Kate Middleton photo proves Meghan Markle right

In a blow to the opinions of writers everywhere, Sigmund Freud never actually said “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” (It’s number 67 in our official union handbook of lazy story openers). But sometimes a grainy pap shot of two women on a gray British day is much, much, much more than a grainy pap shot. The major, breaking news being bellowed by every newspaper, website, magazine and two-bit Twitter account purporting to ‘know’ things about the royal family is that Kate the Princess of Wales is alive! Alive you hear! There, in the new image, was Kate being…Continue Reading

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year: Sleepy polar bear image captured by amateur UK photographer wins top wildlife prize | Ents & Arts News

An amateur photographer from the UK has won a prestigious Wildlife Photographer Of The Year award with this emotive shot of a polar bear sleeping in a makeshift bed carved into a small iceberg. Nima Sarikhani captured the image off Norway‘s Svalbard archipelago after spending three days “desperately searching” for the animals through thick fog. After his expedition vessel changed course, he eventually encountered two polar bears – and witnessed the smaller male bear making his bed before falling asleep. The picture, titled Ice Bed, has been crowned the winner of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer Of The Year…Continue Reading