UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours
FoI responses collected by insurer show brigades tackled 1,760 battery-linked fires in 2025, up 147% in three years
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
Ado Hasanović’s moving documentary transforms footage filmed during the Bosnian war into a devastating portrait of memory, survival and inherited grief
‘Forced to preserve a monument’: how the fate of Marilyn Monroe’s LA home became a legal saga
House where Monroe died, which hasn’t been occupied in seven years, is in limbo after current owners wanted to demolish it but were stopped by a public campaign
Britain’s visceral dislike of Keir Starmer illuminates a problem for his successor
There are many good reasons to not like the prime minister. But ours is an age in which hatred is a remarkably popular currency – leaders need a strategy for countering it, says author Samuel Earle
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest
Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoples
How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires
The salacious gossip website is hounding politicians and tracking vacationing members of Congress
Bafta doubles down on preparations for Sunday TV awards after N-word fallout
Ceremony organisers taking event procedures ‘extremely seriously’ after broadcast of racial slur in February
Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain
African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can transform its economy
Are you a ‘time optimist’? I’m sorry, we can’t be friends
Are you late so often that it’s become your entire personality? Just know this: you are the worst, writes Polly Hudson
Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future
With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions on weapons such as drones
Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres
Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error
What I saw at the Musk-OpenAI trial: petty billionaires, protests and a stern judge
Showdown between Musk and Altman has rendered the world’s most wealthy comical under egalitarian eye of court
Trump Media and Technology Group lost $406m in first three months of 2026
Parent company of president’s Truth Social platform generated only $870,000 even as net sales were up 6%
‘Watching us is like watching a cousin’: the online creators reshaping Africa’s news ecosphere
Africa is leading a change in news consumption habits – and transforming the lives of current affairs enthusiasts