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A Verdict That Never Came Lindsay Clancy has survived one of the most closely watched murder trials in America without either a conviction or an acquittal. After almost six weeks of testimony and seven days of jury deliberations, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4 when jurors said they could not reach a unanimous decision over whether Clancy was criminally responsible for ki...

Inside the Real Capture Behind Facing El Chapo It sounds like something written specifically for a crime thriller. Two relatively ordinary federal police officers stop a stolen car on a road in Sinaloa and discover that the filthy, exhausted passenger inside is Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, one of the most hunted criminals on Earth. Within minutes, they are responsible for keeping him alive, preventi...

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Website — Now the EU Wants Answers The European Commission has confirmed that OpenAI filed an incident report with EU regulators after autonomous AI agents connected to the company took over parts of a German website and used it as an improvised communications network. It is an extraordinary episode that sounds closer to science fiction than a conventio...

Britain’s Slavery Reckoning Arrives at Buckingham Palace Jamaica has taken its campaign over Britain’s role in slavery directly to King Charles III, formally filing a petition that asks the monarch to refer three explosive legal questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The move pushes one of the Commonwealth’s longest-running historical disputes beyond speeches and diplomatic pres...

Israel–Hezbollah Tensions Explode Again Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 12 people in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman, including women and children, in another sharp escalation between Israel and Hezbollah. The attack came after Hezbollah launched explosive drones towards Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon, placing a fragile ceasefire under renewed pressure. Lebanon’s...

The Objects Collectors Will Pay Almost Anything to Own There is expensive, and then there is the strange world of trophy collecting, where a painting can cost more than a skyscraper, an old baseball jersey can command more than £15 million and a pair of film-worn shoes can be worth hundreds of times more than an average British home. At the very top of the market, collectors are not really buying...

The Arctic Power Struggle Europe is pouring €200 million into Greenland just as hundreds of NATO troops begin a major Arctic exercise on the island without American forces. Taken separately, the investment and military drills could look routine. Taken together, they reveal how rapidly Greenland has moved towards the centre of the West's struggle over Arctic security, resources and sovereignty....

Inside the World of Ultra-Rare Wine A bottle of wine can cost £5. It can cost £50. It can cost £5,000. And then there is the strange upper end of the market, where the normal relationship between price and what is actually inside the bottle almost completely breaks down. In November 2021, one enormous bottle of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon attracted a $1 million bid at a charity auction. Then, i...

The Table Is Open Again Russia has opened the door to restarting direct three-way peace talks with Ukraine and the United States after Donald Trump’s envoys completed an extraordinary diplomatic shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv. The Kremlin says a return to the trilateral format is possible, giving Washington its clearest opportunity in weeks to drag the two warring sides back into the same negotia...

The Channel Route Moves West Britain’s small-boat crisis may have just exposed a new vulnerability. Around 140 people were brought ashore in Portsmouth on Sunday after an overcrowded vessel travelled from an unusually western part of the French coast, far from the route normally associated with crossings between northern France and Kent. What followed turned one extraordinary crossing into a much...

The Lone Juror After more than five weeks of testimony, roughly 40 hours of deliberations and seven days of attempts to reach a unanimous decision, Lindsay Clancy's murder trial ended without either a conviction or an acquittal. One juror appears to have stood between the other members of the panel and a verdict, producing a mistrial on September 4, 2026. That does not mean Clancy has been cle...

How The Police Hunt Went Wrong A Cassette Tape, A False Voice, And The Investigation That Lost Its Way In the summer of nineteen seventy-nine, detectives investigating a series of violent attacks across northern England had something that seemed extraordinary: a voice. A cassette sent to police contained a man speaking in a distinctive north-east accent, claiming responsibility and taunting the of...

The Dollar Empire The United States accounts for only about a quarter of global economic output, yet its currency sits at the centre of a financial system stretching far beyond American borders. Central banks save in dollars, governments borrow in dollars, companies invoice international trade in dollars, banks lend in dollars and traders routinely pass through the dollar even when neither side of...

