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Penthouses and loans Inside the black hole of FTX

After the crypto exchange collapsed, the expert who handled the Enron debacle came inand was shocked by what he found

Rescuers race to save lives as hundreds die in quake

Indonesian rescue workers were racing to reach people still trapped in rubble on Tuesday, a day after an earthquake struck the main island of Java, as the death toll rose to 252.

Did Hunt rescue the Tories or is the game up?

The latest chancellor's budget comes in the shadow ofthe Liz Truss debacle, hard times ahead and low party morale

Hong Kong diaspora forges new life and links in Colchester

In a bustling park cafe in Colchester on a sunny November day, a group of chatty women are busy serving up Hong Kong delicacies - milk tea, pineapple buns, noodles - to a steady stream of local customers.

G20 meeting Reunion for Xi and Biden as Russia left out in the cold

The G20 meeting in Bali signalled Xi Jinping's emergence from three years of self-imposed pandemic isolation, with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, among those keen to secure a chat and photo opportunity with the Chinese leader.

Pressure grows to halt trade in Russian diamonds

Through just 1 sq km in Belgium's second city pass 86% of the world's rough diamonds.

On the brink The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27, but we can't let hope go the same way

When the history of the climate crisis is written, in whatever world awaits us, Cop27 will be seen as the moment when the dream of keeping global heating below 1.5C died.

Missing the boat?

Aclimate finance deal for developing countries was welcome, but hopes of keeping to the 1.5C global temperature increase now seem remote

Hair we go again

The bands that once ruled rock may be making a return. But is there more to glam than loud riffs, spandex and debauchery?

Covid has left Pyongyang even more scarily isolated than ever

Until January 2020, the joint security U area of the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) was the one place on the peninsula where forces from North and South Korea stood face to face - a spot where Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump even met and shook hands.

Up in arms The new generation trying to ban the bomb

As nuclear dangers gather momentum three decades after the cold war, a disarmament movement is rising to meet them, with a new generation of activists.

How ruling against Roe helped push back a GOP 'red wave'

Earlier this year, after a tectonic decision by the US supreme court to overturn Roe v Wade, eliminating the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, Joe Biden predicted American women would revolt.

The World Cup of woe

The world's biggest football tournament was meant to be a moment of triumph for the tiny emirate, but instead it sparked a chorus of global criticism. Has Qatar already lost at geopolitical football before a kick has been taken?

Like it or not, the World Cup is happening-and we might even enjoy some of it Jonathan Liew

And now, finally, some football. For much of the 12 years since Sepp Blatter's fumbling fingers ripped open an envelope containing one word and a thousand questions, the 2022 World Cup has been able to exist in our minds as little more than a surreal abstraction. A computer-generated simulation.

Pulling out Putin realises that retreat is better than eventual defeat

The Russian decision to withdraw from the city of Kherson to defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnipro River was driven by sound military logic.

Zelenskiy accuses Russia of war crimes in Kherson

After elation in the liberated city, residents left without power or water assess the toll of eight months of occupation

Languages, art and drama face axe in state schools

Subjects including German, French, art, drama and design technology could be shut off to many state school students as heads say they are being forced into cutting expensive and less popular lessons to address crippling deficits.

Shocking scale of pupils' hunger is revealed

Children arriving at school with mouldy bread, or even nothing, as 100,000 are frozen out of free school meals

What's new copycat?

Al image-makers can generate pictures in moments. Some creatives fear for commercial art's future but others are sceptical of the hype

Data figures How a digital project is reuniting lost bronzes

Cheerfully gnashing their magnificent fangs as they stand side by side, the two bronze leopards look back on a journey that was as adventurous as it was cruelly absurd.

The border village that's greeting its first visitors for 22 years

Israeli tourists stroll around the quiet village of Ghajar, buying fresh juice from enterprising new street vendors.

'Life is hard' How peace has failed Farc female ex-fighters

The 2016 ceasefire was meant to reintegrate civil war rebels, but many feel condemned to lives of poverty and danger

How to move a country

In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be under water. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there is a plan and the world is watching

We won't rest until the cruel regime is deposed and our country is free Golriz Ghahraman

Being an Iranian woman is a heavy birthright. It comes with knowing a true, deep, feminism, while also knowing violent oppression at the hand of the government ruling our homeland.

The target of 1.5C is unattainable.We need to stop hiding behind it

In his Cop27 speech last week, the UK's will he-go, the won't-he-go prime minister said that stopping the planet from dangerously overheating was still within our grasp, leaving many wondering just what planet he was on.

Democracy is at risk'

Nobel peace laureate Maria Ressa is facing prison in the Philippines. She opens up about the dark side of social media and the erosion of truth in politics. Plus, read an exclusive extract from her new book

Changing times A kaleidoscopic journey through the musical influences that shaped Bob Dylan's 60-year career-from Perry Como to the Fugs

When the young Robert Zimmerman discovered folk music in the late 1950s, he was transfixed.

An English coast reveals a mass extinction. We now risk another

Budleigh Salterton, on the south coast of Engand, sits above the most frightening cliffs on Earth. They are not particularly high or especially prone to collapse. The horror is contained in the story they tell. For they capture the moment at which life on Earth almost came to an end.

Battle royale

The new series of Netflix's The Crown is plunging into inflammatory territory. Will King Charles really simmer in silence?

No more drinking water, little food: our island is a field of bones

Some years ago, an Australian friend gave me a necklace with a beautiful and distinct pendant.