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Friday, September 22, 2023

2305 Interesting News

• Leaders of Islamic State have a short life-expectancy
• Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops
• Why self-storage is turning into hot property
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sudan is sliding towards civil war
• The fading charms of Britain's historic cinemas
• The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Brazil's new president is visiting Joe Biden to boost relations
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Business
• Donald Trump will "never" support Putin, says Volodymyr Zelensky
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Weird Link Between Donald Trump's Georgia Indictment and the Rapper Young Thug
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go
• The rise of user-created video games
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• FBI investigates alleged abuse in Baton Rouge police building called the 'Brave Cave'
• Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness
• Herders and farmers seek reasons for east Africa's drought
• I Failed Two Captcha Tests This Week. Am I Still Human?
• Recent left-wing triumphs in Latin America may prove short-lived
• 'Armed groups, coca crops and death': how prices crashed for cocaine's raw material
• When will China's GDP overtake America's?
• The UK Is Burning Climate Pledges to Fuel a Culture War
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• 'You could fill a museum with it': the $963m Roman Abramovich art collection revealed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The WIRED Guide to Aliens
• Too many people take too many pills
• White House planning for government shutdown after chaos on Capitol Hill
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• Apple Watch Series 9 Review: New Chip and New WatchOS 10 Health Updates
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• KAL's cartoon
• NASA Calls on Commercial Partners to Design a Spacecraft to Deorbit the ISS
• Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing
• China controls the supply of crucial war minerals
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How far will Wall Street job losses go?
• Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era
• Suppressing an Onrush of Toxic Thoughts Might Improve Your Mental Health
• Moniorg - Tool That Leverages Crt.Sh Website To Monitor Domains Of A Target
• World Governments Recommit to 2030 Goals to Save Humanity
• Ukrainian soldiers describe their experiences battling Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Solo Stove's sitewide coupons give you up to an extra $100 off
• Hornbills, otters and even a tapir: Singapore is rewilding
• East Asia's new family portrait
• "Scaling People" is a textbook piece of management writing
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Who is to blame in Britain for delayed and cancelled flights?
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• How white-collar warriors gear up for the day
• Nagorno-Karabakh talks: separatists lay down arms amid fears of refugee crisis
• Can Colombia's mercurial president bring "total peace"?
• US senator Menendez indicted on federal bribery charges
• British MPs debate a crisis over school buildings. Childishly
• In America, lots of usable organs go unrecovered or get binned
• America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states
• Border Surge: 8,900 Migrants Arrested on One Day, With More on the Way
• Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• Amazon Prime Video will start running commercials starting in early 2024
• AI Tool Pinpoints Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease
• Webb Telescope Spots Carbon on Jupiter's Moon Europa, Boosting Prospects for Alien Life
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• KAL's cartoon
• Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features
• Forget Teslas, India's EV revolution is happening on two wheels
• Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
• China simulates precision strikes on Taiwan
• Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• India's property market is ready for take-off
• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• Sekiryu - Comprehensive Toolkit For Ghidra Headless
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• In just 100 days Nigeria's new president has made bold reforms
• This week's covers
• The world is in the grip of a manufacturing delusion
• As response rates decline, the risk of polling errors rises
• How well does your country provide for its citizens?
• Britain's statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy
• Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
• What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan
• Ethnic conflict drags on in Manipur in India's north-east
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Judge and staff shortages are leaving Americans in limbo
• If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Why investors are gambling on placid stockmarkets
• Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
• The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.
• Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can't
• A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq
• Five Clues to Where the UAW Strike Is Headed Next
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Surf - Escalate Your SSRF Vulnerabilities On Modern Cloud Environments
• Russia is resorting to desperate measures to recruit soldiers
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• "Bonsoir l'Europe!" How languages affect Eurovision scores
• The problems ailing Western Europe's left are not just cyclical
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• New York Times writer draws ire for complaining about $78 airport meal
• Economists draw swords over how to fix inflation
• Politics
• Looking for alternatives: a tale of two German towns
• Amazon said it plans to start running advertisements in shows and movies on its Prime Video platform.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Lebanon's government is squeezing out Syrian refugees
• How LA's drag nuns took centre stage in the culture wars
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge
• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• The jury is still out on Ukraine's big push south
• No, really. Rishi Sunak is a right-winger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Latin America's single mothers are being left behind
• Sooner or later, America's financial system could seize up
• Inside Ukraine's assassination programme
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father's creativity
• Never show your kids weakness … and other parenting myths, debunked
• The rich world is wrong to think that climate impacts in poor countries don't matter
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• America and Iran try to step back from the brink over nukes
• Support for the hard-right AfD is surging in Germany
• The origin of grapevines is a tangled vine itself
• Ski Resorts Are Giving Up on Snow
• Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
• Oracle is making Larry Ellison the world's third-richest man
• What does China's reopening mean for Latin America?
• New York's shelter system is being overwhelmed by migrants
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Why more English councils will go bust
• An interview with the head of Ukraine's defence intelligence
• Parts of America are becoming uninsurable
• Regime change
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• The best memes of 2021
• Wagner rebels turn against Putin's army
• Business
• The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen, and Me
• Where do Americans mingle?
• What to make of a surprise shake-up in China's nuclear force
• Tell us: have you been through an amicable breakup?
• The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• How to Get Free Ebooks on 'Stuff Your E-Reader' Day (2023)
• To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoning
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An Experimental Drug May Help Prevent Bone Loss in Space
• What is killing white Britons?
• Azerbaijan is close to taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• Europe's economy looks to be heading for trouble
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• Vaping among schoolchildren has become a moral panic in Britain
• The mystery surrounding China's missing defence minister
• An Insurance Regulator Asked for a Favor. It Cost a Senior Executive His Job.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How American universities will react as race-based admissions end
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Pelé, king of the beautiful game
• America's plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
• Big pharma is warming to the potential of AI
• Renewable energy has hidden costs
• Higher for Longer Interest Rates Threaten Fintech
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The lethal negligence of politicians in Morocco and Libya
• Airborne taxi ranks are coming to a sky near you
• Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants
• Can baseball fans be won over by the world's second-biggest sport?
• Brazil's foreign policy is hyperactive, ambitious and naive
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• French bakeries are thriving in unlikely places
• Why many American states and cities are changing their flags
• This week's cover
• FDA Issues Warning Over Some Eye Drop Sales: Here's What to Know - CNET
• Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state
• In Asia data flows are part of a new great game
• What's News World-Wide
• American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Germany's economic model is sputtering. So are its banks
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• India's 'Lake Man' Relies on Ancient Methods to Ease a Water Crisis
• The Conservative Party faces a mutiny in Metroland
• West African views on Niger's coup
• Nearly all Louisiana's death-row inmates have filed for clemency
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• How much is a human head?
• Whoever runs Britain will struggle to get tough on China
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• America's logistics boom has turned to bust
• Pressurised natural caves could offer a home from home on the Moon
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• New research helps explain why China's low birth rates are stuck
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Politics
• Revelations of Clarence Thomas's Koch links stoke supreme court reform calls
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• Soldiers declare they have overthrown Niger's president
• A new generation of Argentine musicians is topping the charts
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• Britain's green belt is choking the economy
• Ron DeSantis is relying on big donors and his super PAC
• America's states are trying to set rules for the internet
• The EU's rotating presidency should be scrapped
• Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves
• Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
• UAW sent another 5,600 members out on strike at GM and Stellantis, extending the work stoppage to parts-distribution centers that supply dealerships.
