shamelessness of Fifa’s process was fully on show in Zurich during a display of contempt for governance, democracy, love, hope and good sense

"Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly."

Eurostar is the worst-performing rail service on the continent and Germany’s Deutsche Bahn is one of the least reliable, according to a ranking of 27 European operators

Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule

A new exhibition at Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the enduring appeal of divination

“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

"extraordinary sense of a club imploding": schön wär's!

Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software

Germany draws up list of bunkers amid Russia tensions, App planned

German auto supplier Bosch to cut 5,500 jobs in further sign of carmakers' woes

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn

"woke Content Detector's Curated List of Games"

lost in the oblivion of infinite scroll

How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging

studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating

Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

missing midlife crisis: why 81% of millennials say they can’t afford one because they earn 20% less than boomers did at that age

which showed a link to wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com. The address was printed on boxes for Glinda and Elphaba dolls, the main characters in Wicked, played in the film adaptation by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

Extreme weather cost $2tn globally over past decade, report finds

US suffered greatest economic losses, report commissioned by International Chamber of Commerce finds, followed by China and India