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The 2024 hurricane season has been especially disastrous, and the casualties and widespread damage from flooding and high winds in towns like Cedar Key, Florida, call to mind another historic hurricane, the Labor Day hurricane of 1935.

Every year the Spanish ministry of culture awards prizes for different artistic disciplines. From next year onwards, the country’s national bullfighting award will be withdrawn. The current Spanish minister of culture, the Barcelona-born Green politician Ernest Urtasun, supports the prohibition of what has long been known as Spain’s “national fiesta”.

Just as people go bankrupt in two ways – gradually, then suddenly, as Ernest Hemingway famously put it – so organisations corrode morally, first bit by bit and then all in a rush. We are seeing this play out for the Conservative party in the final week of the UK’s…

Paris was at a peak in 1924 when it last hosted the Olympics, with sprinters Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots Of Fire.

From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish civil war divided neighbours, friends and families, and people both inside and outside Spain kept a close eye on what was happening in the country.

In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour

With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapism

This star-studded adaptation promises scandal and intrigue

At least two Sri Lankans have been killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, and three on the Ukrainian side.