Cuba is running out of time. We need fuel now to save lives | Francisco Pichón
With the US blockade cutting off oil, the island’s healthcare has been wrecked, access to clean water lost and babies put at risk Four months into Cuba’s deepening energy crisis,…
Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipedema?
This underdiagnosed condition, which causes leg pain and swelling, affects one in 10 women, yet most doctors haven’t heard of it The first thing Becca Gold noticed was her pants.…
‘They’re as lost and inauthentic as us’: the Oscar winner who made a Farage satire – and released it on WeTransfer
In 2022, Aneil Karia won an Academy Award for his short starring Riz Ahmed. Now, he’s skewering Reform-style parliamentary candidates with the help of Jack Lowden and an unlikely online…
‘Making the scarlet letter into my career’: my life as a sex writer
I thought my mother was ashamed of my taboo profession. Then I realized our experiences were more similar than I thought My first viral personal essay was titled: “In Defense…
북한 or 조선? South Korea debates what to call North Korea
For Seoul, what to call the North is difficult when you view it as a rebel-held region awaiting reunification On a mild spring morning in central Seoul this week, a…
‘Don’t fall!’: foil boarders describe hair-raising shark chase caught on video off California coast
Foil boarders were pursued by shark – likely a great white – off Santa Barbara before it lost interest and swam away Sign up for the Breaking News US email…
PM vows to act against people ‘venerating the murder of Jews’ as terror threat level rises
Keir Starmer pledges crackdown on protesters chanting or displaying antisemitic slogans as terror attack is assessed to be ‘highly likely’ Keir Starmer has pledged to crack down on those “venerating…
Scientology ‘speed running’ trend has LA abuzz and church unhappy
Religious group ‘reviewing all available remedies’ after clips of young people rushing its buildings in ‘raids’ go viral On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with tourists and…
Calls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’
Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get…
Iran supreme leader issues defiant statement on strait of Hormuz
Mojtaba Khamenei says Tehran will eliminate ‘enemy’s abuses of the waterway’ and guard its nuclear and missile programmes US politics live – latest updates Iran’s supreme leader has broken his…