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Away with the ferries: exploring Switzerland’s forgotten lake district by boat

By Mike MacEacheran

The Jura and Three Lakes region is often overlooked by visitors, but on a lake-hopping adventure I discovered its gentle beauty as well as great food and wine The ferry cuts across the waters of Lake Biel, creating soft ripples, as if someone has taken a brushstroke to a blue canvas. To starboard, as we approach St Peter’s Island, are gentle mountains; to port side, lie golden fields. Straight ahead, the isle looks e

Conversations with an Executioner: a chilling classic reveals the mind of a Nazi mass murderer

By Jo Glanville

Polish war hero Kazimierz Moczarski spent 255 days sharing a cell with an SS general. Nearly 50 years after it was published, an uncensored version of his account is appearing in English for the first time In 1949, Kazimierz Moczarski, a leading member of the Polish resistance, was in his fourth year of incarceration when he was moved into a cell with two Nazis at Warsaw’s Mokotów prison. One of them was Jürgen Stroo

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An Agatha Christie classic with an impressive cast: best podcasts of the week

By Hannah J Davies

Toni Collette heads a list of familiar voices playing out the village murder-mystery. Plus, Guz Khan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe go off on some rather wild tangents Toni Collette is an eagle-eyed amateur sleuth in this big adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel. When Colonel Protheroe is found dead in sleepy St Mary Mead, suspects include his spouse, Anne, and daughter, Lettice. But as false confessions an

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Agrippa by Robert Harris review – persuasive portrait of rivalry in ancient Rome

By Sam Leith

This fictional memoir by Octavius’s right-hand man shows us bloodshed, betrayal and hectic jockeying for power If you’re one of those people who thinks about the Roman empire several times a week, Robert Harris has you covered. He follows his trilogy of novels about the life of Cicero and his one-off about the unpleasantness in Pompeii with a narrative that takes us from civil war through the assassination of Julius

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Who is Fergie Chambers? The Dublin-based millionaire wanted by US authorities

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In the News podcast: US authorities allege Chambers has funded terrorism. His wife says he’s being persecuted for supporting pro-Palestinian activists

Trump says US scaling back military drills with S Korea

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US President Donald Trump has said he ordered the Pentagon to scale back "inappropriate and hostile" military drills with South Korea, hours before the exercises began.

Who orchestrated the Ceuta migrant crossing?

By Naomi O’Leary

Global Briefing: Allowing a rush of people to approach Europe’s borders has been repeatedly used for political purposes

Hayden Panettiere, star of Heroes and Nashville, dies aged 36

By Sian Cain

Actor was ‘an incredible light and a force of nature’, her family said in a statement

Selling up amid flood risk and championing Ireland’s food tourism

By Ciarán Hancock

The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk

'Heroes' actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36

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US actress Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died aged 36.

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Why don't men talk about using weight-loss drugs?

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Some men say they feel ashamed of needing to use weight-loss injections as it seems like "cheating".

The Phoenix Park has an identity problem. But there is an easy fix

By Sinéad O'Sullivan

It is a park that neither accentuates Dublin city nor switches it off; it is merely a way to commute through the middle

'I fled Ukraine for Yorkshire - now I'm off to a top uni'

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Oles was resettled in the Bradford area and is now heading to Durham to study law.

Ireland needs an agriculture policy. Instead it has an agri-food industry

By John Gibbons

Denmark no longer has an agriculture minister – Ireland should follow suit

Man on turtle rescue mission up for BBC award

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Joe Williams, who nurses turtles back to health in Brighton, is on the Make A Difference shortlist.

More women will die if domestic abusers leave prison early, victim’s parents warn

By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

Parents of Michaela Hall, whose partner killed her after he left prison in 2021, say Probation Service cannot cope with mass release More women will die if ministers include domestic abusers in the early prison release scheme, the parents of a woman murdered by her partner shortly after he was freed have warned. Michaela Hall, a 49-year-old charity worker, was killed in her home in Cornwall, by Lee Kendall in 2021 tw

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Spotlight on UN desertification summit as it mulls how to spend $12bn war chest

By Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Extreme weather has raised the significance of Cop17 talks starting this week on tackling drought and land degradation As swathes of the northern hemisphere bake in what could be the hottest year on record, with wildfires blazing across North America and Europe and heatwaves afflicting millions across Asia, the UN’s bi-annual talks on desertification have assumed much greater importance – and have started attracting

Sabrina Ghayour’s recipes for mango and chilli chicken, sticky spring onions and latke

By Sabrina Ghayour

A sweet, tangy and spicy chicken dish that matches well with crisp fried potatoes and apricot-glazed spring onions I use this exact cooking method to make every kind of traybaked chicken, and this one is a blend of store-cupboard staples with the addition of fresh lime to push the flavour. Then, I love hash browns, röstis and latkes – give me crispy fried potatoes of any description, and I’m a happy girl – but I won’

Nothing less than radical whole-system change is required to fix the NHS's maternity services | Julia Sanders

By Julia Sanders

It’s vital that Yvette Cooper’s taskforce acts on the Amos and Ockenden reports – and puts the needs of women and families at the heart of maternity services It is hard to find the words to describe the agony for those who have experienced preventable baby loss, injury or maternal death. Understandably, families who have been through this have campaigned relentlessly for local and national investigations. Every famil

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Letters to the Editor, August 17th: On losing the public service ethos, multiple births, water wasters and hitchhiking

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The idea of public service, and the related concept of the common good, has a long intellectual history

A week like few others: Wonder women, golden boys and medals galore

By Mary Hannigan

Bualadh bos to RTÉ, too, for its athletics and swimming coverage despite what green-ink brigade will say

‘They’re not alone’: Chris Hoy on his ambition to stop men dying of prostate cancer

By Donald McRae

Cycling great on living with stage-four diagnosis, fundraising with Miguel Induráin and importance of public education about the disease

Maternity leave pension penalty

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Women lose out on pension building when they are already earning less

Kate O’Connor: ‘I’ve worked really hard, and I’m achieving the dream. So believe, achieve, work hard’

By Ian O'Riordan

Chasing the perfect heptathlon, the 25-year-old is leading the charge to LA, with a cabinet full of medals to prove it

‘It’s a mess’: To collapse Stormont now would benefit no one, but it cannot stay the same

By Freya McClements

Sinn Féin and DUP blame each other for the assembly’s failings, but there is a need for reform