63 h. ago David Childs, architect of One World Trade Center that rose on Twin Towers site after 9/11, dies

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died

Events

3 d. ago David Bowie's childhood home in Bromley — where he moved aged six — for sale for £450k

Bowie moved into the two-bedroom house from Brixton in 1953 and lived there for a year

Economics

6 d. ago Gisele Pelicot's son reveals extreme physical reaction he suffered when his mother told him she'd been raped by 50 men and the one question he wants his rapist father to answer

David Pelicot said that his mother had called her children in late 2020 after police showed her photographs of her abuse at their home in Mazan, France.

Events

2 w. ago Pride group founder convicted of raping boy, 12, he met on Grindr

Stephen Ireland, 41, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, and David Sutton, 27, were accused of ‘targeting children for their sexual proclivities’.

Politics

2 w. ago Pilot made one fatal error before he and his entire family killed in plane crash

Canadian pilot Victor Dotsenko died in a small plane crash in Tennessee along with his wife, Rimma and their three children David, 12, Adam, 10, and Emma, seven

Events

3 w. ago Twist by Colum McCann review – globalism and a voyage into danger

A free-diving engineer repairs the undersea cables that carry data around our hyperconnected planet, in this intense maritime story with echoes of Heart of DarknessColum McCann’s breakthrough 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, was set on the day in 1974 when the acrobat Philippe Petit walked across a high wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. McCann’s bravura account of the wire-walk forms the centrepiece of that novel, which relates the interlocking lives of different New Yorkers who are touched by Petit’s thrilling but benign assault on the Manhattan skyline.In his new novel, Twist, McCann is drawn to another type of wire and another obsessive, boundary-pushing hero. The wires, this time, are the undersea cables that carry data around our hyperconnected planet. And the hero, John Conway, is an engineer and free diver who travels the world, repairing them when they break. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago I grew up on London's billionaire row. Now it's a street of decaying mansions and I realise the sad reason why: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

The plastic water bottle lies in a small patch of grass by the kerb. Next to it, a sodden tissue and stained paper coffee cup surround a pool of dark, unidentifiable liquid.

Politics

last month I grew up on London's billionaires' row. Now it's a street of decaying mansions

The plastic water bottle lies in a small patch of grass by the kerb. Next to it, a sodden tissue and stained paper coffee cup surround a pool of dark, unidentifiable liquid.

Politics