EPA Sir Keir Starmer’s honeymoon is over. The prime minister has spent the summer preparing the ground for unpopular and controversial spending and taxation decisions. He wants to persuade voters not to blame him, but the governments who came before. The Conservatives, he argues, left the country’s finances in such a mess that there’s going … Read more
FAMILY HANDOUT Dr Alicia Pylpyczuk worked as an emergency doctor in Manchester but took her own life in February 2020 after battling depression triggered by alopecia Earlier this year a new drug to treat severe alopecia – an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss – was given the green light for NHS use. Some are … Read more
Getty Images A series of “humanitarian pauses” to fighting in Gaza are due to begin on Sunday, to allow hundreds of thousands of children to be vaccinated against polio. The agreement comes after UN officials said a 10-month-old has been partially paralysed after contracting Gaza’s first recorded case of polio in 25 years. What is … Read more
Getty Images The Russians released in last month’s prisoner exchange we personally met by Vladimir Putin at Moscow airport In early August, Pablo González was taken from a prison in Poland and flown to Moscow on a plane carrying Russian deep-cover agents, hackers and a hitman for the FSB intelligence service. The group was met … Read more
EPA Michael Chakma was snatched from a street and disappeared into a secret prison in 2019 The man who walked out into the rain in Dhaka hadn’t seen the sun in more than five years. Even on a cloudy day, his eyes struggled to adjust after half a decade locked in a dimly lit room, … Read more
BBC Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage have filed a class action lawsuit against Lovo The notion that artificial intelligence could one day take our jobs is a message many of us will have heard in recent years. But, for Paul Skye Lehrman, that warning has been particularly personal, chilling and unexpected: he heard his … Read more
DAG William Henry Pigou, a surgeon turned photographer, took this picture of an idol cart at a Mysore temple in 1856 A new show in the Indian capital Delhi showcases a rich collection of early photographs of monuments in the country. The photographs from the 1850s and 1860s capture a period of experimentation when new … Read more