News of 16 October 2026

Culture

The world's libraries: domes, shelves and silence

From Paris to Dublin, Melbourne to Adelaide, the architecture of reading rooms.

News

Timelapse captures a night-long lightning storm

A towering storm cloud behind the mountains lit up the sky with dozens of strikes a minute.

Business

The quiet bill of a dozen subscriptions

Small automatic payments rarely feel like spending, yet together they have become one of the least examined lines in the household budget.

Lifestyle

Autumn arrives in the city: streets in gold, orange and red

From parks to boulevards, the city has taken on the warm colours of the season.

News

Give the pavement back to the people who walk on it

Squeezed by parked cars, signposts and clutter, the humble pavement is the most honest measure of how much a city values its people.

Lifestyle

Morning high tide pounds the shore as gulls stand their ground

Waves rolled up the pebble beach at sunrise while two gulls barely moved.

Technology

Our notifications are renting out our attention

Each buzz of the phone looks harmless, but our scattered attention has become the raw material of someone else's business model.