As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

The last word

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

It’s a tough job illustrating the ever-changing news landscape with photography that will stop a reader in their tracks. Here, Peter Dench compiles a round-up of the best images that picture editors of newspapers and of media outlets have seen in 2025

I’d promised my boy the best Christmas ever but came home to an inferno