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December 2025

  • collage of vintage image of Black Georgia residents and a picture of a lake

    ‘Haunted and cursed’: Lake Lanier has a deadly reputation. A darker tale hides beneath the surface

    After years of fatalities and bizarre incidents, the Georgia reservoir has spawned countless ghost stories. Are they merely legend or the after-effects of a history steeped in racial trauma?

March 2025

  • The first of 10 sold-out nights … Usher performs at the O2.

    Usher review – glitzy Vegas-style spectacle is completely preposterous and preposterously entertaining

    From rollerskating around the stage wearing a union jack suit to feeding cocktail cherries to women in the audience, Usher wears middle age incredibly well

November 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump

    Which celebrities have endorsed Kamala Harris and Donald Trump? Here are the biggest names

    It is debatable what effect celebrity endorsements – in this case, highly contrasting groups of A-listers – have on voters

April 2024

  • ‘It was crazy and it was freezing’ … Lil Nas X’s tastefully pixelated Industry Baby video.

    ‘They’re not ashamed of their bodies’: Sean Bankhead on his raunchy dances for Beyoncé, Cardi B, Lil Nas X and more

    He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite …

February 2024

  • Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: Usher performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

    Usher and longtime partner married in Las Vegas after Super Bowl half-time show

    R&B superstar married Jenn Goicoechea, his partner since 2019, at Vegas Weddings hours after half-time headline appearance
  • Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show<br>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: Usher performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

    Super Bowl: Usher’s half-time show, the ads, Taylor Swift and everything but the football – as it happened

    The R&B star went shirtless, rollerbladed and brought out Alicia Keys, Ludacris and Lil Jon for a career-spanning setlist

    • Taylor Swift, Usher, Justin Bieber and Jay-Z: celebrities at the Super Bowl – in pictures

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    • Usher’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a frenetic, daring nostalgia tour

    • Usher faces Super Bowl half-time show as Taylor Swift’s attendance remains unsure

August 2023

  • The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" - Inside<br>NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Keke Palmer attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

    Usher’s Boyfriend is a ‘savage’ revenge anthem – on Keke Palmer’s behalf

    The music video winks at controversy after Palmer’s boyfriend publicly criticized what she wore to an Usher show

September 2021

  • Rebecca Nicholson

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    double quotation markPriyanka Chopra: ‘regrets’? She’s got a few about a doomed activism reality show

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  • The actor Priyanka Chopra

    The Activist: reality TV show to be ‘reimagined’ as documentary after backlash

May 2021

  • ‘Impressively bleak and relentless’ ... DMX performing in 2014.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    DMX: Exodus review – a bold and bleak posthumous finale

    The New York rapper, who died in April, is strong and unsettling over grimy, atonal production, with guest turns from Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Bono

May 2019

  • Usher in 2004 and 2019

    To be continued … can the sequel album save Usher’s musical reputation?

    The R&B star has hinted at a follow-up to Confessions, but history is littered with late-career gimmicks

February 2019

  • Rich the Kid.

    '10 gunshots' fired as rapper Rich the Kid targeted in armed robbery

    The Plug Walk star attacked while recording in west Hollywood with Usher – his second armed robbery ordeal in eight months

June 2018

  • Beyoncé.

    Beyoncé: 10 of the best deep cuts, rarities and Bey-sides

    As the superstar returns to the UK, here’s a sample of her lesser-known hits, featuring Solange and Dixie Chicks – plus how Lemonade changed the game

August 2017

  • Usher, who has been accused of passing the herpes virus onto partners

    Usher accused of sexual battery and fraud in lawsuit over herpes claims

    The R&B singer is accused of concealing an alleged herpes infection from people he had sexual contact with

January 2017

  • Yuna, 2016 Yunalis Mat Zara'ai

    Yuna on hijab style: 'I feel like the world is catching up'

  • The early morning sunrise warms the sky over the White House Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006, as an approaching storm moves in the Washington area, which is expected to bring in thunderstorms with gusty winds and heavy rainfall. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

    As sun sets on Obama White House, A-list stars party into small hours

May 2016

  • Jose Mourinho’s debuts a baby moustache.

    Stubble trouble – the meanings of men's wannabe beards

    If a man’s face is his personality’s canvas, what do the ‘soul patch’ and the baby tache signify?
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