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The Democratic candidate has overtaken Donald Trump in the polls and managed to rattle him, but the coming weeks will bring bigger hurdles
Ava Glass stakes out a city that more than lends itself to tales of espionage
Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms
UK officials considered Rikers Island prison barge to ease capacity crisis before early release of inmates
It’s time we saw these products for what they are, stripped of their disingenuous branding
Government says new digital education tools are ‘pivotal’ to overhaul of school system
Russia slow to redeploy troops from eastern Ukraine after Kyiv’s forces smashed through border
Home of the club sandwich, land of the culinarily incurious
What better way for the mega-rich to show off their powers than to corral famous people on board and hold them captive for sport?
Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just ‘an angry man screaming into a hurricane’?
He continues to use his interventions around the world to needle establishment norms
Failing to acknowledge imperfect outcomes and trade-offs is impoverishing the debate
What is it about these missives that has such power? Hannah Shuckburgh is not the first person to have written a letter to try to convince someone to sell them their house — because it often works
A vice-president’s job is not to look good, but to send a message
A US company is attempting to reinvent the hut-to-hut Alpine hike, with guides, gourmet food and luxed-up mountain refuges
Discussions aiming at ending the war take on greater significance amid threat of Iranian retaliation against Israel
Labour ministers want funding to ‘pack a punch’ after shake-up and experts warn against ‘salami-slicing’ of cash
Following his disputed re-election, the president has stepped up repression and shown he is determined to stay in office. Yet the international response so far has been muted
German investigators seek to explain gas pipeline sabotage in first year of Russia’s war
Discovery of Altar Stone’s origin is latest twist in creation story of fabled 5,000-year-old neolithic site
Authorities have moved swiftly to punish people alleged to have been involved in the worst unrest England has experienced since 2011
Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions
Intervention ahead of Trump interview adds to tensions over first-of-its-kind investigation into social media platform X
Evidence of an underground reservoir is an obvious destination to look for life on the Red Planet
Inside the fiercely competitive, high-tech, high-ticket world of beyond-bog-standard loos
