I spent a day letting AI plan my route around London. Why does it keep sending me to the Tube?
I recently met a friend for a drink who had just visited three galleries. She was having a cultural day…
‘The only thing left for me was death’: meet the long jumper who overcame meth addiction and a journey through hell
Lying face down in the dirt, the cold metal of a baseball bat striking his skull, spine, and legs—the same…
What do you think: should my boyfriend hold my hand when we’re out in public?
Chantelle says, “Friends and family have noticed that we don’t hold hands, and it’s become a running joke. My boyfriend,…
Disgraced former king Juan Carlos hopes to return from exile as a hero, but Spain’s complicated past continues to haunt him.
When Spain’s King Juan Carlos fell and broke his hip while on an elephant hunt with a former girlfriend in…
China is undergoing a transformative robotics revolution.
They maintain control and balance, but they don’t deviate from their programming. The technology Galbot is developing is what roboticists…
‘We want change, but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack
The UN refugee agency estimates that up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been temporarily displaced since the start…
‘Put him on trial’: Pro-Kremlin figure turns on Putin in rare public criticism
For years, Ilya Remeslo was a reliable pro-Kremlin figure, targeting critics of the regime and smearing independent journalists, bloggers, and…
Israel claims it carried out an overnight strike that eliminated Iran’s intelligence minister.
Israel claimed on Wednesday to have killed a third senior Iranian official within 24 hours, stating its forces had “eliminated”…
Shaun Ryder reflects on his highs, lows, and time with Happy Mondays, noting: “Heroin isn’t a party drug—you can’t just do it on weekends.”
There are countless photos of Shaun Ryder and Bez from their Happy Mondays days in the mid-to-late 80s, showing them…
‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: How 1980s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes
The noise had been building since the early ’80s, but 1986 was the year thrash metal truly broke—erupting like a…