Paul chats with Burt Kearns, author of a new biography of Shemp Howard, one of the original Three Stooges. Lots of surprises ...

The current Washington omnishambles is creating problems for the Australia-US alliance and, in particular, the Five Eyes ...

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 27: Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni briefs the media on the outcomes of the recent cabinet meeting at Imbizo Media Centre on February 27, 2025 in Cape Town, South ...

For Competition 3391 you were invited to submit one of Keats’s odes rewritten as a sonnet or a limerick. Four out of the five odes composed by Keats in the spring of 1819 feature in the winning ...

Bitingly satirical, and alarmingly plausible. A tech addict from about the age of three (seriously, he's got the VHS tapes to prove it), Tom's been writing about gadgets, games and everything in ...

The information that the fifth service provided made Russia’s military commanders aware that they would not encounter serious resistance and were tasked with seizing Kharkiv in three days and Kyiv in ...

More specifically, the krill sped up their swimming as much as 1.5 times faster than average while also making three times more turns at larger angles. The penguin poop didn’t only influence ...

These initiatives embody a larger shift for British spooks. Their best technology used to be developed and built in-house. Now, as in the military world of drones and AI, much of it comes from the ...

But looking back, Wieser says, he underestimated how much uncertainty Trump 2.0 would bring: "nearly three months into the year, what we can see is a certainty of additional negative factors ...

You can check out at any time. More info Three Ireland have issued an apology after a technical issue left a number of customers unable to use their call, text or data allowances. A large number ...

Michael Fassbender’s urban spook is as banal and unassuming as Le Carré’s Smiley, albeit with a glamorous and equally treacherous wife in the same game. This is Kathryn (Cate ­Blanchett ...

Two days out from a government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats find themselves in a serious jam. But some of them are starting to hint at how they might get out of it. Publicly, the ...