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In Alice Rohrwacher’s beguiling new film, nothing stays buried forever

Couretsy of CannesLike Federico Fellini, whose spirit hovers over her latest, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has a genuine appreciation for faces, and she seizes upon a fine one in Josh O’Connor, whose alternately pleasant and surly countenance conceals as much as it expresses in La Chimera.As an English expat traipsing about 1980s Tuscany in search of precious and elusive objects of desire, The Crown alum vacillates between pensive and impulsive, despairing and determined, his shifts ...

Born a slave, Frederick Douglass died as a champion of human rights, and Ireland played an important role in his political awakening.

Josh O'Connor leads Alice Rohrwacher's "La Chimera," which debuted at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

A rare war bird comes to town, one of two up for rides this weekend

When she died in 1901, Queen Victoria had reigned for longer than any other British monarch. But things have been very different if any of the seven men who tried to kill her had been successful.

Queen Victoria, whose birthday falls on May 24, 1819, once joked that it is worth being shot at to learn how much one is loved.

Yesterdays incident came more than 40 years after Michael Fagan (pictured) broke into the Queens bedroom in July 1982 and woke her up, before allegedly speaking to her for ten minutes.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-year probe into murder of John Lennon has unearthed a series of inconsistencies - including the suggestion that detectives may have misunderstood how the shooting happened.

During her historic reign from 1837 to 1901, Queen Victoria was the target of assassination attempts by seven men, from a teenage wannabe revolutionary to a deeply troubled failed writer. Bob Nicholson considers what drove the multiple attempts to murder the monarch, and whether any of the attempts got close to achieving their aim...