A row has broken out over Transport for London’s plan to award a £1.5bn contract to an arms firm to run its ticketing system. But, setting aside the political arguments about the other business ...

It’s a Wednesday night in central London – the music is blaring, the cocktails are flowing and the room is packed with stylish 20-somethings looking for a good time. But they’re not here for a ...

When you start feeling strongly about chess, sooner or later, you develop a style, the same way writers develop a voice, writes Vidya Krishnan. On a splendid November afternoon in Goa, I watched ...

Classrooms can be overwhelming so some schools are taking a different approach which researchers say lowers heart rates and noise levels and improves focus - they've headed outside. "The noise inside ...

The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by US-based Avika Shukla, offers free, structured chess training to girls with no ...

R Praggnanandhaa has secured a berth for the 2026 Candidates Chess. After finishing as the joint-winner at the London Chess Classic Open, he is set to finish at the summit of the FIDE Circuit ...

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The Uzbek shone at London Classic and a near-3000 tournament performance reaffirmed his place among world’s best This week’s XTX London Classic at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium took place in an elegant ...

Following a year of significant financial, workforce and operational challenges, hospital and health system CEOs are redefining leadership and adopting new mindsets and approaches to meet today’s ...

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Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

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