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• The Last Thing Bees Need Right Now
• Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
• China's revealing struggle with childhood myopia
• Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• How to Control Android Auto or Apple CarPlay With Your Voice While Driving
• The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
• Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
• Why Japanese markets have plummeted
• Bloomberg News Parts Ways With Reporter Involved in Article About Evan Gershkovich's Release
• The science that built the AI revolution
• Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India's election
• Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
• Six Acclaimed Movies With Short Runtimes
• BokuLoader - A Proof-Of-Concept Cobalt Strike Reflective Loader Which Aims To Recreate, Integrate, And Enhance Cobalt Strike's Evasion Features!
• Headerpwn - A Fuzzer For Finding Anomalies And Analyzing How Servers Respond To Different HTTP Headers
• See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower
• Sports Stories for the Sports-Averse
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong's political environment
• Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach were sides of the same coin
• For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
• At a UN review, China basks in the flattery of friendly countries
• The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes
• Cargo ship spotted at Russian gas terminal under US sanctions
• From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better
• What Did Ancient Humans Think When They Looked Up at the Night Sky?
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• 'Gem' of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
• Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
• What to look forward to in the final leg of the Paris Olympics
• KAL's cartoon
• Edifier Stax Spirit S5 Headphones Review: Great Sound, No Noise Canceling
• Former Trump attorney agrees to cooperation agreement in Arizona 'fake elector' case
• Cashless talk
• Germany's debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
• Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Protests are soaring, as China's workers demand their wages
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Sudan: the war the world forgot
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• Rupert, Lachlan and me: inside the Murdochs' 'medieval fiefdom'
• What is the least liveable city in the world?
• Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
• Britain's railways go from one extreme to another
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
• Olympics Photo of the Day: Catching a Fall
• In search of the white British voter
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Some would-be American immigrants are paying to get robbed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The long goodbye
• Politics
• Vietnam's head of state leaves under a cloud
• Pakistan's generals look increasingly desperate
• The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
• The Tech World's Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• KAL's cartoon
• Sex Testing in the Olympics and Other Elite Sports Is Based on Flawed Science
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• What the war on tourism gets wrong
• Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government
• A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trump's Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Bros Go Wild for Donald Trump
• The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe
• City life during Kyiv's power blackouts – in pictures
• How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World's Computers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why We're Banning Phones at Our School
• The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
• The irrelevance of Mercosur
• Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?
• Rosemary Smith set out to prove that women drivers could do as well as men
• The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe
• Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
• Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
• KAL's cartoon
• Labour's victory is good for Britain's union of four countries
• Apple's new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
• Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer wants to fill the Boris Johnson-shaped void
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• Extrude - Analyse Binaries For Missing Security Features, Information Disclosure And More...
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
• Generation K: Keir Starmer's cohort of Labour candidates
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• Star-studded basketball becomes the Olympics' hottest ticket
• China's currency is not as influential as once imagined
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• The rise of the truly cruel summer
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Debby Weakens to Tropical Storm, Four People Confirmed Dead
• The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
• Why Latin America is the world's trade pipsqueak
• A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
• How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• Ukraine's war has created millions of broken families
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• The fightback against Javier Milei's radical reforms has begun
• Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
• Why this isn't Britain's TikTok election
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• How the election will shape the Supreme Court
• TechCrunch Minute: The iPad was the surprising star of Apple's sales numbers
• How shallow was Labour's victory in the British election?
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• Homeland Economics
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• China doesn't want people flaunting their wealth
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• UFOs are going mainstream
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• The best albums of 2021
• The potential listing of Shein is a test of London's allure
• Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil's powerful Supreme Court
• Meta's AI Costs Surge as Digital Advertising Revenue Grows
• In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
• Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
• Xi Jinping plays social engineer
• Israel's use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
• US power producers' windfall creates a dilemma for America
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• What now for Britain's right-wing parties?
• ArcelorMittal Trims Steel Outlook After Earnings Slump
• What's behind Britain's earthworm cataclysm?
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government
• The Eternal Life of Goldman is a gorgeous platformer that looks like a hand-drawn cartoon
• Young men in the US used to lean left. Could they now hand Trump the presidency?
• Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Here's what the polls say
• KAL's cartoon
• China is going crazy for durians
• A fresh Russian push will test Ukraine severely, says a senior general
• Business
• Apple is fighting Tencent and ByteDance over in-app payments in China
• Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• Finland's shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
• The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left
• Half of Northern Irish patients wait over a year for treatment
• This week's covers
• Sleep secrets: should you ever tell someone you dreamt about them?
• How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• Politics
• Nicaragua's dictator goes after Miss Universe
• US stocks finish sharply lower to close out global market rout
• China has become a scientific superpower
• Business
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• Asia's most expensive cities, ranked
• Logitech Combo Touch for iPad Pro (2024) Review: A Must-Have Keyboard Accessory
• Sprint guru Reider's accreditation for Olympics pulled over safeguarding fears
• KAL's cartoon
• CSX Profit Slips as Expenses Rise
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• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• America Has Too Many Laws
• The deadly journey to the Gulf
• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
• If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You'll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
• Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore's history
• The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America
• Can Benetton be patched up?
