This town powered America for decades. What do they owe them?
This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size of suburbs. Read more...
Emerging Coronavirus Variants May Pose Challenges to Vaccines
Laboratory studies of mutations circulating in South Africa suggest they may dodge some of the bodys immune responses. Read more...
Alabama Wide Receiver DeVonta Smith Wins the Heisman Trophy
Smith, a senior, is the first wide receiver to win college footballs top individual award since 1991. Read more...
MPs working from home during lockdown charge taxpayers for the extra gas and electricity
Members of Parliament claimed 9.1m despite working largely remotely during the first 2020 lockdown. Preston MPSir Mark Hendrickclaimed 126 for electricity and fuel in April and May. Read more...
Covid-19 Kept Tourists Away. Why Did These Seabirds Miss Them?
When travel restrictions stopped bird-watchers from visiting a Swedish island, hidden ecosystem dynamics were revealed. Read more...
Identifying Features Review Lost in Migration
In this confident drama, a mother searches for her son who went missing while trying to migrate from Mexico to the United States. Read more...
Angela Rippon heads to a Portuguese spa for physio and fine food after a painful shoulder op
Angela Rippon visited the Palacio Estoril Wellness Centre on Portugal's Atlantic coast where she enjoyed four days of treatments and classes aimed at giving her shoulder a good workout. Read more...
John Muckler, Coach of an N.H.L. Dynasty, Dies at 86
He was a co-head coach and then the sole head coach of the Edmonton Oilers, and, with a core of Hall of Famers, skated to five Stanley Cup championships from 1984 to 90. Read more...
Roddy Doyle, Alice Hoffman and Ngugi wa Thiong'o This week's best new fiction
No one does boozy male regret better than Doyle, and he's on typically fluent form in this slow-burn tale of two old friends who hook up for a nostalgia-soaked crawl around the haunts of their youth. Read more...
Preserving Brutal Histories, One Garment at a Time
An expert in conserving garments for museums and collectors finds a new calling in saving the clothes worn by victims of atrocities. Read more...
From Diego Maradona to The Best Of An Audience With 1980-2013 The best on demand TV to watch
The extraordinary, chaotic life of the late, truly great Argentinian is detailed in microcosm in Asif Kapadia's compelling account of Maradona's seven-year spell at Napoli. Read more...
'Like the tart, I never change' The secret behind Macao's most famous dessert
You can smell it before you see it. The sweet smell of sugar, egg and custard, baking til it's cooked just right. Flaky pastry on the outside, soft custard on the inside, and crispy, burnt, sugar on top. Read more...
Maura Higginssays she wasn't attracted to boyfriend Chris Taylor in the Love Island villa
Maura Higgins admits she didn't fancy Chris Taylor 'at all' during the 2019 series of Love Island and says they barely kissed before making their shock romance official. Read more...
Prince Harry complains that he and Meghan were subjected to 'the mothership of all harassment'
Harry was interviewed by Fast Company for an article published on Friday which is in a lengthy QA format. Read more...
Whats on TV This Week Salt-N-Pepa and Painting With John
Lifetime airs a movie about the all-female rap group. And John Lurie shares his wisdom on HBO. Read more...