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Bring it on home Led Zep's first biopic

How were the famously interview-shy rock gods persuaded to take part in a film about their early success with the band telling their own story?

Dead souls

The Nobel laureate bears witness to Korea's traumatic past as one woman's quest is told through haunting, harrowing imagery

Object lesson

An expat couple curate their lives by plants anc Radiohead LPs in this deliciously pessimistic chronicle of Berlin life

Legacy of violence

A seething and erudite-but flawedindictment of the west's role in the creation of Israel and everything that has flowed from it

The right are wrong on climate-why is the UK following their lead?

If you care about the world we are handing on to future generations, the news last Thursday morning was dramatic.

Power pointe

Ballet has always been more than just a job for Carlos Acosta. And as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he is trying to make it bigger than ever

Borders can't contain the devastating, destabilising crisis engulfing Sudan

As Sudan approaches its third year of civil war, the dynamics are shifting.

Heroes to villains

With 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez's cast and crew should have been flying high. Then came a social media scandal and a fearsome backlash

Bukele's rise Strongman who became the darling of the right

Five hours after being shot in the belly, a Haitian accountant sat in a Port-au-Prince emergency room pondering how his homeland might be saved.

Trump is fuelling lethal fantasies of driving people from their land

The shock and awe continues and it only gets more shocking and more awful.

Syria's feminist fortress

In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava in north-east Syria has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world

Countries unite against Trump's ICC sanctions

World governments rushed to defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Donald Trump launched sanctions against the global body, which is seen as a vital last resort in prosecuting powerful individuals accused of atrocities including war crimes and genocide.

How well will Charles's revolutionary vision translate to television?

So King Charles is working on a feature-length documentary for Amazon Prime Video, which will apparently detail his philosophy on how to \"transform people, places and ultimately the planet”.

Class war The film that reveals Putin propaganda in schools

As Russian tanks advanced into Ukraine in February 2022, Vladimir Putin was waging a parallel battle on the home front - one fought not with weapons but with ideology, reaching deep into the nation's classrooms.

'Waiting for a miracle' Island asks for equal chance

For the estimated 2,000 residents of Refuge Island, life sometimes feels like that of a refugee.

Schools on high alert as fear of deportation ramps up

As immigration officers moved in on Chicago following Donald Trump's inauguration, carrying out the president's plans for \"mass deportations\", the city's schools began to notice waves of absences.

'Hope has returned' Amazon tribe hails Lula's fight

Two years after Brazil's president vowed to help, the Yanomami are reclaiming their land, health and future

The mind reader

In 2016, Noland Arbaugh had an accident that left him paralysed.

Enjoy the silence

Our increasingly noisy world has been linked to ill health as well as hearing loss. That's not the only reason we need more peace and quiet

'This time, we stay' The families vowing not to leave Gaza

Saaed Salem's eyes filled with tears as he surveyed the remains of his north Gaza neighbourhood on a freezing February morning.

Green belt that's keeping a city cool

Huge swathes of vegetation surround the urban sprawl of Ouagadougou as an unusual project looks to combat the effects of the climate crisis

Debris of war How will Gaza reconstruct its annihilated infrastructure?

After Donald Trump called for what has been described as an \"ethnic cleansing\" of Palestinians to rebuild Gaza as a US \"riviera\" - an idea as unworkable as it is unhinged - the issues of how, if and when Gaza will be reconstructed are back at the fore.

Has Merz's immigration bet played into hands of the AfD?

On a foggy, frigid morning in Saxony, far-right MP René Bochmann could not believe his party's luck in the final days of the German election campaign, with all eyes on Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).

National day unites Māori visitors in show of resistance

Twenty-year-old Keshaan Te Waaka stood for the first time - on the narrow bridge connecting New Zealand's far north coastal town Paihia to the Waitangi treaty grounds, where 185 years ago, Māori chiefs and the British Crown forged a nation-state.

Brink of war Fears grow of escalating conflict in spite of talks

Last weekend, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda - Félix Tshisekedi and Paul Kagame - were among those who took part in a regional summit aimed at ending the resurgent violence in eastern DRC.

The Elon empire It is Musk, not Trump, who is running America

\"Musk has seized control of many of the organs of state. There does not seem to be any way to stop him\"

Soft power Will USAid shutdown surrender ground to China?

Trump's shutdown of USAID has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programs around the world, but it has also ceded ground to the US's chief rival, China, analysts have said.

Electoral autocracy' Trump and the Orbán playbook

The president has moved to gut the federal government, fire critics and reward allies -treading a path similar to 'would-be dictators', such as the Hungarian leader

Is the levy dry? Why Trump blinked before imposing his 'beautiful' tariffs

Donald Trump was in his element last week. Asked if he would really unleash a trade war on the US's closest neighbours, the president talked tough in the Oval Office.

Trump lives in a fantasy political world but reality will prevail

Why exactly is Donald Trump's new presidency so disorienting? So far, explanations have tended to focus on its manic pace, contempt for political conventions and blatant subversion of supposedly one of the world's most robust democracies.