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But it’s very cold.Even starting through the lens of my telephoto camera at a polar bear, I couldn’t get my mind off the tiny community where I’d started my journey. Longyearbyen, the largest city in a far-north archipelago, has a year-round population of 2,500, surrounded by mountains, fjords, and glaciers. I was onboard the Aurora Expeditions ship, the Greg Mortimer, in the midst of the Arctic sea ice just north of the semi-autonomous island group called Svalbard, which is nominally part of the Kingdom of Norway. Even in summer, it was near freezing at this latitude of 83 degrees north, just…

Members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump’s decision to assert federal control over Washington, D.C.’s police force and deploy National Guard troops to patrol the capital marked a stunning departure from governing norms, according to experts. Since Trump’s order last week, hundreds of National Guard troops have set up on the streets of the nation’s capital and hundreds more are expected to arrive in the coming days. The National Guard is a…

Donald Trump has called on a Federal Reserve governor to immediately resign, renewing his extraordinary attack on the central bank’s independence as officials mull next steps on interest rates.A close Trump ally accused Lisa Cook, an appointee of Joe Biden, of “potentially committing mortgage fraud” and urged the US Department of Justice to investigate.The claims have not been confirmed, and this evening Cook said she had “no intention of being bullied” into stepping down.The US president has repeatedly broken with precedent in recent months to demand the Fed cut rates and urge its chair, Jerome Powell, to quit after disregarding…

The biggest pushback after OpenAI announced its new GPT-5 model for ChatGPT came from devotees of older models who felt the new generative AI chatbot lacked the panache of its predecessors.Now you have more choices of pre-GPT-5 models (although you’ll have to hunt for some of them) and better control over which components of GPT-5 handle your questions. OpenAI is still sorting through a somewhat rocky launch of GPT-5, led by complaints about the lack of model choices. The model has been anticipated for more than two years and comes as competitors like Anthropic and Google have released powerful new…

Will Sharpe is musical prodigy Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart in a new photos from the upcoming show Amadeus. Sky released a first look at the limited series on Thursday with Paul Bettany starring as envious court composer Antonio Salieri and Gabrielle Creevy as Constanze Weber, Mozart’s fiercely loyal wife. Based on Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play, and adapted by Joe Barton (Black Doves, Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project), the five-part reimagination explores the meteoric rise and mythic downfall of one of history’s most iconic composers — and rockstar virtuoso of the 18th century, Wolfgang ‘Amadeus’ Mozart. When twenty-five-year-old Amadeus arrives in bustling…

Katy PrickettBBC News, CambridgeshireFamily handoutsAnne Martinez (left) and Karen Starling died the year after undergoing double lung transplants at the hospitalA hospital trust has paid a “six-figure settlement package” in the case of nine patients following an outbreak of a bacterial infection linked to its water supply.Three patients died and two of these cases were as a result of complications connected to the outbreak at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, according to lawyers.Lung transplant patients Karen Starling, 54, of Ipswich, died in February 2020, and Anne Martinez, of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, died in December 2020.Eilish Midlane, the hospital’s chief executive, said:…

The Little League Baseball World Series is down to the final six teams, with the last two semifinal games set to take place Thursday afternoon in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In the United States bracket, it will be Las Vegas (Mountain Region) vs. Irmo, South Carolina (Southeast Region), at 7 p.m. The winner will advance to take on Fairfield, Connecticut (Metro Region), in the U.S. championship Saturday afternoon.Down 1-0, in their last at-bat, Irmo tied the game in the bottom of the sixth inning and then, after giving up five runs in the seventh inning, scored six runs in the bottom of…

new video loaded: New Origami Design Could Help With Space EngineeringBy Jamie Leventhal•August 20, 2025Researchers discovered a new type of origami called bloom patterns, which are repeating tiles of creased patterns that rotate symmetrically around a center. Engineers are working on real-life applications, like a collapsable space telescope for NASA.Recent episodes in News Clips: ScienceShow more videos from News Clips: Science

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary geography quiz highlights novels set in places that are often vacation destinations. To play, just make your selection in the multiple-choice list and the correct answer will be revealed. Links to relevant articles from the archives of The Times will be listed at the end of the quiz if you’d like to do further reading.

NewsFeedHorrific scenes in Gaza City show at least two Palestinians killed and three badly wounded people clinging to life, after Israel struck a bustling street in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood. The attack comes as Israel announced it had begun its planned offensive to seize Gaza City and displace the one million Palestinians living there.Published On 21 Aug 202521 Aug 2025