10 November 2025 ‘I became a fighter’ … in Christy. Photograph: Black Bear When Sydney Sweeney signed on to play Christy Martin in the new biopic Christy, she knew the physical transformation would be intense. Yet nothing prepared her for the hits, bruises and mindset shift that came with stepping into the ring. In a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian, Sweeney spoke candidly about boxing full-contact, gaining over 30 pounds for the role and navigating the public percept

9 November 2025 Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in 'Wicked: For Good.'.Universal Pictures The fervor surrounding the movie adaptation of Wicked is reaching a crescendo with the announcement that the sequel, Wicked: For Good, will hit theatres on November 21, 2025, offering fans the dramatic conclusion to the two-part tale adapted from the Broadway sensation. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film promises to dive into Act 2 of the stage musical and explore the complex evolution of

8 November 2025 Kevin Mazur/Getty Images, 2; Michael Owens/Getty Images The nominations for the 68th Grammy Awards 2026 were unveiled on November 7 2025, and they reveal both the familiar power players and fresh voices reshaping the musical landscape. Kendrick Lamar leads the field with nine nominations his highest tally yet while Lady Gaga, producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff each follow with seven nods. Meanwhile Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Leon Thomas all earned six no

07 November 2025 Pierre Moscovici discusses the heist. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters In a stark report published by France’s national audit office, the Louvre Museum’s recent robbery of crown jewels estimated at €88 million was described as “a deafening wake-up call” highlighting the grave deficiencies in the institution’s security and maintenance systems. The audit covered the museum’s operations from 2018 to 2024 and revealed that despite sufficient funding, the Lou

6 November 2025 SZA; Nicki Minaj. Credit: Chris Haston/WBTV/Getty;Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage In a recent interview with GQ, SZA addressed the online back-and-forth she had with Nicki Minaj earlier this year and called the whole situation “strange,” emphasising that she and Minaj have “no connection to each other.” The story began this past July when Minaj publicly took aim at SZA, calling her one of the industry’s supposed “fake girl’s girls who talk s— but will run you down f

05 November 2025 Kim Kardashian and Naomi Watts on 'All's Fair'. Disney/Ser Baffo The newly launched legal drama All’s Fair on Hulu, starring Kim Kardashian, has been met with an onslaught of brutal reviews, including a rare zero-star rating from The Guardian, which described the show as “fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible.” With a cast that boasts heavyweights such as Glenn Close, Naomi Watts and Sarah Paulson alongside Kardashian, the series failed to g

04 November 2025 Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle's ad campaign, 'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans'. American Eagle In a recent interview with GQ published November 4 2025, actress Sydney Sweeney finally addressed the uproar surrounding her summer campaign for American Eagle entitled “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.” In the controversial spot, a play on “jeans” and “genes,” Sweeney’s blonde hair and blue-eyed appearance sparked claims of racial undertones and eugenics-inspired

3 November 2025 Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Credit: Araya Doheny/Variety via Getty; Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage After months of intense legal maneuvering, the star-director Justin Baldoni and his co-plaintiffs at Wayfarer Studios have officially seen their ambitious $400 million countersuit against actress Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds brought to an end by a federal judge’s ruling. On October 31 a final judgment was entered after Baldoni’s team failed to file

2 November 2025 Courtesy of Netflix As fans gear up for the much-anticipated finale of the Netflix phenomenon Stranger Things, the big question has lingered: who is returning for the showdown in Hawkins and who is not? With the fifth and final season of the sci-fi horror series unveiling its eight-episode arc across three drops beginning November 26, followed by December 25 and ending on December 31 the casting pages are now nearly flipped shut, and we’ve got mostly familiar

1 November2025 Joseph Langelinck in full flow. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian At the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf a new kind of museum tour is turning heads not for quiet contemplation but for loud provocation. Dubbed the “Grumpy Guide” experience, performance-artist Carl Brandi, who takes on the persona of the curmudgeonly art historian “Joseph Langelinck,” leads visitors through the galleries with derision, sarcasm and confrontational remarks aimed at both the exhibits

