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Last orders: Trappist beers at risk as vocations drop away

For nearly 190 years the monks of Westmalle in northern Belgium have been involved in making beer.

Grief drives minister's quest for justice

At her inauguration as Brazil's new minister of racial equality, Anielle Franco described the country she wanted to work for.

Bolsonaro ends his exile: Far-right radical plots comeback

Three months after he left Brazil to avoid passing the presidential sash to his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president Jair Bolsonaro has flown home hoping to prove his political career is far from over.

Marin loses as far right square up in coalition showdown

Finland's probable new conservative prime minister, Petteri Orpo, was exploring coalition options this week after a narrow election win that shifted the Nordic country's politics to the right and pushed the party of his predecessor Sanna Marin, a star of Europe's left, into third place.

Australia helps keep schooling on course

Remote learning isn't new for Sofiia Yakymenko. During the Covid pandemic, shut downs, computer screens and distance learning became normal. But the Ukrainian student wasn't used to evenings on Zoom with teachers in the far-flung country of Australia, while rockets flew by her window

'Rebuilding is resistance': How Bucha is springing back to life

Standing on the crumbling roof of a house, dozens of workers hammer in unison. Around them, cranes, bulldozers and trucks work frantically to repair roads and buildings destroyed by Russian artillery.

Iceland rides a classical wave

The island's distinct culture and geography have helped shape a unique orchestral tradition that crosses many genres and the world is starting to pay attention

The school where art meets life

Facing her mortality prompted Tracey Emin to create a lasting legacy, helping her to find fulfilment nurturing younger artists

A tale of two cities

Manchester likes to project an image of the city as a place of protest, rebellion and progressive thought, but this obscures its links to slavery. Now there is a push to acknowledge the Black radicalism in its past

Connections unwound

The Guardian commissioned an academic review of its founders and their connections to the slave trade. This is what it found

All rise

The former president has lit his path to a Manhattan criminal court with invective and dire warnings. However it plays out, Donald Trump is hogging the political spotlight and firing up his support base

Ukraine tests Beijing's skill in managing its conflicted interests

The Moscow summit between the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was described by many international media as a visit that may change the world order. Xi's visit came at a time of great need to isolate Putin, but the rest of the world remains puzzled about precisely how far China will go in supporting Russia in its horrific war in Ukraine.

Without his tribe, Boris Johnson shrank before our eyes

How do you kill off a strongman? How do you drain the political life from the brand of nationalist-populist leader that's dominated politics across the democratic world in recent times? Last week, we may just have got an answer.

Spirited away

An investigation identified hundreds of artefacts in New York's celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art linked to indicted or convicted traffickers. What does this mean for the future of museums?

The Whistle blowers

Players, pundits and fans complain bitterly that Premier League football referees are getting worse each season but is that fair?

Trump's enduring grip on the American psyche

When Donald Trump took his final walk from the White House, boarded a helicopter, and vanished into a cold sky, millions of Americans breathed a sigh of relief.

'I skip meals' Counting the cost of diabetes in global south

'I ration my insulin every month,\" said Khushi Ahuja, a law student from Delhi who has type 1 diabetes and relies on human insulin manufactured by the US company Eli Lilly. While insulin is available at no cost in some public hospitals in India, it is mostly up to individuals to buy the drug.

Could a new industrial lion emerge on Africa's west coast?

When Muriel Akouewanou finished her studies in natural sciences in Benin, she struggled to find work and was unemployed for two years.

Europe's first wild river park defies dam developers

The Vjosa delta, home to myriad wildlife, has been saved from a 'hydropower goldrush'- for the time being

Pride of place Parents name children after ancient lands

Every summer when Tony Paul was a child in Kwajalein, an atoll in the Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands, his parents sent him and his siblings to spend time with their uncle on a remote chain of islands their ancestors once called home.

The tiny island on the frontline of US-China tensions

Fuga Island was set to host a Chinese 'smart city'. Now it may become a base for American troops as the US seeks to protect the region

Netanyahu halts judicial overhaul after angry protests

One word is heard more often than any other on the streets of Jerusalem these days: democratia, or democracy.

'A forever war': Putin prepares his people for long conflict

Over a year into the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the president puts Russia on an ongoing war footing with west

Why women are on the front line of the pension rebellion

As the march against Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms made its way along the Grands Boulevards A north of Paris, a group of women began singing and dancing in the dense crowd.

The Guardian and slavery

A history we must confront

THE TIES THAT BIND US

There is an illusion at the centre of British history that conceals the role of slavery in building the nation. Here's how I fell for it

We're in a perk-cession. Bosses should consider what staff really want

Three-course dinners, access to wellness centres, even free drycleaning - for years the goodies that came with a job in the elite tech sector were more than mere accessories - they symbolised your membership of an exclusive club.

In global affairs, the US still acts only in its own best interests

In the two decades since the second Iraq war, the United States appears like the Bourbon kings who had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq was a story of geopolitical failure and domestic political disaster. To understand the foolhardy decision to launch the war, one must first understand the US grand strategy of global hegemony, pursued by Washington since 1945.

The brainwashing cycle

While we sleep, aneurological deep clean takes place that is crucial for filtering out toxins and warding off dementia. Here's how to optimise it

GLOBAL HEATING: Scientists issue 'final warning' on climate crisis

Scientists have delivered a \"final warning\" on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.