The Duchess of Cambridge’s 9 best looks of 2021
Days after Meghan and Harry’s bombshell Oprah interview, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited School 21 in Stratford for their first in-person engagement of 2021. After…
Minaret of Jam, one of Afghanistan’s greatest architectural treasures, in danger of collapsing after floods and neglect
A remote 800-year-old minaret which is one of Afghanistan’s greatest archaeological treasures is in danger of falling down because of flood damage. The Minaret of Jam stands…
Revealed: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Christmas dinner menu in New York cell
The court has mandated that all court attendants from Monday must wear N-95 or K-95 face masks. Should one of the 12 get sick, alternate jurors could…
Jesus statues vandalised and Santa models burnt in Hindu nationalist attacks on Christians in India
Contacted by telephone, the federal and state governments declined to comment. On Saturday, Christmas celebrations were also disrupted in Silchar, eastern Assam, after men, claiming to be…
Australia’s deputy prime minister ‘proud’ Amber Heard has named her dog after him
However, the spat now seems firmly in the rearview mirror, with Mr Joyce telling The Australian: “I get a real sense of accomplishment that I’m still in…
South African Covid cases fall by nearly 40 per cent in a week
“We should interpret the data from South Africa with a lot of caution,” John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC, said. ”This is early days and public…
Elon Musk accused of ‘space warfare’ after Starlink satellites in near miss with China’s space station
One person called Starlink “a rogue project,” while another said it was “just a lot of space junk”. SpaceX has so far deployed nearly 1,900 satellites to…
Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Jurors seem some way from a verdict as they ask for stationery to help deliberations
Jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial asked the judge for highlighter pens, coloured sticky notes and a whiteboard, suggesting they were some way from reaching a verdict….
I dodged hospital quarantine as Thailand tightened its borders – but it was worth the anxiety
A heavy helping of trepidation lingered as I made my way to Gatwick Airport last Thursday. I was soon to board a direct flight to Bangkok, my…
Gordon Ramsay: ‘Like most chefs, I’m immune to jet lag – here’s how I do it’
For a Scot, I can handle the heat I just wear factor 50 sunscreen, which is a pain in the arse, because it’s a gloopy mask which makes me…
The UK’s best hotel openings of the year – and hot tips for 2022
Telegraph Travel’s Hotel Hit Squad columnists look back on their favourite stays of the year, and what 2021 has been like in the world of hospitality. From…
Christmas cranked up to 11: why Die Hard 2 (not 1) is the greatest festive film
It’s as much a Christmas tradition as tiresome clichés about sprouts and family arguments: “Is Die Hard a Christmas film or not?” But this annual debate overlooks the…
Death to 2021, review: more Trump and anti-vaxx jokes? Come back, Charlie Brooker!
Charlie Brooker has come a long way since the early days of Screenwipe, the sardonic BBC news review he began in 2006, in which he interrogated the…
Covid PCR test providers use ‘alphabet hacking’ to rip off travellers
Private PCR test firms are deploying “alphabet hacking” to get to the top of the government website before charging travellers up to four times the advertised prices,…
What’s on TV tonight and this week: Travel Man: 96 Hours in Iceland, Death to 2021 and more
Disney+The latest offspring of the Star Wars franchise gives new life to a character whose massive popularity with fans has far outweighed the sum of his relatively…
Bridgerton leads 2021 shopping trends as Netflix hit sparks searches for ‘Regencycore’
Many of us were looking for an escape in 2021 – and some shoppers found it in the 19th century. Bridgerton sent buyers out searching for “Regencycore”…
Mackenzie Crook: ‘Worzel Gummidge would give Extinction Rebellion the thumbs up’
The folk-horror element, perhaps, comes from the fact that more and more Britons find the countryside itself dark and foreboding, an otherworldly place (without wifi). While there…
Autumn colours to be cut short as climate change ‘altering landscapes forever’, warns National Trust
The dry and warm spring also led to a bumper year for berries, particularly rowan, hawthorn and holly. The Trust observed several other phenomena linked to climate…
Billy Connolly: My Absolute Pleasure, review – He’ll always be the master of delivering a joke
News reports may give the impression that Billy Connolly is in the twilight of his life. But watching Billy Connolly: My Absolute Pleasure (ITV) reveals him to…
Nicole Kidman: I put rocks in my own pockets when filming Virginia Woolf drowning scene
Ms Kidman, who is from an Australian family but was born in Hawaii, was married to fellow actor Tom Cruise between 1990 and 2001. In an interview…
Christmas travel misery as Covid grounds thousands of flights worldwide
‘Dozens’ of cruise ships hit by Covid outbreaks Meanwhile, another cruise ship has come down with a Covid outbreak, the third for the week out of Southern…
Far fewer people in hospital with Covid this Christmas despite cases being three times higher
Dr Raghib Ali, a consultant in acute medicine at Oxford University Hospitals, said that hospital and admission data was better than expected, and that the drops were…
No new Covid restrictions for England this year
Covid restrictions will not be tightened in England before the New Year, Boris Johnson has decided after reviewing the latest data on the spread of the omicron…
Over two decades after the devastating Kosovo war, mothers still search for their missing children
Most of the missing are ethnic Albanian men, plucked from their homes or hauled out of refugee columns by Serbian forces. Hundreds of Serbian civilians, again mostly…
Top diplomat demands Russian military aides be present in showdown with Nato leaders
Russia’s top diplomat demanded on Monday that Russian defence officials be included in upcoming talks with Nato over the security guarantees it seeks from the West. Vladimir…