4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (279+ words) Twenty-five years on, the images of the World Trade Center attacks on 11 September 2001 retain a horrifying power. That seismic event has shaped the decades that followed, yet familiarity has done remarkably little to diminish the shock of watching it unfold…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1423+ words) Twenty-five years ago this Friday, al-Qaida members hijacked four US passenger planes. Two were flown directly into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center at 8.46am and 9.03am, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring many thousands more. It was the deadliest…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (834+ words) Faith leaders have called on the government to do more to prepare communities for increasingly extreme weather in the wake of a devastating summer of record-breaking heat, wildfires and drought. “This should not be treated as a party political issue,…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (978+ words) When Mondi Maleknia began watching the new Japanese anime series Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, she was immediately drawn in by the details: the buildings, the depictions of nature, the colour palette and the clothing. The story begins in Tus,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (496+ words) A government survey of 175,000 people has found that two-thirds of Muslims in England feel a strong sense of belonging to their immediate neighbourhood — higher than the country’s average — but that they are also more likely than other people to report…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (917+ words) Captain Halil has spent ten years serving in the German armed forces, rising to the rank of captain. Having trained as an officer and studied political science, the 36-year-old now serves as an operations officer in the Cyber and Information…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1002+ words) Bradford residents have discovered potentially dangerous chemicals in the dust settling in their businesses and gardens outside an animal carcass processing facility, less than a mile from the city centre. Now they say the council should step in and revoke…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1128+ words) I slid my shoes off and stepped onto the mat, where a group of about 60 new Muslims were learning how to recite Al-Fatiha, the first chapter of the Qur’an. Joining the first row of women, who were seated just behind…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (193+ words) Then there’s the “foreign nationals” aspect of Reform’s proposal, which also struggles under scrutiny. It’s why the policy was described to me as “half-baked” by a former Tory minister. But then, this entire episode is as much about bravado as…...