Boy abducted from park reunited with family 70 years later
In 1951, a six-year-old boy was abducted from an Oakland park, leaving his family searching for answers. Those answers have finally arrived.
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Mental health? Call it mental fitness, says Harry
The Duke of Sussex has called on international governments to listen to the problems faced by young people before making policy decisions.
US election: it’s still the economy, stupid
The man behind Bill Clinton’s 1992 triumph says most Americans feel poorer than four years ago – and a familiar issue will decide the presidency.
Al Fayed shows how my generation got it wrong
As an old warrior, accustomed to the looming and pestering by men in power in the workplace of 1970s and 1980s, who then rolled ones eyes at some of the #MeToo accusations and the subsequent wave of cultural and legal squeamishness, I apologise.
Putin will fall ‘when we least expect it’
Political change in Russia usually happens suddenly, unexpectedly, when nobody sees it coming, and nobody is ready for it, a freed dissident says.
‘Monster Al Fayed groped me, demanded sex, threatened me’
Picked up at a bus stop and promised a career at Harrods, a woman who went on to be Mohamed Al Fayed’s PA spells out in gruelling detail the abuse she says she suffered almost daily.
I am a monster and I repent, mafia mass murderer tells priest
Having committed more than 150 murders, dissolved the body of a boy in acid and killed a judge, Giovanni Brusca is one of Italy’s most notorious mafia figures.
How much did Harrods boss’s inner circle know?
Accusations of rape and sexual assault against Mohamed Al Fayed raise questions about a series of senior staff from his PR fixers to his head of security.
Van Gogh’s starry view captures accurate brush with laws of physics
Modern science is looking again at Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and concluding that he was depicting complex phenomena of the natural world.
How Aussie radio inspired Afghanistan’s biggest media company
Saad Mohseni says his news channel has more female broadcasters than ever but he has sleepless nights about navigating grey areas under the repressive regime.
Is ‘fat but fit’ better than ‘slim but lazy’?
Obese exercisers have healthier belly fat than overweight people who are inactive, says a new study.
Your reputation is in tatters, Huw Edwards told as he’s spared jail
The former BBC newsreader was spared jail at Westminster magistrates’ court after pleading guilty in July.
Fall of Duterte dynasty as family face legal jeopardy
The strongman former president faces criminal charges alongside his daughter and two sons.
Pope rejects Macron offer to lead mass at restored Notre Dame
Pope Francis has angered French Catholics by snubbing an invitation to lead the first mass at the restored Notre Dame Cathedral.
Microplastics found in human brain for first time
The tiny pieces of plastic are found everywhere, including the human body, but until now have not been found to have reached the brain.
Australian author Charlotte Wood makes the strongest Booker Prize shortlist in years
Stone Yard Devotional is among the six impressive nominees up for the UK’s biggest literary prize.
‘All good here’: last words from doomed Titan sub revealed
Former Oceangate engineer describes being sacked after he warned its vessel for taking sightseers to the Titanic wreck was unsafe, as a hearing sees the final messages and vision of the sub |WATCH TITAN’S LAST MINUTES
Remarkable voyage left theory on rocks
Thor Heyerdahl was a man of imagination and courage – he was the kind of person who makes most of us feel utterly inadequate.
Imran Khan in pitch to lead Oxford University
Imran Khan has fought many battles but now, from his prison cell, he wants to champion free speech as the next chancellor of Oxford University.
Ukraine ‘helpless’ to prevent North Korea arms supply to Russia
Ukraine can do nothing to prevent North Korea supplying Russia with artillery shells and ballistic missiles that are ‘critical’ to the war.
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