Why the cost of holiday insurance could soon go sky high
Travellers are being encouraged to buy their annual travel insurance policies before the year ends to avoid post-Brexit and Covid-19 related price increases. Read more...
Jaguar savagely killing ocelot at a watering hole in Guatemala could be sign of climate change
The attack happened at a wildlife reserve in northern Guatemala during a severe drought. The larger cat allowed a tasty tapir to pass by unmolested but pounced on the ocelot as soon as it stopped to drink. Read more...
A disordered rag-bag of clichs, cock-and-bull stories and sleazy boasts!
When is a novel not a novel? If you need an answer to this question, don't, whatever you do, ask Martin Amis or you'll never hear an end to it Read more...
Gary Paulsens Real-Life Survival Guide
Gone to the Woods is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person. Read more...
How Brexit will change travel
Are UK citizens now locked out of Europe? Will EU citizens be able to travel to the UK with identity cards? And what about health care -- and travel with pets? Brexit has many ramifications for travel, whether you're from the UK, EU or further afield. Here are some of your burning questions answered. Read more...
Trump and Aides Drove Family Separation at Border, Documents Say
Notes and testimony from a Justice Department official implicate President Trump and White House aides in the zero tolerance policy that led to family separations at the border. Read more...
Two teenagers, 16 and 17, charged with murder of man, 20, shot dead outside supermarket
Two boy, aged 16 and 17, have been charged with the murder of Lewis Williams, 20, after he was shot dead outside a Farmfoods in Mexborough, Doncaster on Monday afternoon. Read more...
Is super-infectious South African coronavirus in the US?
So far, no cases of the new more infectious South African variant have been detected in the US, but a CDC official said efforts have been patchwork as lab tests suggested the form may resist antibodies. Read more...
TOM UTLEY The only comfort from forgetting all my passwords - they don't hold a key to 200million
TOM UTLEY From time to time I like to suggest modern contenders for the Kingsley Amis Prize, which I award to the phrase I currently judge to be the most depressing in the English language. Read more...
Selina Scott describes the joys of walking in the Yorkshire Dales and a scary helicopter flight
TV presenter Selina Scott checks into our travel QA and talks walks, pubs, hotels, Fiji, scary flights, mare's milk and how a cosy cashmere wrap is the one travel item she can't do without. Read more...
New poll says two-thirds of Republicans approve of Donald Trump's behavior even after MAGA riot
Sixty four per cent of Republicans support Donald Trump's recent behavior, according to a new poll, after he spoke to supporters who went on to ransack the Capitol during the electoral vote count. Read more...
Home Office accidentally DELETES 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records from police databases
The history records were deleted in a technological blunder and could allow UK offenders to go free as evidence from crime scenes will not be flagged on the Police National Computer (PNC). Read more...
Louise Linton, Wife of Steven Mnuchin, On Her New Movie 39;Me You Madness39;
Scoffed at for conspicuous consumption, the wife of the departing Treasury secretary sends herself up in a camp-tastic dark comedy, Me You Madness. Read more...
Kate Bosworth shares nineties throwback snaps with Chris Evans on set of The Newcomers
Kate Bosworth, 38, shared nineties throwback snaps with Chris Evans, 39, on set of their 2000 film The Newcomers as she jokingly pleaded, 'Hey Capt. America, a little help pls??' Read more...
The 2020 Masters Dustin Johnson Sets Scoring Record
Dustin Johnson won the Masters at 20 under, five strokes ahead of Australias Cameron Smith and Sungjae Im of South Korea. Read more...
From Katherine Ryan's The Duchess to crime drama Cold Courage The best on demand TV this week
Katherine is a ceramicist (her brand is called 'Kiln 'em Softly') and single mum who can't stand the wastrel father of her daughter but wants to get pregnant by him again. It's er complicated Read more...
Families of sports stars with dementia ask Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Kenny Dalglish to join fight
The families of rugby and football players living with dementia invited Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Kenny Dalglish to hear how the approach to understanding links between the sport and illness has to change. Read more...
UK tourists may be stranded abroad if test-to-fly rule introduced
Thousands of Britons fear being trapped around the globe by the looming threat of a 72-hour test-to-fly rule - as those jetting in today spoke of their disbelief at no regulations being in place yet. Read more...