• A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's
• Will a new "pact" of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• How not to work on a plane
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
• Russia's gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• The 6 Best Cold Plunge Pools in 2024—I Spent Months Testing to Find the Best
• Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
• CrowdStrike says Delta's woes aren't its fault after massive IT outage
• Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
• AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico's missing people
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health
• Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
• Mijaín López aims for unparalleled glory in race against the clock
• The West Coast's Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
• Things Are So Bad at Intel That the Boss Is Posting Bible Verses
• Prison Architect 2 is delayed indefinitely
• Charles III gets his own paper currency
• Who is supplying Russia's arms industry?
• Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king
• How physics can improve image-generating AI
• The world's insatiable appetite for Canada's maple syrup
• A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• Chile's crisis is not over yet
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• From Nobel peace prize to civil war: how Ethiopia's leader beguiled the world – podcast
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
• The best foldable phones for 2024
• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
• What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
• China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
• How the Chinese state aims to calm the property market
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
• Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
• In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions
• Turkey has blocked Instagram amid a dispute over Hamas-related content
• Star Wars Outlaws Will See Hondo Ohnaka Live to Scam Another Day
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• The Law as Justice Gorsuch Sees It
• A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• No 10 criticises Elon Musk for 'civil war is inevitable' post on England riots
• Are Banks Sweeping Dud Property Loans Under the Rug?
• Trump picks a pointless fight with Georgia Republicans – it could cost him
• Watching "The Shawshank Redemption" on stage in China
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• Should the world fear China's chipmaking binge?
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• NVIDIA's Blackwell AI chips have reportedly hit a snag and may arrive months late
• Google broke law to maintain online search monopoly, US judge rules
• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• Lawrence Wong in his own words
• Will India's new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
• What is the point of industry awards?
• What's Next in the U.S. Antitrust Cases Against Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta
• The best television shows of 2021
• How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• Trump Runs Against Republicans in Georgia---Again
• A difficult new world
• There's a Tool to Catch Students Cheating With ChatGPT. OpenAI Hasn't Released It.
• House of the Dragon: season two, episode eight recap – what were the writers thinking?
• The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
• New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filings -- Week Ending Aug. 4, 2024
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• A long jump, an iguana and cliff diving: photos of the weekend
• Why house prices are surging once again
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Britain's party manifestos lack detail but leave clues
• The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
• A Texas judge gives a nod to America's at-home distillers
• The Morning After: Meta is reportedly offering millions to get Hollywood voices into its AI projects
• China is itching to mine the ocean floor
• The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will war snuff out the Gulf's global business ambitions?
• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
• Today's Wordle Answer for Aug. 5, #1143 Is Packed With Vowels
• Flagstar Bank: 2024 Home Equity Review
• Netanyahu clashes with security chiefs on Hamas deal
• Africa's surprising new age of rail
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• Where are Europe's most expensive cities for renters?
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• Zombie Alt-Weeklies Are Stuffed With AI Slop About OnlyFans
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The best films of 2021
• Living outside China has become more like living inside China
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Business
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• The Economist's agony uncle returns
• The Police Department That Refused to Solve a Murder
• Stop X's Grok AI From Training on Your Tweets
• China wants to export education, too
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• Ars0N-Framework - A Modern Framework For Bug Bounty Hunting
• National payment systems are proliferating
• This week's covers
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia
• Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• The secret to taking better penalties
• To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
• Fed officials move to reassure markets that US is not in recession
• Death Valley records its hottest month ever in July
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
• In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back
• When the Stock Market Drops, Stay Calm and Do Nothing
• Can Haiti's police hold on?
• From A to C: how to get the most out of your window air conditioner
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• Apple's latest iOS 18 beta walks back some changes to the redesigned Photos app
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• War fears and flight cancellations in Lebanon send travelers and residents scrambling
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• 2024's Most Popular Trades Are Unraveling
• The world's rules-based order is cracking
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• The Guardian view on the riots: culpability in high places | Editorial
• The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
• Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
• Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
• Business
• Ashwin Ramaswami takes on a fake elector for a Georgia state senate seat
• The movement of capital globally is in decline
• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
• Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• Elon Musk's X Is Leaving San Francisco
• How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• Does Britain need a National Wealth Fund?
• One of the Middle East's oldest conflicts has entered a new era
• Floating solar has a bright future
• KAL's cartoon
• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• A Russian missile hits a children's hospital in central Kyiv
• U.S. Sues TikTok, ByteDance, Accuses Them of Violations of Children's Privacy Laws
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Meet Argentina's richest man
• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Business
• Child poverty will be a test of Labour's fiscal prudence
• Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal
• Memorable images make time pass more slowly
• Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
• Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch
• Team Biden Can Help Mideast Peace
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'I'm different to what I was': Freddie Flintoff tells of life after horrific accident
• Israel responds to Iran's barrage with a symbolic strike
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• Video: insights from the author
• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
• You Won't Believe What Car Headlights Have in Store
• On Independence Day Israel is ripping itself apart
• Politics
• Politics
• What separates Tony Blair's Labour from the party today?
