France’s first lady has attracted extraordinary scrutiny. Does a quiet subversive lie behind the silent smile?

Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s most dogged and controversial journalist. Last year she was murdered. Alexander Clapp travelled to the island to find out why

Adnan Sarwar went from praying in the mosques of Burnley to patrolling the streets of Basra. Fifteen years on, he remembers the sun, sex and bomb disposal

Simon Willis meets the gangling giant aspiring to be a grand-slam monster

For decades scientists aspired to modify the code of life. Tom Whipple meets Jennifer Doudna, who succeeded

Aisha left her family to go and work for a stranger halfway across the world. Her employer, Moni Mohsin, tells her extraordinary story

Ahmed Mater and Ashraf Fayadh were best friends. One is now Saudi Arabia’s most illustrious artist and cultural commissar. The other languishes in a dark prison. Nicolas Pelham charts their rise and fall

Is learning to code in middle age a fool’s errand or a committed act of digital citizenship?

Meghan Markle’s marriage to Prince Harry will make her an A-list star. But her most important role, say Emma Duncan and Valentine Low, will be to bolster the royal family