Coronavirus UK British Airways shows new business class set-up
Travel writer Michael Trager has published an intriguing account of a recent business-class Dreamliner flight he took with BA from Los Angeles to Heathrow. Read more...
Moussa Sissoko has faith in Tanguy Ndombele after tough first season at Tottenham
Midfielder Tanguy Ndombele has endured a torrid start to life at Spurs following his 65million move from Lyon last summer. Injuries and a change in manager have left him on the sidelines. Read more...
Black Friday UK 2019 Amazon is starting Black Friday a week early
Black Friday fever is almost upon us, and this year online retailer Amazon is rolling out the deals a whole week early in what will be its 'biggest ever' event. Read more...
The Islanders Are Saying Goodbye to Brooklyn
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Saturday that soon the team would again play all of its home games at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island until a new arena opens. Read more...
Trump supporters vandalize a city-sanctioned Black Lives Matter mural in California
Authorities in Martinez, California, are looking for an unidentified couple who defaced a city-sanctioned Black Lives Matter mural with black paint just hours after the artwork was completed Read more...
The Swamp Is Coming From Inside Trumps Campaign
Lobbyists like David Urban, whose connections start at the very top, are thriving as they help the presidents re-election effort while aiding corporate clients. Read more...
Uber sends 600k Clorox packages to encourage riders to sanitize
According to Uber, the company will distribute nearly 600,000 canisters of disinfecting wipes to drivers in Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City as part of a partnership with Clorox. Read more...
What We Learned in 100 Days of Life Interrupted
Four first-generation college students in Newark, N.J., tell the story of the pandemic, their uprooted plans and what they found out. Read more...
The Perfect Ending to Our Pandemic Honeymoon Road Trip
The original plan was a drive through the Rust Belt. It turns out that New York City without tourists is a lot like Indianapolis or Toledo. Maybe even better. Read more...
Ringo Starr says The Beatles turned down a 200m reunion gig in 1976 because of a Great White shark
The drummer, who is 80 on Tuesday, said the iconic band was offered 50million - worth quadruple that in today's money - to reunite six years after their breakup. Read more...
Jules Feiffer on His Long, Varied Career
Feiffer talks about his new picture book and more, and Steve Inskeep discusses Imperfect Union. Read more...
Worker, 35, is crushed to death by a falling metal at Smithfield, Sydney construction site
New South Wales Ambulance confirmed a large piece of falling metal crushed the 35-year-old at a site in Smithfield on Monday morning. Read more...
Valkyrie review Johanna Fridriksdottir makes the Vikings feel far closer to us than ever before
When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But what about the women? Read more...
Mile 13 in the Deployment Marathon
Halfway through a deployment, looking for the "I can do this" moment. Read more...
Coronavirus Pregnant women have higher hospitalization risk
A new CDC report has found that more than 31% of pregnant women were hospitalized compared to 6% of non-pregnant women, putting mothers-to-be at a five times greater risk. Read more...
Jaws Is Still Devouring Us. SOS!
In 1975, this thriller freaked out the world, scaring us out of the water and creating the summer-blockbuster template. It was also a warning. Read more...
Lonnie Wheeler, 68, Dies; Helped Ballplayers Tell Their Stories
A longtime sportswriter, he collaborated with Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson and Mike Piazza on their autobiographies. I was there, he once said, to make the subject more literary. Read more...
Another 35,000 cancer patients could die in a year due to Covid delays
Modelling by Data-Can, which collects figures on cancer treatments, suggests the UK could see at least 18,000 more cancer deaths than normal - rising to 35,000 in the worst-case scenario. Read more...
On The Road by James Naughtie review A sublime tapestry of the USA in all its glory and complexity
As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio 4 Today programme presenter James Naughtie spent the summer of 1970 in America. Read more...
Hurricane Sandy Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo blame hurricane on climate change
Since New York City's foundation in the early 17th century, the lower tip of Manhattan has been at the heart of metropolitan life - despite its vulnerability to flooding from the harbour. Two possible links between global warming and the damage wrought by Sandy are the raised sea levels which make it easier for the coast to flood, and warm air in the Atlantic Ocean increasing the fierceness of the storm. Read more...