The Kindness of Strangers: On the Plane I Was Overwhelmed with Grief, Then a Passenger Let Me Rest My Head on His Shoulder

I was leaving behind my friends and family and contending with the loss of my beloved dad. When I boarded, I really fell apart.

How a sketch of an unknown woman found in a Georgia swamp revealed a twisted case of death and deception

Updated on: March 8, 2026 / 7:29 AM EDT / CBS News

Tim Dowling: it’s time for my humiliating private tour with the builder

I have to show him all the jobs that I have either left undone or tried to do and made worse

Why are cats’ ears on top of their head and not at the sides? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes

‘Would you like me to cry now?’: Louis Theroux on the manosphere, marriage and misunderstandings

He’s television’s most daring documentary-maker, known for asking questions others wouldn’t. But Theroux doesn’t seem to like it when the tables are turned

Six great reads: how to get a pay rise, Catherine Opie’s images of queer America, and the influencers saving pubs

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

My cultural awakening: a Rihanna song showed me how to live as a gay man in Iran

My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself

My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly

George Santos Was Inevitable

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Judy Blume Never Stops

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Two Kinds

A short story

Why Kids Like 'Parenting' Their Toys

The enduring appeal of toys that need to be fed, changed, and rocked like human babies may be rooted in children’s desire to act like grown-ups.