• America says it will send long-range missiles to Ukraine
• Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US
• How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its 'Results About You' Tool
• The war in Ukraine is boosting Israel's arms exports
• Investors devour risky corporate debt in boost to LBO business
• How to stop the killing
• Imran Khan loses his battle with Pakistan's army
• Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
• Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads early next year
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Business
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• Latin American cities are struggling in the liveability ranking
• Business
• Argentina's populist political movement is at its lowest ebb
• Firms search for greener supplies of graphite for EV batteries
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• Dupont's devastating injury leaves France hopes hanging in balance
• President Erdogan wants to make nice with the West, on his terms
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'
• A spat in Brussels pits an open vision of Europe against an insular one
• What the rise of student consulting clubs means
• A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again
• DoSinator - A Powerful Denial Of Service (DoS) Testing Tool
• Zaporizhia braces itself for Russian nuclear tricks
• Why uranium prices are soaring
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Amazon Prime members can get a Blink camera bundle for half off
• Britons are ever keener on mudlarking in the River Thames
• When it's time to dial down the volume
• Britain will ease some environmental rules for housebuilders
• The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
• Google's Parisa Tabriz on how the company stays ahead of hackers
• Biden Lets Venezuelan Migrants Work
• Meet the world's most enduring product
• Iran's proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
• Under the spotlight: Jarman award nominees on tour – in pictures
• California cracks down on carbon
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• England's Lionesses reach the World Cup final
• Quick-Lookup-Ptrun - Quick Lookup Plugin For PowerToys Run (Wox)
• Pitch Deck Teardown: Transcend's $20M Series B deck
• Why legal writing is so awful
• Why your new EV is making funny noises
• 14 Best Apple 3-in-1 Wireless Chargers (2023): For iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch
• Charting Ukraine's soaring exports to the EU
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• Mother Who Gave Abortion Pills to Teen Daughter Gets 2 Years in Prison
• The Calendar of Human Fertility Is Changing
• With House Nearing Shutdown, Gaetz Leads Resistance Against McCarthy
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• Tainted love: is it all over for the workplace romance?
• Britons love country fairs. Why?
• Alexa Just Got an AI Makeover
• Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty
• Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel
• Everything You Need to Know About Getting Your Genome Sequenced
• The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran
• What if China and India became friends?
• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The boss of Britain's spies speaks
• Belgrade: the city where dirty air is seen as a 'consequence of economic growth'
• Why Britain is so bad at diagnosing cancer
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• At last, Xi Jinping calls Volodymyr Zelensky
• The FTC may file an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon as soon as next week
• Politics
• Business
• Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism
• Beneath France's revolts, hidden success
• OpenAI's Dall-E 3 Is an Art Generator Powered by ChatGPT
• Narendra Modi's party takes a beating in Karnataka
• Russell Brand was the norm in the nasty noughties
• First Batch of Biden Emails Undercuts G.O.P. Claims
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Russian prisoners of war see Putin's invasion
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• NASA's Plan to Return Samples From Mars Is Pure Science Fiction, Report Finds
• How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the UAW Auto Strikes
• Facing death threats, a Colombian mayor makes a daring visit to the town he runs
• Business
• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
• Best Beats Headphone Deals: Save Up to $181 on Studio3, Fit Pro and More - CNET
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• Meet America's disguised property investors
• Why short prison sentences in England and Wales are a disaster
• LimeLoop's sleek reusable mailers seek to replace cardboard boxes
• Thousands of Ukrainian men are avoiding military service
• A prisoner swap is a symbolic step towards ending the Saudi-led war in Yemen
• DeepMind's New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases
• Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr becomes fifth player ever in baseball's 40-40 club
• Can a Czech billionaire rescue Casino?
• What fate awaits Rupert Murdoch favourites in the new Lachlan era?
• What an AI-Generated Medieval Village Means for the Future of Art
• NATO did not give Volodymyr Zelensky everything he wanted
• Donald Trump's Abortion Shell Game
• WiFi-Pineapple-MK7_REST-Client - WiFi Hacking Workflow With WiFi Pineapple Mark VII API
• Business
• The dark and bright sides of power
• America's dumbest, wildest budget fight yet
• Attack of the feral parakeets in New York
• Climate Disasters Are Worsening a U.S. Blood Shortage
• US auto strike expands to 38 GM and Stellantis facilities
• 'Big Bird's hands were on my shoulders!': the psychology professor who teamed up with Sesame Street
• Which countries get the best night's sleep?
