The Sunday Times Magazine - UK (2021-12-12)

His first breakthrough came when an influential headmaster from a highly regarded community-run high school in Kabul sent his da ...

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North Gate Main entrance Kabul international airport and were seizing control. “Just like that everything changed,” Sepehra says ...

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For a few of the students that was the moment they felt overwhelmed. “You forget they are just teenagers in this situation,” Ahm ...

with an alert: now they were in Spain. “I called my sister and said, ‘I am in Spain now!’ ” Diana says. “And she said, ‘Seriousl ...

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The faraway trees Africa’s baobabs can live for more than 2,000 years — but now many of the largest are dying. The photographer ...

W ith their elephantine looks, Africa’s baobab trees are a wonder of nature. They are the world’s oldest flowering plants — or a ...

Above: near Ankoabe, Tsitakakantsa — “the tree where one cannot hear the song from the other side” — measures 94ft in circumfere ...

avicii at u The boy who flew too close to the sun ...

To his fans he was Avicii — the superclub-filling megastar DJ. To his parents he was shy Tim. In 2018 he took his own life. His ...

suicide? Klas had never considered the possibility. “It’s obvious there were things I didn’t see,” he says. Born in Stockholm in ...

went on to work with megastars including Rodgers, Madonna, Chris Martin and Wyclef Jean. He was nominated for two Grammys. Not b ...

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conducted business meetings from his bed. The once meticulous DJ performances had turned careless, playing the same track over a ...

The TV presenter Miquita Oliver didn’t know her bottom-shelf plonk from her upscale pinot ... HOW TO BE A WINE CONNOIS ...

SSEUR: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE ... now, with the help of our wine critic, Will Lyons, and their new podcast, she’s finding her palate ...

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