Whether team-building or exploring with friends and family, searching for clues and solving puzzles is popular If you spot someone in a busy city centre street with a puzzled, possibly pained look asking their companions whether that’s an elephant at the top of a drainpipe, they are probably not mad […]
Month: August 2025
As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava Gardner For the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film […]
Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to? If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a […]
Young people are drawn in by the promise of a ‘no-distractions’ zone, rereleases of old classics and music documentaries by global artists A new generation of film lovers is helping to drive an increase in cinema attendance across the UK. As the industry slowly recovers from the decline of audiences […]
The German chancellor’s high-wire statesmanship on Ukraine has done little to alleviate his domestic woes Europe live – latest updates Friedrich Merz hosted the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday as a weakened leader 100 days into his term, with his attempts to rally western support for Kyiv and wrangle […]
Hawizeh’s wetlands once had abundant fishing and wildlife. In a land threatened by drought and desertification, oil drilling is draining the last of the water At dawn, a veil of mist clings to the canals of Hawizeh, where sky and water seem to blur into a mirror. In the stern […]
Built to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement, the Tideway project has also generated dramatic new public spaces dotted with giant artworks. Our writer takes the ‘stink tower’ tour of the capital A group of colossal black tombstones has landed on the north bank of the Thames in London, looking […]
Israel’s actions are an assault not only on individual reporters but on the entire global public’s right to know the truth Asef Hamidi is the director of news, Al Jazeera Channel As the world witnesses the horrors unfolding in Gaza, a related tragedy continues with chilling regularity: the systematic targeting […]
Oh god, the suffering. The bleak, bleak suffering. Katherine Kelly’s desperate drug-smuggling thriller – featuring distressing scenes set in a Bulgarian prison – is so claustrophobic it’s suffocating I wonder, sometimes, if Katherine Kelly misses her days as Becky McDonald in Coronation Street. Yes, Becky was a once-homeless, thieving ex-con […]
Rates of colorectal cancer have risen in those under 50, but many are nervous about screening. Here’s what to know Tell us: share your experiences of traveling with friends Colorectal cancer is the third-most diagnosed cancer and third leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, according to the Cancer […]