World

Our founder and editor-in-chief’s weekly highlights from the magazine

The Amazon boss is getting married here in the city. But locals don’t want their hometown turned into a playground for the global super-rich

An impulsive reign has taken a deadly turn in Iran that could end in years of conflict in the Middle East - and an authoritarian power grab at home

Thrown into a conflict like the one Ukraine, the British army would be combat ineffective within weeks. The UK needs a new kind of military – and fast

It has never been harder to live in the real world and easier to live in the digital one. No wonder so many young people are choosing to escape into the online universe

The world can’t afford a repeat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But this new conflict might doesn’t look like having the same economic impact

The US and Israel have broken away from the international order and are pushing the world towards anarchy. The rest of the west must do all it can to resist

An open exchange of ideas, no matter how controversial or unpopular, is the best way to get closer to the truth

Israel and Iran’s long fixation has reached a tipping point. Will regime change in Tehran follow?

The Los Angeles riots highlight how Trump has changed America in so many ways. But one thing he has certainly not done is make it great again

For the last 15 years, Ronnie Brunswijk and his party have been Suriname’s kingmakers, never the king. Until now

The world saw through the spectacle for what it was: the whim of a self-styled strongman in need of flattery and adoration

Like the hapless Fantasia character, Donald Trump has learned that wielding the axe without experience, humility and understanding ends in chaos

The Israeli leader has scored a tactical victory against Iran. But that alone is unlikely to bring him victory, either at home or abroad

Meet Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia – she wants her country in Europe, not swallowed by Russia. And she has a fight on her hands

Britain has tumbled down the wellbeing rankings – and now it is time to learn from the country at the top

As I went into the hotel’s internal missile shelter, I wondered whether the people involved in both sides of this war truly understand what they stand to lose from it

One day an engineer at a metals company in the Netherlands stole a trove of nuclear secrets and offered them for sale – his first customer was Iran

Trump doesn’t care about the bombing of Iran, or global security. Now Europe must fill the volatile vacuum he has left behind

The writer shared a deep, collaborative friendship with his kindred spirit Adolfo Bioy Casares, who became his literary double

Why did Queen Elizabeth I, in her famous speech at Tilbury in 1588, use two words with almost identical meanings to describe herself?

Experiments to combat climate change using ‘iron fertilisation’ to boost plankton growth, first proposed in the 1980s, remain unproven and contentious

How São Paulo’s ‘Big Worm’ went from urban scar to public space – and what it tells us about city futures

The hammer of high interest rates is no longer the way to deal with pressure on prices

Digging into the details and data to separate the noise from the news

Colombia was an early pioneer of drug decriminalisation, but president Gustavo Petro’s pro-reform government has gone further

From poverty and conflict to inadequate infrastructure and stagnating economies, the challenges facing the continent are immense

The big White House fallout is like watching a pair of young boys who’ve drunk too much Red Bull – it’s just a shame they’re the richest, most powerful men on earth

Three decades ago, Beijing decided it was going to become the future of auto manufacturing. How did they do it?