1. The Iran war has entered a new phase

2. Can Ukraine help defeat Iran’s drone swarms?

3. Israel sees a chance to destroy Hizbullah at last

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5. What is your maximum heart rate?

6. Anthropic’s boss apologises but vows to sue the Pentagon

7. Kristi Noem’s ignoble legacy as homeland security secretary

8. Faecal transplants—a treatment for bipolar disorder?

9. Israel and America want the Kurds to join the fight in Iran

10. Welcome to Kashiwazaki, home to the world’s largest nuclear plant

11. Allegations against a corruption watchdog rock Malaysian politics

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14. 2026-03-05 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

15. China’s first railway project in the EU is open at last

16. China sets its lowest growth target for a generation

17. Thousands of Africans are fighting for Russia in Ukraine

18. In African development, big is beautiful again

19. Javier Milei aggressively celebrates a string of successes

20. States are embracing the MAHA food agenda

21. Why one of Germany’s richest regions is gripped with anxiety

22. Feted by Europe’s left, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez is unloved at home

23. Meet the weekend warriors preparing to defend Europe from Russia

24. How the Danes and Swedes handle populism

25. Britain’s class politics is back—with a Green twist

26. Iran exposes three harsh truths for Britain

27. Dubai is the front line of Britain’s war with itself

28. An AI disaster is getting ever closer

29. Bayer spies an end to a long legal battle

30. A short guide to email opening lines

31. Formula One is attracting a different sort of fan

32. AI danger gets real

33. Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski: best of frenemies

34. Binyamin Netanyahu has his war

35. Why the British government is spending more on hedgerows

36. Investigative journalism in India is under threat

37. Donald Trump must stop soon

38. Russia’s Starlink shutdown is a blow to its soldiers and drones

39. How the latest regional conflict is reshaping the Middle East

40. It’s time to unleash Europe’s pensions

41. To understand why countries grow, look at their firms

42. India’s economy is not as big as economists thought

43. Americans’ electricity bills are up. Don’t blame AI

44. European pensions are a 30trn missed opportunity

45. In times of chaos, Europe is the muddled power the world needs

46. A once-proud tradition is becoming awkward for elite universities

47. What the heirs to General Electric did next

48. The Iran war has been a stunning operational success

49. A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way

50. China needs a more ambitious growth target

51. The start of the Iran war was determined by spying success

52. The New President of the United States

53. Binyamin Netanyahu is the big winner from the Iran war, for now

54. How 250 years of immigration shaped America

55. Binyamin Netanyahu is the big winner from the Iran war, for now

56. The perils of Donald Trump’s pivot from peace to war president

57. Rachel Reeves’s economic update was reassuringly boring

58. Why war isn’t always good for defence stocks

59. The nightmare scenario energy markets feared is becoming reality

60. Are Gulf states running out of missile interceptors?

61. The Iran war is a jolt to Dubai’s business model

62. Blighty newsletter: Iran exposes three harsh truths for Britain

63. What France’s new nuclear-arms doctrine means for Europe

64. Checks and Balance newsletter: The new cancel culture on campuses

65. Cuba’s economic divides are widening

66. Ali Khamenei hoped his legacy might last for ever

67. Why Ali Khamenei may have welcomed the nature of his death

68. The Iran war is rapidly engulfing the region

69. Hizbullah, the reluctant proxy, strikes at Israel

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

71. Can Viktor Orban be beaten?

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

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

74. The modest start of America’s foreign forays

75. Japan faces a post-Fukushima energy dilemma

76. 2026-03-02 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The daunting quest for critical minerals

