Alt-J, Electric Ballroom review The nicest boys in polite rock
Alt-J are four Leeds University graduates with one claim to fame their debut album, An Awesome Wave, has just won the Mercury Music Prize for the Album of the Year. Read more...
US Women39;s Open A Lim Kim Wins American Debut
The South Korean golfer scanned anxious texts from home while waiting for challengers to finish the rain-delayed final round of the major championship. Read more...
Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His Rage for Reading Is Undiminished.
Robert Gottlieb considers the celebrated Yale critic on the occasion of his last, posthumously published book, The Bright Book of Life, which revisits the novels that inspired his passion and awe. Read more...
Police arrest 2 people and fine 6 for violating Quebec's Covid-19 lockdown orders at a 7-person house party
Canadian police arrested two people after an illegal New Year's Eve party violated Quebec's Covid-19 lockdown protocols. Read more...
Archaeology Thousands of beads and brooches unearthed from Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Northamptonshire
Experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) uncovered the burial site atOverstone Gate amid preparations of the 15 hectare area for construction. Read more...
Sharon Begley, a Top Science Journalist, Is Dead at 64
Long at Newsweek, she was regarded as one of her generations pre-eminent science writers. An Enlightenment-era figure, Jon Meacham said. Read more...
The Holiday Guru answers questions from British travellers about the tiers and the Brexit trade deal
The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week he looks at how Brexit will affect European holidays, whether you can travel to Barbados if you live in a tier four area, and more... Read more...
Argentina's Senate to vote on historic bill to legalize abortion
Argentina could make history on Tuesday, as its Senate votes on a bill to legalize abortion. Read more...
Help Getting the Earned Income Tax Credit
A tech group, working with a volunteer program, aims to help more eligible people get the earned-income tax credit. Read more...
France coronavirus British 'gap-year students' are quarantined at ski resort
The group had tested negative for Covid before leaving the UK but 16 tested positive on arrival in the town of Vallorcine, near Mont Blanc, and are now being kept in isolation at their resort (pictured). Read more...
Is Mask-Slipping the New Manspreading?
Something about some men just makes it difficult to keep that mask where it should be. Read more...
Kim Kardashian shines in a gold corset for new Valentine's Day scent amid 'divorce' from Kanye West
The 40-year-old social media savant threw her arms up into the air and smized at the camera while posing in front of a metallic background. Read more...
Lost Collection Paintings left on public transport are given their own show
A London gallery is showing 60 artworks, most of them unnamed, that have been stored away in Transport For London's Lost Property Office since they were left behind. Read more...
Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion
DeepMind, a research organization, said that a program combining two separate algorithms had soundly defeated a high-ranking professional Go player. Read more...
Chrissy Teigen lost a tooth in a Fruit Roll-Up at the inauguration
Good news and bad news for Chrissy Teigen. President Biden followed her on Twitter but she also lost a tooth. Read more...
Frogs living near roaring waterfalls wave hello to attract mates
Video footage reveals a male glass frog specimen showing off with a casual flap of the hand, a wave of its foot and a friendly nod of the head in the hope of being noticed. Read more...
Revealed Winners of the 'Oscars of watches'
It's the prize giving ceremony that everyone's on time for. Read more...
Up to HALF of Covid survivors 'may still be vulnerable to South African variant'
Professor Penny Moore, from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, found in 44 survivors that 48 per cent of them (21) had no immune response to the new variant. Read more...