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‘At times I felt I’d bitten off more than I could chew’: Christopher Nolan on sweeping the Oscars, making The Odyssey – and getting a puppy

How do you follow Oppenheimer? By spending £250m bringing Homer’s epic poem to the big screen in Imax.…

USA v Uzbekistan match foreshadows chess battle for Olympiad top prize

Two of the top four chess nations will go head to head in Miami on 27-28 JulyUSA and…

Pitbull concert forces historic Champions League qualifier in Lithuania to move

FK Kauno Zalgiris renting out stadium for gigThey take on KI of Faroe Islands in two-leg tieLithuania’s best…

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse – Konami classic rises again from Paris sewers and Joan of Arc is a boss

Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much…

Week in wildlife: a stuck raccoon, a hardy mouse and a well-camouflaged wildcat

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...

China ‘strongly dissatisfied’ with nationalisation of British Steel

Move dealt ‘severe blow to Chinese companies’ confidence in investing in the UK’, says Ministry of CommerceChina’s government…

Andy Burnham’s difficult first cabinet – a visual guide to the options and dilemmas

The Makerfield MP enters No 10 as prime minister on Monday. But who will he choose to join…

Rudeness! Manners! Whatever happened to being polite?! | First Dog on the Moon

Back in the day you had to be rude in person – now you can do it anonymously…

Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious…

‘Forever chemicals’ – the national cancer scandal brewing in a Lancashire town

In this week’s newsletter: residents living near a chemical factory are the latest community concerned about the health…