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The ones to watch: Our pick of the summer blockbusters

Tomorrow, 'Iron Man' kicks off a blockbuster summer at the cinema. With such a vast array to choose from, Tim Walker picks the films to watch out for.

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Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world

It's the psychedelic drug that inspired Hendrix and The Beatles - and shaped the music, art and literature of a generation. As the world bids farewell to the bicycling Swiss chemist who created LSD, John Walsh explores his mind-altering legacy

Barbican's tribute to 1948 accused of demonising Israel

As far as the organisers of the exhibition are concerned, these photographs of Arab refugees, displaced from their homes in Israel in 1948, are merely an artistic slice of life from a dramatic point in Middle Eastern history.

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Rome's chattering classes fear new Mayor may axe film festival

Some of Italy's cultural stars are already bemoaning the end of a golden age following the election of the rightist candidate Gianni Alemanno as Mayor of Rome, which has placed a question mark over the future of the city's lavish film festival.

Pauline Hyde: Back with a bonkbuster

When Pauline Hyde's husband fell so ill he couldn't even remember her name, she took her mind off the pain by writing a fruity account of life in the City of the 1980s

In Pictures

Sony World Photography Awards Finalists in the inaugural year of the Sony World Photography Awards and winners from the Amateur Photographer of the Year competition

Columnist Comments

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Steve Richards: The spectre of national politics looms large...

... but this is not a vote for Cameron or Brown

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Janet Street-Porter: I've still got a beef with supermarkets

The Competition Commission yesterday published the lacklustre final part of its two-year investigation into supermarkets

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