1. Why has the flu been so bad this year?

2. Do better shoes help you run faster?

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4. Bean there, done that

5. Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)

6. China’s alarming sex imbalance

7. Singapore’s leader of the opposition is convicted of lying

8. Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess

9. Syria’s next steps towards a new order

10. Egypt and Jordan are struggling to make themselves useful to Donald Trump

11. Rwanda tightens its grip over eastern Congo

12. Sudan’s national army is on the brink of retaking the capital

13. Africa’s young “generation hustle” hits the big time

14. Why so many children in America have ADHD

15. In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant

16. Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters

17. DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism

18. Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths

19. Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions

20. Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies

21. Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars

22. Leaving the seat of power

23. Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly

24. Xi Jinping wants the private sector to thrive again

25. How to help young Africans thrive

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29. Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs

30. The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets

31. Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up

32. Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure

33. China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off

34. An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship

35. Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd

36. Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debut

37. India’s other, little-known infrastructure revolution

38. For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point

39. To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help

40. Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right

41. Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?

42. Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one

43. A moment of great peril for Ukraine and Europe

44. Donald Trump: the would-be king

45. Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals

46. Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault?

47. How Britons became happy hawks on Russia

48. Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade

49. Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

50. How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science

51. Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university

52. Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky

53. Do lonely people have shorter lives?

54. New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia

55. Which countries provide the most, and least, support to Ukraine?

56. Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

57. Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?

58. American inflation looks increasingly worrying

59. How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump

60. Blighty newsletter: Luxury beliefs (Kemi Badenoch edition)

61. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin deal leaves Europe in shock

62. Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires

63. Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

64. Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her résumé

65. Team Trump’s shakedown diplomacy

66. Donald Trump’s assault on Europe

67. It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too

68. Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?

69. Javier Milei is betting big on an Argentine oil gusher

70. So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality

71. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s pick-and-choose federalism

72. Alice Weidel, Germany’s most vilified—and powerful—female politician

73. How will the German election be decided?

74. Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?

75. Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going

76. Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence

77. Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”

78. Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies

79. Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality?

80. New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China

81. South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports

82. Hizbullah’s decline is a boon for Lebanon’s new government

83. Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life

84. Homs’s troubles show the challenges facing Syria’s leaders

85. How to go from fish lover to fish farmer

86. For Donald Trump, South Africa is DEI in the form of a country

87. Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers

88. Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States

89. How Bob Dylan broke free

90. Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury

91. What happened next at USAID

92. Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told

93. Is France’s Le Chat in fact a cat?

94. A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey

95. Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street

96. Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times

97. A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area

98. Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod

99. Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling

100. Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs

101. How to get people to resign

102. Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?

103. Chinese cars are taking over the global south

104. The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise

105. Countering China’s diplomatic coup

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109. London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England

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111. Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral

112. Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?

113. Why you should repay your mortgage early

114. How AI will divide the best from the rest

115. The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research

116. How India became an unexpected role model for Europe

117. America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy

118. Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?

119. Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?

120. Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo

121. Donald Trump starts “immediate” talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine

122. After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong

123. Donald Trump’s first 100 days

124. Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war

125. Which goods are most vulnerable to American tariffs on China?

126. Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending

127. AI is being used to model football matches

128. A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic

129. How artificial intelligence is changing baseball

130. Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?

131. Ukraine’s president fears Donald Trump is keeping him out of the loop

132. Transcript: An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

133. Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

134. Elon Musk’s 97bn offer is a nuisance for Sam Altman’s OpenAI

135. BP is underperforming and under pressure

136. Is MAGA great for India?

137. Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard

138. Blighty newsletter: A country trapped in zero-sum thinking

139. Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm

140. It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe

141. Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz

142. Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat

143. German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape

144. China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan

145. What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?

146. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s scheming is costing America

147. Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”

148. What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?

149. Does intermittent fasting work?

150. Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life

151. Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare

152. Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China

153. China is infiltrating Taiwan’s armed forces

154. Donald Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple

155. Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban

156. Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis

157. India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success

158. A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on

159. Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets

160. Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation

161. How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat

162. Donald Trump is turning payback into policy

163. New York City commits to involuntary commitment

164. Florida comes to Washington, DC

165. Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader?

166. Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia

167. Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?

168. The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible

169. British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets

170. Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one

171. Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone

172. Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow

173. Oxford and Cambridge are too small

174. Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back?

175. An encounter with the reception desk

176. Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs

177. How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region

178. The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers

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182. Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown

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184. Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth

185. Europe has no escape from stagnation

186. When will remote workers see their pay cut?

187. Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves

188. Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs

189. Don’t propose with a diamond

190. It’s not over: Donald Trump could still blow up global trade

191. The vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that is Scam Inc

192. America’s scheme for Gaza contains much to regret

193. Wanted: a Britain economics writer

194. Must Leeds always lose?

195. The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping

196. The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions

197. How to invest like a MAGA bigwig

198. Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk

199. Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes

200. Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky

201. Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum

202. The Labour government’s choice of messengers reflects its caution

203. Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American

204. RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate

205. Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?

206. Why India isn’t winning the contest with China

207. Allies will not appease Donald Trump forever

208. Blighty newsletter: Inside Starmer’s Brexit reset

209. Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire

210. The Trump tariff saga offers Canada’s Liberals a lifeline

211. Binyamin Netanyahu is about to discover if Donald Trump is friend or foe

212. Elon Musk is shredding America’s government like he did Twitter

213. How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain

214. Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worse

215. Donald Trump’s tariffs defy geopolitical logic

216. Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?

217. An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president

218. Europe races to confront America’s trade war

219. Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation

220. Donald Trump’s new trade war on China is also an opioid war

221. Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started

222. Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before

223. France’s bitter retreat from west Africa

224. Checks and Balance newsletter: What 1970s television reveals about America

225. What Israel and Gaza can learn from past ceasefires

226. Are ice baths good for you?

227. How DeepSeek will upend the AI pecking order

228. Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society

229. As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring

230. The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs

231. China needs its frightened officials to save the economy

232. Why Taiwanese youth complain of becoming “housing slaves”

233. Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit?

234. Who is Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s possible next president?

235. Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria

236. The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo

237. Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions

238. Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela

239. Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south

240. Donald Trump’s Defining Decade

241. An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020

242. Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield

243. Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists

244. The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes

245. Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back

246. Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&E

247. Is British justice too secretive?

248. Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of trivia

249. Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed

250. Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper

251. What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison

252. The allure of the company town

253. From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue

254. Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much

255. No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada

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259. Despite fears of a global tax war, Donald Trump has a chance to make peace

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261. The Quad finally gets serious on security

262. How to use “maximum pressure” to stop an Iranian bomb

263. Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think

264. Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?

265. Georgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions

266. Tech tycoons have got the Jevons paradox wrong

267. Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front

268. Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to

269. Around the world, an anti-red-tape revolution is taking hold

270. By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself

271. America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk

272. The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama

273. A day of drama in the Bundestag

274. Donald Trump goes to war with his employees

275. The rise of the Net-Zero Dad

276. DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley

277. Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth

278. A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin

279. Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding

280. Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index

281. Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos

282. Kash Patel is a crackpot

283. A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?

284. Could supersonic air travel make a comeback?

285. How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in America

286. Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins

287. Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump

288. America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation

289. Blighty newsletter: Why Trump’s tariffs might spare Britain

290. Rwanda does a Putin in Congo

291. What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streets

292. DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets

293. Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters

294. The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade

295. Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa

296. Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety

297. Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling

298. A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president

299. Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?

300. François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again