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Maduro glimpses a lifeline as US eases sanctions

It was little more than a year ago that US officials were publicly rubbishing the prospect of engagement with Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, who they described as a “dictator”.

New PM VOWS change but flags 'difficult' China ties

It's a government that represents change, but also has respect for democracy'

Recycling plan aims to stub out cigarette littering

In a move that could provide some income for homeless people and clean up the streets, the Catalan government is looking at paying €4 ($4.25) to anyone who hands in a pack's-worth of cigarette ends at a recycling point.

Who owns Einstein's face?

Thanks to a savvy California lawyer, Albert Einstein has earned far more posthumously than he ever did in his lifetime. But is that what the great scientist would have wanted?

#MeToo is over if we don't listen to victims like Amber Heard

The backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too.

Anarchy on the TV

How do you make a drama about the godfathers of punk when their lead singer is taking you to court and your cast has barely heard of them? Director Danny Boyle reveals all

Life after death

Lou Sedaris was a difficult man who had always baffled his children. So when he died at 98, where would they begin with his funeral?

The banks collapsed in 2008 - our food trade could go the same way

For the past few years, scientists have been frantically sounding an alarm that governments refuse to hear: the global food system is beginning to look like the global financial system in the run-up to 2008.

A Marcos back in power is a warning to the whole world

Earlier this month, Adarna House - a children's book publisher in the Philippines - publicized a special offer on social media: 20% off a #NeverAgain book bundle.

These are the ways in which we can fight for our right to choose

Reproductive rights have been under attack for more than 30 years – by rightwing terrorism against abortion providers

The disunited states

A leaked supreme court draft that could signal the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling on abortion rights has shaken America to its core. Can it survive the fallout?

Lives at risk Women who battled for right to abortion in 70s prepare to fight again

Veteran activists say the drive to overthrow landmark ruling should send warning signals around the world

How Putin fashioned Victory Day to serve his own ends

In cities across Russia on Monday, tanks and missile trucks growled their way along the main streets. Soldiers marched across central squares. Fighter jets roared overhead.

A frontline tussle over interests of climate and commerce

As Greenland eyes tourism and mining to secure its economic future, it is also mindful of controlling costs

“The battle is Partygate versus low council tax'

PM's lockdown breaches and cost of living crisis leave Wandsworth on aknife edge after decades in Tory hands

‘Prices change daily and we are all scared'

Erdoğan's unrealistic policies are behind spiralling inflation, but fallout from Ukraine is pushing Turkey towards a cost-of-living crisis

Re-loaded for television

Video game adaptations are taking over our screens, but what separates a quality TV production from a cynical cash-grab?

Off the scale

Antony Gormley's towering, weather-worn sculptures made him world-famous. Now, with two new works he contemplates the very essence of space and time

Motivated but outgunned Ukrainian soldiers talk of life on the southern front

A group of Ukrainian infantry soldiers stood in a warehouse in southern Ukraine when they were shelled by Russian artillery. Serhiy was hit in the face with shrapnel. He and his recent best friend Hennadiy took a selfie clutching part of the shell which did not hit them.

The trash that can take out a satellite

Millions of pieces of space debris pose a danger to hardware and astronauts. What can be done about all the rubbish left out there?

Globalisation teaches the value of local fixes and self-sufficiency

Rishi Sunak, Britain's chancellor, was in Washington DC last week to discuss the state of the global economy with his fellow finance ministers.

A new anti-colonial struggle has started. Will it reach Putin?

History is teetering on an edge. No one knows which way it will go. Maybe the Russian empire, the last and most terrible of the European empires, will fall. Or maybe it will absorb the hit and survive as it has survived and expanded since the 17th century. You'd be a fool to bet against it. The graveyards of Eurasia are full of those who did.

Beyond kelp Is seaweed our next great hope?

From food to plastics, o ocean vegetation could solve many looming production problems, say researchers

A hard centre

In the end, France opted for laissez-faire over the radical unknown of the far right. In his second term as president, can Emmanuel Macron find a way to connect with an angry and fractured nation?

Vending machines

Almost invisible by virtue of their ubiquity, automated snack dispensers work around the clock to those in need of a little pick-me-up. But who keeps hold of the levers?

Great and small

From a teacup piglet to a hoary pig, from a menacing owlet to a magnificent hunter-Gerrard Gethings' animal portraits show there's grace at every age

“They said the crew was evacuated. It's a cruel, cynical lie!' Relatives despair for the Moskva's missing

For days after the Moskva cruiser sank in the Black Sea, Yulia Tsyvova had been desperately searching for information about her son Andrei.

Round two Macron and Le Pen battle to win over left's voters

Emmanuel Macron is engaged in the battle of his career to persuade leftwing voters many of whom have taken to the streets to oppose his government over the past five years - to turn out this Sunday and give him a second term in office.

Meta pays for cables to reach new users

When government officials in the Nigerian state of Edo set about radically improving poor internet access for its population of 4 million, they didn't have to look far for help.

If Netflix is stumbling, will Wall Street renew or cancel?

Hit after hit - from Stranger Things to Bridgerton cemented Netflix's position as the leading streaming service.