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Crisis talks, a mea culpa and troubling unanswered questions: How Kate’s Mother’s Day photo became a PR nightmare – as sources insist Princess merely made ‘minor adjustments’… so why won’t Palace reveal what they were?

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The Princess of Wales issued an extraordinary mea culpa yesterday after admitting she ‘edited’ an image showing her celebrating Mother’s Day with her children.

In a rare personal message on Twitter, signed ‘C’ for Catherine, the future queen said she ‘occasionally experimented’ as an ‘amateur photographer’.

And she apologised for any ‘confusion’ the photograph had caused. It came after six global picture agencies sensationally pulled the image from their wires and libraries – an unprecedented reaction to an official royal

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The Unanswered Questions of “True Detective”

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February 19, 2024

Like a Raymond Chandler detective story, Night Country ultimately wants to turn its audience’s attention away from the mysteries of the dead toward those of the living.

A scene from True Detective: Night Country. (Photograph by Michele K. Short / HBO)

When the first season of True Detective appeared in 2014, we were living in a different era of television—before auteur series and anthologies were commonplace, when

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Tutankhamun: 5 unanswered questions about Egypt’s Boy King – how he died and what’s in his tomb

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Known as the ‘boy king’, Tutankhamun has captured the world’s attention for more than a century, after his tomb was uncovered in 1922.

He is believed to have been one of the youngest leaders in ancient Egyptian history, having taken to the throne at just nine or ten years old.

The pharaoh was also just 19 when he died more than 3,300 years ago, with his burial site located at the world-famous Valley of the Kings.

Yet, Tutankhamun’s life is

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