Alexia and Joel, both 80, met in a cafe – within a week they had arranged to live together. A decade later they still do, splitting their time between California and Colorado In 2010, Alexia considered herself “happily single”. Having been married twice, she was enjoying life and in no …

Insurance CEO cited for services to gender equality, while Stephen Hester and Gerald Ronson are also honoured About 25 people have been awarded honours for services to business in the new year honours list, with others working in business cited for other elements of service in public life. Two of …

Turkey also affected by fog, with 10 killed and 57 injured in serious road crash involving three buses During the Christmas period, parts of South America experienced intense showers and thunderstorms, resulting in substantial rainfall in various regions. On Monday, more than 100mm of rain fell in the Catamarca province …

From rural bathhouse sims to early-00s internet nostalgia and environmentalist fables – in a year full of brilliant games, our critics pick 33 that may have passed you by Tin Hearts Think Lemmings meets a twinkly Victorian toy box, as fantastical as you’d expect from the people behind Fable. Find …

Mark Harper says vehicles can improve road safety and personal freedom, as autonomous cars face increased scrutiny Autonomous vehicles could be on UK roads as soon as 2026, the transport secretary has said, as ministers seeks to capture as much as £42bn of the international self-driving market within the coming …

Planning authority sees nearly 50% rise in new housing agreements, while protected spaces and green energy projects also increase Planning approvals for new housing reached a five-year record in 2022, according to a new government report, with figures showing that 158,407 housing units were given the go-ahead over the course …

COGAT changes enforcement policy against illegally dug Palestinians wells, after Israel panned over video showing one serving hamlets not connected to grid being filled with cement Israelis on Saturday descended from the flashpoint northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and torched fields belonging to the adjacent Palestinian village of Burin, …

With price highs and transaction lows, securing a property deal seems harder than ever It is easy to rattle off numbers that can turn most homeowners into on-paper millionaires, and convince those who do not yet own a property that they will need to win the lottery to do so. …

It’s the oldest established permanent nonfloating Jewish softball game in Closter Even when the group — not really a team, not quite a league, but a very real thing — was founded, its members were less boys than men in early middle age, and their elastic season now stretches from …

As clock ticks, doctors deliver and perform immediate surgery on 35-week preemie, in bid to preserve her future fertility and hormonal health In a procedure Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem is calling the first case of its kind in the world, doctors saved both ovaries of a premature fetus by …