1. The United States has captured Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro

2. How will the mass protests that are convulsing Iran unfold?

3. Can high-intensity interval training get you fit in a hurry?

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5. The New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans

6. Australia’s prime minister gets booed in Bondi

7. Cults of personality pervade all levels of Indian politics

8. The nautical theory of African development

9. Ghana tries to regulate online prophecies

10. OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

11. Brazil’s President Lula should not run again

12. The future of space exploration depends on better biology

13. Britain and the EU should be bolder in getting closer

14. A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged

15. Patriotism tests loom for big business

16. People of dubious character are more likely to enter public service

17. How China’s property crisis helped crash its art market

18. America’s most successful mayor stands down

19. Los Angeles after the flames

20. It’s time to rethink Britain’s relationship with the EU

21. How the “take back control” crowd boosted immigration to Britain

22. Brexit has deepened the British economy’s flaws and dulled its strengths

23. The spiders on the icecaps of Mars

24. How to export life to Mars

25. Despite a record year, airlines are grappling with big challenges

26. A new-year message from the CEO

27. China’s wind giants are coming for Europe

28. What flying cars, quantum computing and fusion have in common

29. A Swedish startup wants to reignite Europe’s explosives industry

30. America’s economy looks set to accelerate

31. RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals

32. China’s property woes could last until 2030

33. Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic

34. Peru’s not-so-happy new year

35. Bulgarians join the euro and eject their government

36. Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war

37. Why America still needs Europe

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40. Israel recognises Somaliland

41. Netanyahu wins bigly from his meeting with Trump

42. A lightning advance by separatists has reshaped Yemen’s civil war

43. America’s affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage

44. The truth about affordability

45. Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis

46. The Supreme Court has taken the National Guard away from Donald Trump

47. OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026

48. A fragile thaw at the top of the world

49. Wanted: a new business writer

50. The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer

51. Nigel Farage is Britain’s most European politician

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53. China’s museum boom, take two

54. Brigitte Bardot became, but refused to remain, the image of desire

55. As Warren Buffett retires, uncertainty looms for Berkshire Hathaway

56. Brazil’s general election will be all about Lula—again

57. Russia is blasting Odessa to throttle Ukraine’s economy

58. The economics of megachurches

59. What is the best way to train for a marathon?

60. Pub games have been getting a lucrative makeover

61. A sham poll in Myanmar opens a new phase of military rule

62. Donald Trump has it in for Brutalism

63. The Baltic is becoming a battleground between NATO and Russia

64. Does anyone still want to help the Uyghurs?

65. MAGA is eating itself

66. Why fewer Americans are giving than before

67. Who was the best CEO of 2025?

68. The quest to chart the sea

69. Christmas in Caracas with Donald Trump on the doorstep

70. Our obituaries editor selects 12 farewells from the past year

71. How rational is Britons’ soft spot for Premium Bonds?

72. Why China’s spat with Japan could still get worse

73. Canada’s first Christmas without the Hudson’s Bay Company

74. The five biggest market developments of 2025

75. What pain at the edge of America’s labour market signals

76. Checks and Balance newsletter: How Donald Trump has maximised his power

77. 2025-12-19 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Illustrating our Christmas issue

78. Europe finds 90bn for Ukraine—but not from Russia

79. How Chinese cars are beating European tariffs

80. Seen from above, el-Fasher is a ghost town

81. How the young can make sense of the news

82. The Christmas-industrial complex centres on Yiwu

83. Can Australia defend itself against jihadist murderers?

84. The botched response to a devastating storm infuriates Indonesians

85. Just 74 intensive-care beds remain in Gaza

86. China proved its strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump helped

87. Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering

88. What Novo Nordisk, OpenAI and Pop Mart have in common

89. The Economist’s country of the year for 2025

90. Your Well Informed guide to surviving Christmas

91. Iain Douglas-Hamilton fought to save the beasts he loved

92. Ditch textbooks and learn how to use a wrench to AI-proof your job?

93. Toll roads are spreading in America

94. More schools in America are adopting a four-day week

95. A vote against gerrymandering shows why political courage is rare

96. Why German cities feel like war zones on New Year’s Eve

97. Italy is using the Winter Olympics to appeal to the ultra-wealthy

98. European nationalism is dead. Long live European gastronationalism

99. A portrait of Britain’s aristocrats

100. Luxury handbags may be shoddier than you think

101. How to conduct a job interview

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104. Trust in Britain’s judicial system and police has plunged

