled Remain

Hadi Matar, found guilty of attempted murder in 2022 attack that partially blinded author, to be sentenced 16 May

An Arizona jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of conspiring to murder her estranged husband

Over the last century of glorious, tragic, turbulent and innovative human endeavour, the cover of the New Yorker magazine has used only the illustrated image to communicate talking points of American – and specifically New York City – life and culture.

The Cardinals are attending the last mass before electing the new pope - but who is in contention for the role?

Colonel Archibald Gracie wrote the famous book The Truth About The Titanic, detailing his experiences onboard the ill-fated liner.

Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children, has died

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.