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[2026-09-18 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Theatre] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A reimagining of a secret meeting between Bob Hawke, Kerry Packer and cricket legend Clive Lloyd, a solo performance of Richard III by Kate Mulvany, and a new production of War of the Worlds are among the major offerings in Melbourne Theatre Company’s newly unveiled program for 2027.
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[2026-09-18 15:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Syrian singer Assala Nasri has performed in Damascus for the first time in more than 15 years, marking a symbolic homecoming after her outspoken opposition to former president Bashar Al Assad kept her away from the country.
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[2026-09-18 15:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Syrian singer Assala Nasri has performed in Damascus for the first time in more than 16 years, marking a symbolic and emotional homecoming after her outspoken opposition to former president Bashar Al Assad kept her away from the country.
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[2026-09-18 14:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: YouTube star Ms Rachel has said she will match rapper Macklemore's $1 million donation to organisations supporting Palestinians, as she becomes the latest public figure to respond to the controversy surrounding the US leg of British musician Ed Sheeran's tour.
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[2026-09-18 13:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: It is one thing to capture the sound of a notable singer and another to evoke a country’s heritage and musical traditions.
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[2026-09-18 12:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Looking ahead, Yang is driven to become a programmer or AI researcher, determined to leave his own mark on the world
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[2026-09-18 12:33 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Looking ahead, Yang is driven to become a programmer or AI researcher, determined to leave his own mark on the world
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[2026-09-18 11:11 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In the first chapter of The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells raises the Tasmanian genocide when asking readers: “Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?” Wells’ Martians turn the violence of colonialism onto the colonisers themselves.
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[2026-09-18 11:11 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Books] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-18 10:44 UTC+10:00] [CULTURE] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Japanese directors who film in foreign settings with non-Japanese actors deserve credit for stepping outside their cultural comfort zones. But Hirokazu Koreeda’s “The Truth” (2019) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Daguerreotype” (2016) — both shot in France — do not rank anywhere near the top of their distinguished filmographies.
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[2026-09-18 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In rural Kazakhstan, a father and son have built a temple to our equine companions – the animal that once carried monks, traders and armies across the steppes. PostMag visits their museum, where myth and reality graze side by side
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[2026-09-18 10:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: In rural Kazakhstan, a father and son have built a temple to our equine companions – the animal that once carried monks, traders and armies across the steppes. PostMag visits their museum, where myth and reality graze side by side
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[2026-09-18 09:02 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Music] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Turning off your phone before the music begins at a symphony orchestra concert may be more than good etiquette – for musician and composer Bryce Dessner, it’s a political act.
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[2026-09-18 08:39 UTC+10:00] [Culture] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation
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[2026-09-18 06:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-18 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Music] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-18 05:30 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Movies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: I can vividly recall the first time I encountered Tom Cruise: not at the movies or on the living room TV, but in a viral edited GIF of him smothering Oprah with force lightning.
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[2026-09-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [John Farnham] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: From soaring ballads to a song that belongs on every road-trip playlist, these are the tracks that underscore why ‘the Voice’ is a national treasure
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[2026-09-18 01:00 UTC+10:00] [AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As Swans turn sights on Fremantle for the preliminary final, their suspended players are still the story on and off the field
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[2026-09-18 00:55 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s midterm bribes, Pete Hegseth’s ‘grooming standards’ and Don Jr’s wedding bankrolled by a Russian oligarch
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[2026-09-17 22:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Far-right activist Tommy Robinson and former Culture Club star Boy George have come out in support of Ed Sheeran as the British singer's US tour faces cancellation over rapper Macklemore's removal.
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[2026-09-17 20:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unlike today’s inks made from industrial pigments, ancient Chinese ink was produced using soot from burning natural plants or animal oils
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[2026-09-17 20:27 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Unlike today’s inks made from industrial pigments, ancient Chinese ink was produced using soot from burning natural plants or animal oils
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[2026-09-17 20:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Dubai International Film Festival is to return on December 8, 2027, marking a revival 10 years after it was last held.
