New in Paperback Real Life and A Game of Birds and Wolves
Six new paperbacks to check out this week. Read more...
Aaron Taylor-Johnson films a bloody fight scene for the film Bullet Train led by Brad Pitt in LA
Aaron Taylor-Johnson filmed a bloody fight scene with Brian Tyree Henry using sword props for the film Bullet Train. Read more...
Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past
In Four Lost Cities, Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay. Read more...
Why Plus Is a Minus When Naming Your Streaming Site
An idea that seemed like a real plus when streaming was newer has fallen into clich. Read more...
Moment mother saves her four children by throwing them from the third floor of a burning building
A video of the incident in Istanbul's eastern Esenler district showed the mother dropping her children from a third-floor window as black smoke billowed from the fire behind her on Wednesday. Read more...
Norfolk holidays How exploring a holy site that drew kings can be a heavenly experience
Kit Hesketh-Harvey reveals the bucolic delights and religious history of Norfolk, from charming medieval streets and glorious harbours to a shrine erected after a vision of the Virgin Mary. Read more...
How Plagues Shape the Landscape
From cholera to AIDS, epidemics have given rise to landmarks around the world, be they sculptures, churches or feats of engineering. In this dire moment, their histories resonate. Read more...
What to Cook This Week
Melissa Clark has three fine maximalist brownies for you to make, topped with pecans, mounded with coconut or built onto a pretzel crust. Read more...
GKN's owner to be grilled by MPs over plans to shut plant
Melrose's Simon Peckham will face Parliament's business committee after his company was accused of going back on 'the spirit' of promises made when it bought the engineer three years ago. Read more...
The Crown may be fiction, but Emma Corrin spot on as Princess Diana
It's season four of The Crown and everyone is asking but is it historically accurate? No. It is not. Read more...
New surveillance video shows the horrific attack on Lady Gaga's dog walker
The Los Angeles Police Department is examining horrifying surveillance video showing two individuals attacking Lady Gaga's dog walker, opening fire on him and then fleeing the scene with the singer's two French bulldogs. Read more...
Prince's ruffled silk shirt from Purple Rain among items set to fetch more than 0,000 at auction
The ruffled shirt worn by Prince in the hit 1984 film Purple Rain and one of his guitars are among the items set to fetch more than 0,000 at an online auction by RR Auction next month. Read more...
Major, 40, is dismissed from the Army
Pristone Osabwa abused his allowances by keeping hold of a service family home in Germany despite never having lived there with his wife and three children. Read more...
Jersey Shore Family Vacation Angelina Pivarnick enjoys wedding and Lauren Pesce reveals pregnancy
Angelina Pivarnick, 34, got her wedding redo and Lauren Pesce, 36, announced her pregnancy Thursday on the midseason finale of Jersey Shore Family Vacation. Read more...
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody twin in wet suits and floppy hats as they go surfing in Malibu
Brody and Meester tied the knot in February of 2014 after meeting on the set of the 2011 film The Oranges. They welcomed a daughter Arlo in 2015 and a baby boy this past September. Read more...
How German Autobahns changed the world
Ah yes, "ze Autobahn". Few other landmarks represent Germany more than its freeway system. Cologne's cathedral is distinctively West German, and the TV Tower in Berlin is a GDR feat of engineering, but the Autobahn (literally "car runway") connects the whole country. Read more...
Muslim insurgents kill eight and wound dozens more with bomb blast in Thailand
The devices were hidden inside inside motorbikes and cars and detonated by mobile phones. Read more...
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Read more...