5505 Interesting News

• Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
• From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise
• Gretchen Whitmer would like to be America's first woman president
• What is the point of the Lib Dems?
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• A troubled road lies ahead for German carmakers
• Who could replace Narendra Modi?
• Cozzie livs Chrissy: how to celebrate the festive season without breaking the bank
• At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
• A New Captain America Promo Puts the Weight of the World on Sam's Wings
• Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
• Podcasts, politics and the craving for imperfection
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
• What will Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy look like?
• Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
• The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
• Trump's trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
• Will China save the planet or destroy it?
• Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-in-waiting?
• Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
• Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
• Large language models are getting bigger and better
• Did UN workers participate in the October 7th attacks?
• Business
• 'People Are Terrible at This': Why We Suck at Judging the Strength of Knots
• Plankton are much more interesting than you might think
• Brain-boosting substances are all the rage
• Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
• Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria's next chancellor
• Ukraine's European allies are either broke, small or irresolute
• Nigeria seeks to restore pride in its artefacts, ancient and modern
• Shine on: your top 20 jewellery questions answered
• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
• Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
• How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
• Relax Syria sanctions to bring in western oil operators, Gulfsands boss says
• What to do about pets in the office
• Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
• Politics
• Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election
• Ace of bases
• After Merkel
• For those affected by dementia, the pandemic has been especially grim
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The secret to career success may well be off to the side
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nepo babies are taking over the workplace
• Lawrence MacEwen made a tiny island prosper
• Germany's Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers
• In China's "median city" people are surprisingly risk-averse
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• European regulators are about to become more political
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• What is screen time doing to children?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Microbiome treatments are taking off
• Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
• At long last, Europe's economy is starting to grow
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France's prime minister
• Singapore's biggest money-laundering case has links to Chinese gamblers
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Does the vice-president matter in an election?
• Sudan: the war the world forgot
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth
• Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
• China's Communist Party has co-opted ancient music
• For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
• What's next for Britain and the EU?
• "Bonsoir l'Europe!" How languages affect Eurovision scores
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Clean energy's next trillion-dollar business
• A Parasite That Eats Cattle Alive Is Creeping North Toward the US
• Does Dallas offer a vision of America's future?
• The ICJ orders restraint from Israel in Rafah
• Obituary: Jacques Chirac died on September 26th
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?
• When party propaganda falls flat
• Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
• Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• How Africans can stay cool as the climate warms
• TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America
• ABC agrees to give $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle lawsuit
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant
• How to get hired by Donald Trump
• Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
• India's YouTubers take on Narendra Modi
• Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before
• Ethiopia's gambit for a port is unsettling a volatile region
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• The weekly cartoon
• If you've got it, don't flaunt it in Sweden
• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
• KAL's cartoon
• The semiconductor choke-point
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• Labour sweet-talks the public sector
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• South Korea's president survives an impeachment vote
• How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
• Politics
• Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
• A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
• Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
• The power of praise
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Productivity gurus through time: a match-up
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
• The weekly cartoon
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Plants don't have ears. But they can still detect sound
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
• China needs foreign workers. So why won't it embrace immigration?
• AI can predict tipping points before they happen
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
• Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America
• A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas
• Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal "The Scream"
• Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous
• The dominant model of the universe is creaking
• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
• Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
• The fate of America's for-profit colleges hinges on the election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
• To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
• Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
• Business
• Biden survives his "big boy" press conference
• Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indonesia election tracker: Prabowo Subianto wins the presidency
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• The Surprise Clayface Movie Already Has a Release Date
• What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• Britain's aid budget is less generous than it looks
• This week's cover
• Myanmar's military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• Babysitting duties are stressing China's grandparents
• China makes love and war with Taiwan
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• 8 Best Baby Carriers (2024): Wraps, Slings, and Packs
• An alternative use for The Economist's Big Mac index
• The new geishas
• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• Obituary: Harold Bloom died on October 14th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• To Build Electric Cars, Jaguar Land Rover Had to Redesign the Factory
• The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
• Britain's oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker
• Japan's ruling party is in crisis
• Business
• Donald Trump's immigration problem in five charts
• Working-class parents are becoming more like middle-class ones
• American men are getting back to work
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• An Easy Holiday Manicure With a Secret Ingredient
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico's missing people
• America braces for Taiwan's election—and vice versa
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
• Indian cities are utterly unprepared for what is about to hit them
• A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
• Two women are vying to be Mexico's next president
• The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
• The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
• Israel is keeping open the nuclear option
• Where have all America's workers gone?
• Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• New research exposes the role of women in America's slave trade
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
• Business
• Is the return of Donald Trump China's dream or nightmare?
• Gotta lotta bottle: doing the rounds with Britain's last milkmen – photo essay
• Bird Flu Virus Is One Mutation Away from Adapting to Human Cells
• Is coal the new gold?
• Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer
• Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
• How many people have died in Gaza?
• Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
• A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona's elections
• A dream deferred
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• Bangladesh's economic progress may have been hyped
• China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• Covid-19 is spurring the digitisation of government
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Steve Sawyer died on July 31st
• The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
• Shopping Shouldn't Be Instantaneous
• Is India's education system the root of its problems?
• Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
• The story of Britain's "ginaissance"
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• The rise of user-created video games
• What to make of a surprise shake-up in China's nuclear force
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
• Why Donald Trump has moved ahead in our election forecast
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
• Apple's updated MagSafe wireless charger is on sale for $35
• What Donald Trump's 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• How to train your large language model
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• Max Martin knows how to create a number-one hit
• What now for Britain's right-wing parties?
• Investors panicked after Mexico's election. Were they right?
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
• A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
• Business
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• U.S. Natural Gas Futures Retreat From Highs
• Tim Cook Wants Apple to Literally Save Your Life
• How South Korea's president sealed his own downfall
• Britain's last imperialists
• The ticking bomb under Canada's constitution
• Xi Jinping reaches into China's ancient history for a new claim to rule
• The lessons of woke Scrabble
• The urgent need to reform political systems
• A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
• Africa Inc is ready to roar
• What the war in Ukraine means for Asia
• Our constituency poll has awful news for Britain's Tories
• Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
• University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
• South Korea's ban on praising the North is ridiculous
• Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
• China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
• Obituary: Les Murray died on April 29th
• OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
• MAGA types have a point on debanking
• The drug lords' side-hustle: smuggling macaws, jaguars and frogs
• The science that built the AI revolution
• Qatar's World Cup has seen the biggest upsets in recent history
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on April 9th
• How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad
• William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
• Russia's plan to seduce Christians in Africa
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Is the world economy in a debt trap?
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• Why is football in Latin America so complex?
• China's parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping's power
• Izumi Kenta wants to shake up Japan's opposition
• What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy
• Covid-19 is fuelling a Zoom-boom in cosmetic surgery
• This campaign is also demonstrating America's democratic vitality
• Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
• Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
• Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
• How gaga is MAHA?
• Why Iran is hard to intimidate
• South Carolina wants to execute an inmate by firing squad
• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• Audi's Rebrand in China Points to Bigger Changes in the Auto Industry
• Blighty newsletter: How Canada's Conservatives are shaping the Tories
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• This week's cover
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads
• What was the motive of Trump's would-be assassin?
• The trouble with Elon Musk's robotaxi dream
• In China, fib online and find out
• Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
• Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community
• China's message to the global south
• Politics
• Would you put Pete Hegseth second in America's chain of command?
• This week's cover
• Secator - The Pentester'S Swiss Knife
• The notable obituaries of 2023
• Britain's new government may cut the number of Channel crossings
• Should Britons' health be considered a national asset?
• Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
• KAL's cartoon
• Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
• The next threat to commodity supplies will be El Niño
• Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins
• Bangladesh's new ruler is in a race against time
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Choosing party candidates
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• After a year of war, Sudan is a failing state
• Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• The curse of the Michelin star
• The India express
• Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump's return
• How China's political clans might determine its future
• Could Kamikawa Yoko be Japan's next prime minister?
• As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
• Romania is now a magnet for the world's medical students
• Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
• A shock election result in India humbles Narendra Modi
• Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?
• Obituary: Jean "Binta" Breeze spoke for all Jamaican women
• How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
• Can Britain's economy grow as fast as it needs to?
