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"What's the weirdest bit of someone's skin you've ever operated on?" a particularly chatty teenage girl asked me last week, as I cut a mole out of her arm. I told her that I couldn't think of a single part of the body that escaped the surgeon's knife. I'm not sure where her mind took

This atmospheric debut follows a family of Delhi Brahmins as they plan their daughters wedding against the backdrop of partition Shrouded by night, with hot rain falling and red hibiscus in bloom, a teenage girl crouches over a baby beneath a mango tree. She grips a steel paring knife, her arm hesitating as the rain

Photographer whose portraits of film stars found tears and agony behind the glamour In pictures: not untouchable icons but human beings The photographer Phil Stern, who has died aged 95, created portraits of stars of the silver screen including James Dean, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe that were both iconic and intimate. His

Once upon a time you would have been deemed too old to be attractive or described as a Milf or Dilf. Now theres a better term for those who are fit and over 40 The questions never to ask of TikTok are why this?, and why now? It marks you out as a person

The costume designer Antoinette Messam explains how historical figures informed the looks of Regina King, Idris Elba and Lakeith Stanfield in the new western Researching outfits for the Netflix western The Harder They Fall, the costume designer Antoinette Messam got a history lesson in the process. The films story is fictional, but it draws on