WhatsApp is “phatic before it is anything else,” says Sam Knight. It “winks with life, informing you who is online and when they were last seen.” The “entanglement of WhatsApp in everyday feeling ...

The violence and protests in Minneapolis have left Democrats conflicted about how to respond. Some left-of-center activists ...

Australia is leading the charge in banning social media for people under 16 — but there is lingering doubt as to the efficacy ...

Kennedy “oversaw a highly lucrative but often contentious period in ‘Star Wars’ history that yielded a blockbuster trilogy ...

The “point-shaving scheme” involved more than 39 players on 17 NCAA Division I teams who are accused of rigging “dozens of ...

Trump has “previously threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act over tensions in blue-leaning cities,” The Wall Street ...

Are You Dead? (Sileme in Mandarin) this week became the most downloaded paid app in the China’s history, and has put the ...

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage may claim victory, but the latest move has ‘all-but ended the chances of any deal to unite the ...

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Unlike many of Ayckbourn’s plays – this was his 32nd, and he has written some 60 since – this “convoluted but bitterly funny ...

Far from the neon lights of Tokyo, temples and shrines of Kyoto and the Osaka street food scene is Okinawa, Japan’s ...

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