David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies aged 89
The author of biographies and other works and narrator of documentaries, McCullough was ‘the voice of American history’
David McCullough, the Pulitzer prize-winning author whose lovingly...
‘My mum made outfits for us to wear on Top of the Pops’: how the Real Thing made You to Me Are Everything
‘I took a white label record to my local hangout in Liverpool. The DJ put it on and the floor filled up. We knew then...
Who are Britain’s longest-serving soap stars?
Following June Spencer’s retirement as Peggy Woolley, Ken Barlow and Ian Beale are characters who also appeared in their shows when they first aired
June Spencer,...
Frankie Boyle review – scorching standup gets laugh after appalled laugh
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
With Lap of Shame, the comic delivers a set of breathtakingly rude jokes and thought-provoking ghastliness
A friend of Frankie Boyle’s, he tells us,...
What next for al-Qaida after the killing of al-Zawahiri? – podcast
Senior international affairs correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison and Africa correspondent Jason Burke explore what the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri will mean for the terrorist...
Canadian province declares emergency amid worst wildfires in over 50 years
Blazes have consumed vast tracts of forest in Newfoundland and Labrador and remain out of control
Officials in Canada’s easternmost province have issued a state...
Trump wanted Pentagon generals to be like second world war Nazis, book says
Ex-president complained to John Kelly ‘why can’t you be like the German generals?’ according to excerpt from the New Yorker
Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crime
Travis and Greg McMichael were also sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for the murder
The white father and...
British pensioner and her dog found dead at home in St Lucia
Diana Theodore, 72, is believed to have been murdered after police responded to an initial report of a burglary at her home
A British pensioner has...
Leandro Lo: shooting death of jiu-jitsu champion shocks Brazil
Military police officer accused of shooting Lo after an altercation at a concert was apparently a gun aficionado
Dozens of kimono-clad mourners have gathered to pay...