Looking out at a single-track country lane over unspoilt downland, I’m struggling to see any signs of human habitation. And yet I am barely 20 miles south of Oxford, home to 150,000 people. In a memorable scene in Jude The Obscure, the title character of Thomas Hardy’s novel has his first si...
BERLIN — Germany took its first step into a new era on Saturday, choosing the next leader of Chancellor’s Angela Merkel’s conservative party ahead of fall elections in which she will not be on the ballot. In normal times, Armin Laschet, the longstanding Merkel ally who was elected to lead the party, the...
LONDON — All at once, the coronavirus seemed to change. For months, Dr. Steven Kemp, an infectious disease expert, had been scanning a global library of coronavirus genomes. He was studying how the virus had mutated in the lungs of a patient struggling to shake a raging infection in a nearby Cambridge h...
Police have seized a VW Golf on the M62 after spotting it travelling at 90mph in the snow. When officers pulled over the car they discovered it had not been taxed since September 2020 and seized the vehicle. When questioning the driver and the two passengers they discovered they were from th...
