NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House. So yesterday, ...

Last weekend Oriane Bertone of France and Lee Dohyun of South Korea claimed their first-ever World Cup gold medals by winning the Prague stage of the Boulder World Cup 2023. Adam Ondra and Janja ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whatever your personal views, we can all agree that it’s been a year. For Alphaville, 2025 involved strawberry ...

NPR Staff recommends several non-fiction titles from Books We Love: "Good Movies As Old Books," "Pakistan," "Baldwin: A Love Story," and "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This." BOB ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

ISIS is back in the headlines. That's because in Australia, authorities say last Sunday's mass shooting at Bondi Beach was an act of terrorism inspired by ISIS, also known as the Islamic state. The ...

Umno vice-president and Titiwangsa MP Johari Abdul Ghani has been appointed investment, trade and industry minister in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s latest Cabinet reshuffle. Johari, who was the ...

The United States has paused a technology partnership agreed with Britain to deepen cooperation in AI, quantum computing and nuclear energy. Reports say Washington wants wider trade concessions, ...