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Polar cruise boom harming the Arctic, explorer warns

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German adventurer Arved Fuchs says he has seen Inuit villages flooded with gawping tourists – ‘Party ships have no place here’

Fashion firms apologise for implying Taiwan and Hong Kong separate from China

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Coach and Givenchy among brands criticised on Chinese social media as Hong Kong protests fan nationalism

Left to rot: the new global effort to preserve lost monuments

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From a railway run by children in Ljubljana to brutalist monuments in the Balkans, the Nonument Group maps abandoned 20th-century architecture

Gucci hires diversity chief after criticism over insensitive designs

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Garments from Italian fashion house have faced objections on racial and religious grounds

Fantastique beasts: cult art from the Lalannes’ private collection to go on sale

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Surreal works from the home of François-Xavier Lalanne and his wife Claude expected to fetch up to £20m