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An Heir to a Thai Beer Empire Accused His Brother of Sexual Abuse. Then He Took on His Family.

Siranudh Scott, an heir to Thailand’s Singha beer empire, has prompted a rare public reckoning about a topic…

Lucy Letby Murder Inquiry to Issue Report, Though Experts Say She May Not Be Guilty

Significant questions remain about the evidence used to convict a British nurse of murdering seven babies, but a…

I know why many east Germans vote AfD. And no, it’s not an inherited longing for dictatorship | Carolin Würfel

Grievance politics has grown in the east of the country where I was born. But west Germans have…

‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US

Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowingWhen…

Ebola outbreak in DRC has peaked, say authorities, as infection rates slow

Almost 3,500 people have died in outbreak and experts say more must be done to ensure Bundibugyo is…

Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs

Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of poundsEconomists…

Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech

New laws coming into force this week aim to streamline age checks although old-style plastic IDs will still…

The pirates arrived with AK-47s. They took us hostage – then the torture began

Chirag Bahri was working on board a tanker when six men seized it. For almost eight months, he…

The wilting rose emoji: what its rise and fall tells us about gen Alpha

It was the fastest-growing emoji in 2025 – but if you’re older than 16, it has probably passed…

Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’

From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and…