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As COVID-19 put the world under lockdown, at the start of the week global cases of coronavirus surpassed those in the former epicentre of China, as the worldwide total beyond China reached 87,000 and cases within the country at 80,860 remained relatively stagnant. While the government in the United Kingdom set out broad guidelines on social distancing, advising people...

Chastened but not deterred, Paris Fashion Week promised something of a respite for the ragged fashionistas who were able to make the trek over from Milan. With Lombardy the epicentre of a growing crisis in Italy, Milan Fashion Week closed under a cloud, as the number of coronavirus cases in the country reached 150, ten towns were placed under...

Charles Mingus wrote 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' as an elegy for the pioneering jazz saxophonist Lester Young, who died in March 1959, two months prior to the recording sessions for what would become Mingus Ah Um. A darkly elegant ballad with a lone dissonant note full of pathos...