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Recipe: a home cook-friendly lamb biryani from Ambassadors Clubhouse

With a Punjabi-spiced marinade to warm you up

The W New York – Union Square reveals a photogenic new look

Istanbul’s traditional shopkeepers’ cafés: an insider guide

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’

The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up

Spy chief Andrew Shearer: ‘I’ve never seen our agencies so stretched’

A year of Trumpian attacks on the rules-based international order

Lost Lambs — a family on the edge

A sparky comic debut novel from ‘Alt-Lit’ writer Madeline Cash skewers the corrupting effects of capitalism and online life

Polar War — Trump, Greenland and the rising risk of conflict in the Arctic

Kenneth R Rosen offers a timely warning of climate change and melting ice paving the way to military-led land-grabs for resources