‘We will be ready, inshallah’: inside Qatar’s $200bn World Cup

Can the richest country in the world buy its way to footballing glory? We joined the Qatar 2022 hopefuls to find out

The beauty of bikes – redesigning two wheels

The bicycle’s technical evolution and symbolic power are soon to be celebrated in Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum

Cristiano Ronaldo film captures giant ego and strange, lonely world of being CR7

Ronaldo’s rivalry with Messi and extraordinary self-regard are to the fore in this vanity project but the suffering his success has brought his mother and the forward’s sheer competitive drive also catch the eye

Garance Doré on what makes the French so chic: ‘Elegance is refusal’

The fashion icon and daughter of immigrants grew up in Corsica and made it to the top of the fashion world. One thing is certain: she’s not going back to France

How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction

Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.

Above par: why luxury golf buggies are taking to the road

Thousands of pounds are being spent customising golf carts, which are fast becoming the vehicle of choice for the elderly and middle-aged – and not just on the putting green