DEBORAH ROSS Thrilled by The Sister? NO! Hooked on Hugh Grant? Not yet...
ITV's latest forgettable thriller, spread over four nights, was The Sister , which was so forgettable I'm forgetting it as I'm trying to remember it. Read more...
New California Variant May Be Driving Virus Surge There, Study Suggests
Researchers found that the variant originated in California and showed up in more than half of samples tested last week by researchers in Los Angeles. Read more...
Auto Insurance During a Pandemic
Is your car spending more time in the garage than on the road? You may be able to reduce your auto insurance payments. Read more...
Biden attends first Mass as president at Holy Trinity church in DC
Joe Biden, the nation's second Catholic president attended Mass for the first time since taking office on Sunday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington, DC. Read more...
From Jonathan Lethem to Edward Carey, Kikuko Tsumura and Michael Connelly This week's best fiction
Imagine some murky but world-changing event. Here, it's called 'The Arrest', and starts with the death of television and the internet. There's no oil, and guns are useless. Read more...
UK 'enormously less attractive' as travel gateway to Europe
When the UK Prime Minister addressed the nation on December 20, the news was bad enough Christmas was canceled. Read more...
Sydney road rage driver in Mr Filter company car launches into a homophobic rantin Blacktown
The shocking moment a man driving a company car goes on a homophobic rant at an innocent motorist after incorrectly believing he was cut off at a roundabout has been captured on video. Read more...
Small airport in Iowa becomes first to rollout temperature checks and questionnaires
A first of its kind screening program is being launched next week at Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids with temperatures checks and questionnaires being given to passengers before TSA checkpoints. Read more...
Do Curfews Slow the Coronavirus?
A restriction more often used in natural disasters, or to quell unrest, has never been tested against a pathogen like the virus. Read more...
Moynihan Train Hall Becomes a Destination For New Yorkers
Pandemic-weary visitors are finding uplift in the new station, with its soaring expanses of glass and light. Perfect quarantine activity, one says. Read more...
Trump Wants Back on Facebook. This Star-Studded Jury Might Let Him.
A new kind of corporate supercourt is looking for legitimacy. Read more...
Andy Murray Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Murray reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus just before he was to leave for Melbourne, where strict quarantine rules await all players. Read more...
Angela Rippon heads to a Portuguese spa for physio and fine food after a painful shoulder op
Angela Rippon visited the Palacio Estoril Wellness Centre on Portugal's Atlantic coast where she enjoyed four days of treatments and classes aimed at giving her shoulder a good workout. Read more...
Vatican bank's former chief found guilty of money laundering, sentenced to nearly 9 years in prison
Angelo Caloia was president of the bank known as Institute of Works of Religion (IOR) from 1999 to 2009. He and two lawyers who consulted for the bank were charged with embezzling money while managing the sale of Italian real estate owned by IOR Read more...
Stephen Hough album review There is nothing mawkish about Vida Breve, nor is fun banished
Every Stephen Hough album is an event because, unlike most pianists, the virtuosity and poetry of his playing is only the starting point of his art, not its conclusion. Read more...
ALEX BRUMMER Boohoo flies into another fashion storm
Doubtless the glitzy event attended by Boohoo's chief executive John Lyttle (pictured), as well as members of the founding Kamani family, can be classed as essential business. Read more...
Dr. Fauci says he has 'triggered such animosity because I'm speaking public health measures'
Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS This Morning that he has had to be accompanied by armed federal agents (inset) whenever he goes jogging due to death threats he has received. Read more...
Teddi Mellencamp goes for spin on knee scooter in green and pink tie dye sweats after breaking foot
The 39-year-old former star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has been wearing a large black medical boot on her right leg since fracturing her foot at the start of the new year. Read more...
SAS marksman 'kills five Islamic State fighters with a single sniper shot from 3,000ft away'
The highly-experienced special forces sniper is said to have used aBarrett .50 calibre rifle to shoot his jihadist target in the chest - exploding his suicide vest - during a mission in Syria in November last year. Read more...
The 6th Floors Poet in Residence
There are many ways to describe Eisenbergs contributions to the Times online community, but the best one is also the most accurate pure poetry. To the unitiated, Eisenberg adds clever limericks to many of the posts on this blog, but he has clearly made an impact here and in many other places where reader responses are encouraged Read more...
Concern for Health of 2 Political Prisoners in Egypt
Two young Egyptians detained during the military-backed government's deadly crackdown on dissent face serious threats to their health after more than 100 days on hunger strike, according to medical reports. Read more...