'I'm still a child, it can't be right to be married': how drought forces Afghan families to sell their daughters as brides
“I’m not happy about this,” says 11-year-old Khatira, sitting in her home in Qala-e-Naw, the capital of Badghis province in…
Russia and Ukraine have resumed strikes after Trump's 'energy ceasefire' fell apart.
The White House’s unilateral attempt to negotiate an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has collapsed. Overnight, Moscow launched a…
Exposed: Serbian leader's secret role in 'illegal' effort to aid Trump business
Serbia’s authoritarian leader personally stepped in to push forward an allegedly illegal plan to give a protected site in Belgrade…
Angèle: Instinct review – Belgium's biggest star is determined to do pop her own way
We live in an era where the traditional Anglo-American dominance of pop has been broken. Streaming gives listeners far more…
Her Royal Heilness: Berlin exhibition revisits the artist who portrayed the Queen as a Nazi
Christoph Schlingensief certainly knew how to provoke. “Fury at German play that shows Queen as a Nazi,” read the Sunday…
A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is destroying the fishing industry
On 10 June 2026, the Peruvian government made a decision it knew would hurt one of the world’s major fishing…
18 Again: I went back to my life in 1990. Who—and what—would I find there?
The house where I turned 18 was full of clocks. Dark wooden ones with aged faces. Every room ticked. If…
Sally Rooney's position on Palestine is brave and humane.
It’s hard to think of a published author in recent memory who risked arrest in the UK for their political…
Mercedes' boss has warned that leaving the UK out of the 'Made in Europe' rules will harm the entire EU car industry.
Mercedes-Benz’s CEO has said that shutting the UK out of the EU’s flagship “Made in Europe” industrial law would be…
The French minister has accused Elon Musk of running online harassment campaigns against European leaders.
France’s foreign minister has accused Elon Musk of using his social media platform to organize “massive online harassment campaigns” against…