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• Europe's lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
• Nancy Pelosi Has Hip Replacement Surgery After Fall in Luxembourg
• The war for AI talent is heating up
• Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
• How an amateur football league in China took off
• Friend with benefits? Ask Prince Andrew | Alison Phillips
• Business
• Can Ecuador free itself from the grasp of the drug lords?
• Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Dec. 15, #83
• Three charts assess England's chances of winning the Euros 2024
• The WIRED Guide to Aliens
• The best white elephant gifts that everyone will love
• China's presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
• Donald Trump's dream of mass deportations is a fantasy
• Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
• How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism
• This week's cover
• The weekly cartoon
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?
• National payment systems are proliferating
• Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House
• A sticking-plaster policy for Britain's strained courts
• The end of oil, then and now
• Chick Corea died on February 9th
• Julian Bream died on August 14th
• Has social media broken the stockmarket?
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Julian Assange's plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
• Some would-be American immigrants are paying to get robbed
• The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'A rapist can be in the family': how Dominique Pelicot became one of the worst sexual predators in history
• Use Android's Built-In Settings to Cut Your Phone Usage Time in Half
• The harmony between Labour and Britain's trade unions
• A new breed of protest has left Kenya's president tottering
• America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race
• The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses
• New railways could transform South-East Asia
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
• Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine
• Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
• How businesses are actually using generative AI
• New marching orders and a new leader for Britain's civil service
• KAL's cartoon
• China's quest to become a robot superpower
• Taiwan, the world's chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
• This week China could rethink its economic policy
• China in Africa
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• KAL's cartoon
• Can Chipotle's boss turn Starbucks around?
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• At what age do you hit the peak of your career?
• We're Costco Guys, Of Course We Got the $45 Gift Card With Our 1-Year Gold Star Membership
• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• Politics
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
• Democrats need to understand: Americans think they're worse
• Hands On With Google's Gemini-Powered Smart Glasses, Android XR, and Project Moohan Headset
• The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
• Millions are travelling across China for lunar new year
• SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
• Iran's frightening new playbook for war
• J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• Germany election 2025 tracker: who's ahead in the polls?
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again
• Business
• The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
• Donald Trump's promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
• How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
• Could Japan and South Korea finally become friends?
• The obesity capitals of the world
• Nickel Boys Is an Audacious Experiment
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
• Business
• What ChatGPT's corporate victims have in common
• The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch
• Business
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
• Harold Evans died on September 23rd
• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
• Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
• Israel has yet to destroy even half of Gaza's tunnels
• With its latest assassination, Israel is testing Iran
• Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay
• India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok?
• The energy transition could make India even more unequal
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• Violence spirals as Iran's proxies kill American soldiers
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• A row between Turkey and Greece over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• Israeli aircraft buzz Beirut as the drums of war bang loud
• Ukraine war briefing: North Korean troops join Russian assaults in 'significant' numbers, Kyiv says
• Usha Vance, wife of Donald Trump's VP pick, was once a Democrat
• Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
• BYOSI - Evade EDR's The Simple Way, By Not Touching Any Of The API's They Hook
• The race to be Latin America's next top development banker
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians
• Racial tensions boil over in New Zealand
• Nostalgia for China's boom years drives a TV hit
• The world's oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
• Business
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• Ukraine's war has created millions of broken families
• Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
• A northern Italian town bans cricket
• Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
• What police commissioners tell you about the British election
• Why China's government is hushing up court rulings
• Syria's future must be determined by Syrians, not outside powers | Mohamad Bazzi
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
• Google's DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
• Why AI needs to learn new languages
• A lost opportunity to reform Tanzania
• America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
• Higher fees won't help Britain's beleaguered universities much
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• Has private credit's golden age already ended?
