Clifford and Gary Koekoek, 84-year-old twins who’ve survived living under Nazi occupation and fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, are now in "hell" and sleeping in their car after a bank foreclosed on their California home in October.
Born in …
Donald Tusk criticses ‘bleak outcomes’ in wake of Poland’s judiciary reform
Poland’s rightwing government has been accused of dragging the country back in time by the president of the European council, as its ministers moved a step closer to taking control of the judiciary.
Donald Tusk, himself a former Polish prime …
9/11 survivors urge May to publish UK terror funding report
A group of 9/11 attack survivors and bereaved relatives have urged Theresa May to publish a report into the funding of extremism in Britain, with ministers still facing question about whether the report highlights Saudi Arabia.
Last week the home …
Listen: Kelly Clarkson contributes ‘The Cry Inside’ to indie film ‘The Secret Scripture’
Three-time Grammy Award winner Kelly Clarkson is putting the final touches on her seventh non-holiday studio album for a 2017 release later in the year. Since she announced that she left RCA Records and is now on Atlantic Records, fans …
The Open Container Initiative launches version 1.0 of its container specs
It took a while, but the Open Container Initiative (OCI) today announced the launch of the 1.0 versions of both its container runtime and image specs for software container. The two-year-old open source foundation was established by Docker and other …
The six sure signs a picture has been retouched
One of the perils of picture editing in the digital age is finding yourself duped by a fake image or a photo that has been manipulated. Guardian picture editors scan up to 30,000 images a day – often selecting at …
Top 10 opening scenes in books
Sometimes I want an opening to slap me in the face; other times I’d rather it come on like a creepy hand across my shoulder. There are millions of ways a voice can convince me to listen, but there are …
USC president tries to quell outrage over drug allegations against former medical school dean
USC President C.L. Max Nikias (Jonathan Leibson / Getty Images for U.S. Fund for UNICEF)
Acknowledging widespread concern on campus, USC President C.L. Max Nikias said Tuesday the university would “examine and address” a report in The Times that its …
Kid Rock for Senate? A look at the musician’s political past
Kid Rock’s apparent announcement that he plans to run for Senate surprised many – but the rock star has been involved in politics for quite a while.
Rock – who was born Robert Ritchie – said on social media last …
Rachel Roddy’s pasta with sausage and red peppers
I bought my copy of Marcella Hazan’s The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking from The Almost Corner bookshop in Rome. With a new soft-covered edition under my arm, I walked down Via del Moro, exquisite and grubby, sat down on …