Used for spying, a phone exchange and more over the years, a semi-secret web of tunnels in central London could open to the public in 2027.There’s a locked door on the eastbound platform of the Chancery Lane station of the London Underground. The door is unass... More »
The opening ceremony for this summer’s Paris Games will be held outside a stadium — an Olympics first. Making it safe is complicated.A terrorist attack of 2015 that left her city angry and heartbroken persuaded Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to campaign for the ... More »
This is the debut of The Interview, The New York Times’s new weekly series, featuring in-depth conversations with fascinating people. Each week, David Marchese or Lulu Garcia-Navarro will speak with notable figures in the worlds of culture, politics, business,... More »
I woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ord... More »
A British man is in intensive care after an “unusual” shark attack on the Caribbean island of Tobago.The 64-year-old man is receiving critical care after the bull shark attack left him with injuries to his left arm, left leg and stomach, Tobago’s Division of T... More »
Two people are dead after their powered glider crashed near an airport in Victoria’s alpine region.Emergency services were called to the incident at Mount Beauty, north of Falls Creek, after 1.40pm on Saturday.“It is believed the pair were flying over Embankme... More »
I have a dream sometimes. I dream I’m in a house, and discover a door I didn’t know was there. It opens into an unexpected garden, and for a weightless moment I find myself inhabiting new territory, flush with potential. Maybe there are steps down to a pond, o... More »
A man on a motorbike has shot dead a social media influencer known as Om Fahad outside her Baghdad home, Iraqi security officials said.The unidentified attacker shot Om Fahad in her car in the Zayouna district on Friday, a security official said, requesting an... More »
The ITV News presenter Rageh Omaar is receiving medical care after he became “unwell” live on air, ITV has said.Omaar was presenting the News at Ten programme on Friday night when he appeared to struggle to read the news bulletins, sparking concern online.“We ... More »
Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.A ship has been damaged when it was targeted twice with multiple missiles off Yemen’s coast on Friday, in the latest attack on international shipping in the Red Sea to be claime... More »
It has been a week since the New York Times and the German TV channel ARD broke the news that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for trace amounts of the banned performance-enhancing drug TMZ in the run-up to the last Olympic Games, and public ripples we ... More »
Is woke dead? Is it over? Has it “peaked”, run its course before we’ve even properly agreed on what this endlessly controversial but somehow never quite defined social justice movement actually was? Though American rightwingers have been hopefully pronouncing ... More »