77. China’s ice-cold calculus over Iran

78. In Iran, Donald Trump is making history

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

80. Why Donald Trump gambled in Iran

81. Gavin Newsom wants to reintroduce himself

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

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

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

85. China hopes IVF can slow its baby bust

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

87. A cancer diagnosis can push people to crime

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

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

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

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

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

93. Donald Trump goes nuclear on Anthropic

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

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

96. Will magnesium supplements help you relax?

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

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

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

100. What North Korea’s mysterious party congress revealed

101. 2026-02-26 The World this Week - Politics

102. 2026-02-26 The World this Week - Business

103. 2026-02-26 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

104. The Trump court? Not quite

105. The battle to flip Texas

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

107. Britain’s civil service has a new leader

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

109. The paranoid style in British politics

110. Who speaks for the Muslim world?

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

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

113. Giorgia Meloni is taking on the courts in Italy

114. Ukraine is scaling up interceptor drones

115. How the war in Ukraine affects Siberian Russia

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

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

118. Philippe Gaulier refused to tolerate boring people

119. Mapping China’s holiday rush

120. Ali Larijani is an increasingly plausible heir in Iran

121. Iranians’ angry defiance is growing once again

122. South Sudan’s decrepit regime is unravelling

123. Iran may insist Hizbullah fights on its behalf

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

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

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

127. Tony Robbins, the megalosaurus of motivation

128. Each year tens of thousands of Americans accidentally kill

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

130. The fake-meat industry is in trouble

131. SOS for India’s Pink City

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

133. America’s trade chaos is just beginning

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

135. Why Chinese people spend so much on food

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

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

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

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

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

141. Anthropic says China’s AI tigers are copycats

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

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

144. Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

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

146. To navigate physical spaces, AIs need world models

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

148. Modernisation is making South-East Asia more Islamic

149. Donald Trump’s unworthy state of the union

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

151. A stay-calm plan to save the world

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

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

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

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

156. How to get rich in modern China

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

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

159. The war against PDFs is heating up

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

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

162. Where the DHS shutdown could start to hurt

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

164. The River Thames has changed shape

165. The rotten tail of China’s property bust

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

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

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

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

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

171. Markets are churning furiously beneath a calm surface

172. India’s VIP culture is out of control

173. 2026-02-21 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Putin’s forever war

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

175. The Midwest’s remarkable turnaround

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

177. Should you be fibremaxxing?

178. The moment of reckoning between America and Iran

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

180. A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression

181. China now fills the world’s luxury hampers

182. 2026-02-19 The World this Week - Business

183. 2026-02-19 The World this Week - Politics

184. 2026-02-19 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

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

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

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

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

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

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

191. North London is suffering a measles outbreak

192. Plaid Cymru is on the cusp of power

193. The case for workplace inefficiency

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

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

196. Libya has no good options for leaders

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

198. The global triumph of Nigerian fashion

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

200. The Trump administration wants to put antifa on trial

201. Different ideas about faith are dividing Republicans over Israel

202. Poles have split and soured on America

203. How Germany fell out of love with China

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

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

206. How to improve American legislators’ lot

207. How four years of war have changed Russia

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

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

210. Did America’s war on poverty fail?

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

212. Prediction markets are rife with insider betting

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

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

215. Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust

216. Why insider trading isn’t always bad

217. That irritable feeling that France was right

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

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

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

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

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

223. Activists are pushing to loosen childhood-vaccine requirements

224. How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine

225. Jesse Jackson made a black president possible

226. Russia’s economy has entered the death zone

227. Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe

228. How big is the prize of reopening Russia?

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

230. The financialisation of AI is just beginning

231. Off the Charts newsletter: Coping with outliers

232. Beware China’s shrinking car market

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

234. The flaws in India’s AI plans

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

236. How governments are increasingly soaking the rich

237. The crummiest job in Washington is getting worse

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

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

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

241. Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy

242. Dubai’s crazy rich Chinese

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

244. 2026-02-15 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The most powerful woman in the world

245. Why MAGA brands have been a flop

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

247. India’s pollution is becoming an economic roadblock

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

249. How to oust a prime minister

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

251. Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing?

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

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

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

255. Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot

256. How Africa’s hottest new museum unravelled

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

258. Why Syria and Iraq cannot reconcile

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

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

261. Can Germany rearm its way to growth?

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

263. Britain’s shifting GDP numbers

264. Alpha offers a starter course in salvation

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

266. Tin mining is making a surprise return to Cornwall

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

268. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

269. Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem

270. The excruciating quest for a meeting room

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272. 2026-02-12 The World this Week - Business

273. 2026-02-12 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

274. What China is really up to in the Arctic

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

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

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

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

279. The decline of single-earner housebuyers in America

280. Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools

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

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

283. Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network

284. Asia is turning stablecoins into banking infrastructure

285. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket

286. The rich world should beware Brazilification

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

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

289. Don’t ban teenagers from social media

290. The world’s most powerful woman

291. Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom

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

293. Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards

294. How to put a price on a human life

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

296. The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied

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

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

299. The alternatives to Sir Keir

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