Kaya Burgess
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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Brexit makes work a struggle for British priests in Europe
The Bishop in Europe, the Right Rev Robert Innes, has said the UK is struggling to send priests to work in Europe due to Brexit. → Read More
Nuclear bombs to save Earth from killer asteroids
It is a plot for Hollywood: how do you stop an asteroid hurtling towards Earth and wiping out humankind?Space agencies have proved that you can deflect an aster → Read More
Why the UK’s first space rocket launch failed
The first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from British soil failed due to a “premature shutdown”, Virgin Orbit has said. → Read More
Justin Welby condemns Putin and Lavrov’s lies about Russian atrocities
Standing by a row of makeshift wooden crosses beneath the ruins of a bridge blown up during the bloody battle of Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of his “great grief” at the death toll from the Russian invasion of Ukraine today. He also called on Vladimir Putin and → Read More
EM Forster fans want park plans at author’s country home to end
In EM Forster’s Howards End, Margaret tries to recapture “the sense of space which the motor had robbed from her”. More than a century later, a similar ba → Read More
Universe’s biggest ever explosion came from black hole’s birth cry
Astronomers have spotted the largest explosion ever detected in the universe, a blast so colossal that its energy swept over the Earth this month and affected o → Read More
Fake kidnapping and Twitter bots: how ethnic violence flared in Leicester
His knife glinting in the darkness, the hooded young man slipped down the usually quiet residential street. More than a dozen others ran past a row of Hindu hom → Read More
Scattered far and wide, the royal burial places
In almost a millennium since the reign of Edward the Confessor, two thirds of the monarchs in Britain have been buried in only two locations. Twenty-eight ha → Read More
Queen Elizabeth II dies: King Charles III heads for London before addressing nation — follow latest
Her Majesty the Queen has died at Balmoral, surrounded by her family → Read More
Justin Welby: I’ll lead the church until I retire — if I’m healthy and people are happy with me
Justin Welby has said he will stay in post as Archbishop of Canterbury until he reaches retirement age in 2026 if he remains in good health and “people are happ → Read More
Is the James Webb Space Telescope really a time machine?
Why is the James Webb Space Telescope referred to as a “time machine”?Light travels at about 670 million miles per hour. It takes eight minutes for light from t → Read More
Diocese of London chief charged over ‘missing £5m’
A former church official has been charged over the alleged disappearance of about £5 million from the Diocese of London.Police said in May that a 52-year-old m → Read More
Prince Charles: World at crossroads between liberalism and totalitarianism
Right to freedom of religion must be upheld, prince tells hundreds of faith leaders meeting in London → Read More
Ten things we learnt from Glastonbury 2022
Times writers on the good, the bad and the weird of the festival weekend → Read More
Rail strike is no problem with Bike to Glasto scheme
They had to cycle, fly and drive, but thousands of fans have beaten the rail strikes to make it to the first Glastonbury festival in three years.Record numbers → Read More
‘Immoral’ Rwanda policy shames Britain, say archbishops
The entire senior leadership of the Church of England has denounced plans to deport migrants to Rwanda as an “immoral policy that shames Britain”.The archbisho → Read More
Chemist explains why staging deaths was such a problem for Shakespeare
If Shakespeare is to be believed, pouring poison into a rival’s ear or pressing a venomous snake to your breast are quick and efficient ways to end a life.A chemist has found, however, that the Bard got some of his most famous deaths wrong.The murder of Hamlet’s father, the suicide of Cleopatra and → Read More
Monkeypox: what is it and should we be worried?
What is monkeypox?The illness is caused by a virus from the Orthopoxvirus family, the same family as the smallpox virus, though monkeypox is much less deadly than smallpox. It is a zoonotic virus which means it can jump from animals to humans, but can also in rare cases be passed between humans. It → Read More
Plants grown in lunar soil for the first time
Plants have been grown in soil from the moon for the first time, using samples brought back by astronauts including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.The experime → Read More
Fast track into priesthood for retired city workers, head teachers and police
Retirement is the start of a fresh chapter for many, offering a new lease of life to travel the world, pursue hobbies, hang out with the grandchildren or, for a → Read More