NY Times Business
For a mega-refinery in Ulsan, South Korea, a top exporter of jet fuel to the West Coast of the United States and other places, weaning off Middle Eastern oil is no small feat.
The Guardian Culture
The novelist on being inspired by Shirley Jackson, discovering the brilliance of Denis Johnson, and finding comfort in Elizabeth StroutMy earliest reading memory
When I was five and starting school, I would catch a coach from the Oxfordshire village where I lived. Twice a day I read the little metal plaque screwed to the upholstery, which gave the warning “Mind your head when leaving your seat”.My favourite book growing up
In the late 1970s my dad had a copy of Phenomena by John Michell.
The Guardian Culture
The film-makers and stars of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docu-series explain the sisterhood and fights for fair pay behind the pompomsIt’s been 30 years since the Dallas Cowboys – who have long billed themselves as America’s Team – won the Super Bowl. But now, thanks to Greg Whiteley’s Netflix docu-series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the most reliable and globally recognizable arm of the Cowboys brand may no longer be the men playing football, but the women dancing on
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The director and activist on her fictional drama Roya, drawing on her experience of imprisonment and torture, and why even in Europe she feels unsafeMahnaz Mohammadi is a survivor. The Iranian film-maker and women’s rights activist has been arrested on many occasions and imprisoned several times. In 2011, she was held for months in solitary confinement and tortured. In 2014, she was sentenced to five years and spent several months in prison. A few years ago, she met one of her first interrogator
Bloomberg Markets
Johannesburg halted some essential services because it can’t pay for fuel. The crisis adds to the financial woes of a metropolis of 4.8 million people, with the municipality mired in corruption scandals and unable to provide basic services. Bloomberg's Jennifer Zabasajja reports from Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Guardian Politics
He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realismAs Keir Starmer bid a brief and emotional farewell at that pillory of a lectern, there was a moment for some to ask: what have we done, and why? He’s not a bad man, not a Boris Johnson or Liz Truss rogue prime minister. How decadent, if lack of charisma has become a sacking offence.But the reason why isn’t written in Westminster. It’s there in councils up and down the co
NY Times World
Our Times correspondent, Vivian Wang, was expelled from China as part of Beijing’s crackdown on foreign journalists. She explains how a pressure campaign by the authorities made it challenging to do her job.
Hollywood Reporter
Given "his crucial involvement" in Nader Saeivar's competition title 'Hijamat,' which he produced and edited, "we wanted him to come," says Karel Och, the artistic director of the Czech film festival.
Bloomberg Markets
The Panama Canal expects revenue to exceed its $5.2 billion forecast for fiscal 2026 after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drove more ships through the waterway connecting the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Washington Post World
The country once rejected U.S. aid after a natural disaster. This time, it’s different.
Washington Post World
U.S. AI companies seem to be in the lead, but that could be short-lived as Chinese competitors offer cheaper products with more commercial appeal worldwide.
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My friend Mark Tame, who has died of lung cancer aged 61, spent his life caring for others. He worked for various charities (including Mind) in Bristol and London that advocated for mental health patients, and spent the past five years at Homerton healthcare NHS foundation trust in London as a care coordinator after the Covid-19 pandemic.Mark was born in Wivenhoe, Essex, the son of Anne Tame, a telephonist, and John Matthews, a telephone engineer, who met in the postwar period at Bletchley Park,