17+ min ago   (1378+ words) The risk is already increasing as heavy downpours become more common – and recent droughts could exacerbate the problem When Philip and Elaine Marco sat in their Mercedes to drive home from their son’s 40th birthday party, it was the last time…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (733+ words) Sarah Baxter: He presides over a sprawling, secretive shadowland of suffering To celebrate 50 years of independence from Britain, the kingdom of Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini in 2018. I had to look up the tiny nation on a map to…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (299+ words) Every actor who is announced to be starring in the new Harry Potter series faces backlash. It's something they're going to have to get used to I don’t know about you, but I’ve never wondered what Nosferatu actor Nicholas Hoult…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago   (961+ words) Health experts believe a screening programme targeting kitchen workers could save lives of those with deadly silicosis who aren't aware they have the disease A screening programme to allow early detection of silicosis in kitchen stone workers at risk from…...

4+ hour, 17+ min ago   (896+ words) There was chafing and a bike crash - but zero whining “What were you thinking?” was the general consensus when we told friends and family we were cycling the coast of Portugal for our summer holiday. As we set off from…...

19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1382+ words) Lincolnshire is dominated by Reform’s anti-migrant politics – but the county's care system runs on the foreign labour the majority of its voters want to reduce When Melanie Weatherley, chief executive of a Lincolnshire-based home care agency, started recruiting workers from…...

20+ hour, 48+ min ago   (543+ words) Under Afghanistan's brutal four-tier hierarchy your social status determines how badly you can be punished On 15 August, 2021, I got ready for work as usual. It wasn’t an ordinary morning. Province after province had fallen to the Taliban. But I still…...

21+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1248+ words) Experts said the targeting of asylum seekers in houses 'represented a new escalation of anti-migrant harassment and violence' Far-right vigilantes are drawing up databases of asylum seekers living in houses of multiple occupation (HMOs), fuelling fears of violence across the…...

21+ hour, 34+ min ago   (1789+ words) The historian is brought to tears by a freshly-dug find “It’s an epic adventure,” Hughes tells The i Paper of her journey across ancient Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) – the 800-mile overnight rail route, between the city of Kars in northeastern Turkey…...

23+ hour, 17+ min ago   (770+ words) We need to do politics differently, starting with more jobs, better housing and improved public services Nigel Farage may have triumphed in Clacton for the second time in two years, but his victory was pyrrhic. Farage manufactured the by-election to…...