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US court sentences ex-Syrian official who ran notorious ‘punishment wing’ to 60 years
Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured
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LA woman charged with murder over bus crash that preceded deadly helicopter plunge
Bailee Lynn Rios, 36, accused of driving on wrong side of road to cause fatal crash NBC news helicopter was covering
Lifestyle
Spermageddon, ‘greedy jobs’ and abject fear: why birth rates are plummeting – and why it matters
The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dati...
Technology
US opts not to back Saudi Arabia in Yemen after meeting Houthi leaders
Iran-backed militants have offered Trump administration assurances over safety of Red Sea shipping
Science
Scientists create mice with part-human brains
Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability an...
Science
UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions
Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean...
Health
Imran Khan’s sons accuse Pakistani army chief of vendetta against imprisoned father
Kasim and Sulaiman Khan tell Guardian they believe ex-PM is being ‘slowly killed’ by harsh treatment, driven by Asim Mun...
Finance
More than 1,000 women invested in companies at heart of Britain’s slave trade
Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research reveals
Automobile
First Thing: States given clearance for mail-in voting as US supreme court thwarts Trump
Civil rights groups have praised verdict on administration’s last-ditch attempt to change midterm voting processes
Home Improvement
How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners
Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade
World
‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US
Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowing
Lifestyle
The pirates arrived with AK-47s. They took us hostage – then the torture began
Chirag Bahri was working on board a tanker when six men seized it. For almost eight months, he and his colleagues were h...