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Strictly defence

Nato resolve remains fixed on economic interventions

Xi's patriotic Hong Kong vision is a hard sell for foreign firms

During his first trip outside mainland China since the Covid pandemic began, president Xi Jinping declared a new era for Hong Kong which, in his words, had "risen from the ashes". New priorities have been set for a city that, until two years ago, was engulfed in street protests: political loyalty, social stability and economic development.

Strikers are providing the opposition Britain desperately needs Andy Beckett

In Britain, more than in most democratic countries, going on strike is a risk. Your employer, the government, most of the media, much of the public and often the opposition parties are likely to be against you - or, at best, unsupportive.

Sinking chips

Devastating losses and broken how digital currencies such as bitcoin and 'stablecoins' went from boom to collapse

Into the breeches

The Regency period lasted just nine years, so why does it dominate popular culture?

Different strokes

Timely biographies of the principal adversaries in Ukraine pit a former comic actor against a brutally pragmatic strongman

Could Ron DeSantis be America's new Maga bearer?

He was the most powerful man in the world, the possessor of the nuclear codes. Yet he behaved like a deranged manchild who threw temper tantrums, and food against the wall.

After burners: turbocharge your desserts with these griller thrillers

You're essentially looking at fruit here, Sam. But that doesn't necessarily mean chocolate-stuffed bananas.

Septic isle - How one community got rid of a toxic dump

Toru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries and runoff the colour and consistency of treacle blighted the landscape on Teshima, his island home in Japan's inland sea.

San Antonio residents reel from latest smuggling tragedy

Tony Bokanian got a call last Monday from a neighbour who told him police were massed near his used auto parts business on the south-western edge of San Antonio in southern Texas.

Ruthless innocence

A heart-rending tragedy set in a dysfunctional rural commune captures the pure sugar-rush of the last days of childhood

Feminism is not over, the work goes on everywhere every day

As it happened, I was in Edinburgh the day Roe v Wade was overturned, and the next day I caught a train back to London and did what I usually do when I get anywhere near King's Cross station.

If it cared, TikTok could inform not inflame Kenya's political debate Odanga Madung

Over the past year, I have submerged myself in propaganda, trying to study the information nerve-endings of Kenyan politics.

A Muppet makeover

The stage version of My Neighbour Totoro has smashed box office records. We meet the Jim Henson puppeteers bringing Studio Ghibli's beloved film to life

MUSIC - Billie Eilish

Eilish seems to be enjoying herself. Bathed in red light, she unselfconsciously throws herself into unfettered, unchoreographed dancing during You Should See Me In a Crown and All the Good Girls Go to Hell.

Bibi, or not Bibi? Netanyahu plots his comeback

Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum

Paula Rego

'She is dancing among the greats' Jonathan Jones celebrates an artist and bold storyteller of freakish imagination

What are the best Italian cookbooks to serve up a taste of la dolce vita?

As will Cucina Salentina, by Lucia Lazari, adds Theo Randall, chef-patron of Theo Randall at the InterContinental.

Shot in the arm

Arron Banks's libel loss is a timely boost for journalism

Ships in the night

How supply bottlenecks are transforming the global economy

Hear them roar - A war cry for rebellious women told by the granddaughter of a wise, bawdy and irrepressibly defiant survivor

Her novels are heart-wrenching and raw; all, in some way, about the drudging ordinariness of female pain, indignities from which she extracts tearful belly laughs.

Forget politics, sport is leading the way in tackling racism - Mihir Bose

Against that backdrop, the idea that sport could play a leading role in dragging a reluctant world into a non-racial future may seem a ridiculous fantasy.

Empty class Students left in limbo as strike rolls on

Before February, Khalil Rahman Abdullah would start his day with morning prayers before racing off to classes at the University of Ilorin, where he is a final-year medical student.

'What a ball-buster!'

Juno Temple, the comic spark in Ted Lasso, relishes her new role as the no-nonsense assistant who got The Godfather made...by confronting mob bosses

'A global catastrophe' Women will suffer if court upends Roe

Activists warn that anti-choice groups will thrive if 1973 ruling is overturned especially in developing world

'A struggle to survive': why tourists' return is essential

Every day, for the past 20 years, Joyce Naserian has laid out her handmade curios near an entrance to the Maasai Mara park to sell to passing tourists. Her earnings have helped the 46-yearold feed and educate her four children.

Any ceasefire deal ceding territory is ruled out

Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region last weekend.

How a green corridor could save a deer in peril

Only 1,500 huemul remain, but rewilding swathes of land may help the animal that appears on Chile's coat of arms

Curious orange

Curcumin, a chemical extracted from the spice turmeric, could be a natural treatment for illnesses ranging from osteoporosis to cancer. What's puzzling scientists is how to get it into the bloodstream in sufficiently high volumes

Land parcels Amazon HQ plans divide Indigenous groups

Smoke curls into the air, a drum beats, the dance begins, a chant is raised. Ten metres away, cars howl past on a busy road, drivers unaware of the sacred ritual taking place in the centre of a bustling South African city.