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If a picture paints a thousand words... Here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (24-28 March 2025).

Pensioners Florence and Peter Fanning, from North Lanarkshire, are challenging last year’s change to the winter fuel payment.

After Amber Butler’s water broke in the middle of the night, she and partner Ben Chan were forced to drive to Tweed hospital in the midst of the tropical cyclone

The Weeknd has wrapped his 'After Hours' trilogy with the 22-song epic 'Hurry Up Tomorrow'.

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Curtis Sittenfeld, Daisy Lester rounds up the buzziest titles for this year

We're obsessed with these titles by Mona Awad, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

These are beyond cute

Fiorentina and Inter players had squabbled over a VAR check before the hosts’ midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest

The new show from 'The Good Place' creator Mike Schur stars Ted Danson and several other sitcom legends.

In Baku, Azerbaijan the two-week United Nations climate negotiations, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to poor to try to curb and adapt…