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Movie review: Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ is a violent feast for the senses

You never would accuse Robert Eggers of being just another filmmaker.

Tribune News Service

Heartbreak as Antiques Roadshow rare Fabergé box halves in value after discovery

Jewellery historian John calmly talked the audience through the valuation of the “rather plain” box, before excitedly revealing it was actually a Fabergé cigarette case and was worth thousands of pounds

Daily Mirror

Antiques Roadshow guest devastated as heirloom halves in value due to tiny damage

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left devastated when the family's heirloom plummeted in value after the expert spotted out a small amount of damage on it

Daily Mirror

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The Northman review – Robert Eggers’s ambitious, preposterous Viking epic

Understatement is not on the menu as Alexander Skarsgård scorches through a mission of bloody vengeance in this oddly plodding Scandi saga

The Guardian - UK

'How many graves? Go count them': Russia batters Ukraine's east

SEVERODONETSK, Ukraine — The rows of graves were marked with simple crosses of fresh-cut wood. Black plaques with gold lettering declared the names. The occasional wreath broke the monotony of dull earthen colors, and, in the front, three rectangular holes awaited the newly fallen.

Los Angeles Times

What happened in Bucha? Inside Ukrainian city of horrors caught up in Russia's battle for Kyiv

Bucha resident Larysa Savenko spent five weeks hiding in her shed in the freezing cold as Russians occupied her town. Now the horror on her street has become the latest defining image of the war.

ABC News

Balfron villagers step up to plate as Ukraine refugee responses kicks into gear

The village is like so many areas of the country reading to welcome refugees into their homes.

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Russian family prefers exile to 'unbearable' pro-war mood at home

A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.

Reuters

A Life of Picasso Volume IV by John Richardson review – demon or deity?

This ingenious final volume of an epic biography illuminates the imagery in the artist’s work during Europe’s war years and his complicated love life

The Guardian - UK

Book of the Week: Crazy lady in an apartment

A moaner's story, shortlisted for the Ockham fiction award

Newsroom.co.nz

Heroic Ukrainian mum saves baby’s life by using body to shield her from shelling

Olga was badly injured by shrapnel during Vladimir Putin's assault on Kyiv last week and has been seen cradling her newborn baby while wrapped in a foil blanket and covered in bandages

Daily Mirror

Ukrainian woman seriously wounded while sheltering her baby from shrapnel blasts in Kyiv

Olga says a blanket wrapped around the baby protected the child from shrapnel

The Independent UK

Gran in tears fearing her loved ones are dead after Russian troops obliterate theatre

Ukrainian Nina Slastian, 53, has been unable to contact her friends and family for three weeks and is desperate to know if they are still alive after Russia bombed the theatre in Mariupol

Daily Mirror

Olga review – Ukrainian gymnast drama given fierce new focus by events

Anastasia Budiashkina is excellent as a young athlete exiled during the 2014 revolution in this moving drama released to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees

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Reuters

A long road and new life ahead for Ukrainians fleeing war by taxi

Olga and her two children, including six-month-old Vera, are crossing Europe by road, fleeing war in Ukraine with the help of a group of Spanish taxi drivers who drove to Poland to support the mass evacuation of refugees.

The Independent UK

‘For many years we will have to ask forgiveness’: Russian protester speaks of shame over Ukraine invasion

Exclusive: Muscovite who has risked arrest to oppose Putin’s war says Russians like her want to leave country for good

ABC News

The best new books to read in March as selected by avid readers and critics

Three wildly different debuts from Australian authors and two strangely hopeful — yet uncomfortably close to home — dystopian novels are among our book critics' top picks for the month.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Isolated Russians Scramble for Hard Currency, Fear Worse Is Yet to Come

Queues of people snaked through Moscow shopping malls on Tuesday as the scramble for hard currency continued, and Russians faced increasing isolation as sanctions made travel harder and sports teams were ejected from major competitions. Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine threaten to decimate the economy, and have already…

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France 24

The feathers of Montmartre: Behind the scenes at the Moulin Rouge

Located in Paris's famed Montmartre district, the Moulin Rouge is the most famous cabaret in the world and has entertained revellers for 120 years. Home to the French cancan, it recruits the best dancers, who wear the best costumes. Each show requires 1,000 costumes at a budget of €4 million.…

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