Owners of vineyards in the Bekaa valley are focused more on Israeli air strikes than this year’s vintage. How are these family-run businesses coping?

In September Elias Maalouf and his father were sitting in Chateau Rayak, the family winery in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon, when they decided to head home for a lunch break. Five minutes later an Israeli jet dropped a bomb on a house across the street, crushing the three-storey building and destroying much of the winery.

“If we hadn’t left we would have died,” said 41-year-old Maalouf, sitting in the winery as repair workers replaced a shattered television five months later. The doors had blown in from the force of the blast and shattered glass had rained down on the table where he now sat, the wood of the furniture still pockmarked from shrapnel.

Next week Jes Staley will challenge his ban from the City in a case that will reveal his conversations with the disgraced financier

Former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is about to take a major risk.

Nearly two and a half years after he was banned from the City for allegedly lying about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the former banking boss is hoping to convince judges to overturn the reputation-shattering ruling.

Next week Jes Staley will challenge his ban from the City in a case that will reveal his conversations with the disgraced financier

Former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is about to take a major risk.

Nearly two and a half years after he was banned from the City for allegedly lying about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the former banking boss is hoping to convince judges to overturn the reputation-shattering ruling.

Seven people have been arrested over ‘horrific’ death of Sam Nordquist, 24. A similar case in Wyoming once helped fuel the LGBTQ+ rights movement

A body discarded in a field. Cold weather. Signs of torture.

So far, seven people have been charged with the murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black transgender man who was tortured and murdered in western New York state last month. It was a case that Capt Kelly Swift of the state police’s bureau of criminal investigation said was “one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated”.

Seven people have been arrested over ‘horrific’ death of Sam Nordquist, 24. A similar case in Wyoming once helped fuel the LGBTQ+ rights movement

A body discarded in a field. Cold weather. Signs of torture.

So far, seven people have been charged with the murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black transgender man who was tortured and murdered in western New York state last month. It was a case that Capt Kelly Swift of the state police’s bureau of criminal investigation said was “one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated”.

Nice may be at the heart of France’s upmarket Mediterranean coast, but violent drug gangs making €1.5m a month are colonising part of it

The sight of the gun tucked into the man’s trousers told us it was time to go. We had been in one of France’s most notorious estates for several hours, trying to understand life on the frontline of the country’s spiralling drug war.

Seeing three people he did not know and a camera, he decided enough was enough. “You, where do you live?” he said, rushing towards us from the foot of a tower block where he had parked his scooter. “Don’t talk back to me, I’ll break your head in. Get out of here.”