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Grand angle - London Marathon

1. The London marathon usually takes place in April and is set around the Thames. It gathered 42,000 runners in ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Jacinda Ardern Did you know that this year is also a presidential election year for New Zealand? Compared with the ...

The politics of patriotism

1. The last time a Democratic presidential candidate was nine points ahead in a two-horse race, less than four months from ...

'I Feel Sorry for Americans': A Baffled World Watches the U.S.

1. Myanmar is a poor country struggling with open ethnic warfare and a coronavirus outbreak that could overload its broken ...

Focus

1.~A campaign like no other   The first debate between Biden and Trump was heavily criticised. Trump kept interrupting Biden. ...

Fall's here. Can we still go apple picking?

1. Across much of the country, fall is the season of apple-picking, corn mazes, winery harvests and Halloween hauntings, luring ...

Why doing nothing is a radical act for India's women

1. When Surabhi Yadav’s mother, Basanti, died,Yadav realised she had never really known her. “I knew her as my mother, ...

Sur le vif

1.~Why do the French love to complain? The British often perceive the French as a nation that loves to complain ...

À 360°

1.~FINLAND Sniffing Covid-19 Helsinki Airport in Finland is currently offering free coronavirus tests to its passengers. Rather than a temperature ...

Fear grows of a December Brexit without a deal

1. On June 15th Boris Johnson promised to put “a bit of oomph” into trade talks between Britain and the ...

Who is Amy Coney Barrett?

1. By the time she graduated at the top of her Notre Dame Law School class in 1997, besting 187 ...

Human beings are wreaking havoc on the Earth's biodiversity

1. “HUMAN BEINGS have overrun the world.” So laments Sir David Attenborough, a world-famous nonagenarian naturalist, in his new film, ...

Instagram at 10: how the app changed our sense of self

1. Last month more than 1 billion people posted photos on Instagram. In ten years, it has rewired society. It has ...

Zoom sur Michael Kiwanuka

1.~Early life Michael Kiwanuka was born and raised in London, of Ugandan parents who fled the regime of Idi Amin ...

Les échos

1.~29 tonnes of carrots “Does anyone know why a significant volume of carrots has just been dumped on Goldsmiths university ...

Trigger happy: The mysterious world of ASMR

1. ASMR is the third most popular search term on YouTube worldwide. But in case you haven’t heard of it, it stands ...

How immigration and movement are central to human history

1. “A wild exodus has begun,” writes Sonia Shah early on in The Next Great Migration. “It is happening on every ...

Le dessin

1.~What goes around comes around?   Donald Trump, having consistently downplayed the coronavirus over the last few months, was hospitalised ...