50 years of the Mustang: Design in motion
(Getty Images) Ford had specific demands for the car’s designers – it must be inexpensive and fuse European and US virtues. What they created is…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport
Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet…
Tesco urged to help reduce Wye pollution
BBC The River Wye runs through mid and south Wales, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Campaigners are urging supermarket giant Tesco to work with its egg suppliers…
Private eye: Detectives in the movies
Photo: Rex Features This week’s best arts and culture reads, including sleuths in cinema, Jonathan Franzen v Oprah and an interview with America’s poet laureate,…
“Forbidden” song haunts South Korea’s Suneung students
A brief yearly silence has once again enveloped South Korea, as half a million students across the country sit for the most important test of…
Man seen rescuing trapped children in Valencia floods
A man is now being dubbed a “local hero” after a video of him smashing a door to take four children to safety went viral…
Covid and ethics reshape Thailand’s tourism industry
BBC Kwanmueang and his mahout Lek have returned to their home town as the tourism industry changes As he ambles in for his annual health…
Watch industry’s glamour show opens amid sales recovery
Stefan Schmidlin Last year’s Baselworld attracted 135,000 visitors and 4,400 journalists We may live in increasingly digital times, but there is still a part of…
Anne Frank and the cult of the diary
(Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy) From Samuel Pepys to Bridget Jones, the private journal combines the mundane with the confessional. Lucy Scholes reveals why the…
Guernsey Energy new repair technique aims to minimise disruption
Guernsey Energy The technique, called STASS, was used for the first time in the Channel Islands Guernsey Energy has trialled a new technique to recondition…