1. Germany cannot afford to wait to relax its debt brake

2. How gaga is MAHA?

3. Dallas: Utopia for the Trump-curious CEO

4. Once dominant, Germany is now desperate

5. Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image

6. What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

7. Most Ukrainians now want an end to the war

8. Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever

9. Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty

10. The two types of human laugh

11. Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies

12. How squid could help people get over their needle phobia

13. Germany election 2025 tracker: who’s ahead in the polls?

14. Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders

15. Get ready for “Maximum Pressure 2.0” on Iran

16. Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines

17. Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong

18. Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal

19. Blighty newsletter: Why phone signal in Britain is awful

20. How Chinese is Shein?

21. The story of Britain’s “ginaissance”

22. Is your master’s degree useless?

23. Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind

24. Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds

25. What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?

26. Ukraine can, at last, use its American missiles inside Russia

27. Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again

28. How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true

29. Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s resilient transition chief

30. The terrifying perils of appeasing a warlike Russia

31. Ukraine’s secret army in France

32. Checks and Balance newsletter: Readers’ hopes and fears for a Trump presidency

33. What would Robert Kennedy junior mean for American health?

34. Which countries have the most-educated politicians?

35. The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think

36. Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week

37. China’s greatest dumpling run

38. A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China

39. Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?

40. South Australia tries to ban political donations

41. Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground

42. Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems

43. The world’s next country?

44. To get more capital Africa needs more data

45. Brazil’s gangsters have been getting into politics

46. The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep

47. Back to the 1850s

48. Climate change and the next administration

49. Senate Republicans flex their independence

50. Elon Musk threatens to deepen the rift between Europe and America

51. How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing

52. Italy’s oddest political party is splitting

53. The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus

54. The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship

55. Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?

56. Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns

57. Britain’s star builder hits trouble

58. How to frame the argument over clean power

59. The magic and the minefield of confidence

60. Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?

61. Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation

62. Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes

63. TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope

64. America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed

65. China should not wait to stimulate its economy

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69. How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon

70. India is turning into an SUV country

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72. Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t

73. Economists need new indicators of economic misery

74. Why financial markets are so oddly calm

75. How to pay for the poor world to go green

76. China, Europe, Mexico: the biggest losers from Trumponomics

77. What’s about to hit the world economy?

78. Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen

79. Republicans finally win the coveted trifecta

80. The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon

81. How to avoid global chaos in the next ten weeks

82. Justin Trudeau’s dodgy defence promise

83. What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will go

84. Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage

85. The danger zone between two presidents

86. Donald Trump is bad news for German business

87. 2024’s biggest revolution may yet devour its children

88. After the revolution, Bangladesh is stable. For the moment

89. Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda

90. Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models

91. Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena

92. Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China

93. What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?

94. Why crypto mania is reaching new heights

95. Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour

96. The archbishop and the abuser

97. Volodymyr Zelensky faces a power struggle in 2025

98. How to avoid Oval Office humiliation

99. How to get hired for the Trump White House

100. King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead

101. Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump

102. The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service

103. There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps

104. Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren’t going anywhere

105. The world’s most unlikely safe haven

106. America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world

107. Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell

108. Dana White, martial-arts magnate and Trump cheerleader

109. Did sexism propel Donald Trump to power?

110. China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms

111. Five charts show how Trump won the election

112. How we will cover a second Trump presidency

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116. Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in “garbage time”

117. Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?

118. Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted

119. South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza

120. Myanmar’s junta chief finally goes to China

121. Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?

122. Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue

123. Israel’s war aims in Lebanon are expanding

124. Will Donald Trump “stop the wars” in the Middle East?

125. BRICS isn’t exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela

126. Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule

127. Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs

128. Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice

129. Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again

130. Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too

131. Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy

132. What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?

133. What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing

134. A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts

135. Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions

136. What does it mean to wear a poppy today?

137. Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget

138. What would Elon Musk do in government?

139. Why being wrong is good for you

140. How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?

141. Why open-source AI models are good for the world

142. Europe needs to wake up and look after itself

143. Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters

144. Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory

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146. Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom

147. What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory

148. India’s startup scene is picking up speed again

149. The world faces its worst trade wars since 1930s

150. A scourge that damages babies’ brains is coming back

151. What Narendra Modi’s third term may look like

152. Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too

153. Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations

154. India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution

155. Barbarians on the porch

156. Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project

157. Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!

