A bus carrying passengers on their way to a temple to mark the end of Buddhist lent collided with a train 31 miles east of Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday morning killing 18 people and injuring dozens more according to officials. The images from the scene show the heavily damaged bus overturned on its side, and…
“King Of Clay”, Rafael Nadal (34) stuns Novak Djokovic (33) to win the French Open and equal Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam men’s titles. The Spanish second seed Nadal toppled the world number one Djokovic in a 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 win and clinching a record extending 13th title at Roland Garros. Nadal…
Lewis Hamilton equalled the all-time record for career Formula 1 Victories by winning the Eifel Grand Prix, his 91st win between 1992 and 2006, and he hopes to smash Michael Schumacher’s record soon. The Mercedes driver extended his championship lead over team-mate Valtteri Bottas to 69 points after the Finn retired. Behind Max Verstappen’s Red…
As Mars lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun, it is at its biggest and brightest. Every 26 months the pair take up this line up, moving close together before then diverging again on their separate orbit around our star. Tuesday night 13th October sees the actual moment of what astronomers…
19-year-old Iga Swiatek is the surprise Grand Slam champion, the lowest-ranked woman to ever win the French Open and owes her victory to her father Tomasz, a former rower who competed in the 1988 Olympics. “I was not expecting to win this trophy, I feel like I kind of made history”, the pole said after…
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Help Yourself, hilarious and insightful new collection of three short stories, illuminates human experience, combines a potent blend of biting truths, entertainment and upends our assumption about race, class, envy, and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and…
Human nature has the instinct to fight but War – organised violence – with organised society shaped humanity’s history, social and political institutions, its values and ideas. MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores the glory and misery of war which brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity and reveals the…
An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world’s highest mountians Himalaya, home to an astonishing diversity of indigenous and local cultures, crossroads of trade, meeting point and conflict zone for the world’s superpowers, where Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen, American merchants exchanged musk and gold…
Clarity of statistics amid disinformation and mutant algorithms The threat of pandemic had made us crave data: Millions pore over R numbers, the technicalities of vaccine trials and testing accuracy, once of interest only to biostatisticians, are now daily front page news. Can we really trust the statistics our governments are publishing about the virus? Does…
New History of humankind through the prism of work from the origins of the life on Earth to our ever-more automated present. The work we do bring us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. How did work become the central organisational principle of our…