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Young at heart Two-fifths of all Africans are aged under 15. School funding is the key to their futures

The African Union (AU) is marking 2024 as its first Year of Education. This could not have come at a better time.

As Ukraine burns, Russia is thriving

Kyivneeds 500bn to get the country back on its feet. But Moscow has so little debt that even sanctions have not done much damage... yet

Is democracy in Africa on its last legs?

Senegal's slide into chaos bodes badly in a year of key elections for the continent, the future of which lies with a younger generation that seems disillusioned by the apparent failures of elected leaders and stagnant economies

Shadow Of Ukraine War Looms Over Security Conference

On the top floor of Literaturhaus in Munich, the Ukrainian veteran Yuliia Paievska was asked to speak to the elite of the transatlantic security and political establishment, including Hillary Clinton and the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, as they lunched on a three-course meal, served with military precision.

Nato-Sceptic Trump Fires A Wake-Up Call To Europe

The annual meeting of western leaders and security officials in Munich was held this year under a dark cloud of foreboding surrounding Donald Trump's potential return to the US presidency.

Boom To Bust? How Trump Recast Himself From Business Tycoon To Victim

From Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue to the Trump Building on Wall Street, the Trump World Tower by the United Nations to the Trump International overlooking Central Park, Donald Trump has stamped his name on skyscrapers across New York City.

Fears and desires

At a powerful exhibition in Lviv, Ukrainians reveal their most secret thoughts -while others play conflict karaoke with the sounds oftanks, sirens and bombs

Brussels is panicking over farmer protests: welcome to 'greenlash'

Ursula von der Leyen surrendered to angry farmers this month faster than you could shake a pitchfork or dump a tractor-load of manure outside the European parliament.

Super bowls

Pet food is a $150bn industry, with vast resources spent on working out how best to nourish and delight our beloved charges. But how do we know if we're getting it right?

ROBOT WARS

From the academic who says humanity has five years left, to the workers worried for their future, there's a growing band of neo-luddite experts who believe it's time to say no to artificial intelligence. Even if that means taking up arms...

Cellphone generation hung up on a landline renaissance

Landlines are nearing obsolescence. For many young people, they've gone the way of CD-Roms, cassette tapes and the humble printer. On TikTok, parents film their children holding wall phones like archival pieces, unsure of how to place a call. Payphones are long gone, too. But not everyone's ready to hang up the curly-corded receiver.

Hip op, don't stop Inside the world of joint replacements

A new hip or knee is no longer just for older people. With thousands of operations in the UK each year, can technological advances help?

Hot-air balloon fans flying in face of law

Cats chased shadows through the pre-dawn gloom as the men hit the streets of suburC ban Rio and set off towards their objective. \"I've not slept,\" said one early riser, a bushy-bearded office worker called Arthur Araújo, as he emerged from his home to fulfil a \"dream\" one year in the making.

Traditional fishers in Italy fight for right to catch tuna

Tonnare and their ancient practices face extinction as a few big fleets hold the lion's share of quotas and permits

February on course to be hottest in human history

Unusually hot days and a rapid rise in ocean surface temperatures as global heating combines with El Niño

High pressure UK forecasters to boldly go a month ahead

The mainstay of British casual the unexT conversation pected state of the weather - is under existential threat.

'Betrayal' A mother's anguish as ex-general wins power

Every Thursday for the past 17 years, in searing heat and pouring rain, Maria Catarina Sumarsih has stood outside the Indonesian presidential palace, demanding justice for her son. He was shot dead in 1998, when authorities opened fire on students protesting against the rule of dictator Suharto.

The jailed leader who could be key to ending Gaza crisis

At times of great upheaval in Palestine, people start to talk about Marwan Barghouti. The 64-year-old political leader serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for murder represents the prospect of a shake-up to the status quo. Palestinian towns - and the Israeli-built concrete walls that cut them up-are covered in graffitied images of Barghouti, his handcuffed hands held high above his head.

'The sun is gone' After Navalny's death, many fear what an even bolder Putin may do next

Vladimir Putin smiled and looked unusually festive last Friday as he praised factory workers and joked with state reporters at an industrial plant in the Ural city of Chelyabinsk.

'I have to stay' Why exile was never an option for Putin's leading critic

Had he remained outside Russia, Navalny may have been able to coordinate a powerful anti-war movement. Instead, he is silenced for ever

Shock, anger Pand war fatigue

On the second anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the fall of Avdiivka has given Russia its first gain in months. In Kyiv, cracks in morale are showing. What happens now?

What do chefs eat on their night off? The answer is surprisingly simple

I've often wondered what chefs eat for dinner on their night off - I'm in need of easy, delicious meal ideas!

People who crave cocaine rarely consider who really pays for it

What happened in Ecuador a few weeks ago, when the country descended into gang violence and TV journalists were seen by millions cowering in front of people pointing high-powered weapons W at their heads, was described in many ways.

NOT GOING OUT

Is a misspent youth a thing of the past? How teens and twentysomethings became the homebody generation

"WE ALL LOST.THAT'S WHERE HATRED LEADS"

In 2014, terrorists took US photojournalist the Syrian desert, decapitated him then shocked the world with video footage of his death. A decade on, his mother Diane talks about her doomed attempts to save her son and the meeting that has helped her to heal By Emma Brockes James Foley into

The small town racing to salvage a mystery shipwreck

Freezing waves crashed into Shawn Bath and Trevor Croft as they braved the unforgiving swells of the north Atlantic. Snow fell as the two local men took turns with a hacksaw: one cutting through the planks of a centuries-old shipwreck while the other kept a close watch on the cresting breakers.

Memory fail Brutal week that Biden, and voters, won't forget

For those campaigning to bring Donald Trump back to the White House, last week saw much to celebrate. For those concerned for the health of American democracy, it felt like a disaster.

A year after Gabrielle, coastal town struggles to find its feet

Last year, Wairoa, a small farming community on New Zealand's east coast, closed its only retirement home. It had been badly damaged in February's Cyclone Gabrielle and the cost to repair it, along with the risk of future flooding, was deemed too high.

Long player New chord in John Cage gig with just 616 years left

When Halberstadt's St Burchardi church opened its doors for a oncein-a-lifetime musical experience last Monday, some of the spectators streaming into the 11thcentury building had booked their tickets years in advance and crossed continents to get there. But none of them were demanding an encore.

Influencers and litterers mar boom in tourism

At the height of the pandemic, the restaurateurs and shopkeepers of Tsukiji market in Tokyo must have dreamed of days like these. Columns of visitors shuffle along the narrow streets, pausing to inspect hand-forged kitchen knives and tsukemono pickles, and to sip gratis samples of green tea. Restaurants tempt the crowd with sticks of grilled wagyu and boiled crab legs.