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• Taiwan, the world's chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
• What taxes might Labour raise?
• America is educating a nation of investors
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
• Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
• Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
• With a salute and a silver medal, Simone Biles shows the humanity that goes with her greatness | Tumaini Carayol
• Violence mars Mexicans' biggest elections ever
• Welcome to the Weird Era
• Pope Francis says future priests should read poetry and fiction
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• Self-Managed Abortions Have Increased Since Fall of 'Roe'
• Will Americans be bowled over by cricket—again?
• A new technique to work out a corpse's time of death
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
• JA4+ - Suite Of Network Fingerprinting Standards
• Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• Ian Hamilton masterminded one of the most daring heists of the last century
• Is Kamala Harris "brat"?
• Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel's jails
• Market panic risks dragging down global growth, economists warn
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
• Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why has Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Israel and Hamas are not that far from a ceasefire agreement
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• What tennis reveals about AI's impact on human behaviour
• Can anyone save Macy's?
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• Nintendo profits fall 55 percent as people save their cash for the Switch 2
• Why Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race - video explainer
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Google hires founders of chatbot start-up Character.AI
• ROPDump - A Command-Line Tool Designed To Analyze Binary Executables For Potential Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) Gadgets, Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, And Memory Leaks
• David Lynch says he is too ill to direct films in person
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• She's in his town: Bon Iver to perform at Harris rally in hometown of Eau Claire, Wis.
• Insta360 Go 3S Review: Tiny, Fun, and 4K Footage
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
• How will Britain vote on July 4th?
• Business
• 3D Printers Are Having a Moment Thanks to the U.S.
• KAL's cartoon
• This week's cover
• The 49 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (August 2024)
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• Checks and Balance: Trump's guilty verdict and unprecedented presidenting
• Health-care reform is upending the lives of China's doctors
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• Canada's jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that's over
• The Week of Brat Summer Will Go Down in Internet History
• Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations
• KAL's cartoon
• India's election could be the world's most expensive
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• The Economist's cost-of-loving index
• How to survive a superpower split
• Ebrahim Raisi was obsessed with the security of the people
• Takashima Ryosuke is Japan's youngest ever mayor
• Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world
• Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
• Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
• US small caps notch first hat-trick of 3% drops since Black Monday
• Zvi Zamir oversaw a programme of Israeli assassinations
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vietnam's ruling communists rush to fill the country's top jobs
• Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
• Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
• Graham Thorpe was always his own man and never shied away from a challenge | Mark Ramprakash
• The demise of an iconic American highway
• Gulf governments are changing, but not how they talk to citizens
• What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Stocks Are Crashing---That's a Great Reason to Sit Tight
• The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• Why do conservatives in America love Zyn?
• Israel's northern border is ablaze
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• South Africa election poll tracker, results and guide to the parties
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Argentina's Javier Milei begins his radical experiment in libertarian rule
• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• 'Delicate, authentic, charismatic': Dolce & Gabbana launches €99 dog perfume
• India's YouTubers take on Narendra Modi
• How Ukraine's new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
• Governments across the world are discovering "homeland economics"
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• A tornado destroys a barn—an Economist favourite—in Wisconsin
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• The Most Efficient Solar Panels Ever Have Been Found—In Giant, Sparkly Clams
• Walmart's latest product? Its customers
• Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
• The CEO's alternative summer reading list
• When party propaganda falls flat
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Should you buy expensive stocks?
• How Gen Zs rebel against Asia's rigid corporate culture
• How a CEO knows when to quit
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China's annual political meeting
• The far-right has captured Israel's police
• BAE Systems Lifts Guidance After Sales Jump
• Las Vegas's power couple says goodbye to power
• Southern Gaza could become more densely populated than Delhi
• China's parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping's power
• Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
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• China's giant solar industry is in turmoil
• Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
• To Lead in AI, the US Needs a Silicon Revolution
• True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
• Harris to announce VP pick on Tuesday ahead of Philadelphia rally – report
• Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
• Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar's civil war
• Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of 'tradwives'; and 'My dying wife found me a girlfriend' – podcast
• The economic recklessness of both France's hard left and hard right
• Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
• Green-Energy Flops Revive Bets on Natural Gas
• The battle over who makes the rules for US companies
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• At the Olympics, AI Is Watching You
• The covid-19 pandemic is hanging over Britain's election
• Production issues threaten to delay next generation of Nvidia AI chips
• Which country has the most Olympic medals?
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• Brexit is the only big legacy of the 2019-24 parliament
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Donald Trump's Plan to Hoard Billions in Bitcoin Has Economists Stumped
• The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
• The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
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• Societe Generale Hurt by Weak Performance at French Retail Unit
• Calling Donald Trump a threat to the rule of law has backfired
• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• Battlefield lessons
• How much of a difference will Ukraine's new F-16s make?
• A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
• KAL's cartoon
• The best podcasts of 2021
• A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
• Intel to Cut Jobs and Suspend Dividend in Cost-Saving Push
• Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta's crown jewels?
• How to decode Kamala Harris's foreign policy
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?
• Why are people rioting across England and how many are involved?
• Javier Milei will be Argentina's first libertarian president
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