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• Obituary: Judith Kerr died on May 23rd
• A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts
• Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
• Internalising the externalities
• What happens if Ukraine loses?
• April Ashley campaigned for rights hardly considered before
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
• Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister
• As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump's allies hint at retribution
• The weekly cartoon
• China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
• Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves
• The biggest losers from Trumponomics
• The covid-19 pandemic will be over by the end of 2021, says Bill Gates
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
• The foreigners fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin
• A film about Argentina's history sheds light on its politics today
• Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
• This week's cover
• AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
• Venezuela's autocrat launches a massive corruption probe
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• Nissan and Honda officially announce plans to merge
• Millions of African-Americans remain stuck
• Lauren Boebert's primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
• TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'A place to heal': Native tribes urge Biden to protect sacred lands before leaving White House
• Renovation required
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• Want to win an argument? Use a chatbot
• The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youth
• For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
• What makes a good manager?
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• The house-price supercycle is just getting going
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Extrude - Analyse Binaries For Missing Security Features, Information Disclosure And More...
• From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
• Sea ice in Antarctica is at its lowest-ever level, again
• Stephen Sondheim wanted to explore a new world every time
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Politics
• Business
• The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• Four charts that highlight this summer's freakish temperatures
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Politics
• Wind turbines keep getting bigger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indians are going gooey over dogs
• How China's political clans might determine its future
• Laws to catch human-rights abusers are growing teeth
• After Northvolt's failure, who will make Europe's EV batteries?
• Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
• The 7 Best Photography Books of 2024
• Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last
• Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
• When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
• The ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah holds, for now
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
• Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
• Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
• Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
• Can dealmaking save Intel?
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Britain's birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
• Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 have also fended off flu
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• Catherine Hamlin died on March 18th
• Visualising India's record-breaking rainfall
• Agitu Gudeta was killed on December 29th
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• Latin America's new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
• Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• The ever-expanding Middle East war
• Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mix
• Do Israel's assassinations work?
• Politics
• A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Family tensions can run high over Christmas. Here's how to make things a little easier | Becca Bland
• Hyundai will offer its EV customers free NACS adapters starting next year
• Alfonso Cuarón Subverted Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Now He's Coming for TV
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU's pantomime villain
• The woman who will lead Chile's counter-revolution
• Please Don't Take Moral Advice from ChatGPT
• Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course
• 'The Syrian regime hit us with chemical weapons: only now can we speak out' – video
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• A Nigerian's guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
• A year of war in Ukraine, in maps
• Hong Kong Shares Edge Lower, Weighed by Consumer Stocks
• The far right has captured Israel's police
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Francisco Lopera's travels in the Andes began to solve a great mystery
• Vietnam's ruling communists rush to fill the country's top jobs
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• The British government fudges its employment-rights bill
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• Public Radio's Favorite Live Sessions of 2024
• Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?
• Blighty newsletter: Labour is demolishing the Tories' pet projects
• Tesla is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles over a tire pressure monitor issue
• Giving a kidney to a stranger? Researchers call it 'extraordinary altruism'
• Has private credit's golden age already ended?
• László Bogdán died on July 14th
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Worldwide covid-19 is causing a new form of collective trauma
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• Will Europe ease up on big tech?
• Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
• China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A fresh Russian push will test Ukraine severely, says a senior general
• The 2010s are glorified by gen Z. But the 'indie music' of that era was unoriginal | Jamie Peck
• As the Mastermind of Far-Right 'Active Clubs' Goes to Prison, His Violent Movement Goes Global
• How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
• A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona's elections
• Why does BHP want Anglo American?
• Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine's battlefield hospitals
• The pandemic has prompted questions about high-stakes exams
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
• Barbarians on the porch
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• James Randi died on October 20th
• Politics
• Best Internet Providers in Warren, Michigan
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• New cures for Africa's most gruesome diseases
• Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
• Will US-Indian relations be hurt by India's assassination scheme?
• Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
• The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
• Milkha Singh died on June 18th
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• OpenAI Upgrades Its Smartest AI Model With Improved Reasoning Skills
• The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine's spies remain lethal
• The Netherlands' new hard-right government is a mess
• Guardian reporter at the scene of the burnt tomb of Assad's father – video
• Javier Milei is splurging on the army
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• The UN renews its vows in a 75th-birthday general non-assembly
• Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
• Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced
• KAL's cartoon
• Even before covid-19, nightclubs were struggling
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
• Israeli aircraft buzz Beirut as the drums of war bang loud
• Governing the atmosphere
• 'Attention spans are short. People want that dopamine hit': Jordan Adetunji, the Belfast boy gunning for Grammys glory
• Blighty newsletter: Mind the budget gap
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How sports gambling became ubiquitous
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 9 Best Indoor Security Cameras (2024): For Homes and Apartments
• The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• Joe Biden quits the race, at last. What's next?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future
• Football clubs' revenues rebound from covid—especially in England
• An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters' coach and dad
• Why Britain's Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
• The Supreme Court's term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
• Politics
• What Narendra Modi's third term may look like
• Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
• KAL's cartoon
• Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
• This week's covers
• How Europe closed its borders and betrayed its values – video
• Would you really die for your country?
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• To get more capital, Africa needs more data
• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• Syria's Bashar al-Assad is in mortal danger
• Injured North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine forces, says South Korea
• Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
• Russia's plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jill Biden; Defender-in-chief
• This week's covers
• Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel's Arabs are feeling more Israeli
• How genes work
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
• Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan's cat warrior
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• Obituary: Stephen Cleobury died on November 22nd
• Voters won't thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
• What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
• Chick Corea died on February 9th
• As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
• Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine
• Business
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• Will North Korea's new spy satellite make the region safer?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's?
• Democrats need to understand: Americans think they're worse
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China needs to fill its empty homes
• Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Power Cable to Estonia Is Cut
• Games Workshop Debuts on U.K.'s Bluechip Index
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
• Hungary is becoming more important to China
• India is souping up its nuclear missiles
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Business
• Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction
• Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
• Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
• Nvidia is now the world's most valuable company
• Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
• Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row
• Why America keeps building corrupt client states
• Politics
• America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
• This week's covers
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• The best live TV streaming services to cut cable in 2025
• American Politics Has an Age Problem
• Workouts for the face are a growing business
• These are the most liveable cities in Europe
• Brazil's gangsters have been getting into politics
• H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• A flower's female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
• The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
• In search of resilience
• Ukraine's warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
• Book Review: The Surprising Comeback of Our Least Appreciated Sense
• Israel and Hizbullah play with fire
• The danger zone between two presidents
• How to frame the argument over clean power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The disappearance of China's defence minister raises big questions
• UK gambling with climate targets over carbon capture, say campaigners
• How a CEO knows when to quit
• Woosh Smart Air Filter Review: No More Guessing
• India's consumers are changing how they buy
• The job of Iran's president is a study in humiliation
• KAL's cartoon
• Body of woman found inside property after Norwich house fire
• Latin America could become this century's commodity superpower
• Poker Cheaters Allegedly Use Tiny Hidden Cameras to Spot Dealt Cards
• What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
• Britons vote according to feelings of economic security
• Can bonds keep beating stocks?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The deadly journey to the Gulf
• To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• The great global baby bust is under way
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How NASA Astronauts Celebrated Christmas 250 Miles Above Earth
• Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
• TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese
• Missionary creep
• Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Trump's Pick for NIH Director Could Harm Science and People's Health
• Politics
• Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
• Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air
• Best Standing Desks of 2024
• The war in Gaza is exacerbating Egypt's economic collapse
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• How crises reshaped the world financial system
• Trying to heal the party's wounds
• America's realtor racket is alive and kicking
• Politics
• We're hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
• Entrevista con Javier Milei, presidente de Argentina
• American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
• Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream
• What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?
• This week's covers
• Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. and Israel Attacking Them?
• Xiongan is Xi Jinping's pet project
• Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia?
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China's exports
• From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms' China dreams are dying
• How pop culture went multipolar
• Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump's return
• Is China a winner from the Red Sea attacks?
• Obituary: Mags Portman died on February 6th
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China's annual political meeting
• Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
• Why the world needs negative emissions
• How to trade an election
• Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas's problems
• Donald Trump's legal fees are draining his campaign funds
• Business
• Evidence mounts that Ukrainian forces are in Sudan
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• How the best British employers find and promote their staff
• Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
• From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
• Can Lula fix Brazil's fiscal mess?
