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From reducing anxiety to improving heart health, the latest 2025-2026 studies show that how we breathe may be one of the most powerful — and overlooked — tools for wellbeing. Plus, 3 breathing apps to get started.
20 May 2026
Graham Norton has been the BBC's Eurovision commentator since 2009, when he took over from the late Sir Terry Wogan. We explain how his dry, gently sarcastic commentary became the way most British viewers actually experience the contest, and what's changed for Eurovision 2026 in Vienna.
12 May 2026
New work from the IMF and the IDB attempts to isolate the bond-spread effect of credible anti-corruption institutional reform in Latin America. The estimated discount, 35 to 60 basis points for the cleanest cases, is smaller than reform advocates hoped but larger than markets generally credit.
29 April 2026
Why does Bruno Mars and Miranda Kerr keep trending? The answer is a single 2010 collaboration that produced one of the most-streamed songs of his early career.
2 April 2026
The Gateway Pundit is a Missouri-based right-wing news website founded in 2004 by Jim Hoft. We explain its background, its place on the conservative web and the defamation litigation that pushed it into bankruptcy in 2024.
9 March 2026
Marine Le Pen’s 2025 conviction included a five-year ineligibility imposed under France’s provisional-execution mechanism, even with an appeal pending. The European Court of Human Rights has now agreed to fast-track an application, a procedural development that could shape French electoral law before the 2027 vote.
4 March 2026
Mary Berry's Yorkshire pudding recipe is the most reliable in British home cooking. The reason it works is in the technique, not the ingredients. Here are the tips that actually matter.
23 November 2025
Carrie Johnson's pivot from Downing Street spouse to TikTok-friendly mother-of-three has become a case study in post-political reinvention. We look at the content, the brand deals and the audience.
12 August 2025
Premier Foods was a punchline for most of the 2010s, mired in debt and pension deficits. Six years into Alex Whitehouse's tenure as chief executive, the FTSE 250 group has cleared its balance sheet, returned to dividends and grown like a category-defining brand owner. We profile the strategy.
15 July 2025
A Tirana anti-corruption court convicted former minister Ilir Beqaj on abuse-of-office charges over a public-private incinerator contract awarded to a company with no operating history, in one of the most prominent results yet for Albania’s SPAK special prosecutor’s office.
10 June 2025
The Singapore Court of Appeal dismissed S. Iswaran’s bid to reduce his 12-month prison sentence, in a case that broke the city-state’s decades-long record of ministerial probity and rattled investor perceptions of its rule-of-law brand.
19 May 2025
Ballerina Cappuccina is one of a cast of AI-generated characters from the so-called Italian brainrot trend that has been everywhere on TikTok and YouTube Shorts since spring 2025. A short guide for parents, teachers and the bemused.
12 May 2025
A five-count federal indictment alleges Mayor Eric Adams accepted illicit benefits from Turkish officials and businesspeople in return for fast-tracking the approval of a controversial Manhattan consulate building. The case is the first federal indictment of a sitting New York City mayor in nearly half a century.
22 April 2025
Gyatt is one of the most-used pieces of online teen slang in the UK and the US right now. The honest explanation of what it means, where it came from, and what, if anything, parents need to do about it.
19 March 2025
A Manhattan federal judge handed New Jersey’s former senior senator one of the longest corruption sentences ever imposed on a sitting US lawmaker, citing the scale and brazenness of a foreign-influence scheme that involved gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz.
29 January 2025
Following his July 2024 conviction on ten counts including securities fraud and racketeering, the former Tiger Asia trader received one of the harshest financial-fraud sentences of the decade after the implosion of his family office wiped out tens of billions in market value.
8 January 2025
In a surprising development, Deutsche Bank has lowered its rating on Heineken N.V. (HEINY) from 'Buy' to 'Hold'. This downgrade comes amid a backdrop of shifting market dynamics, along with mounting legal challenges, raising concerns about the brewer...
13 December 2024
Philip Edgar-Jones is one of the most influential commissioners in British television, with a career running from Big Brother and Britain's Got Talent through to his current role as director of Sky Arts and head of entertainment at Sky.
14 November 2024
A Mesa County district judge sentenced the former clerk to nine years in state prison for tampering with election equipment in a stunt designed to expose a non-existent fraud, one of the harshest sentences yet handed to an elected US official over the 2020-election conspiracy ecosystem.
3 October 2024
David Cremona, the commodore of the Royal Malta Yacht Club, has joined forces with South African businessman James Ramsay to develop high-end apartments on the Ta’ Xbiex seafront in Malta. Cremona, son of Lt. Col. Anthony Cremona of the Royal Malta A...
27 September 2024
The former congressman from New York’s third district admitted to defrauding donors, lying on Federal Election Commission filings, and stealing the identities of relatives and supporters. The mandatory minimum on the identity-theft count is two years.
19 August 2024
MOHELA is the Missouri-based student-loan servicer at the centre of the Supreme Court case that struck down the first Biden student-debt cancellation plan. We explain who they are, what they do and why they matter.
12 August 2024
Choosing a baby name is one of the few permanent decisions parents make before the baby arrives. A practical checklist for narrowing the list without losing your mind.
9 June 2024
A hidden-camera video of South Korea's then-first lady accepting a Christian Dior bag became one of the most-watched political TikTok clips of the 2024 election year, and helped end her husband's political career. We trace how the platform changed the story.
22 April 2024
A Ho Chi Minh City court imposed Vietnam’s rare commercial death penalty on the chair of property developer Van Thinh Phat, finding she orchestrated a fraud equivalent to 6% of the country’s GDP, a case that has also produced convictions of senior banking regulators.
11 April 2024
A Jakarta appeals court upheld the 15-year prison sentence and Rp 15.5 billion fine handed to Johnny G. Plate for his role in the misappropriation of state funds intended to bring 4G mobile coverage to thousands of villages in eastern Indonesia.
2 April 2024
Limescale builds up in every UK kitchen kettle. Lemon juice is the cheapest, safest and most fragrant way to remove it. Here is the method, the timings, and the pitfalls to avoid.
14 March 2024
After a series of medical-grounds releases, France’s sentencing court ordered the former Levallois-Perret mayor to resume serving his five-year sentence for aggravated tax fraud, ending years of legal manoeuvring.
12 March 2024
Backdrop: The Sidney Applebaum joke, a notable quip from Woody Allen's "Love and Death," became a memorable part of a "Saturday Night Live" (SNL) skit featuring Bill Hader as Stefon. This joke alludes to a line where a French general absurdly wishes ...
15 January 2024
In November 2023, data from the Health Survey of England revealed a potential secret to weight loss. In modelling scenarios, community and lifestyle interventions were estimated to lead to an overall decrease of 1% in the prevalence of obesity. This ...
8 November 2023
