Culture
The world's libraries: domes, shelves and silence
From Paris to Dublin, Melbourne to Adelaide, the architecture of reading rooms.
16 October 2026
News of 16 October 2026
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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.