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60 stories for“schools”
UAE schools reopen on 31 August. The families who find September easy are not the organised ones, they are the ones who started moving bedtimes while it was still August.
Aug 16, 2026
People start things at the beginning of a week, a month or a school year far more often than at any other moment. Behavioural scientists call it the fresh start effect, and it is worth using deliberately.
Aug 17, 2026
For ten weeks the Gulf empties. In the last fortnight of August it refills, all at once, and the version of the city you got used to disappears in about four days.
Aug 16, 2026
Forty seven states settled with Meta on Wednesday, days into a trial in Oakland. The money is a fraction of one year of revenue. The rest of the deal is a list of product changes: a daily cap for under eighteens, hidden likes, no notifications during school.
Aug 28, 2026
The fair that opened to collectors on Wednesday will now admit the public for one evening only, with ID checks and barriers, after a week of student unrest across France.
Oct 23, 2026
Women’s growing participation is reshaping workplaces, entrepreneurship and the range of role models visible to the next Saudi generation.
Jul 28, 2026
Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are back, Elizabeth Strout is still looking for a first win, and a jury led by Mary Beard names its choice on 9 November. Here is what each book is about.
Nov 6, 2026
Three days before the centenary of Houdini's death, a Texas exhibition shows the books he hoarded: a 1584 witchcraft exposé, a milk can poster and his own scathing notes on a rival author.
Oct 28, 2026