158. How to protect India’s shareholder capitalism from itself

159. Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worse

160. America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal

161. Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl

162. Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century

163. A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

164. As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback

165. Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister

166. How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy

167. Welcome to Trump’s world

168. The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world

169. Donald Trump wins big and fast

170. Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House

171. The Republicans gain control of the Senate

172. Winning North Carolina, Donald Trump seizes the early advantage

173. Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measure

174. Three reasons why Donald Trump might outperform the polls

175. Blighty newsletter: Will Britain’s Trump trauma repeat itself?

176. Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android

177. Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much

178. China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid

179. Kamala Harris moves ahead—just—in our final election forecast

180. Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory

181. The risk of election violence in America is real

182. Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI

183. The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit

184. In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America

185. US House of Representatives elections: live results

186. US Senate elections: live results

187. Live results of the US presidential election

188. Moldova’s pro-EU president appears to have won re-election

189. What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy

190. Why half of America will vote for Donald Trump

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

192. Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals

193. A much-watched poll from Iowa points to a Harris landslide

194. Why the Trump trade might be flawed

195. Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”

196. How to win Nevada

197. Checks and Balance newsletter: Michelle Obama spotlights reproductive rights and women’s role in America

198. Dan Osborn shows some Democratic ideas can outperform the party

199. Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issues

200. Which way will swing voters lean in America’s election?

201. Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion

202. What happens in the days after America’s election

203. How to concede an election graciously

204. A surprise new twist in Putin’s currency wars

205. Election lawsuits are flooding America’s courts

206. Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of Education

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

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

209. The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world

210. Intrigue, greed and hostility burn in the Antarctic

211. A new intellectual hub for Chinese émigrés in Washington

212. China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha

213. North Korea’s aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China

214. Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia’s cabinet

215. Pakistan’s politicians seize control of the judiciary

216. Australia is trying to ruck China in Papua New Guinea

217. Israel is keeping open the nuclear option

218. Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge

219. Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic

220. This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitality

221. The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington

222. What to watch for on election night, and beyond

223. The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic charm

224. The immigrants Europe quietly wants more of

225. Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds

226. Floods in Spain cause death and devastation

227. A growing number of Britons live on canal boats

228. Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?

229. How to beat jet lag

230. China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals

231. Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?

232. Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation

233. How to avoid anarchy in Antarctica

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238. Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses

239. Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much money

240. India’s startups pray for a Hindu super-app

241. American men are getting back to work

242. Why China needs to fill its empty homes

243. Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners

244. Index funds want to continue being treated as “passive” investors

245. How bad could a second Trump presidency get?

246. A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks

247. Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reform

248. Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice

249. The British budget combines large numbers and a narrow vision

250. Will Donald Trump’s bros turn out?

251. What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?

252. Will bond vigilantes come for America’s next president?

253. ADHD should not be treated as a disorder

254. Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz

255. Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder

256. Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options

257. Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo

258. Space may be worse for humans than thought

259. Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins

260. Something has changed inside North Korea

261. Why Kamala Harris’s chances of victory just jumped

262. Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?

263. Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump

264. How wrong could America’s pollsters be?

265. Too many people want to be social-media influencers

266. Our guide to how Trump or Harris might win the election

267. Blighty newsletter: Labour’s twin pivots

268. Britain’s birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover

269. It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier

270. Jessamine Chan’s gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting

271. In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside

272. Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win

273. “Aftermath” is a piercing study of Germany after 1945

274. War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching Democrats

275. Will a humiliated Iran choose a nuclear bomb or a love bomb?

276. What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?

277. Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables

278. Meet one of Britain’s most influential, least understood people

279. Donald Trump returns to New York for a bombastic closing pitch

280. Voters deliver a historic rebuke to Japan’s ruling coalition

281. Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks

282. The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again

283. The extreme right after the riots in Britain

284. Another African war looms

285. America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris

286. Another domino falls to Vladimir Putin after Georgia’s tense election

287. Susie Wiles, the unassuming operative powering Donald Trump’s campaign

288. Checks and Balance: The 50-year plan

289. Israel’s limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault

290. The best, and worst, places to live in the Americas

291. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion

292. An expert on civil war issues a warning about America

293. Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways

294. A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms

295. How China is trying to win back foreign tourists

296. Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it

297. Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian

298. How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad

299. Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up

300. Mozambique’s dodgy election turns bloody