Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has cleared its founder, Klaus Schwab, of wrongdoing after an internal investigation and appointed BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and Roche vice-chair André Hoffmann as interim chairs
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to intervene in the case of Jimmy Lai, the British-Hong Kong media tycoon on trial under Hong Kong’s national security laws, telling The Times UK and
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A major international survey has found that more than half of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) said it was unhelpful, worsened their quality of life, and was often administered without full
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A free outdoor screening of the film Barbie in a Paris suburb was cancelled after a group of young men threatened council staff and moved to damage equipment — an incident the
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The famous quote by Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci seems to have been written for the moment humanity is currently experiencing: “The old is dying, and the new cannot be born. In
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British soldiers stationed at a training base in central Kenya continue to engage in “transactional sex,” violating a 2022 ban aimed at curbing sexual exploitation and abuse, an internal investigation has revealed.
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It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed Tazazaa (20 years old) on 3 August 2025 inside Israel’s Magiddo prison. Just months earlier , reports emerged that Israeli forces had killed another Palestinian
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In the months after the 1987 coupin Burkina Faso that killed President Thomas Sankara, screen printers in the capital, Ouagadougou, began to churn out shirts with Sankara’s face on them. The image
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An undercover investigation by The Times (UK) has revealed the open sale of illegal drugs at Boomtown Fair, a major UK festival, despite recent coroner warnings about the risk of fatalities. The
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A growing number of Chinese companies are paying employees to lose weight, with some workers pocketing thousands of yuan for shedding extra kilos. At action-camera maker Insta360, the program is simple: lose
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