JENNIFER BARTON: My sister was 12 when I was born and her mother was – and still is – married to our father. For over 30 years, he kept them in the dark about my very existence.
A secondary-school student will be allowed to identify as a wolf at school, citing ‘species dysphoria,’ a condition where one feels their body belongs to a different species.
A surgeon has spoken about the devastation following blasts in Lebanon as the doctor marks a harrowing milestone, removing more eyes in one day than in his entire 25-year career.
Hassan Harfoush: As a journalist based in Lebanon, I have covered many conflicts and seen too many dead bodies. But nothing prepared me for the fear and carnage wrought by the events of the last two days.
SUSANNAH JOWITT: My childhood was a misery of diets as my mother told me I was fat, but new efforts to keep kids thin, like giving them weight-loss jabs of Ozempic or Saxenda will end up making them fatter.
Rupert Murdoch may have dubbed his plan ‘Project Harmony’. But to observers, a high-noon showdown between the tycoon and his four oldest children in a court in Nevada, the nickname looks optimistic.
REBECCA ENGLISH: Some cynics were quick to scoff that the bucolic and decidedly wholesome slice of family life appeared contrived in the Princess of Wales’ health update – but in that, they would be wrong.