4+ hour, 39+ min ago   (906+ words) It was an inglorious episode in a celebrated career, a stain on the honour of England and the name Horatio Nelson. The British admiral's actions in the bay of Naples in 1799, in the shadow of the fortress Castel dell'Ovo, are…...

23+ hour, 53+ min ago   (786+ words) Sir Keir Starmer is set to stand firm against President Trump's newfound opposition to his plans to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The Chagos Islands, otherwise known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, have been governed from…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (184+ words) The Senegal team walked off the pitch in protest " then begrudgingly returned " as the Afcon final descended into pure farce on Sunday night. A penalty was awarded in stoppage time to hosts Morocco, after lengthy consultation with the VAR, for…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (396+ words) The distance made it unlikely that Stellah Atieno would finish high school, let alone go to college. Growing up in rural Kisumu County, where the western Kenyan highlands meet glittering Lake Victoria, she faced a 20km walk to school on steep…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (958+ words) In 2014, when The Times writer Tom Whipple announced he was using shared parental leave (SPL) to spend six months looking after his son, the responses ranged from "Congratulations on your baby holiday" to jokes about how breastfeeding would work. Made…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (905+ words) Sir Keir Starmer's deal to give away the Chagos Islands "permanently weakens western security" and "sells out the Chagossian people", a senior figure in the British overseas territory has said, after warnings that Mauritius could roll back environmental protections in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (455+ words) As midnight approached on New Year's Eve, Karen Bond was not with friends. Instead, she was hunkering down in a small shepherd's hut in the Shropshire Hills with Doris Day, her six-year-old cavachon dog. "We have to get away from…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1305+ words) It is painful for a proud engineer to see the historic railway line in whose service he has spent his entire career rusting into ruin. When Hezekiah Musonda joined the Tanzania-Zambia line as a graduate trainee, it carried more than…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (675+ words) I have a little over an hour before my next activity. The afternoon sun is beating down on my skin, beads are quickly forming on my G&T and Stevie Nicks's Edge of Seventeen is playing through the speakers. A…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (701+ words) An Afrikaner farmer granted asylum in the US has said he will never visit his home country again, even though he disagrees with the Trump administration's claim there is "genocide" against white South Africans. Charl Kleinhaus, 47, left his farm on…...