• Everyone Is Capable of Mathematical Thinking—Yes, Even You
• Israel responds to Iran's barrage with a symbolic strike
• Once dominant, Germany is now desperate
• Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
• How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
• Hurricane Milton exposes the dangers of Florida's development boom
• Ukraine war briefing: Ukrainian drones make multiple strikes inside Russia
• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• Obituary: Lyra McKee died on April 18th
• Why Germany's watchmakers are worried about the AfD
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
• The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
• Boeing Delays Mean Trump Won't Fly on a New Air Force One
• Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine
• How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• Britain's Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
• The best stocking stuffer gifts under $50
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• This week's cover
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• America's recession signals are flashing red. Don't believe them
• The new order of trade
• AMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
• Senegal's democracy hangs by a thread
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Austria's xenophobic right edges towards victory
• Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
• Europe's economy is a cause for concern, not panic
• UnitedHealth chief admits US health system 'does not work as well as it should'
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Africa's surprising new age of rail
• Damage to undersea cables is disrupting internet access across Africa
• The deadly journey to the Gulf
• Towns in eastern Ukraine fear they will be Russia's next target
• AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
• Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
• Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
• Russia's double-punch back against Ukraine's shock raid
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The post-post-Watergate era
• KAL's cartoon
• When workplace bonuses backfire
• Wham! Last Christmas Unwrapped review – special TV to give your heart to
• A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
• Trade unions have their eye on Britain's tech sector
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The world needs a more active Germany
• Two charts assess Donald Trump's distinctive debate style
• Was the Bank of England right to start lowering interest rates?
• China cracks down on Karate-chopping cleaning ladies
• The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
• Can India's garments industry benefit from Bangladesh's turmoil?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think
• Cuba's private-sector experiment is faltering
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• What is behind China's perplexing bond-market intervention?
• When covid-19 recedes, will global migration start again?
• Henry ("Hank") Aaron died on January 22nd
• American office delinquencies are shooting up
• What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
• A short-term work visa shows the benefits of immigration
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• Katherine Johnson died on February 24th
• Business
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• Britain's Supreme Court considers what a woman is
• Can Haiti's police hold on?
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs
• A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
• Britain is moving towards assisted dying
• Can bonds keep beating stocks?
• Can Israel's economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
• The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
• Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China "Quad"
• How trading in war-torn Sudan survives—just
• Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education department
• Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
• A Sky Full of Stars
• Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
• This week's cover
• Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
• How Renewable-Powered Microgrids Help Towns Weather Hurricanes, Wildfires, and More
• Business
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Is America's last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
• How to survive a superpower split
• 48 Hours in Tokyo With My AI Travel Companion
• How to Find Out How Much Social Security Benefits You'll Get
• Catherine Hamlin died on March 18th
• A Game Designer Hid a Gold Trophy in the Woods. Let the Treasure Hunt Begin
• Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• EcoFlow's Holiday Sale Brings Nearly $3,000 Off Portable Power Stations and More
• Britain's vote on assisted dying is just the beginning
• Now it's Prince William's turn to shape British town planning
• Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
• In occupied Mariupol, Russian invaders hold a sham election
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• Earth may once have had a planetary ring
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• Britain's prison service is caught in a doom loop
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Environmental Internationalism Is in Its Flop Era
• Ukraine's desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
• Priyanka Gandhi: dynastic scion, and hope of India's opposition
• This week's covers
• Eavan Boland died on April 27th
• Inside Google's 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
• When a Shooting Spurs a Social-Media Cycle
• Saudi Arabia's investment fund has been set an impossible task
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
• What is the least liveable city in the world?
• Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
• Obituary: Paul Volcker died on December 8th
• Canada has finally decided where to store its nuclear waste
• Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
• The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
• Propane-powered heat pumps are greener
• The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• PolyDrop - A BYOSI (Bring-Your-Own-Script-Interpreter) Rapid Payload Deployment Toolkit
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• The weekly cartoon
• The sorry story of children in care in England
• How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
• How China views the popular uprising in Bangladesh
• Why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running-mate
• Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil's party spirit out into the world
• Israel's use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
• Politics
• Peru's crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
• Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
• America's allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Nobel prize in physiology for mRNA vaccines
• A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
• This week's covers
• China's foreign minister goes missing
• The Arab League has done little for its members in nearly 70 years
• Does Sleep Training Work?
• Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam
• The King of Java inflames an Indonesian "democratic emergency"
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
• Can America afford its debts?
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• Why China fears Starlink
• China's property crisis claims more victims: companies
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Checks and Balance: The 50-year plan
• Is Ukraine's offensive stalling?
• The world's insatiable appetite for Canada's maple syrup
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• Thailand's prime minister is sacked. What next?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can software help ease Britain's housing crisis?
• This week's covers
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• A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa