โ€˜Russia can turn the lights offโ€™: how the UK is preparing for cyberwar

Moves made to prepare country for utility outages as malicious technological threats intensifyThe Swedish government checklist for surviving a war would not have looked out of place decades ago: bottled water; sleeping bags; extra batteries; enough cas…

Bland, soggy slop or scratch-cooked chilli and pancakes? The best and worst hospital food around the world โ€“ in pictures

From Kenya to Brazil, patients need tasty, nutritious food more than most โ€“ so which countries do it best?โ€ข โ€˜We have learned to have low expectationsโ€™: why is UK hospital food so bad?One of the best meals of my life was the platter of food that I ate i…

Who might make up Trumpโ€™s Cabinet

Donald Trump didnโ€™t engage in formal conversations about a potential Cabinet in the run-up to his election. But that didnโ€™t stop him from spitballing potential contenders during his frequent plane rides to campaign events, or when he is impressed by one of his allies on television. โ€œHe would be great at this,โ€ or โ€œShe would [โ€ฆ]

France to take stake in Sanofi unit to quell backlash over sale to US firm

Move follows fears over jobs and control when private equity firm CD&R entered talks to buy Opella for โ‚ฌ16bnThe French government is to take a stake in the pharmaceutical company Sanofiโ€™s consumer healthcare division to try to quell a backlash as t…

โ€˜All must be beheadedโ€™: Revelations of atrocities at French energy giantโ€™s African stronghold

Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies’ natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians.

Revealed: Far higher pesticide residues allowed on food since Brexit

Exclusive: Unlike the EU, Great Britain has slashed protections for scores of food typesThe amount of pesticide residue allowed on scores of food types in England, Wales and Scotland has soared since Brexit, analysis reveals, with some now thousands of…

ย โ€˜Weโ€™re the only plane in the sky:โ€™ 9/11 on board Air Force One

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board.

What the last of the anti-war Chicago Seven wants todayโ€™s protestors to know

Lee Weiner helped lead the protests in 1968. Now heโ€™s smoking weed in Ron DeSantisโ€™ hometown.

How Taiwan Conquered US politics โ€” and showed Europe how itโ€™s done

The island democracy off the coast of China has wooed friends in every U.S. faction and region โ€” and thatโ€™s its greatest source of strength and protection.

Letโ€™s be a bit more honest about what a โ€˜European identityโ€™ looks like

Emphasizing Europeโ€™s โ€œJudeo-Christianโ€ heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.

โ€˜Lifelineโ€™ aid ship for Gaza finally sets sail from Cyprus

The trip is expected to take two days.

Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italyโ€™s beloved dish from extinction

After drought devastated prized arborio and carnaroli harvests in the Po valley, new rice varieties offer a glimmer of hope. But none are yet suitable for use in the traditional recipePhotographs by Marco Massa and Haakon SandFor most of winter and spr…