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• Terry Anderson was held by Islamic militants for 2,454 days
• Is China really a nation of slackers?
• Can satellite cities help solve Africa's urbanisation challenges?
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• Canoo put employees on a 'mandatory unpaid break' after pausing work at Oklahoma factories this week
• Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?
• John le Carré died on December 12th
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Britain's general election was its least representative ever
• Can the world's most influential business index be fixed?
• 9 Space Images from NASA and Beyond That Stunned in 2024
• The ICJ orders restraint from Israel in Rafah
• Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
• Will Joe Biden's new plan bring relief to Gaza?
• What the history of money tells you about crypto's future
• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
• KAL's cartoon
• Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria's next chancellor
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israel and Hamas look close to some kind of deal
• The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
• Will the economic and psychological costs of covid-19 increase suicides?
• The weekly cartoon
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• Business
• European airlines are on a shopping spree
• Once a free-market pioneer, Sri Lanka takes a leap to the left
• The weekly cartoon
• The booze industry reveals a lot about Kenya
• AMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
• What is the effect of the Supreme Court's affirmative-action ban?
• Larry Kramer died on May 27th
• AMD's CES 2025 press conference: How to watch
• Investors panicked after Mexico's election. Were they right?
• Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
• I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping
• In English local elections Labour won where it needed to
• Premium Indian whisky is booming
• I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• In the Philippines a decades-long conflict nears its endgame
• Kenyan women are fed up with rampant sexual violence
• Business
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• Common sense is not actually very common
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
• The weekly cartoon
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• Obituary: Lyra McKee died on April 18th
• Bird flu virus shows mutations in first severe human infection in US, CDC says
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• The weekly cartoon
• America's college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
• Blighty newsletter: Why phone signal in Britain is awful
• AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
• Pakistan's voters tell the generals where to put it
• Fresh doubts about China's ability to invade Taiwan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket
• Taiwan braces for America's election
• The long goodbye
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• South Korea's suicide rate fell for years. Women are driving it up again
• Latin America is in a mess. But it still has strengths
• Vera Lynn died on June 18th
• KAL's cartoon
• On Independence Day Israel is ripping itself apart
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• China's banks have a bad-debt problem
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Canadians are taking dramatic steps to avoid more ruinous firestorms
• Canada's jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that's over
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
• AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer's managerial chops
• How to fix Britain's barmy VAT regime
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will a new "pact" of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
• What is Britain's Labour government for?
• Latin America's armed forces have increasing clout
• Why Scottish students at Edinburgh University want more support to counter classism
• KAL's cartoon
• Sttr - Cross-Platform, Cli App To Perform Various Operations On String
• This week's cover
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• Inflation usually hits America's poor hardest. Not this time
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Labour is the big beneficiary of Scottish political turmoil
• 'Bad things can happen': how will the world adjust to the Trump presidency?
• Obituary: Huang Yong Ping died on October 20th
• Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• Parlacen, a bizarre parliament, is a refuge for bent politicians
• Britain's Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrants
• Politics
• Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
• How painful will Trump's tariffs be for American businesses?
• A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
• Why young men and women are drifting apart
• Honda, Nissan Plan to Create World's No. 3 Automaker in 2026 Merger
• KAL's cartoon
• Priyanka Gandhi: dynastic scion, and hope of India's opposition
• How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
• Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
• Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Tech's biggest winners in 2024
• Are young people's attention spans really shrinking? It's more complex than you might think | Marion Thain
• Winston Churchill's urinal shows Britain's hang-up with heritage
• Which economy did best in 2024?
• Will China's "green Great Wall" save it from encroaching sands?
• Business
• Women's (in)justice in India
• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• Will China save the planet or destroy it?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• This week's covers
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
• How Yahya Sinwar's death will change the Middle East
• A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Terry O'Neill died on November 16th
• European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Obituary: Jane Withers was the antidote to cuteness
• Ganga Stone died on June 2nd
• Nordstrom Family Reaches $4 Billion Deal to Take Retailer Private
• The new order of trade
• The wisdom in calling Donald Trump weird
• The search for Ukraine's missing soldiers and sailors
• Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
• How a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for 'Pig Butchering' Scammers
• Bhutan prays it can be India's Hong Kong
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India's election
• Austria's xenophobic right edges towards victory
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Conflict is remaking the Middle East's economic order
• Should you buy expensive stocks?
