US military This article is more than 3 months oldUS navy sailor pleads guilty to accepting $15,000 in bribes from ChinaThis article is more than 3 months oldIn plea deal, Wenheng ‘Thomas’ Zhao admits providing information on exercises, operational orders and blueprints A US navy sailor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to accepting nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for photographs of unclassified private US military information, according to court papers.

Reclaim your brainWell actuallyThe apps on our phones are designed to be addictive, but if we recognize what is happening, we can claw back our free time Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone It was 3.30 in the morning when I realized I needed to break up with my phone. I was holding my baby in my arms as I scrolled through eBay, feeling a bit delusional with fatigue, when I had a brief out-of-body experience in which I saw the scene as if I were an outsider.

Attica LockeReviewOil an murder mix on a Texan bayouSome novels never quite recover from the brilliance of their opening chapters. The screenwriter Attica Locke's debut is one of them, but it's still a powerful and skilfully constructed conspiracy thriller – Chinatown without the air of despairing fatalism. We're in Houston, Texas in 1981, not long after Reagan's installation in the White House. Jay Porter is a struggling lawyer with a strip-mall practice that mostly handles minor personal injury claims.

Rudyard Kipling This article is more than 13 years oldKipling's poignant Jungle Book inscription comes to lightThis article is more than 13 years oldA first edition, dedicated to the daughter he lost, has been discovered in a National Trust property in CambridgeshireA first edition of The Jungle Book, complete with a handwritten inscription by author Rudyard Kipling to his youngest daughter, has been discovered in a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire.

OpinionReligion This article is more than 8 years oldMy childhood in a cult is hard to imagine - but my survival is truly unbelievableThis article is more than 8 years oldJenna TracyThe ATI cult and the ‘Quiverfull’ movement defined my life, until I was old enough to break away For the longest time, I didn’t know how to explain to people how I grew up. Raised in Minnesota, my family went to a suburban, evangelical church in the Assemblies of God denomination: most people would consider it conservative, but it was more mainstream than where we ended up.