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Has Chris O’Dell had the music industry’s wildest career?
She managed tours for Bob Dylan, delivered drugs for the Rolling Stones, and was at George Harrison’s house when the Beatles split. Now Chris O'Dell tells all in a new documentary.
10 unforgettable adventures to have in northern France this summer – in pictures
From hot-air ballooning over the Loire to hiking through Brittany’s enchanted forests, lose yourself in the beauty and adventure of France’s northern Atlantic coast.
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April
Even though it came out only last year, I was so impressed with Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires that I am on my second reread. As all around me institutions fall and norms fail, I feel the moment requires audacious re-imaginings of history or possibilities of thought, and on …
‘They disappear them’: families of the detained see grim echo of Latin American dictatorships in Trump’s US
Neiyerver Rengel’s captors came one sunny spring morning, lurking outside the apartment he shared with his girlfriend and pouncing as soon as he emerged.The three government agents announced the young Venezuelan man had “charges to answer” and was being detained.“Everything’s going to be OK,” the man’s girlfriend, Richely Alejandra Uzcátegui …
‘Standing up for Christian values’: US evangelicals keep the faith with Trump
When asked about Donald Trump’s Easter morning post wishing a happy holiday to “the Radical Left Lunatics … fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners” to the United States, Jackson Lahmeyer, an Oklahoma evangelical Christian pastor, said: “Isn’t it terrible that they are wanting to …
Class act: can Harrow sell an elitist British boarding school fantasy to New Yorkers?
The private school will open its first US campus in Long Island. Will it assimilate Americans into the upper crust – or is it more about branding?
He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit
Cluster headaches are ‘the most painful condition on the planet’. Sufferers are going to extreme – and secretive – measures for relief
Peter was working late, watching two roulette tables in play at a London casino, when he felt something stir behind his right eye.
Gillian Anderson announces ‘even more daring’ follow-up to bestselling book of sexual fantasies
Gillian Anderson has announced a follow-up to her bestselling anthology of female sexual fantasies, Want, with the hope that it will be “more international, and even more daring”.The original book “gave thousands of women the freedom to talk about sex without shame or judgment; to see themselves in the words …
‘Funny, sexy and a bit weird’: inside the new wave of literary parties
On a Saturday evening in London’s Notting Hill, a large crowd of moderately tipsy young people are spilling into a tailor’s shop on Portobello Road. A passerby could easily assume they were walking past a fashion pop-up attracting a stylish herd of fanatics. But they’d be wrong. The buzzing crowd …
The authors taking on Mark Zuckerberg – podcast
Earlier this month, a group of protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They were demonstrating over the company’s use of millions of pirated books and research papers to feed their family of generative AI models, known as Llama.AJ West is …
Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout decades after use, research finds
Residues of the insecticide DDT have been found to persist at “alarming rates” in trout even after nearly six decades, potentially posing a significant danger to humans and wildlife that eat the fish, research has found.Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, known as DDT, was used on forested land in New Brunswick, Canada, from 1952 …
From butterflies to wind turbines, project preserves world’s sonic heritage
The sounds of wind turbines, rare whales and the Amazonian dawn chorus are among the noises being preserved as part of an exhibition of soundscapes found in world heritage sites.The Sonic Heritage project is a collection of 270 sounds from 68 countries, including from famous Unesco-designated sites such as Machu …
About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers
About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4 billion people living in high-risk areas worldwide.Approximately 14 to 17% of cropland globally – roughly 242m hectares – is contaminated by at least one toxic metal such as arsenic, cadmium, …
About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers
About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals, researchers have estimated, with as many as 1.4 billion people living in high-risk areas worldwide.Approximately 14 to 17% of cropland globally – roughly 242m hectares – is contaminated by at least one toxic metal such as arsenic, cadmium, …
Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP records
Yves Moreau, a geneticist who has worked on projects using data from UK Biobank and praises it as a “world class” resource, said China’s rulers “regard genomic data and other health data as strategic”. He said it was “reasonable to worry about China vacuuming such data from around the world …
‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah
Tuesday marks the 67th birthday of the late Benjamin Zephaniah – revolutionary poet, playwright, musician and fearless voice for social justice – following the inaugural Benjamin Zephaniah Day held over the weekend at Brunel University. But while he is widely celebrated for his work in literature and activism, Zephaniah’s influence …
Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings
