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Catharsis Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad castigates complacent liberal responses and western hypocrisy over the war in Gaza

'Where's the Palestinian Martin Luther King?\" Journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad has heard this question a lot lately, \"the implicit accusation [being] that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them\".

The US's former friends need to realise the old global order is over

A resonant phrase during Donald Trump's first administration was the advice to take him \"seriously, but not literally\".

Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Here, some of Gaza's most senior doctors speak out 'No rules': tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention

Dr Issam Abu Ajwa was in the middle of an emergency procedure at al-Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza when soldiers came for him.

'Why aren't there Oscars or Baftas for what we do?'

From Matilda to Dear England, choreographer Ellen Kane's work has lit up show after show. It's time this art received proper recognition, she says

Print, clone, repeat

How do you follow an Oscar winner like Parasite? In Bong Joon-ho's latest film, a screwball sci-fi, Robert Pattinson keeps dying and being 'reborn'

Star chamber Pharoah's tomb is find of the century

It was when British archaeologist Dr Piers Litherland saw that the ceiling of the burial chamber was painted blue with yellow stars that he realised he had just discovered the first tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh to be found in more than a century.

Can an extinct tree be brought to life?

Abotanical discovery gives hope for resurrecting Rapa Nui's toromiro tree with 'experimental saplings'

a In London, potent mix of religion and rightwingers

The splendours of the Parthenon, Colosseum and Great Pyramid of Giza were in stark contrast to the utilitarian conference centre in London's docklands, but they were there to make a point.

Inflection point Bolsonaro faces 40 years in jail but holds out for Trump lifeline

At the height of Jair Bolsonaro's haywire presidency, Brazilian activists projected their deepest desire on to the Tower of London, where Guy Fawkes once languished after plotting to blow up parliament and assassinate the king.

Shaking off inertia, civic opposition to Trump's cuts gathers pace

On a bright winter's day last week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm-tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk's slash-and-burn effort to reshape the US government.

Chain gang Political theatre seals Musk's Maga hero status

What do you give the man who has everything? A ballroom of conservative activists found out last week when Elon Musk was presented with a chainsaw by Argentina's president, Javier Milei, who has used it as a symbol of his push to impose fiscal discipline.

A hard knock life

Steven Knight's brutal new illegal boxing drama is set in the underside of Victorian Britain. Its stars take ringside seats to tell us about filming the TV series

Let's not leave the baby-making debate to Musk and Vance

Roses are red, violets are blue.

Semla fever How buns went from spring treat to TikTok hit

The earliest version of the Swedish semla was a 16thcentury plain bread bun served in a soup of warm milk eaten only on Shrove Tuesday in preparation for the 40-day fast of Lent.

Objects of desire The intricate and ingenious ways the myriad stuff that surrounds us-and which we take for granted-gets made

It's some measure of the extent of urbanisation that the bookends to our day may not be birdsong but the sound of a kettle as the water in it reaches boiling point.

Corking idea 1970s home's refurb slashes energy bills

For most homeowners, a request from a passerby to touch the exterior of their property would probably raise their eyebrows.

THE WASTE LAND

When China stopped receiving the world's refuse, Turkey became Europe's recycling hotspot. S The problem is, most plastics | can't be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash

Here's why I'm not worried yet about this asteroid hitting Earth

Carrie Nugent

Theatre that aims to bring harmony

The arts centre at the Bidi Bidi settlement offers 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance- and dream of a peaceful future

Merz’s in-tray The pressing problems facing the EU's largest economy

Friedrich Merz, a former banker who has never been a minister, appears likely to be the next chancellor of Germany after his conservative CDU/CSU alliance won the most votes in Sunday’s crucial federal election.

EVERY STEP YOU TAKE

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we're all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

The activists fighting to defend Black Ecuadorian culture

Painted with the support of the city council in 2017, a mural spanning the entire side of a six-storey building in Guayaquil's financial district went largely unnoticed for more than a year in Ecuador's most populous city -until it triggered outrage.

Minorities at risk Anti-migrant hate and xenophobia flourish in the 'time of cowards'

When I think of German democracy, I think of the Larsen B ice shelf: a vast Antarctic structure that remained stable for 10,000 years until – in just over a month, to the horror of shocked onlookers – it collapsed catastrophically.

Moscow plans for post-war return of west's brands

After three years of war and Western isolation, Russians are starting to hope that the recent flurry of US-Russia diplomacy could offer a path to peace in Ukraine - and restore the sense of normality lost when their leader sent tanks across the Ukrainian border.

'I fear for what comes next'

The conservative Friedrich Merz looks likely to be the next German chancellor after his CDU/CSU alliance came top in last weekend's election-but voters are already questioning for how much longer another weak coalition can hold off the country's surging far-right

The courts are pushing back. What if Trump defies them?

Years before he became US vice-president and advocated defiance of the courts over the Trump administration's blitz through the federal bureaucracy and constitution, JD Vance revealed his contempt for legal constraints.

'We're afraid' Can the tide be turned on surging gang crime?

The Operation Restoration Christian school sits amid a line of patched-up housing blocks and streetside cookshops in Trench Town.

Land grab Defiance in the face of 'Riviera' plan

One month after the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinians of Gaza have begun improvising a new life amid the wreckage of the old.

The scandal of the radioactive chapatis

When details about a scientific study in the 1960s-in which Indian women in Britain were given radioactive food without their consent - became public, there was shock and anxiety. But what exactly happened?

Soul.survivors

De La Soul's return was shattered by the death of Dave 'Trugoy' Jolicoeur. Now a duo, they discuss grief, Gorillaz and never giving up