The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet – CNET
The concert is in London. You’re watching it live from your home in Atlanta. What makes that possible is a network of subsea cables draped across the cold, dark contours of the ocean floor, transmitt… [read more]
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‘You have to sacrifice your life’: the drug runners of Colombia’s rainforests
Moonlight seeps through the palm-thatch roof of the maloca, a circular communal house in the village of La Pedrera in southern Colombia. Sitting in the centre of the space, a shaman from the Murui et… [read more]
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Remarkable rugby grounds around the world – in pictures
Rugby union is a global sport, played from Alaska to Sri Lanka, with the games most famous venues dotted around both the northern and southern hemispheres. My book looks at those great cathedrals and… [read more]
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‘Into brain and the heart’: how China is using apps to woo Taiwan’s teenagers
Ariel Lo spends a couple of hours most weeks sharing anime art and memes on Chinese apps, often chatting with friends in China in a Mandarin slightly different from the one she uses at home in Taiwan… [read more]
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The Rock and the hard right: Gibraltar fears rise of Vox in Spanish election
The sigh of relief travelled from the craggy ridges of the Rock to the thousands of cross-border workers scattered across southern Spain. In December 2020, hours before Gibraltar was facing the imple… [read more]
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‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway
The yellowed eyes of Phal Pen stared, unseeing, as he laid on his hospital bed, waiting for another scan at the Khmer-Russian Friendship hospital in Phnom Penh. Since doctors diagnosed him at the en… [read more]
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My Lake District adventure: a climb a walk and a swim
In the dining room of the Wasdale Head Inn, explorer and climber Leo Houlding is inspecting the walls, looking back 150 years to the origins of mountain adventure as a sport. On a shelf is a stack of… [read more]
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Luton aim to ‘bring a little chaos’ to Premier League’s established order
Every now and then the sound of drivers beeping their way along the A1081, the dual carriageway that overlooks Lutons training base, can be heard as preparations for the Premier League ramp up on the… [read more]
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‘They’re here at our invitation’: how gulls took over the UK’s cities
They tear open rubbish bags looking for food, swoop down on passersby and steal their sandwiches, and even swallow rats and squirrels whole. Many people complain about the menace of urban gulls, but… [read more]
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Strangers at the Port by Lauren Aimee Curtis review – an island controlled by men
From Robinson Crusoe onwards, the literary island is always a microcosm. Islands, the smaller and more isolated the better, offer novelists the conveniences of the closed room, the small scale; polit… [read more]
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