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• Labour's green industrial policy will not cure Britain's economic ills
• The strange tale of a prominent North Korean defector
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• The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie
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• Can British seaweed farms bloom?
• American policing has changed since George Floyd's murder
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• The Philippines' new president rewires the war on drugs
• Fox News shows that not even Tucker Carlson is bigger than the network
• China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
• Leaked Renders Show the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 Finally Shut Flat
• Why do Democrats keep helping Trump?
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• Both America's political camps agree that TikTok is troubling
• Obituary: Gino Strada believed health care was a human right
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• Coinbase and Binance Lawsuits Put Crypto on Ice
• A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
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• The politics of Xi Jinping's covid retreat
• Aaron Beck turned the world of psychiatry upside down
• China's influence in South-East Asia has grown. America's has waned
• When will China's GDP overtake America's?
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• Smaller VCs are having an impact on diverse investors and founders
• Why the Story of an AI Drone Trying to Kill Its Operator Seems So True
• A surge of migrants is reaching Italy
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• Our model shows that China's covid death toll could be massive
• How to two-time your employer: a tech worker's guide
• When Disaster Strikes, Is Climate Change to Blame?
• Virtual Clinics are Battling Inequalities in Women's Health
• Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe
• The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
• Meta's Voicebox AI is a Dall-E for text-to-speech
• Why 16 Should Be the Minimum Age for Social Media
• Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• Sheikh Hasina is Asia's iron lady
• A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution
• South Korea has a plan to end its forced-labour feud with Japan
• State-school admissions are rising at Oxford and Cambridge
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Boris Johnson strikes again
• Are Western companies becoming less global?
• Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Britain's Public Order Act goes too far
• Maya Jama: 'The worst thing anyone's said to me? That I wouldn't be successful. Joke's on them, I guess'
• DeSantis is a truer believer, if a lesser politician, than Trump
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• Parler Is Dead, but Trump Is Still Using Its Newsletter to Raise Cash and Own the Libs
• Co-ordinated rocket salvoes suggest Israel's old enemies are reuniting
• The most expensive cities in which to celebrate Valentine's Day
• Forget culture wars: the Covid inquiry is a stark reminder of what government is really about | Zoe Williams
• ChatGPT Is Unoriginal—and Exactly What Humans Need
• Nigel Lawson was the economic brain of Thatcherism
• Switzerland's new megabank is bad news for Swiss bankers
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• The Morning After: Get ready for Amazon Prime Day 2023
• The Minneapolis Police routinely discriminate and use excessive force against residents, the Justice Department found in a sweeping civil-rights investigation launched after an officer's 2020 killing of George Floyd sparked a national outcry.
• Can an AI be an inventor?
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• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• Iran and its Arab neighbours are divided over a name
• Harlem City Council Election Tests Limits of Progressive Politics
• Peru has an incompetent president and a discredited Congress
• A white, gay, Zulu-speaking mayor is shaking up South African politics
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• On China, Japan's PM wants diplomacy, not war
• Wall Street's China Dream Gets Frustrated---Again
• A wave of covid-19 reveals flaws in China's health system
• Spain's prime minister gambles on a snap general election
• What Tesla and other carmakers can learn from Ford
• If China's growth is so strong, why is inflation so weak?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What does the perfect carbon price look like?
• Turkey's opposition has picked its man
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• Chinese officials promise foreign investors greater access
• The fun and the fury of a rattlesnake derby
• China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
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• Six trips to feed the soul
• China is trying to win over Westerners and private firms
• Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals
• China wants the world to forget about its crimes in Xinjiang
• If English nationalism is on the rise, no one has told the English
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• What online-search data say about China's latest covid wave
• Paris talks to focus on funding poor countries to tackle climate crisis
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be Brazil's next president
• Amoral cities are flourishing in a turbulent geopolitical era
• Don't Get Too Excited About Purported Videos of This Extinct Woodpecker
• Best Bug Sprays for 2023 - CNET
• How to make low-carbon concrete from old cement
• Britain's new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy
• Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis
• What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• A new explanation for ankylosaurs' clubbed tails
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'I want answers': hope gives way to fury in Greece as hunt for survivors ends
• SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack
• Are video games really addictive?
• What do George Santos, R. Kelly and FIFA have in common?
• Chinese nationalists are up in arms over the treatment of pandas
• Louise Casey says the Met is institutionally misogynistic
• Biden Team Takes Aim at TikTok With Commerce Department Move
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making mixed progress
• Getting China's old people vaccinated has been slow work
• Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
• A cartography of human histology is in the making
• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
• Can high-rise buildings solve London's housing problems?
