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John Oates opens up about Daryl Hall amid bitter legal battle: I have moved on | Pop and rock

Pop and rockJohn Oates opens up about Daryl Hall amid bitter legal battle: ‘I have moved on’Duo’s music ‘will always trump almost anything that Daryl does on his own or I do on my own’ says Oates, weeks after Hall filed to stop him selling his share of their rights John Oates, half of the hugely successful pop rock duo Hall & Oates, has opened up about his partnership with Daryl Hall amid their ongoing and fractious legal battle.

Pervasive and relentless racism on the rise in Europe, survey finds | Race

Race This article is more than 2 months old‘Pervasive and relentless’ racism on the rise in Europe, survey findsThis article is more than 2 months oldPoll of 6,752 people of African descent in 13 countries finds almost half have experienced discrimination Racism is “pervasive and relentless” and on the rise in Europe, with nearly half of black people in member states surveyed by the EU reporting discrimination, from the verbal abuse of their children to being blocked by landlords from renting homes.

Ten of the best angels in literature

10 of the bestBooksJohn Mullan goes to heavenIl Paradiso by Dante Guided by Beatrice, Dante ascends to the Primum Mobile, where the angels dwell. Beatrice explains the nine orders of angels, hierarchically arranged: Seraphim (the closest to God), Cherubim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels. "Aire and Angels" by John Donne In amorous enthusiasm, Donne takes literally the notion that his beloved is an "angel". She is as pure as a heavenly being, but has had to take bodily form, "

The mystery of the buried owl: the 30-year treasure hunt baffling French puzzlers | Photography

Yvon Crolet, a retired engineer from Paris, who has spent 20 years searching for the owl. All photographs: Emily Graham/InstituteLaunched in 1993, it has become one of the world’s longest games. So who are the amateur sleuths hoping to hit gold? Photographer Emily Graham joins them on the trail by Phil HoadAt 3.30am on the night of 23 April 1993, at a secret location somewhere in France, a man struggled in pitch-blackness to dig a hole in which to bury something stowed in his car boot.

America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo review an impressive debut novel

FictionReviewThe intricacies of Filipino-American society are explored in a fresh, tender story about one woman’s journey from torture in the Philippines to a new life in CaliforniaAs titles go, this one is forceful: it proclaims that the book will correct some misconception about either nation or organ. The novel centres on a quiet woman with broken thumbs. Hero lives inMilpitas, a suburb of San Jose, California, where she works in a restaurant, babysits her cousin and flirts with Rosalyn, a cute makeup artist.