Feb 5, 2010 · A t a canteen in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him, not out of concern but in the hope of acquiring extra food. Leningrad under siege was a pitiless place. Two in five people succumbed in the first winter and the streets were littered with...

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On the first day of his second term as US president, Donald Trump described Gaza as a ‘phenomenal location on the sea’. Living in a tent close to the beach in southern Gaza, my friend Marwa has had her request for permission to travel to the north, to visit her elderly mother, denied three times for ‘security’ reasons.

Jan 31, 2025 · They practised in bursts of ten seconds at a fixed tempo, repeating thirty bursts every morning and afternoon. Regular tests, in which they tried to play the trill as quickly and accurately as they could, confirmed that after early improvement – shaving about a hundredth of a second off the initial gap between the notes – their ability plateaued.

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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin. Sceptre, 360 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 3997 1455 6

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P oor Don. He thought it would be an easy golf-cart ride back to the White House, rolling over the recumbent body of Sleepy Joe. Then the Dems pulled a switcheroo and suddenly he was faced with a middle-of-the-roader without much of a damaging paper trail, whose demeanour was the unlikely combination of tough prosecutor and warm human.