Watch: Met Gala sees Beyoncé's return and a star-studded red carpet

Anna Wintour brought the glam, Beyoncé brought the fam, and Heidi Klum was... statuesque at this year's fundraiser. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Splitscreen. Left, Beyonce stuns. Right, Sabrina Carpenter also stuns. Split screen image showing Beyoncé on the left and Sabrina Carpenter on the right. Watch: Met Gala sees Beyoncé's return and a star-studded red carpet The Met Gala brought its annual parade of high fashion to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4 May, with Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour serving as co-chairs for the Costume Institute fundraiser. This year's dress code was "Fashion is Art," inviting guests to interpret fashion as an embodied art form. The annual fundraiser, held on the first Monday in May, raises money for the museum's Costume Institute and is timed to celebrate the opening of its major spring fashion show. The event raised about $31 million in 2025, the biggest gross in its 77-year history, according to museum officials. Flight 169 from Venice, Italy, landed safely at Newark Airport with no reported injuries among the 231 passengers and crew. The lorry driver sustained minor injuries. Steller sea lions are more commonly found in the colder waters of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, making sightings in the Bay Area less common. Firefighters were tackling the blaze that local officials estimated to stretch 558 acres (2.3 sq km). Thousands of demonstrators marched across the country to demand “dignity, justice and freedom” for immigrants and workers. 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The former US president and New York City mayor meet for the first time at a child care centre in the Bronx.