Month: October 2026

The war caught up with the Gulf’s construction sector last quarter. Project awards across the region fell 37.2% from a year earlier to $47.4 billion, according to Kuwaiti investment firm Kamco Invest. Every country was down by double digits; Oman all but stopped signing contracts, with awards falling 96.6%. Gas ...

, by Anne Carson. Through “47 compulsively readable long-lined poems of intense cinematic detail,” the Canadian writer — and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature — retells the ancient Greek myth of Hercules and Geryon as a modern day queer love story, the British poet Ruth Padel wrote ...

Yinka’s view This month, Togo invited citizens to contribute texts, recordings, and translations to help AI models understand the West African country’s 50 local languages. The absence of African languages from large language models has become a major concern for the continent’s policymakers and tech leaders. But initiatives like Togo’s ...

Rwanda looks set to host the continent’s first F1 Grand Prix race in more than 30 years, beating rival South Africa to the honor, according to sources quoted by AFP. President Paul Kagame launched a bid to host two years ago as part of efforts to raise Rwanda’s international status ...

Jasmine Jobson goes the distance as the British-Somalian boxer battling pain from her past and her family’s disapproval in a heavyweight, tick-the-boxes production The true-life success story of boxer Ramla Ali is confidently told in this capable picture from screenwriter Ursula Rani Sarma and documentary director Anthony Wonke, in his ...

Readers respond to articles on the Green party’s motion As ever, Jonathan Freedland is on the money in his article (The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think, 3 October). As a non-religious Jew-ish Londoner, I am appalled at the passing of the ...

It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is ...

In the UK, one in five families are affected by permanent estrangement – it’s not a decision to be taken lightly. These are the questions experts suggest you ask yourself before cutting a relative out of your life It’s important to be certain you aren’t walking away because it feels ...

Layby hookups are all in a day’s work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks faking orgasms, keeping secrets – and making audiences pass out In a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota Yaris was parked in a remote roadside spot ...

Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides For decades, East Fishkill helped build New York’s tech industry. The hamlet, located 70 miles north of New York City, was home to a 460-acre campus where IBM researched and manufactured semiconductor ...