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Before pixels ruled the screen, Star Wars built its galaxy the old-fashioned way: with brushes, glass, and a whole lot of patience. Long before CGI became the default language of blockbuster filmmaking, the original trilogy relied on a nearly lost art form—matte painting. Artists at Industrial Light & Magic spent weeks, sometimes months, hand-painting entire worlds onto large sheets of glass and plexiglass. Those paintings...

Katie Brown thought she was dealing with the worst period cramps of her life. Minutes later, she was on her hands and knees outside her home delivering a baby boy her mother caught on the pavement. The 27-year-old professional dancer from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, woke around 4 a.m. in early February 2026 with intense abdominal pain. She took paracetamol, assuming it was her usual...