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Y2k: the late 90s and early 00s fashions making a comeback

Hot on the heels of low-rise jeans, we take a look at other Y2k returnees, including jelly shoes and tiny, tiny shoulder bags Just when you thought current times couldnt get any more fraught, along comes the threat of a low-rise jeans renaissance. And not just low-rise jeans birthed by Alexander McQueen as bumsters

A little bit addictive and the right amount hard: new video game is based on poems of Emily Di

The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevins forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Ever wanted to play a computer game based on the poems of Emily Dickinson? Well, now you can, with the release of EmilyBlaster, a 1980s-style game in which players must shoot words out

Firefighters should not face charge of raping girl, French court rules | France

Accused will face lesser offence of sexual assault in Julie case that has sparked protests across France Frances highest court has ruled that firefighters accused of raping a girl when she was aged between 13 and 15 should be charged with the lesser offence of sexual assault.

Infinite Sky by CJ Flood review

"It was three months after Mum left that the Gypsies moved in." To Iris's father and brother and best friend Matty, the family who set themselves up in the paddock over the road are trouble: thieving, filthy pikeys, impossible to live with and almost impossible to move on. But 13-year-old Iris (nickname "Eye, as in

Spione review Philip French on Fritz Langs groundbreaking spy thriller

Reeling from the box-office disaster of his monumental science-fiction movie Metropolis, Fritz Lang was still contracted to Berlins UFA studio, whose bosses now demanded a cheaper surefire success in the crowd-pleasing style of his early thrillers. The result was Spione (aka Spies), which circulated in severely truncated versions until 2006, when the German restorers drew