• How to Give Your Old TV a Second Life
• By 2100 half the world's children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
• Blighty newsletter: Labour's approach to levelling up
• Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses
• Can potholes fuel populism?
• Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
• Business
• Economic and financial indicators
• Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global
• Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?
• How China sees Gaza
• Quebec elects François Legault's fiercely nationalist party
• Another African war looms
• Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh?
• Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
• New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
• Who could replace Narendra Modi?
• Will the World's First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here's Why We're Skeptical
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• India's civil society is under attack
• Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
• Thailand was EIU's most improved democracy of 2022
• British MPs vote in favour of assisted dying
• The Bald Eagle Is (Finally) the National Bird of the United States
• The horrors of the reply-all email thread
• Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
• After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
• Why GM crops aren't feeding Africa
• KAL's cartoon
• Sudan's football team wants to reach the World Cup
• How will Labour reform Britain's public services?
• What a second Trump presidency will bring
• AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
• An American-backed foreign force may be sent to Haiti
• Tiny hitchhikers on viruses could promote resistance to antibiotics
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention
• Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issues
• Can Israel afford to wage war?
• Comex Gold, Silver Settle Higher
• Where democracy is most at risk
• What Israel's killing of aid workers means for Gaza
• How King Charles III counts his swans
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• A new "quartet of chaos" threatens America
• Senate Republicans flex their independence
• What Russia's budget reveals about the war in Ukraine
• Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• Pablo Milanés, a great musician and a critic of Cuba's regime, has died
• Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards
• Is the world economy in a debt trap?
• Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
• Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• Can Japan's zombie bond market be brought back to life?
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
• Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
• China's young want to work. For the government
• Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• Plane Crash Investigators Look at Russian Antiaircraft Systems
• How Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would govern Brazil
• How an amateur football league in China took off
• Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
• Manchester United 'just have to survive' says Ruben Amorim after Wolves loss
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• Why Kamala Harris's chances of victory just jumped
• The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
• The fight to dethrone the dollar
• Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
• The death penalty is disappearing in America
• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
• How America learned to love tariffs
• Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• Business
• The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordial
• The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis's last big act
• America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
• America's university graduates live much longer than non-graduates
• The favourite in Indonesia's presidential election has a sordid past
• Can markets reduce pollution in India?
• Why China's confidence crisis goes unfixed
• It Was a Record Year for Dating Apps. They Still Don't Have It Figured Out
• Kamala Harris lacks charisma and time
• Peru's crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
• At the state level, democracy in America is fracturing
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An assassination attempt against Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico
• George Shultz died on February 6th
• The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China
• Baby Driver actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies after fall from moving vehicle
• The Guardian's top 10 female footballers in the world 2024 – video
• Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum's energy plan
• Chinese overcapacity is crushing the global steel industry
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• How swamp, olive and brat came to rule 2024
• If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• At a UN review, China basks in the flattery of friendly countries
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• This week's cover
• Martial law in South Korea—and then not. What comes next?
• Politics Weekly UK is on holiday
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• KAL's cartoon
• If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
• Music Can Thrive in the AI Era
• The best ways to spend your $50 gift card
• The seats where Labour is concentrating its campaign firepower
• NASA insists that two astronauts are not "stranded" in space
• An Ivy League graduate is charged over Brian Thompson's murder
• Trump tells 37 people on death row with commuted sentences to 'go to hell'
• A changed world
• Earthquake fears loom large in Istanbul's mayoral race
• A string of setbacks for the junta in Myanmar presents an opportunity
• Apple's App Store Puts Kids a Click Away From a Slew of Inappropriate Apps
• Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
• Obituary: Jonathan Miller died on November 27th
• Scottish roundup: Celtic go 12 points clear as Rangers slump at St Mirren
• China's probe returns from the far side of the moon
• Bob Dylan Broke Rules. A Complete Unknown Follows Them.
• Politics
• The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats' party
• Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang