From Megha Majumdar to Laura Purcell, Kate Mosse and Chris Hammer This week's best new fiction
Set amid sectarian bloodshed in India, this powerful US debut follows a young Muslim shop clerk who finds herself jailed as a terrorist. Read more...
Howie Meeker, Hockey Star and Colorful Broadcaster, Dies at 97
Meeker was known for his candid remarks about players and the games. He came to television after a career as an All-Star for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Read more...
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Don't clean your teeth - save the NHS... a look forward to Covid Britain in 2024
The date is March 1, 2024, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN. Despite the death toll from Covid-19 falling to zero, scientists are still warning it is too early to ease lockdown restrictions. Read more...
Great British boltholes A review of The Hare, Scawton, North Yorkshire
Richard Mellor checked into The Hare Inn, in Scawton, and tucked into the nine-course tasting menu. He declares that the food ranks among the best he's ever tasted. Read more...
Nancye Radmin, Pioneer of Plus-Size Fashion, Is Dead at 82
The Forgotten Woman boutique, which she opened in 1977, spoke directly to the nascent idea of body acceptance. It soon became a chain. Read more...
Don Sutton Had an Easy Job Thanks to a Lifetime of Hard Work
A pitcher known for durability and consistency, Suttons approach was shaped by a childhood of earning everything you received. Read more...
Two NHS trusts in the Midlands 'will start rolling out 24/7 Covid vaccines from TOMORROW'
University Hospitals Birmingham and Sherwood Forest Hospitals in Nottinghamshire have been selected to trial the 24/7 roll out, senior Government sources say. Read more...
With Phil Niekro39;s Death, Baseball Has Lost the Knuckleball and Its Master
Phil Niekro is the seventh member of the Baseball Hall of Fame to die this year. The pitch he perfected also appears to be lost. Read more...
Pictured The house in Irkutsk that's normal on the outside and like a palace on the inside
Allow us to take you through the keyhole of this seemingly humdrum 11-year-old abode on the outskirts of the city of Irkutsk and into an ornate fantasyland with furnishings fit for a tsar. Read more...
Virginia bride renews her wedding vows for her grandmother's benefit
Virginia Cannon, 90, was brought to tears when she watched her granddaughter, also named Virginia, and husband Harvey Sydnor marry outside her care home in Virginia. Read more...
Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and the eccentric letters he got from Britons
The letters show Britons were also fascinated by penis circumference, sexual jealousy and the incidence of married virgins, said historian Ruby Ray Daily, of Northwestern University, Illinois. Read more...
No Better Time to Consider Our Lungs
In Breath Taking, Michael J. Stephen looks at an important organ that has been particularly under attack by the coronavirus. Read more...
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE Sir David Attenborough's new series is accompanied by a magnificent book
Sir David Attenborough's latest series, A Perfect Planet, is on BBC1 and starts tomorrow with an episode about the power of volcanoes. These stunning pictures are from an accompanying book. Read more...
Saturn's tilt was caused by its moons moving farther away with most of the pull coming from Titan
Saturn's axis is tilted at a 27 degree angle and a new study reveals it is due to the gas giant's moons moving farther away - and especially Titan. Experts say the lean could double in the next billion years. Read more...