In terse tones the chubby chappie scolded his dumpy doggy, yelling: “Spitfire, come back! Spitfire!” “If this dog was ever a genuine spitfire, it was clearly a long time ago,” Liz tells the Diary.

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

Bobby Ghosh wrote a great piece for Time this week in which he lists the three most-likely but not very good options that ...

Keeping a daily diary doesn't come easily to most people, but it takes less effort than you might imagine. It could also become a meaningful way to reflect and grow as a person. For more than 10 years ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Jeffrey Epstein was a master at using people — including many of the young women who cycled in and out of his life. He used them for connections, for money and for social capital, as we report in our ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...