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Opinion | What it means when the mercenaries appear

Elliot Ackermans new novel is 2054, written with retired Adm. James Stavridis. This piece is adapted from an essay in the spring 2024 issue of Liberties, a journal of culture and politics. In the summer after the fall of Afghanistan, I received an invitation to speak at CIA headquarters. I used to work as a

Sir David Attenboroughs Planet Earth III

Sir David Attenborough presents Planet Earth III, a brand new Natural History series for BBC One and iPlayer. Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the worlds most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.

Threads could cause real problems for Twitter

By Zoe Kleinman in Glasgow & James Clayton in San FranciscoBBC News Meta has launched its much-teased rival to Twitter, Threads, in the UK and US. The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman and North America technology correspondent James Clayton have both tried out the app. Here are their first impressions.

Timeless Emotion: Melissa Etheridge, 'Fearless Love'

THERES SOMETHING ODDLY timeless about Melissa Etheridge. Its been 22 years since her self-titled debut, yet shes stayed with the same record label for all those years and still maintains the same gutsy, urgent growl that made her earliest singles so distinctive. She even pulls off a hippie-dippy fringed jacket on the cover of her

Video of vicious bashing of footy star Jack Ziebell is played to court as man pleads guilty to break

The man responsible for bashing former Kangaroos captain Jack Ziebell just hours after his final match has pleaded guilty as video of the shocking incident was played to a court. Ibrahim Behluli, 21, pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday to two charges of committing affray by behaving in a riotous manner and