News of 16 October 2026
7 stories
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The world's libraries: domes, shelves and silence
From Paris to Dublin, Melbourne to Adelaide, the architecture of reading rooms.
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Timelapse captures a night-long lightning storm
A towering storm cloud behind the mountains lit up the sky with dozens of strikes a minute.
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The quiet bill of a dozen subscriptions
Small automatic payments rarely feel like spending, yet together they have become one of the least examined lines in the household budget.
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Autumn arrives in the city: streets in gold, orange and red
From parks to boulevards, the city has taken on the warm colours of the season.
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Give the pavement back to the people who walk on it
Squeezed by parked cars, signposts and clutter, the humble pavement is the most honest measure of how much a city values its people.
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Morning high tide pounds the shore as gulls stand their ground
Waves rolled up the pebble beach at sunrise while two gulls barely moved.
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Our notifications are renting out our attention
Each buzz of the phone looks harmless, but our scattered attention has become the raw material of someone else's business model.