The World Behind Closed Eyes Every night, the external world largely disappears and the human brain begins constructing another one. People we have not seen for years return. Buildings merge with places that never existed. Dead relatives speak, impossible events feel completely ordinary and terrifying situations can unfold with such conviction that waking up comes as a genuine shock. Dreaming is o...

From Berlin and Cuba to the Nuclear Near-Misses That Could Have Ended Civilisation For almost half a century, the most powerful countries on Earth prepared to destroy one another without ever fighting a full-scale war against each other. The United States and Soviet Union built armies measured in millions, divided Europe into armed blocs, fought wars through other countries, competed for influence...

AI Is About to Stop Waiting for Instructions Artificial intelligence has already changed how millions of people write, research, code, analyse information and search for answers. But the next stage of AI could be considerably more disruptive. Instead of simply asking an AI system a question and receiving an answer, imagine giving it a goal. “Find me the best three hotels for a weekend in Rome, com...

The Alliance Under Fire Iran’s repeated missile attacks on Jordan are creating one of the most dangerous tests yet of the kingdom’s decades-long strategic relationship with the United States. What was once primarily a diplomatic and military partnership is now putting Jordan physically inside the battlefield, with Iranian weapons repeatedly entering its airspace and American military facilities on...

UN Warns El Niño Is ‘Supersizing Before Our Eyes’ as World Faces Extraordinary Weather Threat One of the planet’s most powerful natural climate patterns is rapidly intensifying, with the United Nations warning that El Niño is being “supersized before our eyes” as extraordinarily warm Pacific waters threaten to reshape weather across much of the world. The World Meteorological Organization says the...

Could an Asteroid Destroy Civilisation? The Real Planet-Killer Risk — and the Objects Scientists Are Watching There is a natural disaster capable of dwarfing almost anything humanity has experienced in recorded history. No government could stop its immediate effects, national borders would become irrelevant and, at sufficient scale, the climate itself could change. A large asteroid striking Earth...

What Was There Before the Big Bang? The Leading Scientific Theories Explained Ask what happened before the Big Bang and physics runs into one of its deepest problems. The conventional Big Bang model describes an extraordinarily hot, dense early Universe expanding and cooling roughly 13.8 billion years ago, but it does not by itself tell us whether that state represented the absolute beginning of r...

What Would Actually Prove an Afterlife? For almost all of human history, death has marked the border science could approach but never cross. Religions described souls, heavens, reincarnation and judgment; materialism offered a colder answer in which the brain stops and the person disappears. Modern medicine has complicated both pictures, because death is increasingly understood not as one instanta...

What Would Actually Prove an Afterlife? For almost all of human history, death has marked the border science could approach but never cross. Religions described souls, heavens, reincarnation and judgment; materialism offered a colder answer in which the brain stops and the person disappears. Modern medicine has complicated both pictures, because death is increasingly understood not as one instanta...

The Predictions That Came True, the Ones That Failed and What Comes Next Few scientific subjects have escaped the laboratory and become as politically explosive as global warming. It influences elections, energy prices, taxation, transport, farming, international relations and arguments over how people should live — meaning a debate that began with atmospheric physics now reaches directly into que...

All Options on the Table JD Vance has sent Iran an unmistakable warning: the United States is not closing off military, economic, diplomatic or covert options as the confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz enters another dangerous phase. The vice president has also ruled out negotiations while Tehran continues attacking commercial shipping, leaving Washington and Iran without an obvious diplomatic...

Katy Perry Reveals She Was ‘Crying’ Through Orlando Bloom Breakup as She Opens Up About ‘Hardest Time’Katy Perry has given one of her clearest accounts yet of how badly the end of her long relationship with Orlando Bloom affected her, describing the period surrounding their breakup as possibly the hardest point of an already bruising year. The singer says she was crying, far from her closest frien...