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Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the…

With humanitarian funding slashed by the US and other countries, including the UK, this year’s global health headlines have made grim reading. But good things have…

Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she’d found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet…

Lucknow, India – Harshit Verma believes his 50-year-old father, Vijay Kumar Verma, died because he was handling an “inhuman task”.Vijay, a contractual government teacher in Lucknow,…

High up in the Arctic Circle, Olivier Chastel begins his working day by scanning the horizon for polar bears, rifle at the ready. “In 25 years…

Of Arthur Scargill it was said that he began each day with two newspapers. The miners’ leader read the Morning Star of course, but only after…

For many, singing is one of life’s great pleasures.The actor and writer James Corden has said he was so inspired by the joy he saw when…

The boss of Ford has said western carmakers are “in a fight for our lives” against Chinese competition as the US manufacturer agreed a new partnership…

Your report about the deprivation divide in UK communities brings into sharp focus the granularity of inequalities in the country (‘Posh-poor divide’: the rise in areas…

Ageing can feel remarkably sudden. One morning you awake to find new aches, or lapses in strength and memory that you could swear were not present…