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• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• The attempt on Trump's life is shocking, but not surprising
• Edna O'Brien's books scandalised Ireland
• Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?
• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
• Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
• The Endless Quest to Max Out on Happiness
• The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
• Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• Why South Africa's army is floundering in Congo
• Roma people in Europe: how do you feel about the lack of Roma MEPs?
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
• Is America approaching peak tip?
• Does the Premier League beckon for Leeds? The EFL preview – Football Weekly Extra
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• 'The time has come,' Biden, El-Sisi and Al-Thani say in a joint statement.
• CVS is restructuring its distribution network as the pharmacy chain seeks to speed up the flow of goods to its stores and online customers.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Arshad Nadeem throws his way into history for Pakistan with javelin gold
• The Insurance Industry Is Winning a Fight to Kill New Protections for Retirement Savers
• Singapore's foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Thierry Henry may have found second calling as he chases new golden goal | Jonathan Liew
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• The Supreme Court's term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
• China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria's poor
• Hurricane Debby Slams Florida Region That's Still Recovering from Last Year's Hit
• Elon Musk's X Is Leaving San Francisco
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• Ola Electric surges in India's biggest listing in two years
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• In search of the white British voter
• A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
• Tim Walz's and JD Vance's Personal Finances Couldn't Be More Different
• Tricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to crush Macron's centrists
• How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• India's Sensex Rises 1.1%, Led by Tech, Auto Stocks
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• 'Edgelords' and 'butt-sniffers': will Trump's tour of hyper-masculine podcasts win over young men? | Arwa Mahdawi
• Is America's weed habit dangerous?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• SoftBank's Latest Big Purchase Could Be One of Its Best
• Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
• Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
• 'Gem' of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers
• The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
• Cuba's private-sector experiment is faltering
• What's News: Business & Finance
• Zoom Is Going After Google and Microsoft With AI-Driven Docs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A crisis in prisons gives Britain's new government its first test
• Business
• Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China
• An Abandoned Amusement Park Contains Multitudes in This Sci-Fi Short Story
• KAL's cartoon
• To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• Narendra Modi's secret weapon: India's diaspora
• The most Tory place in Britain
• Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU's pantomime villain
• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• Ridley Scott Helped Shape Alien: Romulus—But at a Careful Distance
• Domainim - A Fast And Comprehensive Tool For Organizational Network Scanning
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• Chip Maker SMIC's Shares Jump on Earnings Beat, Strong Guidance
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• On the Front Lines of Sudan's Forgotten War
• Investors snap up bargains in tech stock carnage
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• A summer transfer target for each Premier League club: part two
• China's tin-eared approach to the world
• Will India's new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?
• Congo brings back the death penalty
• JA4+ - Suite Of Network Fingerprinting Standards
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• How Ukraine's new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
• Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
• G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• How King Charles III counts his swans
• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• Iran's supreme leader is terrified of people power
• A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
• Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
• Politics
• The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
• House Republicans Pivot Scrutiny From Biden to Harris
• China is overhauling its company law
• Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?
• Overdose Deaths Are Finally Starting to Decline. Here's Why.
• Funds offering protection from volatility fail to deliver in sell-off
• The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
• How scared is China of Donald Trump's return?
• Startup-SBOM - A Tool To Reverse Engineer And Inspect The RPM And APT Databases To List All The Packages Along With Executables, Service And Versions
• When to sell your stocks
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• Hedge funds make billions as India's options market goes ballistic
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Beach Sand Replenishment Projects Are Expensive, Ineffective and Never-Ending
• Mortgage Rates Drop to 15-Month Low
• A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
• Donald Trump is a convicted felon
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• Somaliland's camel herders are milking it
• Stocks Claw Back Losses After Global Selloff
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
• China's leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• Why are British beach huts so expensive?
