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Grand Avenue at Smithfield Market in London, the Victorian market hall hosting the London Museum Smithfield opening
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London Museum Smithfield Opening Turns a Victorian Market Into the City’s Living Room

The London Museum Smithfield opening is now less than a month away. On Saturday 28 November 2026, the museum’s new free permanent galleries open inside Smithfield’s Victorian General Market, ending a decade-long restoration and returning a building that sat disused for more than 30 years to daily public use (London Museum). The old Museum of […]

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Power lines beside a desert road in Sudan, where Sudan drone attacks on civilian infrastructure have knocked out substations and fuel facilities across the country
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Sudan Drone Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure: Power Stations Fall and Dialysis Stops

The Sudan drone attacks on civilian infrastructure have stopped being a front-line story. Over the past two weeks they have become a story about light, water and hospital wards. Denise Brown, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, told UN News on Tuesday that energy and fuel sources appear to be systematically targeted and […]

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A quiet main street in Middletown, a small Ohio town like Richland in the novel, for readers asking is Monsters of Ohio worth reading
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Is Monsters of Ohio Worth Reading? Scalzi’s Cozy Horror Has Tentacles and a Point

So, is Monsters of Ohio worth reading? On the evidence of its first reviews — starred, warm, lukewarm and occasionally grossed out — the honest answer is yes, with conditions. John Scalzi’s twentieth book, published by Tor Books on 3 November 2026 at 272 pages, is a small-town monster story in which the monsters turn […]

Grand Avenue at Smithfield Market in London, the Victorian market hall hosting the London Museum Smithfield opening
Architecture & Design · Article

London Museum Smithfield Opening Turns a Victorian Market Into the City’s Living Room

The London Museum Smithfield opening is now less than a month away. On Saturday 28 November 2026, the museum’s new free permanent galleries open inside Smithfield’s Victorian General Market, ending a decade-long restoration and returning a building that sat disused for more than 30 years to daily public use (London Museum). The old Museum of […]

V&A Dundee on the River Tay, first venue of the David Bowie On Tour exhibition
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David Bowie On Tour Exhibition Opens at V&A Dundee, Bringing the Archive to Scotland

The David Bowie On Tour exhibition opens today, Wednesday 4 November, at V&A Dundee — and the strangest thing in it might be a set of keys. They opened Bowie’s apartment at Hauptstraße 155 in Berlin. Beside them sit a stopwatch he used when songwriting, a 1988 British passport, to-do lists, and the alto saxophone […]

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