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Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit

A conservative Los Angeles-based influencer stated that legislative issues should be left up to individual states to be decided: including whether or not slavery is enacted.

The primary school children, wearing hand-made crowns, were waiting to see the royal couple outside St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh.

I spent 10 years burying the shame of being a failed contestant on the US version of the show. Then a 15-year-old helped me see it differently, says comedian Emily Wilson

A brutal take-down on the TV talent show led Emily Wilson into therapy. A decade later, she has turned her grim experience into award-winning standup

Environmental activists became trapped deep underground 25 years ago when a tunnel collapsed during an attempt to stop the building of Runway 2

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

Wilson relives her tumultuous turn as a teenage talent show contestant armed with laughter and song, topped with a touching tribute to her plucky younger self

Oscar the rescue puppy battled to survive a deadly virus but sadly lost his life, despite receiving round-the-clock emergency care - it came as a huge shock to the vets who had very quickly fallen in love with him