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[2026-09-17 19:25 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Permanent venue brings ASEAN culture closer to local communities outside Seoul
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[2026-09-17 19:13 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: For Comico, making people laugh across languages starts with understanding culture
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[2026-09-17 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Jonathan Majors] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The disgraced former Marvel villain has found work with Ben Shapiro for hateful campus-set thriller Run Hide Fight: Infidels, which makes its politics clear from the outset
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[2026-09-17 18:00 UTC+10:00] [Photography] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenHotel Skampa, Elbasan, AlbaniaDesigned in 1970 by Valentina Pistoli (1928-93), Albania’s first female architect, the Hotel Skampa was part of the state-run Turizmi hotel network. Pistoli was one of Albania’s most renowned architects, known for many landmark projects, including the Hotel Tirana and the Palace of Culture in Durrës.ShareView image in fullscreenHotel Cosmos, Moscow, RussiaThis original interior shows the design of the rooms at the time of the hotel’s opening in 1979.
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[2026-09-17 17:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Tokyo Game Show has always been a place to look ahead.
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[2026-09-17 17:04 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-09-17 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: An evocative new Tate Britain show captures an era when the UK’s newly flush creative industries teamed up with a generation of skint dreamers to bring the decade into vivid colour
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[2026-09-17 16:59 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The newly crowned hosts of Today, Sylvia Jeffreys and Tom Steinfort, say they will work hard to regain the trust of the audience after a tumultuous few months at Nine’s beleaguered breakfast show.
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[2026-09-17 16:26 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Museums, palaces, folk programs offer free ways to experience Korean culture during extended holiday
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[2026-09-17 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pop-up ads frustrate everyone; their exit buttons are hard for sighted users to find and nearly impossible for the visually impaired to locate
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[2026-09-17 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Pop-up ads frustrate everyone; their exit buttons are hard for sighted users to find and nearly impossible for the visually impaired to locate
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[2026-09-17 14:45 UTC+10:00] [CULTURE] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Hiroshi Sugimoto is often introduced as a photographer, but that title has long been insufficient to capture the sweep of his creative activities. Over the past five decades, Sugimoto, 78, has worked as architect, sculptor, designer, landscape creator, tea practitioner, museum founder, art dealer and entrepreneur. Each of these practices informs the others.
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[2026-09-17 14:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Macklemore is donating the $1 million he has earned from Ed Sheeran's Loop tour to organisations supporting Palestinians.
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[2026-09-17 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Financial Times
Snippet: PublishedSeptember 17 2026
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[2026-09-17 13:49 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Movies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-09-17 13:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Most people heading to the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair will leave with something new to read. But scattered among the stands, often encased in the glass displays dotted through the halls, are books, manuscripts and photographs that have already survived for hundreds of years, and in one case for almost two millennia.
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[2026-09-17 12:32 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Live reviews] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-17 12:21 UTC+10:00] [Culture] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-09-17 12:08 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: In February 1977, Indianapolis businessman Tony Kiritsis took an executive from his mortgage broker, Richard Hall, hostage for 63 hours using a “dead man’s line” – a homemade alteration to a shotgun, where a wire placed around Hall’s neck was connected to the trigger.
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[2026-09-17 11:35 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Music] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: As a breathless and sweaty rugby scrum reaches climax in rising Australian artist ANDY’s new music video, retired AFL player Mitch Brown kisses the artist before spitting blue electrolyte drink into his mouth in the first public display of his sexuality since coming out as bisexual last year.
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[2026-09-17 11:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As clip went viral, discussions about incident garnered over 110 million views, challenging the romanticised perception of public engagements
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[2026-09-17 11:15 UTC+10:00] [China] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: As clip went viral, discussions about incident garnered over 110 million views, challenging the romanticised perception of public engagements
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[2026-09-17 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture / Theatre] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
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[2026-09-17 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The life of Duanfang inspires E.L. Shen’s novel Foreigners, about identity, queer awakening and the immigrant experience in modern America
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[2026-09-17 09:15 UTC+10:00] [Duanfang] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The life of Duanfang inspires E.L. Shen’s novel Foreigners, about identity, queer awakening and the immigrant experience in modern America
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[2026-09-17 08:00 UTC+10:00] [Culture / TV & radio] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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