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?It?s notoriously hard to write about sex?: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner

When we meet the morning after the announcement of this year?s Booker prize, David Szalay, the winner, seems an extremely genial and gentle author to ...

Pentagon?s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise

The US navy has announced that the USS Gerald R Ford, regarded as the world?s newest and largest aircraft carrier, has entered the area of responsibil...

Judy Bell obituary

In 1996, Judy Bell, who has died aged 89, was made the first female president of the United States Golf Association. It had taken 102 years before the...

Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ?sniper tourism? during Bosnian war

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they...

Peanut allergies have plummeted among US kids since 2017 ? what happened?

According to a paper published in the Journal of Pediatrics this month, the number of peanut allergy diagnoses among children has dropped over 40% sin...

I?ve seen the BBC flat out on the canvas before. Brave journalism is the best way to hit back | Roger Mosey

The BBC is battered and sprawling on the canvas again. As a corporation executive, I lived through a number of these episodes: the Hutton report into ...