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Tick tick boom Lyme disease-carrying bugs are on the march

They're hard to spot, hungry and, after mosquitoes, the world's biggest vectors of disease. They're found in the countryside and urban parks and infestation rates are increasing. So what can be done about this little blood-sucking pest?

Dismay in Addis Ababa as 'the soul of the city' is razed

In the heart of Addis Ababa, the historic, ramshackle district of Piassa once teemed with shops and cafes. People would come from across Ethiopia's capital city to buy anything from jeans to jewellery.

Red runs Pyongyang's Alps-style paradise gets mixed review

Gliding down pristine, mountain runs, Olga Shpalok said she was \"getting 100% satisfaction\". After a full day of skiing, the designer from Vladivostok relaxed with a visit to her hotel's well-equipped spa and sauna.

Windfarm resistance stalls green transition

In La Guajira, plans for renewables are beset by delays and anger from local Indigenous people

Weeding out knotty threat harder due to climate crisis

Homeowners in the UK are being urged to be extra vigilant of Japanese knotweed growing on their properties after the invasive species emerged six weeks earlier than usual this year after unusually warm weather.

Pave the way Contest to remove tiles and restore greenery

National competition aims to help the Netherlands reach environmental targets by removing garden flagstones

Heavenly host Churches embrace heavy metal

It was a \"bonkers gig\", pairing heavy metal with a pipe organ-a musical curiosity that the bands thought would surely seldom be repeated, if ever.

Is it time to abandon a tax based on house values from 1991?

Battersea power station offered no prospect of luxury living when Tony Belton became a local councillor in 1971. The coal-fired behemoth was nearing closure after 40 years of belching soot over London, and would spend almost as long in dereliction and blight as a result of false starts at redevelopment.

'Inevitable' Kyiv bullish about third attempt on Kerch bridge

In the biggest Ukrainian onslaught inside Russian territory since Vladimir Putin's fullscale invasion two years ago, Ukraine has in recent weeks carried out a series of drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and ports. On 2 April, it hit a refinery and drone factory in the industrial region of Tatarstan - more than 1,300km from the border.

Alone and embattled Netanyahu's woes mount, but he won't be going quietly

For Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the first week of April has perhaps been the worst since the Hamas attack on 7 October, six months ago, that triggered the current war in Gaza.

No one is in charge

The Gaza war has disrupted the world order. As US diplomacy flounders, emerging powers see a chance for new voices to join the top table

Loonsday Clock nears midnight while Tory MPS plot regicide again Marina Hyde

I wouldn't say I'm a Conservative confidencevote prepper, but like many in the political survivalist community I do prefer to keep track of the threat level.

Career ladders may be broken, but a fulfilling job is still within reach

Recently, I sat in a lecture hall with a couple of hundred final-year undergraduate students. Looking around, I thought about my own uncertainty at their age. When I was about to graduate, the future seemed unclear.

Bullies rule at every stage of life, but it doesn't have to be that way

Alarge and impressive study of children's progress into adulthood found that those who display bullying and aggressive behaviour at school are more likely to prosper at work. They land better jobs and earn more.

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Liz Truss trashed the economy as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister. But she is back, launching anew conservative movement and spreading her ideology across the world. Youjust can't keep abad politician down...

THE EMPTY PLINTH

In 1760, a pivotal slave revolt began in Jamaica - and now many want its leader made a national hero. But what if this story is bigger than that?

No end to agony as gangs shift focus to elite 'safe' areas

As gang fighters and police battled outside his home near Haiti's beleaguered capital late last month, Nielsen Daily Fierrier hurled himself to the ground.

'Feeble, tired and unfit' Biden plays hardball with Trump

With November set to be one of the most consequential elections in US history, it would be understandable if Donald Trump and Joe Biden reached for lofty rhetoric: if they attempted to match the highminded ideals of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the nation's founding fathers.

Eyes in the sky How drones are helping animal rights campaigners

Inexpensive and easy to use, they are proving invaluable for activists monitoring illegal fishing, hunting and deforestation - as well as keeping tabs on zoos and aquariums

'We are finally free' Hopes high after poll landslide

Just 10 days before being elected president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was in prison. Years of political turmoil have left the west African state's democracy on the brink of collapse, with deadly uprisings and the jailing of opposition figures commonplace.

How a civil servant won the battle with big tobacco

It was 20 years ago that an Irish civil servant named Tom Power won a remarkable battle against the tobacco industry when Ireland enacted the world's first ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces.

Danish denial as minister is urged to get ona plane’

The Danish health minister should \"get on a plane and visit\" some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland's gender equality minister has said.

Coil scandal The women who were forcibly fitted with IUDs

Victims left traumatised and infertile after birth control devices were inserted without consent by Danish doctors

Lost habitats True cost of a city built from scratch

Nusantara is billed as a state-of-the-art capital city that will coexist with nature but not all residents of Borneo's Balikpapan Bay are happy

Funding lesson Universities fear consequences of clampdown on student visas

Rishi Sunak may not go down in history as \"the man who destroyed UK higher education\", as one former university leader put it, but the prime minister's willingness to clamp down on international student numbers could end up doing just that, coinciding with what one expert called a funding crisis for universities.

What now for Thames Water as investors turn off the taps?

Thirty-five years ago, investors flocked to buy into the water industry, an essential public utility and a monopoly, in a sell-off by Margaret Thatcher that was deeply unpopular with the public, but saw shareholders gain 40%, on average, on the first day of trading.

Bridge clear up crucial to national economy

Crews of engineers have begun the dangerous and intricate job of removing the mangled wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge from the Patapsco River outside Baltimore, as top federal government and Maryland state officials stressed that the health of the US national economy depended on it.

Gulag survivors given voice at Venice Biennale

When Petko Ogoyski was released from communist Bulgaria's gulag in 1953, he built a sixstorey memorial tower in his home village of Chepintsi.

'New future' Opposition sweeps to victory in local polls

Turkey's main opposition party dealt an unexpected blow to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule last Sunday with a sweeping victory in local elections, maintaining control of major cities including the capital, Ankara, and Istanbul, where Ekrem İmamoğlu secured a second term as mayor.

Games threat Paris on alert for Olympics attacks

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, met intelligence services to assess the terrorist threat to the country, after the Moscow concert hall attack claimed by Islamic State (IS) raised fresh security fears over the Paris Olympics.