1. Bob Menendez, a prominent senator, faces bribery charges

2. America says it will send long-range missiles to Ukraine

3. Rupert Murdoch isn’t going anywhere just yet

4. America’s missing doctors

5. Why shoplifting is on the rise in Britain

6. Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa

7. China wants to be the leader of the global south

8. China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies

9. How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history

10. China’s claim to the South China Sea gets even odder

11. Demolishing one of Babe Ruth’s last stadiums

12. Khalifa Haftar will use Libya’s floods to deepen his control

13. Lebanon’s prison inmates are running short of food

14. Brazil’s hinterland now resembles Texas

15. The dumbest, wildest budget fight yet

16. America’s states are trying to set rules for the internet

17. Illinois is the first state in America to completely abandon cash bail

18. What Ken Paxton’s acquittal means for Texas Republicans

19. Parts of America are becoming uninsurable

20. Why the EU will not remain the world’s digital über-regulator

21. Angst mounts over Germany’s green transition

22. Britain’s largest freshwater lake has been poisoned

23. The legacy of Liz Truss

24. Britain’s war on drugs enters a new phase

25. Friendships in the office

26. Big pharma can’t get enough of one class of cancer drugs

27. California cracks down on carbon

28. Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race

29. Climate change is coming for America’s property market

30. To end AIDS, high-risk countries will need to jab schoolgirls

31. ChatGPT mania may be cooling, but a serious new industry is taking shape

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36. Western help for Ukraine is likely to diminish next year

37. China isn’t the only country giving out goodies in Asia

38. To endure a long war, Ukraine is remaking its army, economy and society

39. Does China’s fear of floating exceed its fear of deflation?

40. Renewable energy has hidden costs

41. Why uranium prices are soaring

42. How to avoid a common investment mistake

43. Macau offers a new way to get rich

44. What Arm and Instacart say about the coming IPO wave

45. Asian economies are investing more in the neighbourhood

46. Time for a rethink

47. What supermarkets reveal about Britain’s economy

48. Azerbaijan is close to taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh

49. Assessing Republican support for Ukraine

50. Rishi Sunak’s anti-green turn on Britain’s climate targets

51. America’s big car firms face lengthy strikes

52. The disappearance of China’s defence minister raises big questions

53. Finding alien life may require finding new sorts of planets

54. If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences

55. Biden, alone at the top table as the UN withers

56. Europe’s conservative populists pit migrants against babies

57. A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth

58. How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children

59. Azerbaijan attacks Nagorno-Karabakh again—and wants its surrender

60. Welcome to a new era of Asian commerce

61. Russell Brand was the norm in the nasty noughties

62. Meet the world’s new arms dealers

63. China’s “demographic dividend” appears to be a myth

64. A devastating accusation by Justin Trudeau against India

65. Iran’s hostage exchange is part of its diplomatic offensive

66. Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?

67. France rolls out the red carpet for Britain

68. Which languages take the longest to learn?

69. The high-tech, low-tech struggle to end AIDS

70. An interview with the head of Ukraine’s defence intelligence

71. Why aren’t more people being sacked?

72. In America, lots of usable organs go unrecovered or get binned

73. A fight over dangerous dogs in Britain

74. The mystery surrounding China’s missing defence minister

75. Are American children’s books getting more “woke”?

76. Arm’s successful debut may signal an end to the IPO drought

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78. Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state

79. China’s government launches a campaign against medical corruption

80. Wang Fang’s performance in Ukraine highlights divisions in China

81. China’s push to create a single national identity

82. How to unite India, Bollywood-style

83. Hornbills, otters and even a tapir: Singapore is rewilding

84. Kenya wants to pioneer a new African approach to global warming

85. Short of cash, Brazil’s government may end its gambling prohibition

86. Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence

87. Why some GOP candidates don’t act as aggrieved as Donald Trump

88. Texas Republicans may oust Ken Paxton, one of their own

89. Wyoming wants to become America’s crypto capital

90. Drugs to treat alcohol addiction are underused

91. Meet Matus Vallo, Bratislava’s hipster mayor-architect

92. Italy needs more migrants, but has trouble admitting it

93. Rory Stewart and friends need to stop worrying and learn to love politics

94. The (not so) great escape

95. Why more English councils will go bust

96. The Mittelstand will redeem German innovation

97. Electric two-wheelers are creating a buzz in Asia

98. Apple is only the latest casualty of the Sino-American tech war

99. Who is the most important person in your company?

100. Why are so many Britons not working?

101. Modi’s “one India” goal is good for the economy, but not for politics

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105. India’s property market is ready for take-off

