The clocks went back in the UK on Sunday, and the US and Canada follow on 1 November. It is dark by teatime now. The heating is coming on properly, and any house with a gap under the front door is…
On Tuesday, October 27, Iran’s navy said another tanker had caught fire east of the Strait of Hormuz. The statement, carried by IRNA, followed a script that is now familiar. The ship had switched off…
On the night of 31 August 2022, minutes before Michelle Bachelet's term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ran out, her office published its assessment of human rights in Xinjiang. It had been…
Manila has too many boxes. Thousands of empty containers are waiting for someone to take them back. They sit in terminals, in truck yards and on flatbeds parked along the roads to the port. As of late…
Instagram started testing a horizontal video format called Features on October 26, letting a small group of US creators post videos up to 90 minutes long. The format had already run with creators in…
Pemba Island sits about 50 kilometres north of Unguja, the main island of Zanzibar, and gets a small fraction of its visitors. Divers are the exception. The island's west coast faces the Pemba…
For a few years the headless CMS was the grown-up choice for a serious publisher. Keep the words and images in one structured store. Send them out by API to the website, the app, the newsletter, the…
An ISBN looks like a technical detail, thirteen digits above a barcode on the back cover. For an independent publisher it’s a business decision. Whose name appears as the publisher in the book trade’s…
What It Is Force majeure is an event outside the control of the parties to a contract that prevents one of them from performing, and that the contract treats as an excuse for not performing, or for…
A used 20-foot container in Savannah, Georgia was listed for a median of $1,200 at the depot in early October 2026. The same kind of box in Las Vegas was listed for $2,887. Nothing about the steel…