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'Are you the man in this photograph?'

'Are you the man in this photograph?'

PLUS: AI, incels and a drive across the globe.

'Give him life for just a little bit longer.'

'Give him life for just a little bit longer.'

PLUS: An affair turned bloody, and coming back from the dead.

TLR's 25 for 2025

TLR's 25 for 2025

The best stories that got us through one HELL of a year.

'Red with the blood of these turtles.'

'Red with the blood of these turtles.'

PLUS: A narcissistic 'revolutionary' and losing Libya's loot.

'I have 19 confirmed fatalities.'

'I have 19 confirmed fatalities.'

PLUS: The pancake wars and a doomed space mission.

'Like a bull swatting a fly'

'Like a bull swatting a fly'

PLUS: Texas' famous femme fatale and a witch's quest for revenge.

'I’m not good at much, but I’m good at chemotherapy.'

'I’m not good at much, but I’m good at chemotherapy.'

PLUS: Diving into deep space and a father on a 30-year quest for justice.

'How do you pry yourself loose of the past?'

'How do you pry yourself loose of the past?'

PLUS: A night in The Louvre, autonomy over death, and a lake gone missing.

‘It could have been Hannibal Lecter.’

‘It could have been Hannibal Lecter.’

PLUS: France's missing monarch and the eugenicist roots of birth control pills.

'There's no life left here'

'There's no life left here'

PLUS: A gun for hire, the deepest point on the planet, and a 3% chance of catastrophe.

'People get stabbed here all the time'

'People get stabbed here all the time'

PLUS: Outrunning death, a mythical bird, and an online cult of alleged sexual liberation.

The Demons Among Us

The Demons Among Us

And the Angels They Annihilate: A TLR (Early) Halloween Special

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