• A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
• Dining across the divide: 'Sometimes to be more environmentally friendly you have to sacrifice green land'
• Why Japanese markets have plummeted
• Dark Matter Hunters Meet Feared 'Neutrino Fog'
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• India's leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Sharron Davies encourages Khelif and Lin's opponents to challenge defeats
• New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
• Donald Trump has a three in four chance of winning the election
• Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
• Will a new "pact" of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
• Donald Trump, Prince of Self-Pity
• 'Sobbing in the aisles': writers on their most memorable parent-kid film experiences
• To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
• YouTube invites users to test its community notes feature
• Changes to China's gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
• Should the world fear China's chipmaking binge?
• A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• What Democrats Can Learn From the Trauma of 1968
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• Why White Supremacists Are Trying to Attack Energy Grids
• Business
• Disney to spend $5bn in Europe on making new blockbusters
• ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
• AI Is Heating the Olympic Pool
• The Best Therapy for Our Anxiety Epidemic
• How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
• US, Qatar and Egypt say Gaza truce talks must resume with 'no excuses' for further delay
• The Morning After: Google replaces Chromecast with the TV Streamer
• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• Lyles wins 200m bronze before Covid diagnosis revealed as Tebogo takes gold
• Watch How a Hacker's Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop's Keystrokes
• Russia's explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
• The 12 Best Hair Dryers That We've Tested and Reviewed (2024)
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
• Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms
• KAL's cartoon
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• India's financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade
• Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil's powerful Supreme Court
• Advertisers axe corporate responsibility scheme after lawsuit from Musk's X
• Watch out Beijing, China's second-tier cities are on the up
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trucking industry shows signs of life after long downturn in US
• What Donald Trump's 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
• Business
• The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
• These Pathogens Could Spark the Next Pandemic, Scientists Warn
• Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America
• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
• Colin Farrell opens up about son with Angelman syndrome: 'We still struggle'
• Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
• Business
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• Why Isn't Kamala Harris Giving Interviews or Holding News Conferences?
• Biden's border order: impractical policy, pragmatic politics
• Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
• What The Economist thought about solar power
• Walzing Matilda? Australia sees something familiar in Tim Walz
• For the Director of Wicked, There's No Place Like Silicon Valley
• Takashima Ryosuke is Japan's youngest ever mayor
• 'Sprinkled with stardust': Stoke-on-Trent's mythic UFO landing comes to the stage
• In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism
• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
• Olympics Photo of the Day: A Steep Climb
• 2023 looks set to be a watershed year for the climate
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• Local Pennsylvania police complained moments after the attempt on Trump's life that they warned the Secret Service days before that the warehouse the shooter fired from needed protection, according to videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
• The dwindling of the Panama Canal boosts rival trade routes
• Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
• 3 Burner Propane Gas Grill
• Apple Wants to Make the Mac Mini Even Smaller. Why?
• Meta shutters its first-party VR game studio Ready at Dawn
• Analyst Predicts $20 Monthly Fee for Apple Intelligence
• Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
• China is the West's corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
• Joe Biden's ABC interview will not quell doubts about his future
• What to make of the US Supreme Court's latest abortion ruling
• What to Read When You Want to Quit
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
• European countries are banding together on missile defence
• Mexico's next president can reset relations with the United States
• Paramount Global wrote down the value of its cable-TV networks by nearly $6 billion, a day after rival Warner Bros. Discovery took a $9.1 billion impairment charge against its cable business.
• Katie Price arrested at Heathrow after missing court appearance
• Iran's new hope: a cardiologist president
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses?
• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• Major U.S. stock indexes rose after the release of a better-than-expected jobless claims report, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow industrials advancing 2.3%, 2.9% and 1.8%, respectively.
• We're hiring a global correspondent
• 2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy
• The two teenage suspects arrested over a plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna planned to drive a bomb-laden car into crowds outside the venue in an attempt to kill as many people as possible, authorities said.
• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• The world's richest countries in 2023
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico's missing people
• Hfinger - Fingerprinting HTTP Requests
• Reaper - Proof Of Concept On BYOVD Attack
• The Walz-Vance Inversion
• Google DeepMind develops a 'solidly amateur' table tennis robot
• Elon Musk Sued an Ad Group for F*cking Off Too Well, Now It's 'Discontinuing' Operations
• How to Make #MeToo Offenders Pay
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• A robotics company has 3D printed nearly a hundred homes in Texas
• Indian cities are utterly unprepared for what is about to hit them
• Swimming pools, studios and lots of places called Athens – take the Thursday quiz
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• Asian "nepo babies" are dominating its politics
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• Cathay Pacific to Buy Airbus Jets for About $11 Billion
• NASA Still Hasn't Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home
• Vietnam's ruling communists rush to fill the country's top jobs
• The best memes of 2021
• A digital payments revolution in India
• A US Judge Ruled That Google Is an Illegal Monopolist. Here's What Might Come Next
• Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• Biden survives his "big boy" press conference
• China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
• How Gen Zs rebel against Asia's rigid corporate culture
• One killed in tornadoes as Tropical Storm Debby hits North Carolina
• Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
• Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
• How to write the perfect CV
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The world's rules-based order is cracking
• The Pop Culture summer wrap-up – podcast
• Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
• Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
• China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
• Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
• Teenage suspect confesses to attack plot against Taylor Swift concerts
• KAL's cartoon
• The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Umbrella Academy's Final Season Doesn't Quite Stick the Landing
• The Middle East has a militia problem
• How countries rank by military spending
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• French election tracker: Marine Le Pen's hard-right falters
• He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• Extrude - Analyse Binaries For Missing Security Features, Information Disclosure And More...
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• KAL's cartoon
• What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
• Disney's Blockbusters Can't Smooth Parks' Rough Ride
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• NTSB wraps up 'door plug' hearing as new Boeing CEO takes over
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Olympic Athletes Allowed to Compete while COVID-Positive
• How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
• Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• NBC's Olympics Broadcast Isn't Just Addictive. It's a New Era of Streaming
• The best films of 2021
• A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate
• Elmore Nickleberry pinned his hopes to Martin Luther King
• The 6 Best Cold Plunge Pools in 2024—I Spent Months Testing to Find the Best
• America is educating a nation of investors
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads
• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
• This week's cover
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
• Chinese nationalists have issues with "3 Body Problem"
• Why this isn't Britain's TikTok election
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power
• Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
• The Liberal Democrats could become the main opposition in Britain
• 'Massive disinformation campaign' is slowing global transition to green energy
• Can anyone save the world's most important diamond company?
• Europe today is a case of lots of presidents yet nobody leading
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• NASA Losing VIPER Rover Defangs the Science from Planned Moon Landings
• People in Bangladesh: how do you feel about the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina?
• Paris holds first ceremonies for Olympians beaten by doping cheats
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• Jill Biden; Defender-in-chief
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's new plan for tracking people online
• Joe Biden's horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
• The world's most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
• Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary's struggling opposition
• Death and destruction in a Russian city
• This week's covers
• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• Ozark Trail 12-Person Cabin Tent
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• What Did Ancient Humans Think When They Looked Up at the Night Sky?
• How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine?
• This week's covers
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
• Where will the next coup be in Africa?
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
• 'I feel like I've been run over by a tank': Scottish woman breaks world sheep-shearing record
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn
• 'I do have Covid': Noah Lyles reveals positive test after taking 200m bronze
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• Regulators Probing Big Banks' Handling of Zelle Scams
• Apple's 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro is $300 off
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• This week's covers
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
• Will services make the world rich?
• Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
• 3 Columbia University Deans Who Sent Insulting Texts Have Resigned
• Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
• When will Ukraine join NATO?
• Twitch's New DJ Program Has Flaws, But It's the Best There Is
• Castlevania comes to Dead by Daylight on August 27
• Xi Jinping's chaos-loving friends
• 'We don't want to live in a prison': grief and anger in a West Bank refugee camp
• Chris Wilder calls for patience as he undertakes Sheffield United rebuild
• What is the point of industry awards?
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• Social-media populists have arrived in Japan
• Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
• China lists Taiwanese independence supporters it wants people to denounce
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• Do children in England talk too little?
• Best Home Exercise Equipment for 2024
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Google Pulls Olympic-Themed AI Ad After Failing to Stick the Landing
• The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles' Yurchenko Double Pike
• A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• Sergei Shoigu's sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
• Donald Trump is now the oldest candidate to run for president
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Trump's Crypto Embrace Could Be a Disaster for Bitcoin
• Archer to set up air taxi network in LA by 2026 ahead of World Cup
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• Checks and Balance newsletter: How to forecast an election in an unpredictable America
• Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
• The Dueling Vice-Presidential Campaigns
• Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
• The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
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• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom
• How will Britain vote on July 4th?
• Goldman Sachs Wants to Be a Bigger Lender. It's Asking Insurance Companies For Help.
• Commerzbank Confirms Guidance, Announces Buyback
• Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
• Ukraine will hold if it gets the arms it needs, says a top general
• Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• U.K. antitrust officials are probing whether Amazon's multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic poses a threat to competition.
• Arvind Kejriwal's imprisonment is a stain on India's democracy
• Olympic Training Centers Are Using Big Data and AI to Give Team USA an Edge in Paris
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Fiscal nerds determine the fate of legislation in America
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Will the threat of arrests be enough to stop far-right violence? Politics Weekly UK
• 'SimCity' Isn't a Model of Reality. It's a Libertarian Toy Land
• Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout From Big Tech
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
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• Where are Europe's most expensive cities for renters?
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• The world's richest countries in 2024
• Must try harder
• Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• Taiwan's new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• The cocaine trade is booming in Europe's Caribbean territories
• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
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• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• Is Britain's economy finally moving?
• The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
• Donald Trump's promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
• 'Cry It Out' Sleep Training Won't Hurt a Parent or Baby. Bad Sleep Will
• Taylor Swift concerts in Austria cancelled after terror plot uncovered
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
• The ICC's threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israel
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Barry Kemp spent his career digging up Akhenaten's abandoned city
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• Do women make better doctors than men?
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
• Glencore Sticks With Coal, Cites Pendulum Shift on ESG
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
• Hazardous Melting Ice Could Sink Arctic Shipping
• Justice Department wants more time on Trump election interference case
• In Multicultural Liverpool, Residents Rallied Against Hate
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic about what AI can and cannot do
• The U.S. men's basketball team wins a nail-biter over Serbia to play for Olympic gold
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• NASA delays next SpaceX crew launch due to ongoing Starliner problems
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• Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• Lyft 'opens a can of whoop ass' on surge pricing, Tesla's Dojo explained and Saudi Arabia pumps $1.5B into Lucid
• Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics
• TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids' Privacy
• OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
• Why People Are Mad About the 'House of the Dragon' Season 2 Finale
• In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
• Moon 'Spiders' Suggest Extensive Underground Lunar Caves
• Google Search Is an Illegal Monopoly, US Judge Rules
• California celebrates arrival of first pandas from China in decades
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• After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
• Narendra Modi's flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• Big Bubble of Plasma in Space Shoots Fast Radio Burst Toward Earth
• Would building 1.5m homes bring down British house prices?
• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
• She's the New Face of Climate Activism—and She's Carrying a Pickax
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• Baby Boomers Should Stand Up for New York City's Congestion Pricing Plan
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• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Having a Chance Has Changed the Democrats
• The return of the Farage ratchet
• Romania is now a magnet for the world's medical students
• Julian Assange's plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
• Are Britons losing the habit of voting?
• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• Boeing Has Created the Flight Delay to End All Flight Delays
• AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
• A battle royal over deep-sea archaeology in the Caribbean
• How 'World of Warcraft' Devs Launched One of the Biggest Unions in Video Games
• How to Fix the Secret Service Before It Fails Again
• Bird Deaths From Window Strikes Are Way Higher Than We Ever Imagined
• Will Israel retaliate against Iran, or hold back?
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• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
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• KAL's cartoon
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• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• Investors beware: summer madness is here
• The 49 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (August 2024)
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• Should you buy expensive stocks?
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• The 30 Best Energy Drinks, Tested and Reviewed
• OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode
• Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
• The best iPad cases for 2024
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• Move fast and mend things
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• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
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• UFOs are going mainstream
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