1. Britons are becoming obsessed with pet photography

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

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4. Are some types of sugar healthier than others?

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

6. An American oil blockade would devastate the Venezuelan regime

7. Why more American seniors are getting high

8. Why do so many Chinese still smoke?

9. Hedging against Trump, Canada reconsiders ties with China

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

11. All hail “The President of Peace”

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

13. American doctors are rich and miserable

14. Britain’s pitiful Christmas bonuses

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

16. Vietnam’s EV champion is bleeding cash

17. A short guide to every business-hotel room

18. Frank Gehry shook up buildings as never before

19. Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy

20. Australia’s hard right is resurgent

21. Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis

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

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

24. Israel refuses to withdraw from Syria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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34. Oracle and the hard truths about software

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

36. Germany has a lawyer problem

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

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

39. Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers

40. Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

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

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

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

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

45. Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

56. The Supreme Court is handing Donald Trump more power

57. Blighty newsletter: Why the Conservatives could be kingmakers

58. Miami elects a new mayor at a pivotal moment

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

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

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

62. MAGA’s man in LatAm

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

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

65. How AI is disrupting shopping

66. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia breaks out again

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

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

69. China knows how to punish countries that offend it

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

71. The War Room newsletter: A truly radical document

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

73. Which economy did best in 2025?

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

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

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

77. 2025-12-06 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How AI is rewiring childhood

78. Why hangovers get worse as you get older

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

80. Transcript: An interview with Keir Starmer

81. America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow

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

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

84. Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online

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

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

87. Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation

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

89. Republicans still don’t know with Obamacare

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

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

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

93. Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?

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

95. China’s unlikely new entertainment capital

96. Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat

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

98. How many hours should employees work?

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

100. Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

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104. Britain’s slot-machine politics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

113. Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon

114. Africa needs to generate more electricity

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

116. Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again

117. How AI is rewiring childhood

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

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

120. AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences

121. Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?

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

123. American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure

124. Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer

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

126. Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital

127. Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

128. Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?

129. Pity the AVOCADOs

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

131. Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes

132. Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas

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

134. India’s defence-tech startups are thriving

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

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

137. Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

138. AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

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

140. Blighty newsletter: Hurrah for the OBR

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

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

143. How to spot a bubble bursting

144. Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans

145. Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption

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

147. Europe is going on a huge military spending spree

148. Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

149. European pensions are in dire need of reform

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

151. Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax

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

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

154. Checks and Balance newsletter: Giving thanks in Moscow

155. A corruption scandal costs Volodymyr Zelensky his top aide

156. 2025-11-28 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: What China will dominate next

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

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

159. AI is upending the porn industry

160. A terrible inferno kills dozens in Hong Kong

161. Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China

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

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

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

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

166. The changing shape of Chinese aid to Africa

167. How Pepsi trounced Coca Cola in the Middle East

168. Observed in the wild: office snackers and foragers

169. Europe is struggling to compete in the second space race

170. American consumers are miserable. But they keep spending

171. From Nvidia to Nike, American firms face a margin squeeze

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175. Canada’s indigenous-style prisons are designed to right historical wrongs

176. MAGA is divided over the promise and perils of AI

177. The federal government will now pay for Native American healing

178. Chicago is facing a giant budget crisis

179. “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”

