As you enter the on-ramp to Third Mainland Bridge (the second longest road bridge in Africa) from Oworonshoki and begin the 7.3-mile journey south over Lagos Lagoon toward Lagos Island, look to the right and you’ll see houses built on stilts, beyond which
Parkland is an affluent city of 30,000 people, 40 miles north of Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Families once moved there for its safe neighbourhoods and good schools. One former mayor said life revolved around its open spaces and fields. It was also one of the safest cities in Florida – but that all changed on Valentine’s Day 2018 at 2.19pm.
Angel Resendiz aka The Railroad Killer criss-crossed the US by freight train in the 80s and 90s, choosing his victims at random, before he was executed by the State of Texas in 2006. Before his death, Resendiz spoke to journalist Alex Hannaford and claimed, on tape, to have killed more than he had taken the blame for.
Anthony Arillotta swapped out his black Ford Expedition SUV for his mother’s Nissan Maxima – less conspicuous, he thought – then started out on the two-hour journey to New York City. It was 11 August, early in the morning, but the sun was shining and it was already warm. He’d been instructed to meet at a restaurant called Nebraska Steakhouse near Arthur Avenue, better known as Little Italy, in the heart of the Bronx.
In this preview of the latest issue of British GQ, out Thursday, David Miliband talks about why the EU is more appealing than ever and what Labour should do next…. David Miliband on remaining invested in Britain despite living abroad. “I take no pleasure in Britain’s embarrassment. Those of us who are outside the country take absolutely no pleasure in the low ebb to which Britain has sunk.
It was a central plank of his election campaign: to build “a big, fat, beautiful wall” 1,000 miles long to combat illegal migration from Mexico. Now, as a caravan of thousands of asylum-seekers approaches, Alex Hannaford travels coast to coast to find out about life on this vast porous border
The armchairs have manacles, dinner is served via tube and there is a detention section so guarded its location is still top secret. Esquire becomes the first UK magazine to go inside the most notorious prison in the world
The world’s most notorious terrorists — the Unabomber, the shoe bomber, soon to be joined by the underwear bomber — live side by side in America’s toughest prison. Yet they never meet. Alex Hannaford investigates life at Colorado’s supermaximum security jail
The drug used to kill inmates on death row - sodium thiopental - has run out. The story of what replaced it is as alarming as it is horrific. GQ goes to Texas and Oklahoma in search of some answers, a trail that leads all the way to the gurney
You can hear the rally before you see it; the sound of shouting in unison, several blocks away, echoing around the centre of this sleepy Texas town nestled in the piney woods half an hour east of Austin, the state capital. When the 50-something-strong crowd emerges, heading towards the county district attorney’s office, everyone is braced against the cold.
These refugees are desperate to make it to Britain. Their perilous journey has taken them across two continents. Many of them, like this man, are willing to risk their lives in the cold waters of the Channel in the hope of a new beginning.
It was the sort of headline impossible to scroll past: “Pot Smokers Find Caged Tiger in Abandoned Houston House, Weren’t Hallucinating: Police.”. Last February, a group of people had snuck into a deserted house in Texas’s largest city to smoke marijuana when they stumbled upon a full-grown tiger in a cage – a cage secured by just a nylon strap and a screwdriver.
As darkness fell over Houston on Tuesday evening, three military helicopters circled above Tidwell Road, while near its intersection with the Sam Houston Tollway, a huge dump truck plowed through the water toward the highway carrying at least seven children to safety in its giant hopper. But Tidwell Road isn't technically a road at all: Since the weekend, it’s become a vast river snaking into the distance.
Charles Pace is the leader of the Branch Davidians, the religious sect in Texas that became infamous when a 51-day standoff with the FBI resulted in more than 80 deaths. Twenty years later, he is preparing his flock for conflict on a different scale.
