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From bombs to ballet: Ukraine dancers perform ‘Giselle’ in London

September 15, 2022197 Views

At the London Coliseum theatre, a cast of Ukrainian dancers rehearse a new production of "Giselle", as Russian-born choreographer and former Bolshoi Ballet director Alexei Ratmansky watches from the sidelines. The performers are part of The United Ukrainian Ballet, a company of 60 refugee Ukrainian dancers, technicians and creatives who fled their home country after Moscow launched its invasion in February. "The company was formed to give these dancers... a job, to give them something to do and to rehearse, to dance, to receive money," Ratmansky told Reuters. "And to tell the world that Ukraine is strong, Ukrainian culture lives on." Formed in the spring, the company is based in the Netherlands and draws dancers from all over Ukraine. Ratmansky, who was born in Russia and liv...

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Neolithic culinary traditions uncovered in Britain

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September 6, 2022796 Views

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots. Using chemical analysis of ancient, and incredibly well-preserved pottery found in the waters surrounding small artificial islands called crannogs in Scotland, the team were able to discern that cereals were cooked in pots and mixed with dairy products and occasionally meat, probably to create early forms of gruel and stew. They also discovered that the people visiting these crannogs used smaller pots to cook cereals with milk and larger pots for meat-based dishes. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Communications. Aerial view of the crannog at Loc...

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Notting Hill Carnival returns to London streets after hiatus

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August 28, 2022590 Views

The annual Notting Hill Carnival has returned to the streets of London for the first time since 2019, with more than 1 million people expected to take in the music, spectacular parades, dancing and food offerings at Europe’s largest street party on Sunday and Monday. The carnival, which celebrates Caribbean culture at the end of August every year, had to take place online for two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. Performers attend the Family Day at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday Aug. 28, 2022. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) Performers dance during the Family Day at the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday Aug. 28, 2022. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) The carnival traces its history back to 1958, when Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones began organizi...

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UK outbound travel to surpass pre-pandemic levels by 2024

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August 18, 20221038 Views

British holiday flyers are set to be back in full swing, with the country’s outbound travel figures reaching 86.9 million by 2024, surpassing the 84.7 million figure recorded in 2019 despite the economic decline in Europe, estimates GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. According to GlobalData, budget-friendly travel —especially in the country’s favorite holiday destination, Spain—is set to be most popular. FILE PHOTO: Passengers queue to enter airport security ahead of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport, in London, Britain, April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay GlobalData’s latest report, ‘United Kingdom (UK) Source Tourism Insight, 2022 Update’, notes that the recovery in outbound tourism follows a weak 2020 and 2021, where lower trave...

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London’s Horniman Museum to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

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August 8, 2022628 Views

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government. Created from brass and bronze in the once mighty Kingdom of Benin in what is now southwestern Nigeria from at least the 16th century onwards, the Benin Bronzes are among Africa's most culturally significant artefacts. A square bronze pendant or ornament, one of the objects that London's Horniman Museum says was looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 and will be returned to Nigeria's government, is pictured in this undated handout image. Horniman Museum and Gardens/Handout via REUTERS They were seized, along with thousands of other items, in a British military incursion, a...

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‘Living Sculpture’ Daniel Lismore brings wearable art to London

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August 7, 2022751 Views

British artist Daniel Lismore's monumental pieces of "wearable art" featuring everything from rubbish to elaborate headgear studded with jewels took centre stage at London's Victoria and Albert Museum on Friday. Guests were invited to closely inspect the nearly 2-metre (6-foot, 4-inch) tall pieces, one of which was worn by Lismore, who calls himself "a living sculpture". British multidisciplinary artist Daniel Lismore wears one of his sculptural artwork creations next to other mannequins which form part of the "Fashion in Motion: Daniel Lismore" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Britain, August 5, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville "I'm not a performance artist or a drag queen, I just live as art," he said in an interview. The pieces -- featuring brightly colour...

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London’s Heathrow airport apologizes for travel disruptions

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July 11, 2022608 Views

London’s Heathrow Airport apologized Monday to passengers whose travels were disrupted by staff shortages and warned it may ask airlines to cut more flights from their summer schedules to reduce the strain if the chaos persists. Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, said service levels have been unacceptable at times in recent weeks, with long lines for security, delays helping passengers with reduced mobility, and luggage going missing or arriving late. “We want to apologize to any passengers who have been affected by this,” the airport said in a monthly traffic update. FILE PHOTO: Travellers queue at security at Heathrow Airport in London, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein) Booming demand for summer travel after two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions have ...

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Party now, pay later: Glastonbury a break from cost-of-living worries

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June 25, 2022625 Views

Festival-goers are determined to have a blast at Glastonbury and put the rising cost of fuel, food and drink to the back of their minds until they leave Worthy Farm on Monday after a weekend of escapism. A majority of the 200,000 people at the renowned British music festival secured a ticket in autumn 2019, when 'coronavirus' was a word familiar to few outside the science community and inflation was 1.5%. Two and half years later, inflation is 9.1%. Revellers dance at The Park stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Although COVID restrictions are over, the festival scene is not immune to the pressure, with both vendors and revellers feeling the impact. "We're probably going to fork out a lot of mone...

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Crowds mark summer solstice at ancient Stonehenge monument

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June 21, 2022665 Views

Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on Tuesday, the longest day of the northern hemisphere year. Wiltshire Police said about 6,000 people gathered at the ancient stone circle in southern England to watch the sun rise at 4:49 a.m. (0349GMT) on a clear, crisp morning. A woman dressed in pagan attire watches the sun rise during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) People watch the sun rise during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) The sun begins to rise above the stones as people gather at sunrise to take part in the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge...

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Researchers reveal secret find of 340-year-old sunken royal warship

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June 10, 2022393 Views

A royal warship that sank off the east coast of Britain more than 300 years ago while carrying a future king was unveiled by researchers on Friday who kept the discovery secret for 15 years to protect the wreck from damage. In 1682, King James II of England, who was the Duke of York at the time, managed to narrowly escape the sinking ship named "The Gloucester" which went down off the coast of eastern England after hitting a sandbank. He became king of England, and King James VII of Scotland three years later. A pulley block is exposed on the seabed underwater from the shipwreck of HMS Gloucester, which sank 340 years ago while carrying King of England, James Stuart, and was discovered off the coast of Norfolk, Britain July 25, 2018. Norfolk Historic Shipwrecks/Handout via REUTERS ...