• Revolut Needs to Get Its House in Order
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• Lata Mangeshkar was the soundtrack of newly independent India
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Many Britons have changed their minds on gay marriage
• "The" human genome was always a misnomer
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
• AI Chatbots Are Invading Your Local Government—and Making Everyone Nervous
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• KAL's cartoon
• China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
• Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry
• Britons turn into Borat when it comes to health, housing and avocados
• It doesn't take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
• Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife were indicted in a sweeping bribery scheme, with federal prosecutors alleging the New Jersey Democrat accepted cash and other benefits from three businessmen.
• Icy moons with vast oceans are the latest candidates for alien life
• Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
• Boris Johnson strikes again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan's relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
• In Belgrade, backers of Ukraine and Russia fight with graffiti
• India, an aspiring digital superpower, keeps shutting down the internet
• Suicide rates for girls are rising. Are smartphones to blame?
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• How Asia is reinventing its economic model
• China needs foreign workers. So why won't it embrace immigration?
• America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
• Stefanos Kasselakis: the political outsider hoping to revive the Greek left
• How much trouble is China's economy in?
• Are Driverless Cars the Future?
• Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch Is Retiring
• Despite an explosion, Elon Musk is closer to his new space age
• The Kurds' dreams of independence look farther off than ever
• The Murder of a Sikh Leader Could Be a Wake-Up Call
• Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals
• A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels
• Politics
• South Korean literature is inspiring Japanese women
• Should you fix your mortgage for ever?
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?
• These Adorable Jellyfish Show Learning Doesn't Even Require a Brain
• Elon Musk's plans could hinder Twitternomics
• The Score: Moderna, Splunk, Fox and More Stocks That Defined the Week
• 'Boss': From a Head Honcho in Dutch to a Rock Star in the U.S.A.
• Explore the Ancient Aztec Capital in This Lifelike 3D Rendering
• China's slowing economy, seen from ground level
• A flawed argument for central-bank digital currencies
• Ukraine's missile cemetery
• Tim Dowling: the kids have all left home – but we still can't get rid of them
• Senator Bob Menendez Is Indicted in Brazen Bribery Plot
• Australia is becoming America's military launchpad into Asia
• Politics
• A 3D Printer Enthusiast's Plea: Plug and Play Printers Are What's Needed to Attract More People - CNET
• Prescription rules for obesity drugs may unfairly exclude non-whites
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Republicans are turning against Ukraine
• From wild swimming to grouse shooting, Britain is in hock to hobbyists
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Walmart's PhonePe launches app store with zero fee in challenge to Google
• The revealing appeal of China's cheapest city
• A Beyoncé fan couldn't fly to a show due to his wheelchair size, so he told TikTok
• Enough Talk, ChatGPT—My New Chatbot Friend Can Get Things Done
• How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products
• The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden's student-debt-relief plan
• The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink's Monkeys Actually Died
• Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine
• The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard of Is a Major Reason Computers Keep Getting Faster
• Want to Buy the New Pink iPhone 15 in Stores Today? It Depends on Which Phone You Choose - CNET
• US dollar hits six-month high as markets accept new interest rate regime
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• In conversation with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
• Aaron Beck turned the world of psychiatry upside down
• Tropical Storm Ophelia Forecast: East Coast Braces for Heavy Rain and Wind
• Inside Ukraine's drone war against Putin
• Amazon's New Challenge: Bargain Retailers That Are Playing a Different Game
• What China's economic troubles mean for the world
• X/Twitter CEO Shares Video Ad That Features Tweets Dunking on Elon Musk
• Why the world is suddenly wooing Papua New Guinea
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Prigozhin's strange aborted coup is a sign of Russia's malaise
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is making progress, slowly
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Propane-powered heat pumps are greener
• A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible
• The Belt and Road, as seen from China
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• The Unlikely World Leader Who Just Dispelled Musk's Utopian AI Dreams
• On the 50th anniversary of "Ways of Seeing" and "G."
