1. The Iran war is rapidly engulfing the region

2. Hizbullah, the reluctant proxy, strikes at Israel

3. Data centres in space: less crazy than you think

4. Can Viktor Orban be beaten?

5. Airlines take a hit from hostilities in the Middle East

6. The War Room newsletter: A widening war in the Middle East

7. The modest start of America’s foreign forays

8. Japan faces a post-Fukushima energy dilemma

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10. China’s ice-cold calculus over Iran

11. In Iran, Donald Trump is making history

12. War, succession and the perilous test of two myths about Iran

13. Why Donald Trump gambled in Iran

14. Gavin Newsom wants to reintroduce himself

15. At last, reasons to be cheerful about European tech

16. War in Iran could cause the biggest oil shock in years

17. Ali Khamenei may be dead, but Donald Trump has unfinished business

18. China hopes IVF can slow its baby bust

19. Outside the EU, Britain’s car industry is struggling

20. A cancer diagnosis can push people to crime

21. India, the world’s most colourful country, is changing its hues

22. Ali Khamenei grabbed power and held it, at bloody cost

23. With the supreme leader dead, power in Iran hangs in the balance

24. America’s Gulf allies face a moment of great peril

25. America and Israel bomb Iran, aiming to topple its regime

26. Donald Trump goes nuclear on Anthropic

27. What a Warner Bros-Paramount colossus would look like

28. What does “open war” between Pakistan and Afghanistan amount to?

29. Will magnesium supplements help you relax?

30. The War Room newsletter: Do ceasefires actually work?

31. Brazil’s almighty Supreme Court must win back public trust

32. The Greens’ triumph in Manchester threatens Sir Keir Starmer

33. What North Korea’s mysterious party congress revealed

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37. The Trump court? Not quite

