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THE rise and fall of Pavel Durov

The Telegram app is widely used by political protesters but also by criminals. Now its enigmatic founder is under arrest. Can he face down the French authorities?

Five to follow Athletes to watch out for

Froma US swimming stalwart to French cycling’s champion of champions’, this quintet will beon the hunt for medals

Islands laid waste by Beryl survey devastating cost

From the outside, it looks like a typical primary school in the multi-island Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), with children's voices echoing behind the distinctive green walls.

Canal plus The quest to make urban waterways swimmable

Around the world, architects and campaigners are turning previously polluted rivers and harbours into bathing spots

Line in the sand A bitter battle over seabed mining

Rare metals in iron sands off North Island coast could be extracted despite local opposition as government pushes to fast-track proposals

Pokrovsk packs up as Russian invaders close in

Library books are piled in the street, waiting to be removed in a truck.

On the edge War remains possible despite sound reasons for avoiding it

If Israel and Hezbollah wanted an all-out war it would have happened a long time ago.

Is Banksy's latest spree a comment on Gaza?

The artist has reignited the same criminalor genius?’ arguments but there are signs his new Londonworks are more than just monkey business

We Ukrainians have spent our lives trying to escape Russia's legacy

At 35, I'm younger than many things - such as the internet or Apple computers.

The evolution of Kamala Harris

From a childhood activist to US presidential candidate, the daughter of civil rights campaigners has an unbroken history of working to change 'anything that wasn't right', friends say.

Is Trump ok? Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris sows doubts

Even some of Donald Trump's supporters are now asking the question that was the undoing of Joe Biden: is the former president fit for office? But while Biden's run for re-election was largely sunk by a single disastrous televised debate before a national audience, Trump is ramping up doubts with each chaotic, disjointed speech as he campaigns around the country.

'We need to act' Massive Attack stage ultra-low emission gig

As pop stars fly on private jets and haul stage sets around the world, with fans generating significant emissions via their own travel to gigs, Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja has said \"it's time to act\" and address the environmental damage wreaked by live music.

'Everyone was afraid' The families on the mpox frontline

First, liquid-filled blisters developed on three-yearold Marceline Désiré's back.

'You hit us, we hit you' Life in the borderlands of conflict

Like every morning, Ali Abu Khudoud woke up just before dawn last Sunday to perform the fajr prayer.

A vital gauge These Games should tackle social issues, but I'm wary

Progress at the Paralympics also highlights the lack of change in the ordinary lives of disabled people

Paris 2024 Levelling the field

Marie-Amélie Le Fur lost a leg at the age of 15. Nine medals later this elite runner, now head of the Paralympic committee, faces an even bigger challenge – how to ensure Paris 2024 will change French people’s views on life with a disability and open doors for future competitors

'You couldn't pitch that in the US!'

Are the UK'S dating shows the wildest in the world?

We should enjoy this child's creativity rather than use it to sell stuff

If you've ever spent £40 ($50) and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope that this will save your £1,300 deposit, you may greet the following news as I did: with a noise somewhere between a hotwater bottle being emptied and a cry of pain.

Audrey Tang didn't have the easiest of starts in life. THE GOOD HACKER

As an activist turned politician, Audrey Tang is used to breaking boundaries. Now, the world's first minister for digital affairs wants the world to learn how to detoxify the internet

Harris is off to a dream start-but it's too early to count out Trump Jonathan Freedland

Everything is going right for her and wrong for him. Kamala Harris has the encouraging poll numbers and the momentum. Donald Trump has the serial errors, the maudlin introspection and wobbling campaign team.

That sinking feeling

The sad Oompa-Loompa at Willy's Chocolate Experience, an elf at a lowrent Lapland, the DJ who tried to save Blobbyland and a fixer at the ill-fated Fyre festival reveal what happened next after four truly disastrous events

Guns and drugs fuel 'alarming epidemic' of violence

The last thing Raquel Rodriguez remembers of that afternoon is that she was playing with her neighbour's baby outside her home in the Trinidad and Tobago neighbourhood of Barataria in San Juan. Then came a piercingly loud explosion.

Ode to joy Harris gives Democrats a reason to reunite

Tens of thousands of Democrats descended on Chicago this week for their party's convention, bubbling with a feeling few had anticipated: pure joy.

Going viral What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a \"public health emergency of international concern\", the category used in the past for Ebola outbreaks and Covid-19. As fears of a global spread grow, this is what we know.

'A real hero' The brave migrant who tackled a London attacker

After saving young girl, Abdullah talks about his love for the UK, despite fears during the recent riots

Scholars seek to prolong the German conversation

When Londoner Amber Tallon, 30, started learning German at the age of 12, she \"took to it like a duck to water\", she said.

Slow progress Leaders still believe there is more to gain by fighting on

With the most recent round of talks over, hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza in the immediate future look to have been dashed.

Gaza's true death toll concealed beneath the rubble

Dalia Hawas was 24 years old when in February an Israeli airstrike flattened the apartment building where she lived, burying the young mother with her 10-month-old daughter, Mona.

Flipping the narrative The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin and broken the stalemate

When video footage of the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk region began appearing on social media, a joke started doing the rounds with Vladimir Putin asking Stalin what he should do about the German tanks rolling towards Kursk.

Blame game Locals angry at army after Ukrainian incursion

Shock, disbelief and fury that the government downplayed the threat of an invasion and failed to keep its citizens safe