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Oscar nominations 2017: the full list

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All the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards, which take place on 26 February at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood

•La La Land equals record for most Oscar nominations

Dior offers pure escapism with fairytale haute couture show

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Designer Maria Grazia Chiuri moved from her debut’s feminist T-shirts into a fantasy world that heralded a bold new attitude

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: faces of the new ‘global citizen class’?

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Research finds tens of thousands of ultra-rich individuals buying multiple homes in the planet’s most desirable locations

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

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At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them

Balenciaga sitting pretty with work ethic inspiration at Paris show

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Demna Gvasalia plays with proportions of clothes in surprising ways in trademark that recalls work of house’s founder