• After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland's politics is suddenly in flux
• China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, is about to retire
• How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
• America's $800bn climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• Large language models' ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason
• The problems ailing Western Europe's left are not just cyclical
• Have Astronomers Seen the Universe's First Stars?
• Brandon Sanderson Is Your God
• India and Pakistan are choking on each other's pollution
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Reddit Knowingly Downvoting Self | Future Tech
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• What China's graduates really think about their job prospects
• The cases against Donald Trump are piling up
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are missing in action
• Why Russian oil and gas is still flowing through Ukraine
• Ukraine's top guns need new jets to win the war
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan's relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
• Many of China's top politicians were educated in the West
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• Mark Zuckerberg Was Early in AI. Now Meta Is Trying to Catch Up.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Forget Teslas, India's EV revolution is happening on two wheels
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How housing became the new divide in British politics
• The end of Western naivety about China
• Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush
• Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal
• How to Live Well, Love AI, and Party Like a 6-Year-Old
• China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 Could Lie Flat When Folded - CNET
• A federal judge has blocked much of Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for minors
• The week the City ditched Crispin Odey
• Generative artificial intelligence on our "Babbage" podcast
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey's president
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Why economics does not understand business
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Emily Blunt Wants That Edge of Tomorrow Sequel Just as Much as We Do
• Germany finds that on defence, growing up is hard to do
• How Modelo Dethroned Bud Light in America
• Obituary: Frenchy Cannoli, who treated hashish like fine wine
• A simple bug exposed access to thousands of smart security alarm systems
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Banned in UAE, Probably Because of a Poster
• OnePlus Nord N30 5G Review: A Fine Android Phone
• The Philippines' proximity to Taiwan makes it central to Western strategy
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
• Draconian Laws Deter Pregnant Women from Treating Drug Abuse
• Major stock indexes fell but ended with weekly gains. The S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow lost 0.4%, 0.7% and 0.3%, respectively, on Friday.
• Wasp larvae that eat aphids alive may save apple crops
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Khartoum has exploded into open warfare
• 'Black Mirror' Creator Charlie Brooker Wants to Break the Content Machine
• Sony Just Dated 2 Mysterious New Marvel Movies
• New drugs may protect girls having sex with older men from HIV
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 46 Best Movies on Netflix This Week
• UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After the dam collapse, Russian-controlled areas have been abandoned
• After a dreadful year for tech firms, who will thrive in 2023?
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• What the Scientists Who Pioneered Weight-Loss Drugs Want You to Know
• Editing Roald Dahl for sensitivity was silly
• Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• The Palestinians need new leaders
• Apple Ghosts the Generative AI Revolution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Undereye gel patches are the revitalising cucumber slices of the 21st century | Sali Hughes on beauty
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Hidden Fees Exist Because They Work
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business?
• Chicago tries to export its most unpleasant drink
• Which countries have escaped the middle-income trap?
• Which Creature Was the First to Take a Nap?
• Why bicycles are crucial to Congo's cross-border trade
• A Bank China Built to Challenge the Dollar Now Needs the Dollar
• The Palestinian Authority is being eclipsed by radical militants
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• How Chinese netizens breached the great firewall
• Two children among four people found dead at flat in west London
• 'A sense of betrayal': liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
• Approaches to Mental Illness
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• As Floodwaters Recede, Ukrainian Authorities Brace for Possible Disease Outbreaks
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• Why Israel is becoming a partisan cause in the United States
• The Awkward Partnership Leading the AI Boom
• Ron DeSantis's lurch in Florida hurts his presidential chances
• Is Crypto Dead?
• Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens
• KAL's cartoon
• This Is the Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• Recent left-wing triumphs in Latin America may prove short-lived
• Everybody in the US Is Getting Depressed, CDC Says
• Bashar al-Assad does not want to let a calamity go to waste
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• Brazil's election is tight ahead of a run-off on October 30th
• Amazon's Echo Dot is down to $28, plus the rest of this week's best tech deals
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• Man charged with murder after Nottingham stabbing deaths
• Ranos' double hits Wales' Euro 2024 hopes as Armenia pull off shock win
• Inflation usually hits America's poor hardest. Not this time
• India will soon overtake China as the world's most populous country
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• China's new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping's ear
• India's solar power rollout is flagging
• Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson's political career
• When SVB and First Republic Collapsed, So Did Their Employees' Investments
• Beijing Must Act to Avoid an 'L-Shaped' Future
• Abortions have become 6% rarer since the end of Roe v Wade
• Canada's Conservatives pick a brainy brawler as leader
• Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
• The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• The Philippines's once-proud Maoist insurgents are out of ammo
• Indonesia embraces resource nationalism
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hyperdimensional Computing Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
• Why MercadoLibre keeps soaring as other e-emporiums sink
• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
• India's deadly heatwaves are getting even hotter
• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Too many people take too many pills
• A step towards a contraceptive pill for men?
