Raye’s Mercury Prize win lifts sales of her album by 275%, organizers say
Chart sales of Raye's album This Music May Contain Hope rose 275% after it won the 2026 Mercury Prize in Newcastle, according to BPI analysis of Official Charts Company data.
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Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium wins Best Film at the 70th London Film Festival
Imperium, Sergei Loznitsa's archive-based film about Soviet life in the early 1970s, won Best Film at the 70th BFI London Film Festival, with first features taking two other prizes.
Croydon housing scheme Lion Green Road wins the 2026 RIBA Stirling Prize
Lion Green Road, a 157-home council-commissioned scheme on a former car park in Coulsdon, south London, has won the RIBA Stirling Prize in the award's 30th anniversary year.
Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson, the Canadian poet and translator whose work is in "playful dialogue with the classical tradition."
Amsterdam museum returns ancient Centuripe vase to Sicily after provenance probe
The Allard Pierson in Amsterdam returned a third-century BCE painted vase to Sicily after a 1976 wedding photo undercut the dealer's claim that it had been in a Swiss collection before 1970.