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
• The best October Amazon Prime Day early access deals for 2023
• Why is China blocking graphite exports to Sweden?
• France moved quickly to evacuate civilians from Sudan
• Narendra Modi's ultimate test—educating 265m pupils
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
• Junkworld Brings Cartoon Mayhem to Apple Arcade - CNET
• China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
• Dynmx - Signature-based Detection Of Malware Features Based On Windows API Call Sequences
• Get That Senator a Cinnabon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• More Americans than ever report a disability
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• Tesla's surprising new route to EV domination
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Watch Josh Hutcherson Discover Oddly Specific Time Travel in This 57 Seconds Clip
• Politics
• Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson's political career
• South Korea has America in its face and China breathing down its neck
• The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
• The best smartwatches for 2023
• The potential and the plight of the middle manager
• How 'true believer' Shawn Fain reignited pro-union fervour in Detroit
• What America's bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
• Germany's rampant hard-right AfD puts other parties in a fix
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• These are the most liveable cities in Europe
• Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results
• Business
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
• Should you send your children to private school?
• America's closest Indo-Pacific allies are cosying up
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Failing to reintegrate Iraq's Sunni rebels could prove costly
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• This week's covers
• A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth
• Germany is becoming expert at defeating itself
• Teen Titans Go! Warner Bros. Animation Crossover for WB100
• Azerbaijan wants to "reintegrate" Nagorno-Karabakh through force
• Lebanon's prison inmates are running short of food
• Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
• The coup in Gabon is part of an alarming trend
• Zelenskiy urges Canada to stay with Ukraine as he speaks to parliament
• Fanatics and putschists are creating failed states in west Africa
• China is unusually secretive about its space programme
• Against expectations, oil and gas remain cheap
• Ukraine's sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood
• Elon Musk Floats Charging Users for X
• KAL's cartoon
• The rise of the self-pitying MP
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• South Korea has given up on talking to the North
• The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
• Courtship of Princess Leia Is the Most Important Star Wars Novel Around
• The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
• More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• The (not so) great escape
• Gucci cuts the camp and returns to crisp chic under new designer
• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Unity Introduces New Pricing Model Following Developer Mutiny
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• The best books of 2021
• Is Vietnam's EV darling heading for a crash?
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• Politics
• A cartography of human histology is in the making
• South Korea has had enough of being called an emerging market
• China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies
• How pop culture went multipolar
• If Venezuela's elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
• China's young want to work. For the government
• China-Linked Hackers Breached a Power Grid—Again
• What next for Sudan's most notorious rebel leader, known as Hemedti?
• Stealing from museums is easier than you might think
• Explore the Ancient Aztec Capital in This Lifelike 3D Rendering
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• How long will the travel boom last?
• The world divided
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• Italian MP calls for museum director to be sacked for being 'racist towards Italians'
• The Biggest AI Trends in Cybersecurity - CNET
• Business families in the Gulf need modern laws of inheritance
• What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis
• Xiongan is Xi Jinping's pet project
• The west's Modi problem
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• India's scandal-hit Adani Group forges on
• Battlefield lessons
• Kentucky's near-total abortion ban takes center stage in gubernatorial election
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Ethnic terminology bedevils Taiwan-China relations
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• Nottingham Forest's Taiwo Awoniyi: 'This is what I want. This is my dream'
• Politics
• A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return
• The Dark Economics of Russell Brand
• A slew of scandals puts Singapore's government on the back foot
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Dervla Murphy let nothing stand in the way of adventure
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• iFixit Teardown Shows Off the Repairability of the iPhone 15 Pro
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
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