• Is it time to decriminalise abortion in the UK? – podcast
• Cava Stock Soars 99% in Stock-Market Debut, Lifting Hopes for New Listings
• Your Intentions for the Summer
• The Making of the Egg Butthole on 'I Think You Should Leave'
• Pelé, king of the beautiful game
• Wildfires Will Only Get Worse. We Need Satellite Tracking of Air Pollution
• Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel
• Why wretched Lebanese are fleeing across the sea
• Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
• An Oral History of Jurassic Park: The Ride
• A populist plan to pay off private debts is another sign of Kuwait's ills
• Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92
• Shareholders have high hopes for Bayer's new boss
• Squashing dissidents in Uzbekistan
• Russia Shifts Battle Tactics After Mistakes
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• A crisis of confidence in Egypt
• Business
• The woman at the heart of Europe
• Britain's tax take is getting bigger but not better
• The New Batman Movie Sets Flash Director
• Politics
• Peng Ming-min fought for the idea of "one China and one Formosa"
• America's new embassy in Beirut is vast
• What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge
• Vladimir Putin wants to militarise Russian schools
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• Ukraine's assault in Zaporizhia may be the focus of its offensive
• Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Apple Ghosts the Generative AI Revolution
• What TIM's mega-spin-off reveals about Europe's telecoms industry
• Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record
• China's put-upon maritime neighbours are pushing back
• A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again
• To show that it can follow global rules, China built its own multilateral institution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Millions of dead fish are washing up in Australia
• Somalia is on the brink of famine
• Bertrand Russell and "The Problem of China"
• Revolut investor cuts book value by 40%
• Belarus's beleaguered opposition is flirting with violence
• Campaigners win right to challenge England's food strategy over climate crisis
• Virgin Galactic Is Ready to Kick Off Its Commercial Trips to the Edge of Space
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• India's foreign minister on ties with America, China and Russia
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• Young Africans are logging in and clocking on
• Britain's economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• North Koreans are at growing risk of starvation
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
• Argentina's vice-president could face 12 years in prison
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• How the war split the mafia
• J. D. Vance and the Yahoo Caucus
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The state of democracy in Africa and the Middle East
• What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan
• Does China's softer tone extend to Taiwan?
• Peru's political chaos looks likely to persist
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Economist's science and technology internship
• Life in Kherson after the Kakhovka dam's collapse
• What does the PGA-LIV merger mean for the future of golf? – video explainer
• 'Nobody Will Evacuate These Poor People'
• Vivek Ramaswamy Is Offering a Strong Defense of Trump, While Also Running Against Him
• The growth of Africa's towns and small cities is transforming the continent
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself
• The conflict in Ukraine risks inflaming the Sino-American rivalry
• How adult brains learn the new without forgetting the old
• How businesses are experimenting with ChatGPT-like services
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• America's closest Indo-Pacific allies are cosying up
• A copycat insurrection in Brazil, and its troubling aftermath
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
• Russia and Iran are upgrading their transport links
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Lego, the world's top toymaker, focuses on China
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• Here's why it's scary that investors believe they can monetize the climate crisis
• The 'Taxi Prince' Is Taking On Uber---and Winning
• Inside 4chan's Top-Secret Moderation Machine
• Arizona man freed after nearly three decades on death row
• Australia has faced down China's trade bans and emerged stronger
• When a Vintage RV Is Your Home, Repair Is a Way of Life
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• South-East Asia is crying out for regional leadership
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
• Alibaba breaks itself up in six
• Sources and acknowledgments
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
• Ukraine is betting on drones to strike deep into Russia
• Warren Buffett is shaking Japan's magic money tree
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
• Cashless talk
• Meet Asia's millennial plutocrats
• How Haiti came to be run by armed gangs – video
• Price Relief Coming at the Drive-Through
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• Calls for Russia to free Evan Gershkovich fall on deaf ears
• Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases
• Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• In the bag! Why the humble suitcase is this year's fashion must-have
• Pakistan is at risk of default
• As China fixes its property mess, can foreign capitalists benefit?
