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The UK government has launched a major attempt to crackdown on ransomware – as the particularly kind of cyber attack continues to threaten life in the country.

The afterlife is not typically associated with aggressive pets and insatiable worms. But these are exactly the creatures that appeared to an unnamed woman recluse living in Winchester, England, over the course of three nights in the summer of 1422. The woman was an anchoress. That means she had chosen…

Set to return this October, WildPhotos promises an unmissable day of visual storytelling, ethical debate, and creative inspiration for photographers, filmmakers, and nature lovers

In 1992 letter, Mustapha Matura warned of risk to Ladbroke Grove, home to strong Caribbean creative community

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

Other lives: British Library curator and author of The Life of the Buddha

The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free

On a visit to the British Library in London to research this piece, I was preceded by a woman with a lilac-coloured tote featuring a mischievous-looking girl with a severe top knot and black dress. I instantly recognised the distinctive outline of Tove Jansson’s Little My, one of the many…

Artefacts from 11th century on display at British Library in London, alongside work of modern-day community group

I heard Radiohead's The Bends played through on the Bowers & Wilkins speakers used to record it in 1995.

The News Letter was first published in September 1737.