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Szalay wins 2025 Booker Prize

Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize in London for his novel Flesh, taking the £50,000 award as judges praised it as "singular."

Szalay wins 2025 Booker Prize
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Spain's PM hails Rosalía's Lux

Rosalía released her new album "Lux" and drew widespread critical praise, prompting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call it "dazzling."

Spain's PM hails Rosalía's Lux
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Archaeologists unearth Inca accounting band

Archaeologists concluded Peru’s Monte Sierpe contained a 1.5‑kilometer band of about 5,200 holes that served as an Inca accounting system, first as a market then for tax collection.

Archaeologists unearth Inca accounting band
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El País publishes Spanish cartoonists

Spanish cartoonists El Roto and Flavita Banana published editorial cartoons in El País on 11 November 2025, with Flavita Banana marking Bookshop Day.

El País publishes Spanish cartoonists
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Porn normalizes; women drive demand

European pornography diversified and normalized: new small-scale production emerged in Finland, female viewership rose and some former performers said they had left the industry.

Porn normalizes; women drive demand
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Haftbefehl documentary boosts Mey song

Reinhard Mey's 55-year-old song "In meinem Garten" re-entered the German charts after a documentary about rapper Haftbefehl became a hit.

Haftbefehl documentary boosts Mey song
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