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On 4 October last year, Tim Cook took the stage for the first time at Apple's HQ in Cupertino, California, as its full-time chief executive, to start unveiling what turned out to be the iPhone 4S. It…

The gun is useless now. It is tucked into a dirty plastic bag, which is stuffed inside a cardboard box, which is stored in the basement of the Prince George’s County Courthouse in Upper…

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY POTTS Teenagers can do terrible things. In 1999, Kuntrell Jackson, then 14, was walking with his cousin and a friend in Blytheville, Arkansas, when they decided to rob a local…

At around 10am one morning earlier this week, a dazed and haggard man in surprisingly clean blue convict's fatigues walked out of Insein jail on the outksirts of the Burmese city of Rangoon. Tang…

Nature | News The best of our longer reads as selected by our editors. 19 December 2011 The 24/7 lab and a medical researcher-turned-saboteur are amongst the editors’ pick of our longer reads…

Minutes later I came across a group of teenagers huddled by Edmonton Working Men's Conservative Club. Most of them were girls, and in a state of panic. I saw they were holding a topless boy, who looked about 17. "He's been stabbed," one said. As soon as he was in the ambulance, his friends fled, telling police they did not want to talk to "Feds" (slang for the police). One screamed: "We hate you." Another shouted: "You're the reason this is happening."

Benjamin Norman for The New York TimesKei Igawa: The Lost Yankee, by Bill Pennington (July 23, 2011) TRENTON In the middle of a bright Manhattan summer afternoon, the