105. Watch who you’re calling childless

106. Meet the American investors rushing into Congo

107. This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns

108. Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers

109. All sides have learned a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder

110. Saudi Arabia wants to host the world’s cheapest data centres

111. A debate is raging over the origins of an elusive cousin to modern humans

112. Donald Trump’s peace plan is faltering in the chaos of Gaza

113. How dogs make teens feel less anxious

114. Ukraine scrabbles for handholds against Russia’s massive assault

115. El Boletín newsletter: A new era in Chile?

116. Javier Milei loosens his grip on the peso

117. How to survive abandonment by America

118. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and their giga-IPO dreams

119. Ethiopia wants to build Africa’s biggest airport

120. Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets

121. Blighty newsletter: Reasons for Britain to be cheerful

122. The race for an AI Jesus is on

123. America gives Ukraine reason to hope, just

124. The plan to rescue Denmark’s weight-loss pioneer

125. The War Room newsletter: What the Bondi Beach attack tells us

126. Crypto’s real threat to banks

127. An oil boom where the Amazon meets the Atlantic

128. Why has the border between the Koreas fallen silent?

129. How to heal the trauma from Northern Ireland’s killings

130. Essential India newsletter: Where in the world is Leo Mirani?

131. After the Bondi massacre, Australia faces hard questions about extremism

132. Europe starts learning how to shoot down drones

133. Job apocalypse? Bah! AI is creating brand new occupations

134. Jimmy Lai’s judgement day approaches

135. Britons are becoming obsessed with pet photography

136. Will California try to block Hollywood’s next megadeal?

137. 2025-12-12 The World this Week - Cover Story: newsletter Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

138. Are some types of sugar healthier than others?

139. Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s “Batman” with big political ambitions

140. An American oil blockade would devastate the Venezuelan regime

141. Why more American seniors are getting high

142. Why do so many Chinese still smoke?

143. Hedging against Trump, Canada reconsiders ties with China

144. José Antonio Kast is Chile’s probable next president. How will he govern?

145. All hail “The President of Peace”

146. How much does America know about its boat-strike targets?

147. American doctors are rich and miserable

148. Britain’s pitiful Christmas bonuses

149. Pro-growth sports fans are getting organised in Britain

150. Vietnam’s EV champion is bleeding cash

151. A short guide to every business-hotel room

152. Frank Gehry shook up buildings as never before

153. Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy

154. Australia’s hard right is resurgent

155. Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis

156. Donald Trump has not ended conflict between Congo and Rwanda

157. A window of opportunity for reform in Lebanon is closing

158. Israel refuses to withdraw from Syria

159. Talks stall between Turkey’s government and the Kurds

160. Ukraine struggles to cope with America’s destructive peace plans

161. Albania is trying to charm its way into the EU

162. Ukraine’s trains, the country’s lifeline, have money problems

163. More reasons for America’s friends to plan for the worst

164. The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war

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168. Oracle and the hard truths about software

169. America’s Supreme Court should strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs

170. Germany has a lawyer problem

171. What a stiff drink says about China’s economy

172. America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet

173. Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers

174. Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

175. The populists of Reform UK, already topping the polls, may climb higher

176. Once a pariah, the National Rally is now France’s most popular party

177. The Alternative for Germany is the leading party in some German polls

178. How did one airline bring Indian aviation to its knees?

179. Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

180. Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus

181. Russia is not as resilient as it wants you to think

182. From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web

183. The meaning of China’s record-high trade surplus

184. Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors

185. Britain’s troubled Ajax armoured-vehicle programme may be doomed

186. The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans

187. Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought

188. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office

189. How the “Donroe Doctrine” is changing Puerto Rico

190. The Supreme Court is handing Donald Trump more power

191. Blighty newsletter: Why the Conservatives could be kingmakers

192. Miami elects a new mayor at a pivotal moment

193. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the scientist who saved the elephants

194. What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?

195. Donald Trump is tearing up America’s chip-control policy

196. MAGA’s man in LatAm

197. A new breed of quizzer is wresting control of an old hobby

198. Netflix and Paramount are battling for more than just Warner Bros

199. How AI is disrupting shopping

200. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia breaks out again

201. What’s behind the revival in the price of British wool

202. College campuses have become a front line in America’s sports-betting boom

203. China knows how to punish countries that offend it

204. Europe bans Russia’s gas exports, but still buys its gas-based fertiliser

205. The War Room newsletter: A truly radical document

206. A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

207. Which economy did best in 2025?

208. A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin

209. Checks and Balance newsletter: Don’t count on Congress to restrain Donald Trump

210. Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI

211. 2025-12-06 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How AI is rewiring childhood

212. Why hangovers get worse as you get older

213. Donald Trump’s bleak vision of America’s foreign-policy priorities

214. Transcript: An interview with Keir Starmer

215. America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow

216. Italy’s populist right stalls a sexual-consent law

217. The Hague is coping with the decline of international courts

218. Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online

219. Why a small corruption scandal is a big problem for the EU

220. Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

221. Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation

222. China built a swanky cricket pitch to win over tiny Grenada

223. Republicans still don’t know with Obamacare

224. A special election puts Democrats on track to flip the House

225. Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others

226. What will your child’s Trump Account be worth?

227. Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?

228. Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted

229. China’s unlikely new entertainment capital

230. Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat

231. To halt their decline, VW and others are turning Chinese

232. How many hours should employees work?

233. Will the mega-merger wave destroy value for shareholders?

234. Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

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238. Britain’s slot-machine politics

239. Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system

240. The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters

241. After a terrible fire in Hong Kong, public fury smoulders

242. South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding

243. Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths

244. Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy

245. An insurgency may be brewing against Syria’s new leaders

246. Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo

247. Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon

248. Africa needs to generate more electricity

249. Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition

250. Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again

251. How AI is rewiring childhood

252. At home and at school, artificial intelligence is transforming childhood

253. Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India

254. AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences

255. Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?

256. Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim

257. American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure

258. Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer

259. A Chinese firm attempts to bring a rocket stage back to Earth

260. Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital

261. Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

262. Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?

263. Pity the AVOCADOs

264. Why autism should not be treated as a single condition

265. Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes

266. Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas

267. From micro-dramas to video games, Chinese entertainment is booming

268. India’s defence-tech startups are thriving

269. Why does Donald Trump care about Honduras’s election?

270. Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

271. Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

272. AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

273. Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve

274. Blighty newsletter: Hurrah for the OBR

275. Ahead of peace talks, Russia’s battlefield advances remain slow

276. America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins

277. How to spot a bubble bursting

278. Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans

279. Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption

280. The War Room newsletter: Sleepwalking into Africa’s next war

281. Europe is going on a huge military spending spree

282. Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

283. European pensions are in dire need of reform

284. The US in brief: Donald Trump says he has picked next Fed chair

285. Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax

286. Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff?

287. Trafficking humans is the drug-gangs’ grimmest business

288. Checks and Balance newsletter: Giving thanks in Moscow

289. A corruption scandal costs Volodymyr Zelensky his top aide

290. 2025-11-28 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: What China will dominate next

291. Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?

292. America’s work-from-home capitals are in a sorry state

293. AI is upending the porn industry

294. A terrible inferno kills dozens in Hong Kong

295. Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China

296. America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China

297. When is a Malaysian footballer not a Malaysian footballer?

298. Armed men take power in Guinea-Bissau, again

299. Mired in financial crisis, the Houthis resume threats to Saudi Arabia

300. The changing shape of Chinese aid to Africa