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Treating patients with a drug before surgery greatly reduced the chances of the cancer coming back, a small trial found.

Even his Maga pals are questioning the lavish gift. Don’t they know not to look a wooden gift horse in the mouth?

If you’re familiar with your folklore, you’ll know the story of The Emperor’s New Plane, in which some barely-even-wily out-of-towners turn up with an offer to give a vain and selfish leader a new $400m Boeing 747-8. The merits of accepting this “flying palace” are invisible only to those who are stupid or incompetent, which means the emperor would literally be an idiot not to take it, right?

Following an ageing fisherman courting a stoic seamstress, the film is a tender depiction of everyday Gazans – with plenty of phallic humour

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Issa (The Crown’s Salim Daw) is a 60-year-old bachelor. Every night, he takes his fishing boat out to sea and brings his paltry catch to the market the next day. At the same market, his heart is captured by Siham (Succession’s Hiam Abbass), a middle-aged widow who works alongside her divorced daughter Leila (Maisa Abd Elhadi) as seamstresses for a struggling clothing store. As Issa tries to muster up the courage to propose to Siham, he finds in his fishing net a nearly lifesize antique statue of Apollo, the Greek god of light – equipped with a fully erect penis.

Once reserved for professional tournaments, the tables are increasingly popular with consumers – and central to family bonding for two Australian households

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Family mahjong nights are both a tradition and a regular occurrence for Katie Guan, 25, and Seshni McKowen, 26. But they are a little different from the ones their grandparents’ generation played with their elders. A soft electronic whirring fills the room instead of clacking sounds of tiles hitting the table, and hands are suspiciously still where once there would have been a flurry of washing (shuffling).

What if a simple selfie was enough to show scientifically how well or badly we’re ageing? That moment’s getting closer …

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Donald Trump is well on his way to becoming one of the most corrupt presidents in the history of the United States.

Russia has not yet said who it will send to Istanbul on Thursday and has refused to respond to ultimatums.

LA judge will decide whether Erik and Lyle Menendez should get chance at freedom after serving 30 years for murder

Erik and Lyle Menendez will be back in court on Tuesday for a long-awaited hearing where a Los Angeles judge will decide whether the brothers should get a chance at freedom after serving nearly three decades in prison for the double murder of their parents in 1989.

The resentencing hearing, which is moving ahead after months of delays, is expected to last two days. If Judge Michael Jesic shortens their sentences, the brothers would still need approval from the state’s parole board to be released.

Should carpet as a medium be as highly regarded as painting with oils and sculpting with marble? Anna Perach, an artist born in Ukraine, talks us through her new show inspired by Hoffman’s love triangle tale The Sandman

‘I’m led by stories,” Anna Perach tells me as we sit in her sun-drenched studio at Gasworks in London. The wall behind me is stacked with a rainbow of yarns, and on her desk sit a collection of texts that point to the key themes of her work: femininity, magic and the uncanny. Perach’s life-size humanoid sculptures made of tufted carpet surround us, their presence equal parts eerie and warming. Their strange humanity seems steeped in narrative, which she draws from folklore and fairytales.

Time-lapse footage reveals cardiac cells in a mouse embryo begin to organise themselves during early development

The moment a heart begins to form has been captured in extraordinary time-lapse images for the first time.

The footage reveals cardiac cells in a mouse embryo begin to spontaneously organise themselves into a heart-like shape early in development. Scientists say the technique could provide new insights into congenital heart defects, which affect nearly one in 100 babies.