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• ‘Displaying the cloth like this showed its true beauty’: Aung Chan Thar’s best phone picture

  24-01-2026 12:00
  A beautiful lake, gorgeous fabric: how could the Myanmar photographer resist?When Aung Chan Thar was 25, he was selected to represent Myanmar as part of Asean Centre for Biodiversity’s (ACB) Young Asean Storytellers programme. A cohort of 20 young artists and writers visited Asean Heritage Parks in their own countries to tell stories of biodiversity, nature and culture.Aung first travelled to Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, known for its floating gardens, in 2022. “The
  
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• From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  24-01-2026 07:00
  Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and coSaipan
  Out nowAs the Irish national team descend on a small island in the Pacific to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic falling out between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and top player Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) is looming, in this sports drama loosely based on the infamous real-life spat. Continue reading...
  
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• Cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in pictures

  24-01-2026 07:00
  As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme – ‘Trump and a world in turmoil’ – to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studiosHow we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head Continue reading...
  
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