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February 28, 2025
'I fear for what comes next'
The conservative Friedrich Merz looks likely to be the next German chancellor after his CDU/CSU alliance came top in last weekend's election-but voters are already questioning for how much longer another weak coalition can hold off the country's surging far-right

5 mins
Merz’s in-tray The pressing problems facing the EU's largest economy
Friedrich Merz, a former banker who has never been a minister, appears likely to be the next chancellor of Germany after his conservative CDU/CSU alliance won the most votes in Sunday’s crucial federal election.

3 mins
Minorities at risk Anti-migrant hate and xenophobia flourish in the 'time of cowards'
When I think of German democracy, I think of the Larsen B ice shelf: a vast Antarctic structure that remained stable for 10,000 years until – in just over a month, to the horror of shocked onlookers – it collapsed catastrophically.

3 mins
Moscow plans for post-war return of west's brands
After three years of war and Western isolation, Russians are starting to hope that the recent flurry of US-Russia diplomacy could offer a path to peace in Ukraine - and restore the sense of normality lost when their leader sent tanks across the Ukrainian border.

2 mins
Chain gang Political theatre seals Musk's Maga hero status
What do you give the man who has everything? A ballroom of conservative activists found out last week when Elon Musk was presented with a chainsaw by Argentina's president, Javier Milei, who has used it as a symbol of his push to impose fiscal discipline.

3 mins
a In London, potent mix of religion and rightwingers
The splendours of the Parthenon, Colosseum and Great Pyramid of Giza were in stark contrast to the utilitarian conference centre in London's docklands, but they were there to make a point.

2 mins
Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Here, some of Gaza's most senior doctors speak out 'No rules': tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention
Dr Issam Abu Ajwa was in the middle of an emergency procedure at al-Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza when soldiers came for him.

6 mins
Can an extinct tree be brought to life?
Abotanical discovery gives hope for resurrecting Rapa Nui's toromiro tree with 'experimental saplings'

3 mins
Corking idea 1970s home's refurb slashes energy bills
For most homeowners, a request from a passerby to touch the exterior of their property would probably raise their eyebrows.

2 mins
Theatre that aims to bring harmony
The arts centre at the Bidi Bidi settlement offers 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance- and dream of a peaceful future

3 mins
Star chamber Pharoah's tomb is find of the century
It was when British archaeologist Dr Piers Litherland saw that the ceiling of the burial chamber was painted blue with yellow stars that he realised he had just discovered the first tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh to be found in more than a century.

2 mins
Semla fever How buns went from spring treat to TikTok hit
The earliest version of the Swedish semla was a 16thcentury plain bread bun served in a soup of warm milk eaten only on Shrove Tuesday in preparation for the 40-day fast of Lent.

3 mins
The activists fighting to defend Black Ecuadorian culture
Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a mural spanning the entire side of a six-storey building in Guayaquil's financial district went largely unnoticed for more than a year in Ecuador's most populous city -until it triggered outrage.

3 mins
Shaking off inertia, civic opposition to Trump's cuts gathers pace
On a bright winter's day last week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm-tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's slash-and-burn effort to reshape the US government.

3 mins
Inflection point Bolsonaro faces 40 years in jail but holds out for Trump lifeline
At the height of Jair Bolsonaro's haywire presidency, Brazilian activists projected their deepest desire on to the Tower of London, where Guy Fawkes once languished after plotting to blow up parliament and assassinate the king.

3 mins
THE WASTE LAND
When China stopped receiving the world's refuse, Turkey became Europe's recycling hotspot. S The problem is, most plastics | can't be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash

10+ mins
EVERY STEP YOU TAKE
Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we're all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

10+ mins
The US's former friends need to realise the old global order is over
A resonant phrase during Donald Trump's first administration was the advice to take him \"seriously, but not literally\".

4 mins
Here's why I'm not worried yet about this asteroid hitting Earth
Carrie Nugent

3 mins
Let's not leave the baby-making debate to Musk and Vance
Roses are red, violets are blue.

3 mins
Print, clone, repeat
How do you follow an Oscar winner like Parasite? In Bong Joon-ho's latest film, a screwball sci-fi, Robert Pattinson keeps dying and being 'reborn'

7 mins
'Why aren't there Oscars or Baftas for what we do?'
From Matilda to Dear England, choreographer Ellen Kane's work has lit up show after show. It's time this art received proper recognition, she says

3 mins
A hard knock life
Steven Knight's brutal new illegal boxing drama is set in the underside of Victorian Britain. Its stars take ringside seats to tell us about filming the TV series

4 mins
Catharsis Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad castigates complacent liberal responses and western hypocrisy over the war in Gaza
'Where's the Palestinian Martin Luther King?\" Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad has heard this question a lot lately, \"the implicit accusation [being] that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them\".

3 mins
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