The Sony world photography awards announce the four overall winners of the 2026 competitions: professional, open, student and youth. Citlali Fabián receives the prestigious photographer of the year title, and 10 category winners for the professional competition are announced, whilst Joel Meyerowitz is honoured as 2026 outstanding contribution to photography recipient
Continue reading...Once the preserve of childhood underwear, the patterned knit is now bringing nostalgia and comfort to adults in a fast-changing, unpredictable world
In this very on-brand April, where sun and showers jostle for supremacy and a chill wind is making 16C feel like 9C, you might have spotted pointelle popping up everywhere. On her recent world tour, Rosalía appeared on stage in Paris wearing a pointelle bodysuit. Then Sabrina Carpenter appeared on the cover of Perfect magazine hanging backwards off a bed wearing cyan eyeshadow and a pointelle underwear set. It’s peeping out from underneath shirts and jumpers in air-conditioned offices and on buses. For spring, the heritage knitwear brand Herd is offering “featherlight yet warm” jumpers in its signature pointelle. John Lewis, which said yesterday that online searches for pointelle were up 60% week on week, is selling bandana-scarves and pyjamas made of the same material.
The fabric, more associated with girls’ vests, thermal-wear and underwear, is, according to Merriam-Webster, “an openwork design (as in knitted fabric) typically in the shape of chevrons”. Sometimes peppered with hearts, florals, diamonds or zigzags instead, you probably had a pair of pointelle ankle socks, possibly with a little cotton ruffle. Or maybe you remember that era in the 00s when Whistles churned out lacey pointelle camisoles that grazed bellybuttons inches above Juicy Couture track bottoms.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon
More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters.
The scheme, which will use a unique rearing process, hopes to re-establish a huge oyster bed around Orkney that experts say will create a “trophic cascade” of climate and ecological benefits.
Continue reading...From the epic landscapes of the Highlands and Islands to intimate local community events, our readers share their best finds in Scotland
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After trekking in from near Oykel Bridge, our group stayed the night at Choire Mhoir and Magoo’s bothies (conjoined Mountain Bothies Association and non-MBA bothies, both free) in the northern Highlands. Emerging from the bothies come morning, a fog hovered between the mountains leading up to the summit of Seana Bhràigh, peaking out above, and Loch a’ Choire Mhóir below. As the sun rose, the fog steadily lifted, but not before creating a magical fogbow above the loch and bothies.
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Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025
Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a “pitiful” low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows.
An analysis of 1.14bn online stories published worldwide between 2017 and 2025 found that the proportion of articles that include terms relating to misogynistic abuse dropped to a “dismal” 1.3% of all global online news in 2025, the lowest level in that period. Coverage peaked at 2.2% in 2018, the height of the #MeToo movement. In Africa, where multiple conflicts have involved extreme levels of sexual violence, coverage sank to a nine-year low of 1.18% in 2024.
Continue reading...Liza Tobay, who lives in UK, was told her settled status had been ‘red flagged’ after trying to make a connecting flight from Munich to Edinburgh
A German woman has been separated from her two-year-old daughter in Edinburgh after a Home Office mistake left her stranded in Dusseldorf earlier this week.
Liza Tobay, who has lived in the UK for 15 years, had taken her oldest child, a six-year-old boy, to visit his grandfather and some other relatives over Easter when confronted with what she said appeared to be “a serious administrative error”.
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Goedemorgen! Bij dit nieuws kreeg ik meteen een reclameliedje in mijn hoofd: „Carglass repareert, Carglass vervangt”. En Carglass gaat naar de beurs.
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Zo’n 8 miljoen Nederlanders gaan de komende weken op meivakantie, bijna de helft van het land. Voor veel mensen is mei daarmee uitgegroeid tot de belangrijkste vakantie van het jaar, aantrekkelijker dan de zomervakantie omdat het dan minder heet, minder druk en vaak iets goedkoper is.
Vier op de tien vakantiegangers blijven in eigen land, terwijl Duitsland Nederland nu voorbij is als favoriete buitenlandse bestemming, gevolgd door België. Vliegreizen verliezen terrein: waar vorig jaar nog 40 procent het vliegtuig pakte, is dat nu gedaald tot één op de drie, mede door fors duurdere tickets en de nasleep van de energiecrisis in huishoudbudgetten.
Bijna 60 procent gaat hooguit een week weg, maar een kleine minderheid rekt de mei-uittocht op tot twee of drie weken, geholpen door scholen die de officiële vakantie massaal met een extra week verlengen. Ongeveer 94 procent van de Nederlandse vakantiegangers blijft binnen Europa; verre reizen naar de VS en Azië zijn minder populair, onder meer door weggevallen overstapmogelijkheden in het Midden-Oosten. Intussen blijft kamperen geliefd, met een gemiddeld budget van 250 tot 500 euro per persoon, terwijl een derde van de mensen die nu thuisblijven aangeeft het hele jaar niet op vakantie te gaan bij gebrek aan geld.
