(Sony)Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgence Streaming and AI may yet destroy music for ever – don’t be sad, we had a good run – but one of the sweeter morbid symptoms of this era is the revealed popularity of non-anglophone music….

New research findings are contrary to what had previously been thought about pandemic’s effect on children’s wellbeing Teenage boys were hit hardest by the Covid lockdowns, with their mental health failing to recover despite the return to normality, according to the most comprehensive academic study of its kind. Early research into how lockdown affected children…

Across the Middle East, a painful realisation is dawning – there will be no clean truce to hostilities Six months ago, Hussein al-Auda had a good job with a big international non-governmental organisation (NGO), a new baby, two curious and clever older children and a small house in Gaza City. Now the 37-year-old is alone…

The former British territory was a flawed success. Xi Jinping has ended that with the punitive and hastily passed article 23 So farewell, Hong Kong. The vibrant, pulsating city-state that grew, under British rule, into one of the world’s great financial, business, cultural and tourism hubs has finally been brought to heel. Browbeaten, abused, silenced….

The neurologist and author on the upsides to menopause, the truth about HRT, and what superpowers become available to women after their body and brain’s transition Menopause marks the end of a woman’s menstruation. But, starting on average at around 47 and taking four to eight years, it doesn’t just impact the body: thanks to…

Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist In 1956, a chap named TK “Ken” Whitaker, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From…

Sardonic tribute to cheating husband ‘Roger’ on bench in Bristol prompts mention of elusive graffiti artist The amateur sleuths, conspiracy theorists and mischief makers on the sweeping Royal York Crescent in Clifton, Bristol, all have opinions about a mysterious plaque appearing to out an adulterous husband. The brass plate engraved with “For My Love/Husband, Father,…