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<p>From festive to floppage: ‘Elf’, ‘Home Alone’ and the recent Amazon bomb ‘Red One’ </p>

What killed the Christmas movie?

Long gone are the days of big-screen festive blockbusters for all the family such as ‘Elf’ or ‘Home Alone’, replaced by confused action spectacles like ‘Red One’, or cheap-and-cheerful Netflix romcoms about hunky snowmen who come to life. Al Horner speaks to industry experts about the genre’s slow decline

<p>Syria’s former president Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma walking with their children, Hafez, Karim and Zein next to the Grand Umayyad mosque in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo</p>

The Assads’ next chapter: A ‘desert rose’ wife and a life of luxury

As their brutal 24-year reign finally came to an end, the Assads fled to Moscow, where they were granted asylum. Here, Zoë Beaty looks at a family living in a bubble of privilege, and at how they will be protected by an elite circle of power and influence that reaches across Europe and beyond

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