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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The carols are playing, the lights are twinkling, the cards are arriving… But alongside that festive fun comes that tense, clammy, slightly anxious response you get whenever you look at the current date. Or perhaps that’s just me? I’m the first to admit that I love Christmas. How could one not? It’s about family and friends, and food and presents, alongside happiness and holidays. But the weeks leading into it make me break out in a cold sweat. I’m a procrastinator at the best of times and while I do my best work when I’ve got an impending deadline (it’s a journalist’s prerogative), Christmas is a whole new level. The idea I always have in my head is: “This year, it will…

The Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards are the Oscars of fashion and the stars didn’t disappoint. Vogue’s Dame Anna Wintour was elegant in crimson, while Cher stunned in leather. At The Crown season five premiere, Imelda Staunton, who plays Queen Elizabeth, opted for a classic suit, while Elizabeth Debicki channelled Diana in an ethereal gown. Sir Elton John dazzled at the LA County Museum of Art gala.…

Liverpool, England – Spectators view Evanescent, an illuminated artwork in the River of Light festival along the Liverpool riverfront. ITALY Muddy miracle It’s the discovery that has the ability to rewrite Roman history. Twenty-four bronze statues were recovered from thermal mud in the town of San Casciano dei Bagni. The well-preserved statues are thought to be over 2000 years old. United States Trippy toads The National Park Service has issued a strange request. A Facebook post has urged local people not to lick the Colorado River Toad, which produces a milky venom that’s a strong psychedelic. Egypt Tomb raider Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a tunnel that may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb. The tunnel is 13 metres underground and 1305 metres long, and has been touted by design experts as an…

At this time of year, a visit to broadcaster Toni Street’s home feels something like a trip to Santa’s grotto. Giant inflatable Christmas trees and reindeer dance in the breeze at the front of her beachside home on Auckland’s North Shore, fences and trees are lit up by hundreds of glittering fairy lights, and solar-powered candy canes light the path to the front door, where a vintage post box sits for neighbourhood children to send their letters to the North Pole. On the door hangs a magnificent wreath and carols can be heard blaring inside pretty much around the clock. One almost expects to be greeted by the big man himself, but no, it’s Toni who opens the door to welcome The Weekly in and it’s she who is responsible…

The next 12 months are going to be awash with firsts in the royal world and many will bring a pall of sadness. Last month, we saw the first Remembrance Day without Queen Elizabeth II and the first with her son Charles as King. This annual royal duty was one of the most important and treasured in his late mother’s calendar, when the sovereign honoured the royal defence forces who served in her name. Queen Elizabeth II represented a powerful living link with World War II, a time she lived through when her father, King George VI, led the country against Nazi Germany to peacetime – surely the most defining period of his reign. Princess Elizabeth joined the war effort personally as a teenager in February 1945, working as a…