Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review. Read more...
Harrowing video shows 'abducte'd British teenager being bundled into a car in Libya
The dramatic footage shows the teenager screaming for help before being shoved into the passenger seat of a battered Mercedes as her mother, from Wiltshire, pleaded for mercy. Read more...
11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
The tragic history of I cant breathe. Why you can have a kid or a job right now, not both. How Brooklyn Drill went global. Farewell, Carl Reiner. And more. Read more...
N.C.A.A. Outlines Plan to Let Athletes Make Endorsement Deals
The changes, with some big restrictions, would go into effect at the start of the 2021-22 academic year, after consideration and adoption by the three divisions of college sports. Read more...
Louis Lortie review New album,In Paradisum, makes apparent the importance of Faur's piano works
Gabriel Faur wrote some toothsome melodies in stuff such as his Requiem, or the Cantique De Jean Racine, and the delicious Pavane. Faur's real claim to fame, though, is his piano music. Read more...
Eula Bingham, Champion of Worker Safety, Dies at 90
As head of OSHA under President Carter, she dispensed with nit-picking regulations and went after serious health and safety violations. Read more...
Starbucks employee allegedly wrote 'ISIS' on Muslim woman's beverage
Minnesota woman Aishah, 19, says a Starbucks barista wrote 'ISIS' on her beverage at a St. Paul, Minnesota location on July 1, leaving her horrified and enraged. Read more...
Lightning bolt strikes the Hudson River - framing the One World Trade Center - in New York City
The extraordinary photograph was taken from Jersey City as lightning struck above the 1791ft-high One World Trade Center in New York City. Read more...
MIDAS SHARE TIPS High-tech drugs firm Diaceutics really hits the spot
Diaceutics joined the junior AIM market last year - only the fourth business based in Northern Ireland to list on the London Stock Exchange. Read more...
A fright at the British Museum The spooky experiences of staff and visitors
The British Museum is home to the largest collection of ancient relics and bones, so it's not surprising that staff and visitors have experienced thousands of eerie happenings Read more...
Ten Signature Images From Milton Glasers Eclectic Career
In his graphic designs, he mingled Drer with de Chirico, Breuer with Klimt, Islamic ornament with African textiles. Read more...
8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend
Our culture writers offer suggestions for celebrating Independence Day, and what to watch or listen to without leaving your home. Read more...
Asbestos
In a controversial article, The Great Asbestos Hysteria (Mail, February 23), we said that according to the Health and Safety Executive, the risks from white asbestos products are insignificant, and arguably zero in the case of lung cancer. The HSE assessments related to specific levels of exposure to white asbestos fibres, not white asbestos products, and found a risk from higher levels. The article said that asbestos in UK schools is almost all white. According to the HSE, the more harmful brown asbestos was also frequently used in schools. The writer was in error in saying that the HSE had been forced to withdraw a series of commercials claiming that mesothelioma kills 4,500 a year. In fact, the advertisements were based on an estimate of 4,000 deaths from all asbestos-related disease. Read more...