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Even I, with my exotic lifestyle and winning social manners, do not expect to bump into an MP just wandering around the streets of London. It’s taken four decades or so for us to be sitting in the rig

How artificial intelligence is fuelling a disturbing new surge in violence against women and girls

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans

Kenneth Law was a seemingly ordinary man, living in Canada and working as a chef. He was a university graduate and, according to his CV, he’d previously worked in aerospace. But Law is accused of harb

AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL, CAROLINE KOZIOL competed in the Connecticut statewide championship, swimming the 100-yd. butterfly in just over a minute. By senior year, she could barely climb the stair