Passport stamps are a map of my life in travel. I’ll miss them

Surely I can’t be the only one who stands in line at the airport thumbing the pages of my passport as if I’ve just got my hands on a first edition of my favourite book. Nor can I be alone in handing my passport to border control in the quiet hope...

South Georgia receives the visit of Commissioner Martin-Reynolds

Wednesday, October 8th 2025 - 21:33 UTC Mr. Colin Martin-Reynolds before boarding the MV Silver Explorer The Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Mr. Colin Martin-Reynolds has visited...

For Sale: Take a look inside the stunning top floor red sandstone 4-bedroom Hyndland flat for £379,000

This stylish four-bedroom top floor flat is held within a beautifully maintained red sandstone tenement on arguably one of the most sought after streets in Glasgow’s West End. Listed on Rightmove, this expansive apartment on Falkland Street offers...

World’s first global circumnavigation with autonomous robotic submarine launched

A robotic submarine is set to embark on a long journey to circumnavigate the globe. Called Redwing, the underwater robotic glider is being launched from Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The project named Sentinel Mission is being conducted by...

In A World First, Autonomous Underwater Robot Sets Off On Mission To Circumnavigate The Globe

A robot has just set off on its mission to complete the first-ever global circumnavigation with an autonomous underwater vehicle. The self-gliding sub launched on the morning of October 10 from the docks of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...

Irish Examiner view: Maintaining our humanity in the era of smartphone wars

It is often proclaimed that Vietnam was the first ‘television war’, and that the impact of scenes of carnage and mass destruction broadcast daily into the homes of peace-loving people around the world — and in particular the living rooms of...

I joined Labour to fight against Margaret Thatcher, but she got some things right

HOW many of today’s politicians will be provoking fierce arguments more than 30 years after leaving office and a decade after their death? Love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher had a bigger impact on the last 50 years than anyone else in...

Self-piloting submarine set to begin historic mission to circle Earth’s oceans

An autonomous submersible named Redwing is heading out on a truly historic voyage. If successful, it will achieve the first around-the-world ocean trip made by an unpiloted underwater vehicle. Marine engineering company Teledyne Marine and...

Underwater Autonomous Glider Departs for First-Ever Global Circumnavigation

Using Teledyne’s Redwing, the most advanced commercial subsea glider ever developed, the near five-year Sentinel Mission departs on October 10, 2025, following a ceremony at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), which operates the second...

Submersible Begins Round-the-World Journey

Woods Hole sees a constant stream of ferries and boats traveling to and from its shores each day. But on Friday, the town will provide a launchpad for something a little more unusual: an autonomous underwater vehicle that scientists hope will be...

US researchers launch historic first circumnavigation with autonomous vehicle

Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University are launching an autonomous underwater vehicle on a first-ever, five-year global mission to collect data for ocean scientists. Teledyne’s Redwing, the most advanced commercial subsea glider ever developed,...

SWRD to AKD: From mastery to marginality in foreign policy

Dodges BRICS, SCO, Beijing parade; meets Japan’s Emperor SWRD Bandaranaike, first Ceylonese head of government to address UNGA, Nov 1956 SWRD with President Eisenhower at the White House The JVP-NPP’s Goebbelsian lie of a 76-year-old,...

Galamsey, chiefs, and the fatal illusion of state control: Why Ghana must return power to the people -Manaseh Mawufemor Mintah writes

Across the world, the most enduring conflicts are about land, not merely as territory, but as a means of ancestry, identity, and survival. From Gaza to Kashmir, from Crimea to the Falkland Islands, whoever controls land determines the destiny of...

World-first: Underwater Autonomous Glider to circumnavigate the globe

Newswise — In a world-first for marine science and technology, Teledyne Marine in collaboration with Rutgers University-New Brunswick, will conduct a pioneering mission to circumnavigate the globe with an autonomous underwater glider. Using...

Bird Soaring Below a Total Solar Eclipse Wins 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year

“The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring” by Liron Gertsman, Canada, Bird Photographer of the Year and Gold, Birds in Flight Magnificent Frigatebird, Fregatta magnificens. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico “After well over a year of planning and about a week...

Fictional journalists and the missed opportunities of The Hack

Early in The Ploughman’s Lunch, the Ian McEwan-penned Falklands-era film about Fleet Street, TV Journalist Susan Barrington is recounting a moral compromise that had helped get her where she is. “I realised there were two paths I could go down,”...

BBC Z-Cars and Netflix The Crown star dies as tribute issued to 'extraordinary actor'

John Woodvine (left) as Admiral of the Fleet Sir Terence Lewin in The Falklands Play(Image: BBC) A statement has been issued to confirm the sad news that veteran actor John Woodvine has died aged 96. The actor was renowned for his role as...

Galamsey, Chiefs, and the Fatal Illusion of State Control: Why Ghana must return power to the people

Across the world, the most enduring conflicts are about land, not merely as territory, but as a means of ancestry, identity, and survival. From Gaza to Kashmir, from Crimea to the Falkland Islands, whoever controls land determines the destiny of...

Book review: Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder by Aled Eirug

Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder. Published by University of Wales Press Desmond Clifford If Plaid Cymru is in government after next year’s election, Dafydd Elis-Thomas will be among those to whom the party owes a debt of gratitude. Plaid was...

Bowie, Diana and Thatcher: Work of the late Times photographer Brian Harris

Brian Harris was the youngest staff photographer at The Times when he joined the title at the age of 24 and covered news and sport, at home and abroad. During a career spanning 55 years he documented the famine in Ethiopia, civil war in Rhodesia...