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When journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Perreira were murdered while on a fact finding trip in the Amazon, it highlighted the threats to those working to protect the forest from expl…

For almost two decades the Kinahans have operated one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world. Now, they’ve been named as some of America’s “most wanted” and people who've been assoc…

The ailing pontiff has prompted speculation that he will resign with a planned visit to the tomb of a 13th-century pope who quit after five months.

Meanwhile, his remarks about foes plotting his repla…

In 2012, British journalist John Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria. Then a series of videos emerged showing Cantlie spouting ISIS propaganda. He hasn’t been seen since.

In this new series - beginning Fri…

The government’s flagship immigration policy has been put on pause, following an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights. How was the first asylum flight to Rwanda halted? And what will …

Next week, much of the country's rail system will grind to a halt, as more than 40,000 rail workers join a national walkout. It's the biggest rail strike since 1989. So why are they striking? And how…

Monkeypox cases in the UK are now in the hundreds, and 1,600 cases have been reported around the world in recent weeks. What do we know about it and how it spreads? And can it be contained? 

This podc…

Parents, teachers, students and experts alike say that the UK’s education system desperately needs reform. The Times Education Commission has spent the past year trying to figure out how to fix it. T…

When a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017, it led to the deaths of 72 people – and a search for answers. Five years on, what have we learned from the inquiry about the companies …

When a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017, it led to the deaths of 72 people – and a search for answers. Five years on, we revisit that night through the stories of three familie…

The fight for Ukraine has become a Battle for the Donbas, as Putin's army concentrates its forces in the southeast. The fiercest fighting is being waged for the city of Severodonetsk. So why is this …

Two weeks on from the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers died, America is still reeling. We look at how the day unfolded, and go inside the National Rifle Associatio…

The prime minister's narrow win in a confidence vote on Monday night has left his political authority dented and his party even more deeply divided. Can Boris Johnson rebuild public trust and regain …

Russia has been making territorial gains in the east and south of Ukraine in the last few weeks, but this isn’t where Vladimir Putin expected to be at this point in the war. Meanwhile, a brutal blame…

Dolly Alderton - award-winning author, podcaster, screenwriter and Sunday Times Style's resident agony aunt - on love, friendship, sex, and being comfortable with yourself ahead of the release of the…

Today's episode comes courtesy of our sister podcast: Past Imperfect.

Justin Webb is a broadcaster who has spent almost four decades at the BBC, from North America correspondent to co-presenter on Rad…

Today's episode comes courtesy of our sister podcast: Wine Times.

Sloshing along with Suzi Ruffell and Will Lyons is the comedian, writer and broadcaster Tom Allen - who has his own wine wardrobe. As…

As the country prepares for a bank holiday weekend which will see many celebrate the Queen's record-breaking platinum jubilee, The Times and The Sunday Times' royal watchers chat about the monarch, a…

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and references to suicide.

The second of our two-part special, The Hunt for the Silver Killer. In the mid to late 1990s, two similarly bloody cri…

This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence and references to suicide.

In 1996 in the small town of Wilmslow in Cheshire, an elderly couple were found dead in their bedroom. 

Today and tomor…