31 October 2025 A 3D model of the 30 St Mary Axe building, known to most Londoners as the Gherkin. Photograph: Alicia Taylor In the cavernous exhibition space of Foster + Partners’ Sydney studios the hum of conversation softens as visitors gather around a meticulously detailed scale model of 30 St Mary Axe the London skyscraper known colloquially as the Gherkin, its spiralling form captured at one-hundredth its real size. But this isn’t merely a model of a building: it is a t

30 October 2025 Some of the items stolen from the museum in Oakland, California, included a necklace, left, and ivory carving, right. Composite: Courtesy of Oakland Museum of California In the early hours of October 15, an audacious burglary struck an off-site storage facility of the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) in Northern California, where thieves made off with over a thousand items including Native American baskets, ivory carvings and daguerreotypes. The museum’s ex

29 October 2025 A guest views Vincent van Gogh’s Women Picking Olives (1889, middle), another painting from his olive trees series, at the Met in New York. Photograph: Bjanka Kadic/Alamy The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been sued by the heirs of a Jewish couple who allege that the museum knowingly accepted and later transferred ownership of a Olive Picking (1889) by Vincent van Gogh that they claim was looted by the Nazis in the 1930s. According to the lawsuit f

28 October 2025 The world of television comedy has lost one of its brightest stars. British actress Prunella Scales, best known for her role as the indomitable Sybil Fawlty in the beloved sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died peacefully at her home in London on October 27 2025 at the age of 93, her sons Samuel and Joseph West announced. Born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth on June 22 1932 in Surrey, England, Scales began her acting career at the Bristol Old Vic in 1951, eventua

27 October 2025 An extraordinary sound system … Peter Doig’s exhibition House of Music at Serpentine Gallery, London. Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock In their studios around the world, artists are hitting play and allowing music to become an unseen collaborator, notes, rhythms and melodies weaving themselves into their creative process. According to interviews conducted by The Guardian, creatives like Chris Ofili, Lindsey Mendick, Ragnar Kjartansson and others shared how sp

26 October 2025 Dakota Fanning on June 2, 2024. John Nacion/FilmMagic In an era when celebrity relationships often play out publicly and at lightning speed, Dakota Fanning’s decision to pause and wait for the right partner feels refreshingly intentional. At 31, the actress who has grown up in the spotlight says she’s absolutely fine remaining single until she finds someone who truly fits not someone who just fills a role. In a recent interview she admitted dating apps feel ex

25 October 2025 June Lockhart in 1948. Everett June Lockhart, celebrated for her enduring television roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, has passed away at the age of 100 at her home in Santa Monica, California, the family announced. Born in New York City in 1925 to actors Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, she made her first stage appearance at age eight and debuted on film as a child in the 1938 adaptation of A Christmas Carol. She achieved early acclaim on Broadway, earning

24 October 2025 Still Life with Guitar, a 1919 gouache and pencil work valued at about €600,000, has been found by police after disappearing in October. Photograph: Spanish National Police/AFP/Getty Images Tiny but iconic, a 1919 painting by Pablo Picasso titled Still Life with Guitar valued at around €600,000 was recovered this week after vanishing en route to an exhibition in southern Spain, concluding a case that authorities say never involved a grand heist but rather a ba

23 October 2025 No fan of the White House, Trump holds a table seating chart of the ballroom in the renovated Oval Office. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP In a development stirring controversy across architecture and politics, President Donald Trump has embarked on a sweeping renovation of the White House’s East Wing, declaring its status obsolete in favour of a grand new ballroom costing some $250 million. Renderings of the 90,000-square-foot space unveil an opulent design schem

22 October 2025 On the morning of October 19, 2025, thieves executed one of the most audacious museum heists in modern memory when they stole eight priceless pieces of French crown jewellery from the Galerie d’Apollon at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The raid played out almost as a cinematic sequence. Disguised as construction workers, the perpetrators arrived on a basket lift at a first-floor window over the Seine-facing façade of the museum, around half an hour after opening.