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The Philippines is evacuating thousands of people, deploying soldiers and positioning emergency provisions as Super Typhoon Mangkhut threatens more than four million people in the north of the country.

In the early 1980s, at secretive night-time events around Oxford University and in grand country homes in Kent, Surrey and Buckinghamshire, carefully selected guests would descend in gowns and tuxedos to drink, eat, flirt, dance, kiss, date, fight, show-off, gossip and then drink some more. Before the age of Instagram, they were there to behave badly.

The Philippines is evacuating thousands of people, deploying soldiers and positioning emergency provisions as Super Typhoon Mangkhut threatens more than four million people in the north of the country.

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See how one girl from CNN Hero Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin's program is using technology to solve a problem in her community—a 'floating slum'—in Lagos, Nigeria.

A well-known painting by British artist David Hockney is poised to smash the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.