• An economic calm before the storm?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Anger mounts over Greek response to migrant boat before disaster
• Hindenburg Research takes on Carl Icahn
• Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
• Why commodity-trading scandals are multiplying
• Business
• Europe's next inflation victim? Sugary treats
• The great global baby bust is under way
• Imran Khan loses his battle with Pakistan's army
• A better way to process encrypted data
• Spanish renewable-energy development is waking from its siesta
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• The best gifts to upgrade your grad's tech setup
• Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• Attack on Uganda School Kills Dozens
• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• German bosses are depressed
• Should you send your children to private school?
• Global Tax Mess Awaits U.S. Companies, and Congress Isn't Helping
• China is now an unlikely safe haven
• How Ukraine is using fake tanks and guns to confuse the Russians
• John Hare devoted his life to saving the Gobi's wild camels
• Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs
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• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• Chinese singles face the heat over the holiday
• Credit Suisse's takeover causes turmoil in a $275bn bond market
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• Cabinet Office refuses to release Boris Johnson's notebooks over security concerns
• ECB split over whether to keep raising interest rates after summer
• A Nigerian trade in insects that bite
• After decades of empty talk, reforms in Gulf states are real—but risky
• A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Takes a Wild Turn
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Bug swarm: Nevada crawling with thick carpet of Mormon crickets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Texas AG subpoenas Pfizer to release Meta ad records
• A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
• Biden Team Takes Aim at TikTok With Commerce Department Move
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
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• The push to bring insulin prices down in America
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• Emmanuel Macron hopes to reinvent himself in 100 days
• How to stop the killing
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• Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
• Dictatorship? How Hitler, Stalin and Trump show it's easier than you think
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
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• How softer non-policing strategies might help
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• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
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• Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional
• Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go
• Meet the lefty Europeans who want to shrink the economy
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• Proposed legal reforms could be dire for Israel
• Artists hope to turn selfies into comets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Revolut sees its valuation reconsidered as public markets stir the fintech pot
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
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• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• China and Russia compete for Central Asia's favour
• Germany's new national security strategy is strong on goals, less so on means
• The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it
• The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The chancellor hopes more child care will get more parents working
• KAL's cartoon
• A jury found Robert Bowers guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes related to his killing of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest antisemitic attack on U.S. soil.
• Togo promises development, not democracy
• The isolated and dangerous lives of migrant fishermen in the UK
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Ukraine's ambitious offensive to take back Russian-occupied land is proving to be a hard slog against dense minefields, well-prepared defenses and Russia's superior air power. Meanwhile, African leaders on a visit to Kyiv urged Ukraine and Russia to start talks to end the war.
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Can the debt-ceiling deal hold?
• Why Chairman Mao's victims are denied justice
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
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• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
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• More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
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• Covid is complicating China's efforts to re-engage with the world
• How China Inc is tackling the TikTok problem
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• Stock market scramble has left investors skittish despite rally
• In America climate hawks and Big Oil alike cheer geothermal energy
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Is the global housing slump over?
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• After Credit Suisse's demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank
• How to make money on the Super Bowl
• Why EY and its rivals may eventually break up, after all
• How to measure how stress affects athletes' performance
• China's alleged theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
• Politics
• Donald Trump is in his most serious legal trouble yet
• Chinese nationalists are annoyed about colonial-era place names
• Common sense prevails as Chileans reject a new constitution
• Is Aileen Cannon Ready for This?
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• Why the media is so self-obsessed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Stanley and Josh Kroenke, global sports tycoons on a winning run
• France's Constitutional Council validates Macron's pension reform
• Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit
• Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
• Bill Gates meets with President Xi Jinping in Beijing
• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• Latin America's single mothers are being left behind
• Political instability in Italy has always affected reform
• Fiddling with Egypt's clocks
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Will Xi Jinping outsmart Emmanuel Macron?
• USAID is changing the way it tries to do good in the world
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
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• Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro mount an insurrection in Brazil
• Why did teenage suicides decline during America's first covid-19 lockdowns?
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• His Drivers Organized—Then Amazon Tried to Terminate His Contract
• The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
• Stephen Sondheim wanted to explore a new world every time
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Democracy is reviving in Asia
• Vladimir Putin's courts are stepping up repression
• The view from the front line between Taiwan and China
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
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• Business
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• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• A tussle for control of Interpol pits good cops against bad
• Weak commitments from the G20 cast a shadow over COP26's opening
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• America may be a step closer to banning TikTok
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• Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26
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• Why Britain is updating its laws on surrogacy and gamete donation
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