A priest tells of the bloodshed in Malakal, South Sudan, and of a daring escape from its cathedral.
The number of Americans saying they have no religion has risen alongside internet usage – but there is a simple explanation.
Alan Mathison Turing:Renowned British mathematician and computer scientist.
Many people find male priests sexy – perhaps because spirituality and sex are closely linked as a result of their transformative power.
Choppers, gunshots, dead dogs and dust. Faux fur, a silver Mercedes and immaculate detention.
They call it a resignation, but it looks as though Cardinal Keith O’Brien was pushed before he could even think of jumping.
An analysis of the Norwegian killer’s manifesto reveals the online network that helped him to withdraw into a paranoid universe.
Could one of the inventors of the webcam transform the economics of computing for the poor? In 1991, when he was a doctoral student at Cambridge, Quentin StaffordFraser hooked up a camera to monitor the department’s coffeepot so his fellow workers would know when it was fresh.
It is not often that something makes me laugh so hard I cannot breathe, but a recent piece on "wikigroaning" did. It consists simply of a list of paired topics on Wikipedia: the game is just to guess which has the longer and more detailed entry and thus is more important to the nerds who write Wikipedia.
Half-a-dozen lurid and splodgy pictures in the local paper brought home to me the death of an honourable profession this week. I took them. I am in my small way responsible for impoverishing an old friend, because he, not me, is a professional photographer, and his living has been more or less abolished by the changing world.