The choice is out of his hands

Howard Shore’s score became an elevated soundtrack to my daily life. Hearing it played live, I realise it is also a soundtrack for our times

Treating the issue as a political football is the worst thing that can happen

Its deal to buy Infowars still requires sign off from a judge

Tom Junod’s memoir is a portrait of his philandering dad and a study of what it means to be a man

Despite its feats, a future moon landing is still a while away

Last year, a YouTuber attempted to reach an uncontacted tribe on the remote island of North Sentinel, an area that is out of bounds for everyone else on the planet. His bid for content may have been audacious, and illegal, but it's just the latest in a long line of misguided foreigners attempting to make contact. But do these individuals represent the greatest threat to the tribe? And what do we as a planet stand to lose if contact is made?

One of the most popular podcasts on the planet features people telling Tom Rosenthal the most intimate details of their lives. The conversations are quietly revolutionary

Iran’s allies could close a second maritime chokepoint

The former nurse has been enthroned as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury

¡Hola Papi! began as a joke on Grindr and morphed into a column with much wider appeal – until its creator decided he wanted more freedom

The US also has limited control over what Iran does next

Billionaire Jim Irsay assembled an astonishing archive of artefacts – from Beatles memorabilia to Kerouac’s On the Road scroll. Now, after it went under the hammer in New York, its future is uncertain

After the White House says it has obliterated 90 sites on Iran’s oil hub, Kharg island, the regime retaliates by issuing threats against a neighbour’s non-US assets for the first time

In Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence, the regime’s top brass are out in force

A merger with Paramount could make next year’s ceremony look very different

Releasing emergency oil buys more time – but not nearly enough

Hotels have been struck and three people have died. But social media is flooded with posts attesting to the city’s safety

The death of Ayatollah Khamenei alone will not dislodge the Islamic Republic

As part of our occasional series, we examine a Premier League club in detail