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Opera Tells Story of German Journalist Who Posed as Migrant Worker for Two Years Japanese Town Wants Residents to Limit Smartphone Use to Two Hours a Day Attempt to Partner African Countries With Japanese Cities Triggers Xenophobic Backlash Denmark Summons US Charge D’affaires Over Alleged Attempts to Interfere With Greenland’s Status – as It Happened Beach Returned to First Nation After 170 Years Following Canada Legal Battle Bringing Home the Bok Choi: How an Oil Spill in Mauritius Led to a Female Revolution in Farming Drugs, Smuggling and Abductions: Inside the Fast and Furious World of Pigeon Racing in Taiwan Elves, Avatars and Chainsaw Man: Anime Hits Kenya – in Pictures ‘Not Everyone Can Handle It!’ Discover the Raunchy, Relentless Sounds Taking Over Caribbean Carnivals Uncontacted Peruvian Tribe on Deadly Collision Course With Loggers, Group Says ‘Too Many Women Choose Death Over Divorce’: the Indian Retreats Taking the Shame Out of Separation The Women Breaking the Cycle of Violence in Papua New Guinea Denmark Issues First Apology Over Forced Contraception of Greenlandic Women ‘Reminded Me of Agatha Christie’: the Shocking True Story Behind Ron Howard’s Eden ‘We’re Publicans’: County Limerick Community Forms Syndicate to Save Village’s Last Pub When Mailing a Letter to the U.S. Becomes a Global Headache

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August 21 , 2025

• A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash
• There’s an App for That: Finding a Sunny Cafe in Paris, the City of Light
• How Spain Put up Wealth Taxes – Without Chasing Away the Billionaires
• ‘Proxy War’ – Turkish TikTok Makeup Row Exposes Tensions With German Diaspora
• Why is the New Zealand Government Cutting Māori Words From Some School Books?
• Truck Drivers, Doctors and Bakers: Ordinary Yemenis Turn to Veteran Journalist When Justice Fails
• Trying to Keep Cool in an Increasingly Hot World – Picture Essay
• Author Rie Qudan: Why I Used ChatGPT to Write My Prize-winning Novel
• London Museum Tells Forgotten Story of African and Indian Troops in Second World War
• The Miami Showband Massacre: What Led to the Killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?
• US Court Allows Trump Officials to End Protected Status for 60,000 Migrants
• ‘Historic’: How Mexico’s Welfare Policies Helped 13.4 Million People Out of Poverty
• Climate Crisis Harming World Heritage Painted Houses in Burkina Faso, Say Residents
• Trees, Homes, Roads: How the Sea is Swallowing Coastal Villages in the Philippines – in Pictures
• ‘Why Would You Take Away a Parking Place?’: the City Where Anyone Can Build an Urban Oasis
• Denmark to Abolish VAT on Books in Effort to Get More People Reading
• Amsterdam Nightclub Scheme Becomes Flashpoint in Dutch City Planning Rows
• Africa is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
• Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. a Lot of Them.
• 36 Hours in Normandy, France
• A Wild West Parody is Topping the Box Office in Germany. What Gives?
• Ireland’s Last Leprechaun Whisperer Reaches for a Pot of TV Gold
• In Norway, Are ‘Coolcations’ Taking a Toll?
• Spain’s Old Ways May Show How to Keep Cool

August 14, 2025

• Tourist ‘is in Trouble’ After Stones Taken From Pompeii, Police Say
• Dozens More Countries Face Higher Levies on Exports to US as New Trump Tariffs Come Into Effect
• Tapirs, Hummingbirds and a Billion-dollar Bedrock of Gold: the Ecuador Reserve That is Now a Battlefield Over a New Mine
• Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia – in Pictures
• Canadians Steer Clear of US as Travel From North Falls for Seventh Month
• North Korea Removing Propaganda Loudspeakers in Border Areas Amid Efforts to Ease Tensions
• How to Leave a Sinking Nation: Tuvalu’s Dreams of Dry Land
• A Journey to Belonging: Asylum Seekers Reflect on 10 Years in Europe – in Pictures
• Take Away Our Language and we Will Forget Who we Are: Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o and the Language of Conquest
• ‘It’s Not Noise. It’s a Message’: the Misunderstood Misfits of Nigeria’s Underground Rock Scene
• A Brand of One’s Own: How Denmark’s Women Are Redrawing Fashion’s Rules
• ‘People Are Scared to Go Out’: Fear of Ice Agents Forces Cancellation of US Summer Festivals
• ‘Why is This Happening?’: Violent Attacks Terrify Ireland’s Immigrant Community
• ‘Why Would You Take Away a Parking Place?’: the City Where Anyone Can Build an Urban Oasis
• Amsterdam Nightclub Scheme Becomes Flashpoint in Dutch City Planning Rows
• Truck Drivers, Doctors and Bakers: Ordinary Yemenis Turn to Veteran Journalist When Justice Fails
• FBI Returns Stolen Document Signed by Conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico
• Ancient Manuscripts Return to Timbuktu 13 Years After Jihadist Takeover
• Goma Dispatch Congo’s Teens Brave Bombs, Rebels and Abduction to Play Hoops
• A Haven for English in the Most French of North American Cities
• As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them up
• Echoes of Old Walls Appear, Briefly, in Britain’s Arid Soil
  

August 7, 2025

• ‘Well, No, You Don’t Have to Have Children’: What African Women Over the Age of 60 Have Learned About Life
• New Zealand to Charge Foreign Tourists to Visit Most Famous Sites
• South Korea Begins Removing Loudspeakers on Border With North to Reduce Tensions
• Jobless, Homeless and Helpless Without a Man: Afghan Women Expelled by Iran Into Hands of the Taliban
• A Town Divided: How Cruise Tourism Tore Greenland’s Iceberg Capital in Two
• ‘Little England’ No More: What I Learned on My First Trip to the Caribbean
• ‘Don’t Erase the Soul of Bingin’: Bali Locals Dismayed as 48 Businesses Destroyed in Local Crackdown
• ‘Where’s the Money Going?’: Why Brazilian Towns Awash With Royalties From Oil Are Still Among the Poorest
• Integration Classes and Complaints Offices: South Korea Charts a Path to a Cohesive Multicultural Future
• ‘This is No Life’: Trump Deportees Unable to Return Home Left in Limbo in Panama
• Tapirs, Hummingbirds and a Billion-dollar Bedrock of Gold: the Ecuador Reserve That is Now a Battlefield Over a New Mine
• US Destruction of Contraceptives Denies 1.4m African Women and Girls Lifesaving Care, NGO Says
• People Reoccupied Pompeii After Vesuvius Eruption, Archaeologists Find
• Inclusion of Butter in UK Recipe for Cacio E Pepe Draws Outrage From Italian Media
• ‘Our North is the South’: Softball Leagues Flourish in Brazilian City as Cuban Arrivals Outnumber Venezuelans for First Time
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘In Venezuela, the Culture of Pageants Goes Far Beyond Beauty’
• Outrage as Spanish Town Bans Muslim Religious Festivals From Public Spaces
• Rent for $1 a Month? Egypt Says No, Ending a System That Aided the Poor
• Antiquities Returned to Europe Include 16 Seized From the Met
• 36 Hours in Kefalonia
• At Edinburgh Fringe, the Streets Are Alive
• A French Beach Town’s Plea to Tourists: Keep Your Clothes On
• A Former American Soldier Finds a Home in Mexican Wrestling