Two novels with eerie echoes of world catastrophes, both set at summer houses, are among this year’s five fiction finalists for the National Book Award. Lydia Millet’s “The Children’s Bible,” about multiple families whose kids have come to disdain their parents, has been read as an allegory about religious storytelling, …...Read More

The CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter are expected to testify before the Senate on October 28 for a hearing on tech companies' control over hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. The Senate Commerce Committee voted last week to authorize subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai of …...Read More

Advertisement Kate Middleton cut a casual figure as she paid a visit to students at the University of Derby to hear about how the pandemic has impacted university life today. The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, who donned a floral patterned mask, wrapped up warm in a £249 beige check coat …...Read More

SYDNEY, Australia — Xi Jinping celebrates China’s battle against the coronavirus as a success. But in the United States and other wealthy democracies, the pandemic has driven negative views of China to new heights, a survey published on Tuesday showed. The illness, deaths and disruption caused by the coronavirus in …...Read More

Mars will be closer to Earth tonight than at any point in the past 17 years tonight and will be the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, astronomers say. The Red Planet is at its point of opposition, with the Earth passing directly between it and …...Read More

The French Open has become embroiled in a match-fixing scandal after police began investigating a women's doubles match which was flagged by bookmakers for unusual betting activity. French prosecutors on Tuesday said they have opened an investigation into alleged match-fixing in a women's doubles match at the French Open. The …...Read More

As a former state attorney general, Senator Kamala D. Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, has received significant scrutiny of her record on law enforcement, facing questions and criticism about uneven prosecutions of killings by police officers. But she is less known for another role she took on, opposing …...Read More

A London council has accused the Government of telling it to 'back off' from forcing supermarkets to make sure customers are wearing face masks. Four retailers, Sainsbury's, Lidl, Morrisons and B&M homeware stores, were handed warning notices by Barking and Dagenham council in east London after officials saw staff failing …...Read More

Advertisement Fashionistas flocked to the Chanel Paris Fashion Week show today despite a recent rise in Covid-19 cases that has seen tighter restrictions introduced across the city. French actress Marion Cotillard and Johnny Depp's daughter, Lily-Rose Depp, led the glamour as the style set gathered to watch the Hollywood-inspired showcase …...Read More

Mere hours before the midnight cutoff for Arizona voters to register for the November election, a federal district court judge extended the deadline by nearly three weeks, saying that thousands of people weren’t able to register because of the pandemic. The Monday night ruling means that voters will have until …...Read More