Police have been criticised for saying they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman | Continue reading
Choreographer Rosie Kay has never shied away from controversial subjects. Her ballet MK Ultra addressed conspiracy theorists; her award-winning 5 Soldiers, insp | Continue reading
Victims in UK-US legal action accuse Zuckerberg of trading lives for profit in Myanmar | Continue reading
ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGESA protester detained by police during demonstrations in Hong Kong in 2019Anyone who doubts the ruthless way that China opera | Continue reading
At least 18 ships are stuck in Arctic sea ice off the coast of Russia after an unexpected early freeze took shipping companies by surprise. Some could be strand | Continue reading
We will need 100 days. From the moment a decision is taken that a tweaked vaccine is necessary, that is how long Albert Bourla, the chief executive of Pfizer, h | Continue reading
President Macron has darkened the blue of the flag at the Élysée Palace to revert to the original colour of the French Revolution. A lighter hue of blue had be | Continue reading
Ministers are poised to pull the trigger on a full-blown investigation into the sale of ARM, Britain’s biggest technology company, in a move that threatens to s | Continue reading
The BBC’s head of news told LGBT staff that they must get used to hearing views they disagreed with as the corporation faced accusations from its own employees | Continue reading
Lawyers and campaigners say that a university training scheme on gender identity is “totalitarian and unlawful”. The latest row centres on a scheme called Athe | Continue reading
Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate. Ministers | Continue reading
Shoppers face higher prices and shrinking product sizes in the coming months as raw material costs and driver shortages reach crisis point, the world’s biggest | Continue reading
Arguably the most consequential meeting in recent British political history took place on Saturday March 14, 2020, in the prime minister’s office in Downing Street | Continue reading
The Atlit Cove on Israel’s northern Mediterranean shore has had many military uses over the centuries. At present, it is home to a secretive base for Israel’s n | Continue reading
Scott Stuber laughs nervously when I ask if he is now the most important man in Hollywood. The head of film at the streaming giant Netflix, which has 209 milli | Continue reading
It is time to end the mythology that Alan Turing was “hounded to death by the state” and that he was a “great codebreaker” essential to Bletchley Park, his nephew has said.Dermot Turing said evidence from Turing’s archives indicated that he had returned to his “normal self” withi … | Continue reading
Long Covid is “overblown” and many people who think they have it are actually suffering from something else, a medical expert has said.Professor Sir John Bell | Continue reading
Mo Gawdat is the Silicon Valley supergeek who believes we face an apocalyptic threat from AI. He explains what we need to do next | Continue reading
The new coronavirus is unlikely to mutate into a variant that can evade vaccines because there “aren’t very many places for the virus to go”, the creator of the Oxford jab has said.Dame Sarah Gilbert, speaking yesterday on a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, played down fears of … | Continue reading
The young boss of a collapsed energy company that has left more than 580,000 families fearing higher bills this winter is at the heart of a web of firms that appear to have led to his family earning millions of pounds.Jake Brown, a 27-year-old former non-league footballer, founde … | Continue reading
A music professor has resigned in protest at the move to decolonise curriculums and the “no platforming” of academics. | Continue reading
For 20 years Karen Hadden has been an advocate for environmental causes in west Texas, raising concerns about fracking, groundwater pollution and the constructi | Continue reading
China is due to fire up an experimental nuclear reactor this month that could revolutionise the atomic energy industry.The reactor is fuelled by thorium, a weak | Continue reading
Chinese scientists have sketched out plans for drones flying across Mars at five times the speed of sound, connecting human colonies. A 500kg drone, powered by jet engines running on magnesium, could fly at up to 3,800mph, according to calculations by Professor Xu Xu and colleagu … | Continue reading
St Andrews ousts Oxbridge from the Good University Guide top spot for first time | Continue reading
The four young women sitting in front of me don’t look especially remarkable. They’re 17 and 18 years old, a bit pale and wan, with dark circles under their eye | Continue reading
Americans are flocking to defunct uranium mines in Montana for what many believe is a fountain of youth gushing with radioactive gas in defiance of the adv | Continue reading
A whistleblower who claims she was “vilified” by an NHS gender identity clinic after raising concerns about the safety of children undergoing treatment has been | Continue reading
A cancer treatment based on the technology behind Oxford University’s Covid-19 jab will be tested on humans for the first time after strong results in animal ex | Continue reading
The niece of Emperor Naruhito will turn down a million-pound handout from the Japanese government when she marries her fiancé and moves with him to the United | Continue reading
A record summer of underwater discoveries, including ancient battering rams and ships laden with supplies, have shed new light on how Rome destroyed the power o | Continue reading
A Taliban commander sat in the control tower of what was once the nerve centre of America’s war in Afghanistan, momentarily king of all he surveyed.Maulawi Hafi | Continue reading
Dozens of Alexei Navalny’s supporters have been harassed by Moscow police in overnight “visits” after their details were leaked from an online database, the Kr | Continue reading
As management efforts to cajole staff back to the office go, Google’s wasn’t subtle. Work permanently from home if you like, it told US workers last week, but w | Continue reading
After being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation for its response to Sars in 2003, China decided it would not accept such public humiliation agai | Continue reading
After being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation for its response to Sars in 2003, China decided it would not accept such public humiliation agai | Continue reading
American B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships have been sent into action against the Taliban to try to stop the insurgents’ march on three key cities. The retur | Continue reading
More than 90 per cent adults in England now have coronavirus antibodies, with rising immunity levels helping to drive cases down. | Continue reading
Schools are not spreading Covid, according to an official study that has boosted hopes that the return to class will not trigger an autumn surge in infections | Continue reading
The first signs of catastrophe were detected nine days ago by a satellite orbiting 500 miles above the tranquil hills around the Rhine river.Over the next few days a team of scientists sent the German | Continue reading
Facebook has disbanded one of its teams after the data they produced suggested that far-right commentators outperformed all other users.Facebook executives, including Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy | Continue reading
Banks’ increasing use of cloud computing to store sensitive data could endanger the financial system and requires more regulatory scrutiny, according to the Bank of England.Lenders are increasingly | Continue reading
The head of a German foreign policy think tank has been charged with spying for China for almost a decade.The German federal attorney’s office, the country’s senior prosecutor, said that the political | Continue reading
US intelligence officials have found no evidence that unidentified flying objects encountered by US navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft but cannot explain what they are, a | Continue reading
The UK’s oldest conservatoire is considering ditching some of its collection of rare instruments as part of a decolonisation review of its 22,000-piece collection.Officials at the Royal Academy of | Continue reading
There is a bit of Oxfordshire that, every now and then, is the hottest place in the solar system. And yesterday, it was announced that the exhaust gases from this location — Britain’s main nuclear | Continue reading
Motorists will be able to charge electric cars in five minutes within three years with the introduction of “extreme fast” battery technology.It will be announced today that the first five-minute | Continue reading
Academics at Edinburgh University claim they are teaching in a climate of fear with some lecturers allegedly “hunted down” because of their failure to comply with the “unchallengeable orthodoxy” of | Continue reading