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Exposed: most intimate secret of erotic blogger

Arifa Akbar: Years of guessing end as sex writer Belle de Jour is revealed as a scientist from Bristol.

Navigator / Reveal Records Mixtape giveaway

Available exclusively to readers of The Independent online, Navigator and Reveal records present a compilation of 30 tracks of the finest new music around, all free to download.

Actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79 new

Veteran actor Edward Woodward, who was known for his roles in The Wicker Man and The Equalizer, died today.

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National Gallery: Put on the red light

In a life-size take on Amsterdam's sex district at the National Gallery, there's plenty of sleaze – and puritanism, too, finds Tom Lubbock

Larceny, she wrote: Patricia Cornwell sues

Best-selling crime writer claims millions in earnings have gone missing

'2012' gets ahead of rivals at US box office

North American film-goers favored the apocalypse over Christmas this weekend as disaster flick "2012" beat Disney's "A Christmas Carol" to top the box office, according to early estimates Sunday.

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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Shepherd's Bush Empire, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

The Empire's normally heaving, sweaty mosh-pit was furnished with seats for this particular concert, lending the venue a more low-key atmosphere, but one that seemed appropriate for the unostentatious Aboriginal singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.