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Ireland’s best-known soprano effortlessly moves from opera to ‘The Sound Of Music’

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French fashion house Balenciaga launches bag that looks just like the Swedish store’s hold-all

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It’s turning your home into ‘nest’ – lock your phone away in a sustainably harvested wood box, invite your friends around and banish anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming

Lawsuit claims Led Zeppelin copied distinctive guitar riff from ‘Taurus’ by band Spirit

Led Zeppelin accused of copying distinctive guitar pattern from a song by band Spirit

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Rather than staying close to Disney's 1964 musical, Julian Fellowes' adaptation goes back to PL Travers' books. The result is a Mary Poppins even the author would love

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The ‘Night at the Museum’ franchise limps into Bloomsbury: it should go no further

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Rumour sparks consternation in Malaysia about potential cost-cutting

Disney’s Triumph of the Walt is supercalifragilistic propaganda wites Donald Clarke

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