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Team GB have the chance to win two medals and guarantee another on what could be a ‘Magic Monday’ in Milano-Cortina

A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships and blankets parts of glaciers and snow

Overnight carriages across Europe don’t have to cost the earth

MONEY TALKS: Mia Drennan’s global finance company was founded on credit card debt and the desire to be her own boss. Here she tells Lydia Spencer-Elliott about how she stuck to her guns - and backed herself along the way

LET’S UNPACK THAT : A-listers, including Jennifer Lawrence and Lily Allen, have been open about rehoming their dogs for the sake of their family. Lydia Spencer-Elliott investigates the controversial coping mechanism

From soju bars to community-run clubs, Yvette Cook explores what makes K-town one of California’s most dynamic districts

FLASHBACKS: The source material was so deranged that Jodie Foster refused to come back, but that didn’t stop Hollywood from adapting Thomas Harris’s unpleasant, character-destroying sequel to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Tom Fordy looks back on the very difficult making of the most pig-squealing, brain-sautéing blockbuster in film history

NEW SENSATIONS: As the enigmatic musician releases her first project with a major label, she speaks to Ellie Muir about her experience of homelessness, navigating the male-dominated rap scene, and maintaining an air of mystery

Prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong’s onetime media magnate. Unlike other rags-to-riches tycoons who cultivated ties with Beijing, he chose to become its fierce critic.