A huge oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, stranded years ago, surrounded by sea mines. Anytime soon, it will start leaking, catch fire, explode, or all of the above. Thousands of lives are in danger, an environmental disaster is bound to happen. Nobody is there to stop it.

The thrilling real story of a mysterious figure that haunted the book publishing world. For years, someone tricked agents and publishers into sending them unpublished books — but what for?

This is one of the best magazine pieces I’ve seen in years. It begins with: A death, a diary, and a fight over who gets to read it. It explores the complexities of grief, in language that is raw and detailed and personal and empathetic, and just overall beautiful. A long read, worth every minute (if you prefer to listen, there’s an audio version available).

The Financial Times goes Black Mirror. A single room, two actors, a thrilling short film.

Two fishermen get caught in a storm off the coast of Mexico. The motor of their tiny boat dies, and they start drifting out onto the ocean, with almost nothing on board that could help them survive, let alone get help. More than a year later, the boat reaches an island on the other side of the Pacific. One of the two survived to tell their story. This is their story. Start listening.

By pure chance, two men in their 50s learn that they have been mixed up after birth. A gripping story, and a lifesize question: What does it mean to have lived someone else’s life for more than five decades? Read it now.

This story has everything that makes digital journalism so much better than good old print journalism could ever be. It effortlessly weaves together video, text, data visualisation and photography into an immersive experience. A big issue, told up close by zooming in. We follow two children for a day in their very different lives in New Delhi, all centered around the levels of air pollution they are exposed to. Stunning.

I must have been smiling all the way through this podcast episode, with occasional laughs and increasing excitement over how it will end. A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He remembers the lyrics and the melody, but it is nowhere to be found on the entire internet. A treasure hunt begins, and it’s just…listen to it now, immediately, like drop-everything now.

Imagine this: You have developed a vaccine against Ebola, but no one is interested in bringing it to market — there’s no money to be made. Then, there’s a large outbreak in West Africa, the whole world becomes afraid of Ebola. You do have the vaccine, but it has never been tested with humans. What now? Thanks to some outstanding reporting from STAT, a publication dedicated to life sciences by the Boston Globe Media group, you will find answers. In essence, a story of how our globalised, interconnected world works, for good and bad.