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Lab leak or not? How politics shaped the battle over Covid’s origin

New York Times: Lab leak gains traction, even as evidence builds virus came from market.

When cancer upends your sex life: ‘The fact I would even ask felt shameful’

NY Times: Cancer can devastate women's sexual function. It's hard to find help, many say.

Inside the payoff to a porn star that could lead to Trump’s indictment

New York Times: Trump may become first former president ever to be criminally indicted.

‘Our walls shook’: Nuns forced out of New York monastery by raucous partying

New York Times: Ten nuns cloistered in Brooklyn for almost 20 years have had enough.

Trades Hall bombing: Chief suspect dies in cold case, police interview revealed

Inside Trades Hall bombing nearly 40 years on.

Clive Matthew-Wilson: Why road safety campaigns don’t prevent crashes

A road safety campaigner wants more median barriers to protect Kiwi drivers from "yobbos".

Revealed: Hospital wait lists are getting worse - and a fix could be three years away

Dramatic reductions in wait list times won’t occur until 'at least' 2025: officials.

Why the real King Charles is complicated - by royal insiders

Times: How is Charles going to shape up? Kind and dutiful? Or irascible and insecure?

Wasted: The massive environmental cost of single-use vapes

FT: Disposable vapes are creating a whole new problem: tonnes of electronic waste.

Margaret Atwood on life as a widow: ‘He’s still with me - not in the usual way’

Times: Margaret Atwood on her life, her partner and book bannings in America.

How I exposed Alexei Navalny’s poisoners and fell foul of Putin

Times: Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins uncovers crimes when security services fail.

How a Saudi prince lost a $480 million ‘London palace’

Financial Times: The sale has opened a rare window on the top end of the property market.

Trump, vowing ‘retribution’, foretells a second term of spite

New York Times: Planning is already underway should Trump win the White House again.

When clothes come off, this intimacy coordinator steps in

New York Times: Jessica Steinrock's first gig? A 40-person orgy scene.

A 120-year-old company is leaving Tesla in the dust

NYT Opinion: 'Tesla had me convinced, for a while, that it was a cool company.'

Can TikTok convince the world it is not a tool for China?

Financial Times: The app faces a fight for its future as spying fears escalate.