Climate activists protest against fossil fuels at COP28, in Dubai, last year. Fossil fuels have emerged as the primary factor driving climate change, pushing temperatures to record highs. (FILE: REUTERS) 5 min read Last Updated : Aug 18 2024 | 10:40 PM IST By Christopher Merchant A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has … Read more
London Spirit won a nerve-shredding final against Welsh Fire at Lord’s in the Women’s Hundred, chasing down their target of 116 with just two balls to spare. The match set an attendance record for a women’s game at Lord’s, with 22,000 spectators treated to a thriller in which Spirit limped across the line, breaking Welsh … Read more
The US secretary of state has arrived in Israel for 11th-hour talks aimed at shoring up a deal for a lasting ceasefire in the war in Gaza, amid signals from Israeli and Hamas officials that a breakthrough may not be as close as international mediators had suggested. Antony Blinken flew into Tel Aviv on Sunday … Read more
Two weeks ago Abdullah, a Pakistani-born man living in the UK, was watching the news in fear. Far-right riots had spread across the country, with mosques being attacked and hotels housing asylum seekers set alight. After a horrific knife attack on children in Southport, disinformation spread quickly on social media falsely claiming the perpetrator was … Read more
Have you ever wondered about the unspoken moments in your life that can provide more information than a thousand words? For example, the moment when the waiter asks you and a friend how your food was and you instinctively glance at each other and with one look you acknowledge that the fish was too salty, … Read more
Sperm donated in the UK is being exported and can be used to create large numbers of children across multiple countries, contradicting a strict 10-family limit that applies in the UK, experts warn. A legal loophole means that, while a single donor can be used to create no more than 10 families in UK fertility … Read more
Can you honestly say, if you are a mother, that you’ve never even thought about it? That you’ve never so much as let yourself imagine for a second how it would feel to just walk out of the door and leave all the chaos behind, on one of those long, scratchy afternoons when it seems … Read more
The new season may be upon us but there had been a sense of deja vu in west London until Yoane Wissa’s late winner sealed victory for Brentford over Crystal Palace for the first time in almost 50 years. The past three editions of this fixture had all finished as 1-1 draws and this edition … Read more
It has been some time since Alain Delon was last seen in the village of Douchy, his country home for the past half a century and the place he designated as his final resting place. Local people remember when back in the 1970s and 80s he would be spotted at the nearby chemist shop or … Read more
We’ve reached the halfway point at the Edinburgh fringe, where more than a third of the 3,600 shows are comedy. Rain is pouring and I’m clambering up one of the city’s many hills to get to the next show: my 50th of the festival. This is my second year serving on the panel for the … Read more