38. The battle to flip Texas

39. Labour’s handling of special educational needs offers hope

40. Britain’s civil service has a new leader

41. Reform UK’s economic plan looks a lot like Labour’s

42. The paranoid style in British politics

43. Who speaks for the Muslim world?

44. China piles pressure on Japan after Takaichi Sanae’s triumph

45. Google Maps makes another pitch for better South Korean data

46. Giorgia Meloni is taking on the courts in Italy

47. Ukraine is scaling up interceptor drones

48. How the war in Ukraine affects Siberian Russia

49. Heathrow’s third runway is turning into another infrastructure fiasco

50. America’s states should beware of copying Europe too much

51. Philippe Gaulier refused to tolerate boring people

52. Mapping China’s holiday rush

53. Ali Larijani is an increasingly plausible heir in Iran

54. Iranians’ angry defiance is growing once again

55. South Sudan’s decrepit regime is unravelling

56. Iran may insist Hizbullah fights on its behalf

57. Donald Trump’s oil embargo reveals a solar boom in Cuba

58. The Sphere is taking its success in Las Vegas to the world

59. The stunning rise of China’s most audacious miner

60. Tony Robbins, the megalosaurus of motivation

61. Each year tens of thousands of Americans accidentally kill

62. Donald Trump is at risk of launching a war without purpose

63. The fake-meat industry is in trouble

64. SOS for India’s Pink City

65. America’s dangerous pursuit of critical-mineral dominance

66. America’s trade chaos is just beginning

67. Protectionists dislike trade and migration. And capital flows?

68. Why Chinese people spend so much on food

69. America’s new era of state-sponsored mining

70. America’s welfare state is more European than you think

71. Investors should demand more transparency from private-markets firms

72. A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong

73. Luxury goods are Europe’s global tax on vanity

74. Anthropic says China’s AI tigers are copycats

75. America’s bosses are being dragged into local politics

76. Americans have no idea what Donald Trump wants from Iran

77. Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

78. One-stop blood tests for multiple types of cancer are increasingly popular

79. To navigate physical spaces, AIs need world models

80. Our language analysis of Donald Trump’s state-of-the-union address

81. Modernisation is making South-East Asia more Islamic

82. Donald Trump’s unworthy state of the union

83. Blighty newsletter: The prince and the lord are a long way from jail

84. A stay-calm plan to save the world

85. Brazil’s high court is caught up in a vast scandal

86. It’s California’s 250th birthday, too

87. For AI labs, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon brings opportunities—and risks

88. Analysing Africa newsletter: An interview with Zambia’s president

89. How to get rich in modern China

90. Bosses should not hold their breath for a Trump tariff refund

91. Heathrow’s expansion is on track to be eye-wateringly expensive

92. The war against PDFs is heating up

93. How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s

94. The War Room newsletter: What is Donald Trump’s aim for Iran?

95. Where the DHS shutdown could start to hurt

96. France’s far left reckons with the murder of a far-right activist

97. The River Thames has changed shape

98. The rotten tail of China’s property bust

99. The killing of Mexico’s most powerful narco will please Donald Trump

100. Rejoice! Private equity is taking over America’s small businesses

101. What are Donald Trump’s strike options in Iran?

102. Why one corner of Europe’s car industry is still booming

103. The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)

104. Markets are churning furiously beneath a calm surface

105. India’s VIP culture is out of control

106. 2026-02-21 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Putin’s forever war

107. Checks and Balance newsletter: Jesse Jackson and the great racial backlash

108. The Midwest’s remarkable turnaround

109. The Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump’s tariffs

110. Should you be fibremaxxing?

111. The moment of reckoning between America and Iran

112. What Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest means for the monarchy

113. A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression

114. China now fills the world’s luxury hampers

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118. Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?

119. A nasty spate of shark attacks in the Sydney area

120. Could One Nation soon become Australia’s most popular party?

121. Peru ousts a president under the shadow of Chinese meddling

122. The Scottish government’s new bonds will waste taxpayers’ money

123. Britain is the closest the world has to an AI safety inspector

124. North London is suffering a measles outbreak

125. Plaid Cymru is on the cusp of power

126. The case for workplace inefficiency

127. Giorgio Armani’s bizarre will has caused a rift at his fashion label

128. Could the next big gambling destination be in the Gulf?

129. Libya has no good options for leaders

130. A book fair in Damascus is a window on the new Syria

131. The global triumph of Nigerian fashion

132. Donald Trump’s policies are reshaping American health care

133. The Trump administration wants to put antifa on trial

134. Different ideas about faith are dividing Republicans over Israel

135. Poles have split and soured on America

136. How Germany fell out of love with China

137. Serbia’s protesters learn it’s hard to topple a president

138. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates must resolve their own differences

139. How to improve American legislators’ lot

140. How four years of war have changed Russia

141. India is in the midst of a data-centre investment boom

142. The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies

143. Did America’s war on poverty fail?

144. Why the IMF’s newest report finds that the yuan is undervalued

145. Prediction markets are rife with insider betting

146. Vladimir Putin is caught in a vice of his own making

147. Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

148. Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust

149. Why insider trading isn’t always bad

150. That irritable feeling that France was right

151. South Korea is still haunted by its disgraced ex-president

152. China’s humanoids are dazzling the world. Who will buy them?

153. Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

154. The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

155. How ICE’s new software tools could speed up deportations

156. Activists are pushing to loosen childhood-vaccine requirements

157. How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine

158. Jesse Jackson made a black president possible

159. Russia’s economy has entered the death zone

160. Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe

161. How big is the prize of reopening Russia?

162. Why the Gulf’s most powerful countries are at odds

163. The financialisation of AI is just beginning

164. Off the Charts newsletter: Coping with outliers

165. Beware China’s shrinking car market

166. It’s a good time to be a British football prodigy

167. The flaws in India’s AI plans

168. The War Room newsletter: Is a peace deal possible?

169. How governments are increasingly soaking the rich

170. The crummiest job in Washington is getting worse

171. Nicaragua has so far dodged the fate of Cuba and Venezuela

172. Americans are unleashing their anger on food-delivery robots

173. Why American allies are flocking to see Xi Jinping in Beijing

174. Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy

175. Dubai’s crazy rich Chinese

176. Checks and Balance: The death of the “endangerment finding”

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178. Why MAGA brands have been a flop

179. The battle to save South America’s skull-crushing big cat

180. India’s pollution is becoming an economic roadblock

181. America offers Europe warmer words, but a deep chill remains

182. How to oust a prime minister

183. How dangerous is Donald Trump’s “endangerment” decision?

184. Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing?

185. Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?

186. ICE’s operation in Minneapolis is about to wind down

187. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why 1873 still matters for America

188. Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot

189. How Africa’s hottest new museum unravelled

190. A deadly attack shows Nigeria’s security crisis is worsening

191. Why Syria and Iraq cannot reconcile

192. Virginia Oliver worked Maine’s waters for nearly a century

193. Emmanuel Macron thinks Europe’s crisis demands buying local

194. Can Germany rearm its way to growth?

195. The European Onion is a joke whose time has come

196. Britain’s shifting GDP numbers

197. Alpha offers a starter course in salvation

198. Britain’s “Hillsborough law”, pledging candour, is avoiding it

199. Tin mining is making a surprise return to Cornwall

200. America’s hottest grocery store is also its priciest

201. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

202. Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem

203. The excruciating quest for a meeting room

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207. What China is really up to in the Arctic

208. What’s the point of AI in acupuncture?

209. Why China’s concert scene has boomed since the pandemic

210. Cuba’s fate may be in Marco Rubio’s hands

211. Central America’s biggest city is eternally snarled with traffic

212. The decline of single-earner housebuyers in America

213. Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools

214. RFK’s idea of making America healthy starts with making it politically sicker

215. The world lacks tenor singers. Or does it?

216. Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network

217. Asia is turning stablecoins into banking infrastructure

218. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket

219. The rich world should beware Brazilification

220. Sir Keir Starmer clings to office—but not power

221. More and more countries are banning kids from social media

222. Don’t ban teenagers from social media

223. The world’s most powerful woman

224. Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom

225. Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation

226. Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards

227. How to put a price on a human life

228. How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate

229. The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied

230. Britain’s predicament will get worse before it gets better

231. A European fighter-jet partnership is verging on a break-up

232. The alternatives to Sir Keir

233. Asia’s capitalists will need to fight for their revolution

234. Humans are not the only animals that treat each other’s injuries

235. Robots with human-inspired eyes have better vision

236. What drives the wage gap between men and women?

237. How Democrats aim to curb ICE without losing votes

238. Entrenched interests are throttling Brazil’s economy

239. The Epstein files are sullying Norway’s squeaky-clean image

240. Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?

241. Should you rent or buy?

242. Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?

243. King Charles tries to limit the fallout from Andrew’s Epstein mess

244. Why Saudis feel squeezed even as the economy booms

245. Why this is the coldest crypto winter yet

246. Blighty newsletter: The Starmer drama overshadows the Labour left’s wins

247. Led by a Marxist, battered by a storm, Sri Lanka is doing better

248. Emmanuel Macron declares a European state of emergency

249. How unpopular is Britain’s Labour government?

250. Why Sir Keir Starmer remains on the brink

251. China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own

252. On the 50th anniversary of “Ways of Seeing” and “G.”

253. Russia’s European sabotage campaign is becoming bolder

254. “Flying” electric boats could remake urban transport

255. The War Room newsletter: Putin’s generals keep being hunted

256. Thailand’s conservatives win a shock big victory

257. At the last open crossing, Ukrainians flee Russia’s annexation

258. How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate

259. How to hedge a bubble, AI edition

260. Checks and Balance newsletter: The danger of prediction markets

261. 2026-02-06 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The dangerous dollar

262. America may be reaching peak Spanish

263. Who might succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister?

264. Lawsuits over transgender medicine for minors could be huge

265. Does being induced lead to a medicalised birth?

266. Meet the leader of Japan’s hard-right populist movement

267. Meet the brains who explain Trumpism

268. Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are cracking down on dissent

269. Voting rights and wrongs in America

270. The “Scream” franchise adds another self-referential sequel

271. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins

272. Georges Borchardt made a life from a love of reading

273. China’s graduates face a whole new set of gruelling tests

274. Why more foreigners are seeking health care in China

275. The reopened Rafah crossing in Gaza brings pitiful gains

276. Two countries have changed their position about war with Iran

277. American aid to Africa comes with more strings attached

278. Hundreds die in a mine collapse in Congo

279. Ethiopia inches ever closer to war

280. After years of despair, Haiti has a sliver of hope

281. The Panama Canal is a hinge point in Donald Trump’s new order

282. Europe proposes a magical fix for its half-finished single market

283. How neighbouring populists fall out

284. How “remigration” is penetrating Europe’s political mainstream

285. Demography puts the brake on classic-car values in Britain

286. Britain’s new union law will reshape its workplace

287. Selling AI to the left

288. Nigel Farage’s dangerous proposal on central-bank reserves

289. Britain’s police reforms are a step in the right direction

290. How democracies are using autocratic tools to muzzle journalism

291. Adults are propping up the toy industry

292. The elusive Czech at the centre of European business

293. When management mantras help—and when they hurt

294. Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost is haunting the grand old men of capitalism

295. As global press freedom dwindles, corrupt politicians rejoice

296. Congress defended American science. Its work is not over

297. How to think about new risks of nuclear proliferation

298. The new Bangladesh is only half built

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