180. Denmark has become a red-tape-free wedding destination

181. Turkey’s refs are caught up in a huge sports gambling scandal

182. Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards

183. Macron, Merz and Starmer are forming a new trilateral leadership

184. If the fighting ends in Ukraine, the infighting in Europe will begin

185. Britain will tax electric cars more heavily. Good

186. A landmark trial of puberty blockers could end up in court

187. Who should control British newspapers?

188. Which country is most similar to Britain?

189. Why Iran is making surprising overtures to America

190. Many Israelis believe another war with Iran is coming

191. Iran’s reformists extend a hand

192. What China will dominate next

193. Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

194. China’s property market is (somehow) worsening

195. Japan’s big-spending Takaichinomics is ten years out of date

196. Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force

197. Nepal’s youth toppled the government. Now they want to remake it

198. Meet the road-building, Muslim-baiting monk who could rule India

199. A shooting in Washington prefigures tougher immigration policies

200. One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis

201. He Yanxin was the steward of a women-only language

202. Ukraine may be a step closer to peace, or to destruction

203. This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs

204. How to avoid an unjust peace in Ukraine

205. Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing

206. How to short the bubbliest firms

207. Britain’s budget prioritised Labour''s political survival

208. Donald Trump’s revenge agenda is not going well

209. Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race

210. When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil

211. A new way to generate electricity from water

212. The writings of John Parker

213. Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening

214. Jair Bolsonaro is jailed, leaving the Brazilian right fractured

215. The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

216. Google has pierced Nvidia’s aura of invulnerability

217. Middle East Dispatch newsletter: A tale from Tehran

218. A high gold price is luring prospectors to California’s mountains

219. Colombia’s armed groups are experimenting with deadly drones

220. Blighty newsletter: What the covid inquiry gets wrong

221. John Bolton thinks America is past “peak Trump”

222. The killing of a Hizbullah commander shows how fragile truces are

223. There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”

224. Labour’s budget will probably focus on short-term survival

225. Words to watch out for in Rachel Reeves’s budget

226. Who will win the trillion-dollar robotaxi race?

227. The War Room newsletter: Altitude sickness, struggling jets and cold batteries

228. More Americans are being put to death

229. Brazil is embracing its African roots

230. China’s Communist Party wants positive energy only, please

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232. Ukraine survives another crisis with Donald Trump

233. AI tokens are surging, but are profits?

234. Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global

235. Why investors are increasingly fatalistic

236. COP30 ends with a whimper

237. Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, bad for Europe and bad for America

238. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon and the aesthetics of power

239. America has dumped a messy, sordid “peace plan” on Ukraine

240. River boats are returning Thames transport to Tudor times

241. Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

242. Should adults take colostrum supplements?

243. Transcript: An interview with Abbas Araghchi

244. An interview with Iran’s foreign minister

245. The politicians protecting huge criminal networks

246. How will Japan’s defences evolve under its hawkish new leader?

247. Where being antediluvian pays

248. To glimpse Indonesia’s future, look to its president’s view of the past

249. Israel may not be popular, but its weapons are

250. A fuel blockade shows the frightening power of Mali’s jihadists

251. Russian bombing leaves no time to search for keepsakes

252. Vineyards are disappearing in France

253. Young MPs are fed up with Germany’s pension burdens

254. Private equity is reshaping American child care

255. When companies lose their way

256. How do you replace a CEO like Tim Cook or Warren Buffett?

257. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - Politics

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260. Gillian Tindall revelled in the past of ordinary lives

261. How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers

262. How to save the Galápagos from its visitors

263. How to lower America’s soaring healthcare costs

264. How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden

265. Release the Epstein files!

266. AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms

267. Will Britain copy asylum policy from a place with poor integration?

268. Britain’s new effort to balancing human rights and deportations

269. Britons are becoming less spendthrift

270. Britain struggles to distinguish between protest and terrorism

271. Africa’s other debt crisis

272. That charts that show how much money China lends to the rich world

273. Mortgage lending in America is seizing up. How to revive it

274. Indians are getting more fashionable

275. Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

276. Donald Trump and the rise of “insider capitalism”

277. Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India

278. Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages

279. Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?

280. Chinese regulations and competition are panicking European manufacturers

281. In Washington, everything appears to be for sale

282. Can Europe’s deregulation drive actually deregulate anything?

283. To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny

284. Welcome to Anything Goes America

285. Texas Republicans have gerrymandered their way into a corner

286. A terrible American-Russian proposal to end the war in Ukraine

287. Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant facade

288. How Chinese-linked hackers co-opted Anthropic’s Claude

289. Don’t let a scandal undermine the defence of Ukraine

290. The panic over a male crisis in Britain is overblown

291. America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying

292. A better way to look for signs of ancient biology

293. Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible

294. Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies

295. The use of a rare wood pits violinists against environmentalists

296. China has too many university graduates and too few jobs for them

297. Is Donald Trump preparing to strike Venezuela or lining up a deal?

298. The loneliness of America’s model ally

299. Why crypto’s spectacular market success is going sour

300. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s big MAGA break up