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Published on 30/06/2026 – 15:11 GMT+2 An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used artificial intelligence to uncover what ended up being, rather ironically, a philosophical treatise on ethics,…
There’s a carved stone character grimacing furiously in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral and you can see why – a man is sitting on his head, legs apart, holding a fish and bowl in outstretched arms. Other figures perched atop slender stone columns include a creature with a serpent’s tail wrestling a dog-like monstrosity, a…
A Love Island contestant has reportedly left the programme over his connection to a stabbing in London. Gabriel Garland, 24, was removed from the ITV2 dating series after briefly featuring in an episode on Sunday night as a Casa Amor villa boy. “Gabriel has now left the villa and will not be returning,” an ITV…
“Film directors are a bunch of wretches who devote themselves to doing something that is, technologically, almost obsolete,” Orson Welles declared in a 1985 interview, recorded by ‘Arte TV’ (source in Spanish), months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that…
The 2026 World Cup has set a new all-time attendance record for the men’s tournament, surpassing the previous record of 3,587,538 set during the 1994 World Cup – and the group stages have only just ended. As ever, fans have brought colour and fun to the tournament – from Mexico’s duck mascot to Norway’s Viking…
There is one thing that almost every study on weddings in Spain confirms, even if they do not always agree on the exact figure: getting married is expensive and, almost always, costs more than the couple had planned. What differs is the starting point. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT According to the 2026 Wedding Sector Report by ‘Bodas.net’,…
It is always an emotional blow to see former US president Barack Obama pop up on one’s screen. The Instagram algorithm sends me a lot of him, because it knows I always click on him being charming with babies, statesmanlike in speeches, cool at rallies, articulate and witty at anything, endlessly composed, compassionate, intelligent, handsome,…
CARAMANICA Comparing the last album to this album, there are two different modes of scathing-ness. There is the mode on this album, which feels a tiny bit more self-lacerating, whereas on the last one, it’s a little more playful, it’s little bouncier. What’s different about your songwriting? ABRAMS Just a couple more years of living….
Making friends as an adult is not always easy. With busy schedules, remote working, shrinking social circles and lives increasingly lived online, many people are finding it harder to form new, genuine connections than ever before. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The trend has become significant enough that in 2023 the World Health Organization declared loneliness a global…
Suits. Gnomic poetry. Moody, insistent riffs. It used to be that you’d know what to expect from NYC rockers Interpol. The band’s first two albums, in the early 00s, were blockbuster successes, shifting half a million units each thanks to dramatic songs also fit for jerking around at an indie disco. Interpol duly jumped up…
