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Style & CultureThe ‘East of Eden’ actor debates vacation red flags, remembers her favorite childhood travel memories, and nominates the eighth wonder of the world. October 13, 2026Getty Images“Lovely form. Back straight, lean forward,” a voice off camera is directing Florence Pugh as she lifts two Aperol spritzes like heavy weights. “I think you might need to take a sip of the left one to make sure they're even,” the voice suggests. Pugh’s laid-back, witty approach to life is part of the reason she’s so well loved—that and, of course, her breathtaking talent, both on screen and off. We caught up with the actor before the release of East of Eden, a Netflix series based on the Steinbeck classic, starring Pugh as Cathy Ames and Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask. In this edition of our Globetrotter series, Pugh debates vacation red flags, remembers her favorite childhood travel memories, and nominates the eighth wonder of the world. Sightseeing or sun lounger? Sun lounger. I love to lie down and feel peaceful and read and just let the sun kiss my skin and swim in the sea and eat amazing food, and then go back to lying back down, and then get back up and eat more amazing food.

A Russian man secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services has shared videos of surveillance work he says he has done for Kyiv inside Russia. The man, who we are calling Ivan, claims to have played a role in Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bombers and munitions factories on his home soil. He features in a BBC World Service documentary about the shadowy world of Russian saboteurs. Ivan was cautious about how much detail he shared, making it impossible to verify the activities he claims to have carried out.56 minutes ago