106. The resumption of student-loan payments will hit American growth

107. The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe

108. Why Britain has a unique problem with economic inactivity

109. Chinese carmakers are under scrutiny in Europe

110. The judge and the attorney-general fighting for Israeli democracy

111. How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science

112. The EU’s liberals need better ways to deal with populists

113. Germany’s rampant hard-right AfD puts other parties in a fix

114. Why diamonds are losing their allure

115. Has the European Central Bank become too powerful?

116. The dangers posed by a deal between Russia and North Korea

117. How science will be transformed by AI

118. Could AI transform science itself?

119. How scientists are using artificial intelligence

120. A showdown between the DoJ and Google begins

121. Narendra Modi is widening India’s fierce regional divides

122. The lethal negligence of politicians in Morocco and Libya

123. Why is Vladimir Putin looking to North Korea for arms?

124. Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way

125. Joe Biden’s love of unions runs into a giant strike

126. How to get ready for the end of the world

127. Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure

128. A spy for China in Britain’s Parliament?

129. Meet the plucky firms that are beating big tech

130. Are Ukraine’s tactics working?

131. Reassessing the Oslo accords

132. Hunter Biden’s problems show no sign of going away

133. How to avoid a green-metals crunch

134. Europe, not America, is now Ukraine’s largest backer

135. Ukraine’s small Jewish community is thriving

136. Britain’s surprising, upstart universities

137. Kenya’s president, William Ruto, shows two sides

138. What can Chile’s politicians learn from the coup in 1973?

139. “This is a bad moment” for diplomacy: our interview with Zelensky

140. Does China face a lost decade?

141. Which countries get the best night’s sleep?

142. The escape of a terror suspect shines a light on Britain’s jails

143. The old have come to dominate American politics

144. America’s schools start too early. That’s starting to change

145. A welcome return for Britain to the EU’s main research programme

146. China’s Belt and Road Initiative will keep testing the West

147. Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China

148. The Belt and Road, as seen from China

149. Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi is a signal to China

150. The G20 has been a resounding success for India

151. Uzbekistan’s Bukharan Jews are disappearing

152. What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?

153. In just 100 days Nigeria’s new president has made bold reforms

154. Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder

155. A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq

156. Egypt’s cities of the dead

157. What Democrats can learn from Bobby Kennedy

158. An unusual coalition is emerging in California’s school-board fights

159. New York City is restricting Airbnb

160. Where do Americans mingle?

161. Stuttgart’s ever-receding station is Germany’s latest transport fiasco

162. The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey

163. What is killing white Britons?

164. Should Britain’s police chiefs be able to sack rogue officers?

165. How London bus drivers changed the world

166. Britain will ease some environmental rules for housebuilders

167. Networking for introverts: a how-to guide

168. Meet the world’s most enduring product

169. Trade unions take on more American firms—and not just in America

170. TikTok is wading into South-East Asia’s e-commerce wars

171. German builders are on the brink of collapse

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176. Javier Milei would be a danger for democracy in Argentina

177. Meet Javier Milei, the frontrunner to be Argentina’s next president

178. The pandemic has broken a benchmark economic survey

179. Can America’s Supreme Court police itself?

180. A year after Iran was shaken by protests, zealots have tightened their grip

181. The Gulf countries want to reshape the Middle East in their image

182. Argentina needs to default, not dollarise

183. Should you fix your mortgage for ever?

184. How Chicago school economists reshaped American justice

185. China’s slowdown is rattling Asian economies

186. The end of a remarkable era in Indian finance

187. Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing

188. The new Middle East has more money and less mayhem. For now

189. Propane-powered heat pumps are greener

190. The path ahead for China’s Belt and Road Initiative

191. America’s Supreme Court should adopt new ethics standards

192. Can YIMBYs ease the global housing crunch?

193. How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine’s progress

194. Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be

195. Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves

196. Plants don’t have ears. But they can still detect sound

197. The EU’s rotating presidency is a relic of the past. It should be scrapped

198. British MPs debate a crisis over school buildings. Childishly

199. A higher global oil price will help Russia pay for its war

200. The $100trn battle for the world’s wealthiest people

201. Mexico will probably get its first female president next year

202. Studying the link between female sexual organs and the brain

203. Britain is losing its way in cutting carbon

204. Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme

205. Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?

206. Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy

207. America’s bosses just won’t quit. That could spell trouble

208. An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation

209. Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT

210. The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron

211. Ukraine’s counteroffensive is speeding up

212. How successful is egg freezing at preserving fertility?

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214. Wagner routinely targets civilians in Africa

215. When China thought America might invade

216. An old health insurance scheme in China may have saved millions

217. China’s Communist Party has co-opted ancient music

218. China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem

219. South-East Asian democracy is declining

220. What now for Thailand’s weed industry?

221. Japan is preparing for a massive earthquake

222. Wagner’s customers will have to adjust to new leadership

223. Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973

224. Romance (as a category) is far from dead

225. An explosion of lawsuits is not making websites more accessible

226. Cities are suing car manufacturers over auto theft. They have a case

227. Business leaders worry about the rise of the AfD

228. Thousands of Ukrainian men are avoiding military service

229. Britons should watch GB News, carefully

230. Why Britain is so bad at diagnosing cancer

231. Britain’s smaller cities desperately need better transport

232. Political dysfunction in Northern Ireland is the new normal

233. Can Scotland help Labour form Britain’s next government?

234. Cherish your Uber drivers. Soon they will be robots

235. The best bosses know how to subtract work

236. The rise of the Asian activist investor

237. India’s scandal-hit Adani Group forges on

238. From social-media stars to the Mexican army, everyone wants to run an airline

239. How to stop a three-way nuclear arms-race

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243. AI will change American elections, but not in the obvious way

244. Germany’s economic model is sputtering. So are its banks

245. Europe’s economy looks to be heading for trouble

246. How will politicians escape enormous public debts?

247. Which country’s genius deserves the €500 note?

248. Joe Biden’s re-election bid is in trouble

249. Why paranoid nationalism fosters corruption

250. To fix broken mortgage markets, look to Denmark

251. How paranoid nationalism corrupts

252. How artificial intelligence will affect the elections of 2024

253. China is stoking anger over Japan’s release of nuclear waste water

254. Medicare should negotiate with drugmakers. But not set prices

255. How can American house prices still be rising?

256. Who is to blame in Britain for delayed and cancelled flights?

257. Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious

258. Another coup in Africa topples the family dynasty in Gabon

259. Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine

260. Why Libya’s cackhanded Israel diplomacy is bad for America, too

261. A new nuclear arms race looms

262. America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

263. High bond yields imperil America’s financial stability

264. A blunder costs a British town billions

265. A sexism scandal in Spanish football hides the country’s progress

266. Foxconn’s founder, Terry Gou, enters Taiwan’s presidential race

267. China’s shadow-banking industry threatens its financial system

268. Why Europe is a magnet for more Americans

269. India’s surging food prices are a problem not just for India

270. Amazon has Hollywood’s worst shows but its best business model

271. Inside Ukraine’s drone war against Putin

272. North Korea’s borders are creaking open

273. Zimbabwe’s flawed election will ensure its pariah status endures

274. Credit Suisse and the hunt for the weakest link in global finance

275. How to detect an imminent Russian nuclear attack

276. Western air-defence systems help Ukraine shoot down more missiles

277. AI could fortify big business, not upend it

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279. Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India’s future depended on toilets

280. The world should study China’s crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms

281. How an amateur football league in China took off

282. The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China

283. Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin

284. The trials of Muhammad Yunus

285. The challenge of making Palestinian wine

286. Failing to reintegrate Iraq’s Sunni rebels could prove costly

287. Lebanon is experiencing a tourism boom

288. West African views on Niger’s coup

289. American Megachurches are thriving by poaching flocks

290. The rise of “tranq dope” is making America’s opioid crisis worse

291. Floridians should avoid wrestling armadillos unless absolutely necessary

292. New York’s shelter system is being overwhelmed by migrants

293. Post-covid, American children are still missing far too much school

294. Italy’s beaches are an unexpected battleground of the European economy

295. Italy’s hard-right government is starting to look more radical

296. In Belgrade, backers of Ukraine and Russia fight with graffiti

297. How the Blitz changed London for the better

298. How are Russians in Britain faring?

299. Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors

300. El Niño and global warming are mixing in alarming and unpredictable ways