August 2026 - Page 499

From a police tip-off to sentencing, a correspondent reflects on covering an unprecedented case.

Some parents are sticklers for the rules, yet mass civil disobedience by parents in England and Wales suggests many agree with me Perhaps it’s my stage of parenthood, or the fact that

As Pokémon Go celebrates its 10th anniversary, its devoted players explain how the game has created a vibrant intergenerational community spanning the globe Most Pokémon obsessives count rare, absurdly expensive playing cards

Council wants to trigger emergency general meeting Members demand review of Balogun decision Gianni Infantino is facing a rebellion from members of the Fifa Council who are attempting to force an extraordinary

Europe sheltered many refugees in 2015. Its hard-line reaction to a new crisis in Ceuta shows how, 11 years on, the far right has reshaped European attitudes.

For Kieran Dodds, photographing people with red hair has become something of an obsession over the past decade or more.

Some blame social media and the behaviour of world leaders for a perceived decline in honesty When a cricket team in North Yorkshire became the centre of a cheating scandal that made

Falling in love with a novel motivated these five travel writers to immerse themselves in locations from the Yukon and Kyrgyzstan to the Côte d’Azur Inspired by Agatha Christie’s Murder on the

Exclusive: Puy du Fou worked with under-sanctions oligarch on plans for Crimea resort longer than disclosed, and later courted Iran and China In February 2014, thousands of “little green men” – Russian

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes The government’s housebuilding agenda is hitting the stark reality of a lack of water and crumbling