Reviewed by:
Tory Young, Anglia Ruskin University; Alison Donnell, University of Bristol; Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University; Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster; Stevie Marsden, Edinburgh Napier University, and Tim Jarvis, Anglia Ruskin University
When the Booker prize was first launched in 1969, its aim was to get more people reading and...
An extra hour in bed sounds like a good deal. But while our phones may update to the autumn time change automatically, our body clock isn’t quite so quick. You may even find yourself waking up earlier than normal and ready for bed before your evening has properly begun.
The...
This year’s El Niño, the natural weather phenomenon that drives variations in temperature and winds across the Pacific, has prompted the UK government to pledge £15 million to help vulnerable countries such as Malawi, Kenya and Zambia prepare for droughts, floods and food shortages.
But the UK’s economic response will...
Last Saturday, Europe’s cities filled with young people. More than half a million marched in France. In Brussels, police turned water cannon on students and someone overturned a car. In Milan, a peaceful march against war and living costs ended with masked rioters looting shops, setting fire to barricades...
UPDATED OCT 2026
Walking is having a wellness makeover on social media. The latest trend, “lymphatic walking”, involves swinging your arms more, maintaining an upright posture and taking deeper breaths while you walk. These actions are said to help move lymph around the body. Its followers claim it can reduce...
UPDATED _ OCTOBER 2026
Competitors in the Tour de France Femmes raised eyebrows recently after it was alleged that some riders were stuffing their bras to go faster during the time trials. Race organisers started checking riders’ clothes more closely before the race.
While this story sounds like a joke, there...
Australia’s Medicare system manages health and medical data for over 27 million people. So it makes sense there has been widespread shock at the news it was hacked by an OpenAI agent in June.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the hack while in New York to advocate for tighter international...
You finish a lecture, a meeting, a conversation with someone you care about. And what do you do? You reach for your phone. You stick in your earbuds. You fire up a podcast, a playlist or whatever algorithmic feed is currently consuming your life.
It feels productive. It feels like...
Fifty-three years ago, convicted criminal Jan-Erik Olsson walked into a bank on Norrmalmstorg, a square in central Stockholm, pulled a submachine gun from under his jacket and fired at the ceiling. Concrete and glass rained down. “The party has just begun!” he shouted in a fake American accent, before...
Within the space of a few minutes on August 26, the border crossing between Nepal and China – Rasuwagadhi on the Nepali side and Gyirong on the Chinese – was destroyed by a flash flood caused by a collapsed glacier. Villages, bridges and roads on both sides of the...
