Across Europe and further afield, counterterrorism agencies are grappling with a new generation of young people who are being radicalized online and consuming ultraviolent content produced by extremist groups and their supporters
Zoos have undergone a rethink in recent decades with the emphasis on the conservation of species and education, moving away from the past paradigm that often displayed exotic animals as a spectacle
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The Oscar-winning French star talks to Adam White about her new film âThe Returnâ, why it is dangerous to be a âprisonerâ to directors, and how on the set of âThe English Patientâ she was âtrembling all the timeâ
Itâs 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson
As we mark three centuries since the Italian adventurer âseducedâ his way through Italy, Olivia Petter asks why women have never earned a similar reputation
Sentimental nickname? A nod to your first date? Or something more business-like? Katie Rosseinsky explores how our partnersâ contact names in our phones can shed interesting light on our dynamic
After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on the water longer while keeping the marine mammals safe
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Chinaâs leader is on a charm offensive in the region, but some of Beijingâs neighbors are wary of being caught in the crossfire of a superpower rivalry.
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Chinaâs leader, Xi Jinping, will be testing Southeast Asia ties this week as he visits Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia.
An Israeli airstrike destroyed parts of a hospital in Gaza City early on Sunday, its civil defence agency said, as Israel seized a corridor further south in the war-battered Palestinian territory and said it planned to expand its military offensive.
There were no reports of casualties in the strike and the Israeli military told Agence France-Presse it was looking into the incident.
An Arizona jewellery designer bet the ranch on some unusual purple minerals from South Africa
A few years back, Arizona jewellery designers Randy and Janie Polk were struggling to make ends meet. Randy traded gemstones with fellow hustlers in smoky hotel rooms. He liked the bright stuff, the âgumdrop coloursâ, he tells Anthea Disney for the Observer Magazine of 6 June 1982.
When âsome young hustlers brought him a bag full of purple rockâ from South Africa, Randy âdidnât know what it was. I just thought it was pretty, like grape juice,â he reminisces. âEverything I made in purple or lavender sold quickly, so I was interested.â
Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or ÂŁ37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questionsâŚ
One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didnât seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but â he checked the address he had noted down from the courier â this was the place.
A couple of months earlier, Swales couldnât have imagined that heâd be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for ÂŁ37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, heâd received an email â subject: âCollaborationâ â from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Match, a French supermarket. Moulin was looking for an ongoing supplier of smoked salmon and hoped that Swalesâs company, the Chapel & Swan Smokehouse in Exning, Suffolk, would provide it.
Itâs deeply human to seek approval and recognition from a parent, even when we are fully grown
The question Iâm a man in my late 50s. My parents were teenagers when I was born. They married so I wouldnât be illegitimate, it was the 1960s. My parents divorced. My mum and stepdad moved up north, my father remarried and stayed down south.
My father and his wife have three children, now in their 40s. My stepdad killed himself when I was in my early 20s, but Iâve come to realise he was much more of a parent to me than my actual father.
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