The father of a family that spent nearly a decade living in a secret room in a Dutch farmhouse once belonged to the Rev Sun Myung Moon’s controversial Unification church and was trying to found a cult of his own, Dutch media have reported. The 67-yea

Caffè Greco has welcomed patrons from Dickens to Diana – but a rent rise has put its future in doubt

To reduce his presidency to a frail mind is to ignore the fact he’s an emblem of free-market, white supremacist nationalism

We live in the real world where pregnant people are people and shouldn’t be locked in a cage of guilt for nine months

The Italian agriculture minister, Teresa Bellanova, has pledged to fight against “identity theft” after hundreds of tubes of prosecco-flavoured Pringles were seized from a supermarket chain in the Veneto region. The supermarket had purchased the cris

Some of the fashion industry’s most feted photographers, including Mario Testino, Bruce Weber and Patrick Demarchelier, have lost huge contracts as a result of #MeToo – despite their denials of sexual exploitation allegations. Yet two years after the

Mystery surrounds vicious abduction of manager of former companies of failed businessman Seán Quinn

The company, which uses a smart scanner to analyse whether food has been made correctly, is far from the only business to use tech to track workers

Rescuers in Baunei called out 144 times in past year to save visitors from impassable roads

Naming Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo joint winners has pulled back the curtain on what we’re told is the ‘best’

The US, UK and Australia are taking on Facebook in a bid to undermine the only method that protects our personal information • Edward Snowden is a US surveillance whistleblower

Culturally, we’re moving away from phone conversations – but they’re often the best part of my day

Exclusive: Zelda Perkins and Rosanna Arquette predict more revelations about high-profile men to come

There has been a flowering of writing on the knotty problems of power and gender relations – but men must read it too

Donald Trump has given the green light for a Turkish invasion of Kurdish territory. He’s not the first US leader to turn his back on this ethnic group

Market access matters more than Beijing’s abuses as companies outdo each other in their deference

Data confirms more women have realized there are far worse things than dying alone, which is bad news for the patriarchy

Extinction Rebellion draws on a radical lineage that brings together a range of beliefs and ages

When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, my genre of middle-aged gloomy stoicism is no use at all

Last Monday was a significant anniversary in the evolution of the web. It was 25 years to the day since the first serious blog appeared. It was called Scripting News and the url was (and remains) at scripting.com. Its author is a software wizard name

So, the highest award in literature goes to a writer who denies the existence of concentration camps that it was my accursed honour to find in Bosnia in 1992, who lauded Slobodan Milošević, mastermind of the hurricane of violence of which they were p

A well-preserved fresco depicting fighting gladiators has been unearthed by archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The scene is of the end of a fight between two types of gladiator – a murmillo and a Thracian – where one wins and the ot

It’s clear that the publishing world needs more diversity. Why do some see this as compromising quality?

As a Booker prize judge, I encountered stories I would never have consciously sought out, and it was wonderful

Ceremony marks end of archaeological dig that unearthed web of tunnels and remains of 110 men

Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. To beat it, we need to break its stranglehold on us

When Boris Johnson was foreign secretary he allegedly asked his staff about Leo Varadkar: “Why isn’t he called Murphy like all the rest of them?” It was presumably a joke – and not greatly appreciated when the leaked remark reached Dublin. But Johnso

Fossil fuel giants have known the harm they do for decades. But they created a system that absolves them of responsibility

This week has seen a mass worldwide protest on climate change. The Extinction Rebellion is playing for keeps, and the protesters are setting out to make noise and force politicians and authorities to deal with them. If you think those protesting are

Black academics and cultural commentators pick eight watershed moments and fearless people we should be remembering this month