Voyages out

Travel can narrow, as well as broaden, the mind, shown in the fates of two chroniclers of Portugal’s age of discovery

Hydra stays in the artistic sun

The Greek island has worked its magic for more than 80 years, attracting creatives from Henry Miller to Leonard Cohen and now Jeff Koons

'Whatever I do, I do it to excess'

Musician and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti is revisiting her life in the company of two other women who succeeded against the odds

Great divide 75 years on, the scars of Partition are yet to heal

Last Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie shone a light on where Pakistan and India, both now 75 years old, share common ground. Amid worldwide outrage, both governments were conspicuous by their silence.

Rebuke for Republicans making ‘dangerous’ FBI claims

Vocal supporters of the former president are warned against ‘jumping to conclusions’ and sowing distrust of the law

Gore hails ‘critical turning point’ for clean energy

Former vice-president says momentum for change created by $370bn support package will be ‘unstoppable’

Flying high, hitting a new low

A raid by FBI agents on Donald Trump’s Florida home is just one of the ex-president’s legal worries. Meanwhile, Joe Biden enjoyed climate success and buoyant economic news, giving the Democrats hope for November’s midterms

Former PM Calls For Emergency Budget

Gordon Brown warns of 'financial timebomb' as Labour plans intervention to help low-income housesholds

Putin Is Banking On A Failure Of Political Will In The Weak West

The Russo-Ukrainian war is coming down to a race between the weakening political will of western democracies and the deteriorating military means of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship.

Taliban: 'We Didn't Know al-Zawahiri Was Living In Our Capital'

The Taliban leadership said they did not know that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had moved to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the US president, Joe Biden, said he had been killed by a drone strike last month.

Thousands Vow Not To Pay Autumn Energy Bills

Like millions of people across Britain, Josina, a teacher from Sheffield, is being pushed into poverty by rising energy prices.

Tears of joy as Kansas celebrates abortion rights win

In a conference room at the Sheraton in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, people screamed, whooped, cheered and cried as a vote to protect abortion rights in Kansas's state constitution came down late last Tuesday night.

The simple life: outdoor cooking that's faff-free and delicious

KITCHEN AIDE

Reality is only make-believe

Comedian Nathan Fielder's experiment in reality TV is a high stakes game that exposes the building blocks of the genre while creating its own elaborate fictions

Do the math

Can learning algebra in your 60s make you smarter and unlock new parts of your brain?

A change of heart

Pig-to-human transplants promise to solve an organ shortage and change the way we think about human longevity, but they also raise a host of questions

Beijing makes its ånger clear

China showed its huge military might in response to Nancy Pelosi's visit but in Taipei calm prevailed

Could hemp help wean farmers off their opium crops?

The smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a nonpsychoactive cannabis compound, were disgusted by Amin Karim's cargo.

Why migrant workers are turning to evangelical Christianity

The Pentecostal church is flourishing in Gulf states as low-paid expatriate labourers seek rescue from abuse

President's downfall raises hopes of justice for war crimes

Onan April day in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was enjoying the afternoon with his family in an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.

Widow urges activists to 'go forward' after four are executed

The wife of Kyaw Min Yu, a prominent democracy activist whose execution by the Myanmar junta caused global outrage, has urged the country's people not to stop their fight for democracy, but "to go forward with a victory spirit".

England’s win against Germany is only the beginning

England won. In the end, perhaps that was the only thing that mattered.

Grain export resumes, easing fears of widespread hunger

Analysts express tentative hopes that international efforts to allow ships to cross Black Sea blockade will hold

'I hate them' Medvedev's slide from boyish liberal to bitter hawk

Joe Biden is a "strange grandfather with dementia".

‘Nobody wants to hear about the war’

Moscow residents are determined to enjoy the summer as public indifference to the conflict grows

Chaos and fear, one month after Roe v Wade reversal

Severe new restrictions upend reproductive care across the US. Patients report delays for procedures, as doctors fear vague new laws with criminal penalties. A 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy. And activists promise more restrictions to come.

String theory

Renowned cellist Abel Selaocoe reflects on his life journey from a South African township to the elite world of classical music

A new migration wave is coming-and Europe is not ready for it

After a week when Russia threatened to annex more territory in Ukraine, gas shortages loomed, and inflation and Covid surged across Europe, it seems almost unkind to remind EU and UK leaders of another crisis that is unfolding, largely unremarked, right under their noses. As Claudius laments in Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions."

The Tories' inglorious leadership fight ought to fill Labour with joy

The Duke of Wellington, surveying his troops, said he didn't know what effect the spectacle would have on the enemy, "but, by God, they frighten me". What's left of the serious elements of the Conservative party are frightened as they view the battlefield ahead - and they don't expect to win a Waterloo.

Catching up: Why are those who dodged the virus for so long now getting it?

Having somehow dodged Covid so far, those who have never seen the two red lines appear on a rapid test have become a shrinking minority. Last week, the White House announced that the US president, Joe Biden, tested positive for Covid, becoming the most high-profile figure yet to join the increasingly exclusive club of people who are only now, in the third year of rife disease, notching up their first infection.