World newsPakistan prepares for reprisals after Muslim killer is executed in VirginiaPakistani police were on high alert yesterday after the execution in Virginia of a man whose ambush at CIA headquarters came to symbolise rising Muslim anger at the US.
Mir Aimal Kansi, 38, the son of a prominent family from Quetta, western Pakistan, was killed by lethal injection on Thursday night, nearly a decade after he shot dead two CIA employees and wounded three outside the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Decadent days … a detail from Otto Dix’s 1926 portrait of the journalist and poet Sylvia von Harden. Photograph: agefotostock/Alamy/© DACS 2021Decadent days … a detail from Otto Dix’s 1926 portrait of the journalist and poet Sylvia von Harden. Photograph: agefotostock/Alamy/© DACS 2021ArtGermany became a unified state 150 years ago this week – and no other country has produced such original, provocative and powerful art since, from Richter to Klee, from Dix to Höch
My family valuesFamilyInterviewSalma Hayek: My family valuesElaine LipworthThe actor talks about her love of being a wife and homemakerI was privileged to grow up in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico with my parents [Diana, an opera singer, and Sami, an oil company executive] and my younger brother, Sami. It was a close community, we lived near the ocean and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free, playing football on the streets and at the beach.
MLSWill MLS really stop at 30 clubs if Mohamed Mansour, the British-Egyptian billionaire and Conservative party treasurer, is willing to pay a $500m expansion fee for a club in San Diego?
A soccer commissioner, an Egyptian billionaire and a Native American tribal leader walk into a bar. Hmm, let’s try that again. OK, they walked onto a stage in San Diego on Thursday to plant a flag in Major League Soccer’s latest frontier: the city beat Las Vegas to become the 30th team in American soccer’s top division beginning in 2025, after this ownership group paid a record expansion fee of $500m for the privilege.
Meat industry This article is more than 1 year oldWorld’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in USThis article is more than 1 year oldCommitment to building four-storey bioreactors is gamechanger for cultivated meat industry, says expert
The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry.