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The Man Turning the Cockroach Into a Gen-Z Movement in India It’s a Bone of Contention: Mexico and Brazil Are Arguing Over Dogs ‘Fractured’ Society – but New Zealand’s Young Have Hope Across Difference and Distance What the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s New Greek Epic Entirely Devoid of Greeks? A Bird Has Better Protection Than an Afghan Woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a Slap in the Face ‘The Story of Hong Kong is the Sound of It’: the Cross-cultural Joy of the City’s Cantopop Music Argentina’s ‘European’ Self-image Under Renewed Scrutiny After Racist Incidents in Brazil Argentina Needs to End Its Fantasy of Being a European Country’: Lucrecia Martel on the Story of a Killing Mozambique Says Five Citizens Killed in ‘Xenophobic Attacks’ in South Africa The US Keeps Finding Ways to Justify State Violence Against Cuba From Barren Shores to Green Oases: How a Surfer Looking for Shade Ended up Transforming Costa Rica’s Coastline Australia Must Engage With Solomon Islands With Mutual Respect. It’s About so Much More Than Keeping Beijing at Bay ‘I Want My Life Back’: Drugs Shortages Lay Bare Economic Impact of Diamond Crash in Botswana UN Adds Israel and Russia to Blacklist for Sexual Violence in Conflict ‘We Don’t Have Another Country to Run To’: Kenyans Fear US Plan for Ebola Quarantine Site What Can the Dutch Teach the UK About How to Tackle the Youth Jobs Crisis? Peace Fails If It is Not Defended. the UN’s Peacekeepers Cannot Do This Alone Behind the Historic Efforts to Transport Bayeux Tapestry From France to UK ‘They Take You Out of Life, Out of Time’: a Journey Into Spain’s Astonishing Cave Paintings France Overturns Law Classing People as Property – 178 Years After It Abolished Slavery Feeding the Future of France: Rollout of €1 Meals an Attempt to Help Struggling Students People ‘Panicking’ as Ghana Passes Sweeping Law Criminalising LGBTQ+ Activity My Father, the German Refugee Who Fought the Nazis as a ‘Secret Listener’ Sixty Thousand Love Letters and Counting: Volunteers Help Sift Through Vast German Trove of Devotion Germany’s Embattled Nightlife Scene Welcomes Plan to Reclassify Clubs Dead but Deportable: US Immigration Judge Signed Order to Eject Teen Murder Victim How the Death of Yves Sakila Exposes Ireland’s Deeply Rooted Racism Problem Yves Sakila’s Death Has Echoes of George Floyd. When Will we in Ireland Confront Our Own Racism? What is Killing Sumatra’s Elephants? the Battle to Save One of Our Rarest Animals Party Like a Swede! a Guide to Celebrating Midsummer The World Capital of French Fries Has a Problem: Too Many Potatoes How Curry Shops Got Caught in Japan’s Immigration Crackdown In Taiwan, Chinese-Born Wives Are a Focus of Infiltration Fears With Stephen Curry Deal, Li-Ning of China Shoots for Global Sneaker Spotlight Overlooked No More: Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years Why Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Still Fighting

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May 24, 2026

• From Fiji to French Polynesia, How Pacific Islands Are Uniquely Vulnerable to the Oil Crisis
• A Pursuit in the Senate, Gunfire, Now on the Run: Why is a Former Philippines Police Chief in Hiding?
• ‘She Does Not Back Down’: the Couple Seeking to Legalise Same-sex Marriage in Botswana
• UK, German and French Aid Cuts Will Take ‘Devastating Toll’ on Most Vulnerable, Says Study
• K-pop Androids and Automated Artists: Welcome to South Korea’s Strange and Ambitious Robot Theme Park
• How Did Arsenal Become a Home for Black Players and Fans?
• The Chaotic, Unique, Beautiful Lebanon I Knew Has Been Reduced to Rubble. When Will It End?
• Country Diary: a Jaw-dropping Bounty of Wildlife – and a Reminder of What Britain Has Lost
• China Launches Three-crew Spaceflight as Part of Lunar Ambitions
• North Korean Women Cap Historic Journey With Asian Champions League Crown
• ‘Planetary Destruction on Fast-forward’: Witnessing the Disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘Eternity Glaciers’
• Saint Levant: the Pop Star From Gaza Caught Between Passionate Fandom and Bitter Disapproval
• Written Under Collapsing Ceilings, Typed on Phones: the Poetry Bringing Palestine to the World
• Why is Ferrari Facing Such a Backlash to Its First Electric Car?
• ‘We Want to Play Like Other Teams’: Afghan Women’s Cricket Dreams Remain Undimmed
• ‘Catnomics’: How Japan’s Feline Fixation Has Become an Industry Worth Billions
• ‘What You See Here is a Wetland Without Water’: How the Datacentre Boom is Exacerbating Chile’s Mega-drought
• As a Sacred Tree Dies, Their Village Loses a Piece of Itself
• A Powerful H.I.V. Drug Lands in Zambia. but Will It Reach Those Who Need It?
• Where Time is Always 15 Minutes Apart From Everywhere Else
• The Mural Project Honouring the Black Cultural Heritage of Rio De Janeiro

May 17, 2026

• ‘Tearing Down Barriers’: North Korean Footballers Arrive in Seoul for First Time in Eight Years
• ‘The Devil’s Child’: the Rise and Fall of the Only Female Yakuza

May 10, 2026

• 36 Hours on the Amalfi Coast
• Iran War Costs Toyota £3bn as Prices of Materials Soar and Sales Fall
• Public Health at Risk Across Asia as Iran Crisis Sends Price of Cooking Gas Soaring
• They Were Hunted by the Taliban for Helping the US. Now, Trump Wants to Send These Families to the DRC
• Les Simpson: Return of Québécois Show Spares Viewers From ‘European French’
• Are These the Bones of the Fourth Musketeer? This Dutch Village Hopes So.
• London Rooftop Where Beatles Played Last Gig to Become Museum
• Naked Jetskiers, Human Bells and a Celebrity Seagull! Venice Biennale’s Wildest Moments – in Pictures

May 3, 2026

• Inside Smoky Shelters, a Fast-paced, Illegal Card Game Has Taken Off in Solomon Islands
• Vienna’s Public Transport is the Envy of the World – so Why Can’t It Ditch Cars?
• Japan Sees Largest Protest in Support of Pacifist Constitution as PM Takaichi Pushes Revisions
• ‘Mothers Won’t Die, Babies Can Survive’: New Maternal Hospital Opens in World’s Largest Refugee Camp
• Chasing K-Pop Stardom Nearly Destroyed Her. Then Came ‘Demon Hunters.’

April 26, 2026

• ‘I Should Not Have Wished for War’: Six Ordinary Iranians on How the US-Israel Conflict Has Changed Them