Takeoff: Police arrest man in fatal shooting of rapper

Takeoff, youngest of the rap group Migos, was killed last month outside a Houston bowling alley.

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While Cameroon and Brazil struggled to score goals, Switzerland and Serbia were trading them.

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Zelda Fitzgerald, Costume Artist

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People try to steal Banksy mural in Ukraine

Police make arrests and secure image of gas-masked woman in dressing gown sprayed on Hostomel wall

A group of people have tried to take a mural in Ukraine by the graffiti artist Banksy, by cutting away a section of war-damaged wall where it was sprayed.

The group managed to slice off a section of board and plaster bearing the image of a woman in a gas mask and dressing gown holding a fire extinguisher on the side of a scorched building.

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Serbia and Switzerland’s complicated history makes it worth watching.

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Juventus: Prosecutors call for club's board to face trial

The Italian club's board resigned en masse this week - it denies allegations of false accounting.

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‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t)

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Max Beckmann self-portrait breaks German art auction record with €20m sale

Beckmann painted work in Amsterdam after fleeing Nazi Germany and shows him as younger man with enigmatic smile

A rare and remarkable self-portrait by the 20th-century German expressionist Max Beckmann has sold in Berlin for €20m (£17m), breaking the record for a work of art sold at auction in Germany.

The striking Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa (Self-portrait Yellow-Pink) was painted by Beckmann during his wartime exile in Amsterdam after he fled Nazi Germany. The identity of its new owner was not immediately available. With fees and other charges, the cost to the buyer was €23.2m.

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RSV and flu: US children's hospitals stretched by respiratory viruses

More than three quarters of paediatric hospital beds were full in November, health officials say.

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World's most expensive cities: New York and Singapore top list

The cost of living in both cities is now the joint highest worldwide, with Tel Aviv in third.

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