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Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped

To survive the club culture of Buenos Aires, you need stamina and a willingness to let go of British ideas about bedtime

She may be a global superstar, but in her homecoming to Cali, it was Grupo Niche and the city’s centuries-old salsa culture that stole the show

Armed only with pistols and faced with an overwhelming number of Hamas attackers, Remo El-Hozayel rescued hundreds from the Nova Festival massacre

While Britain struggles to open new factories, Beijing is looking to a future of flying cars. How can Europe emulate what its rival intends, and do it better?

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

2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

In the months leading up to the holy festival in Bangladesh, bombs have been going off at Christian sites, and nobody knows why

As America retreats from the world into its own sphere of influence, the resulting vacuum will bring more confrontation, uncertainty and disorder. And in almost all cases, Trump won’t care

Decisions made in Beijing have caused immense suffering for the Chinese people. It’s time to understand the mistakes of the past, or risk falling into ignorance

Western leaders and diplomats have spent huge amounts of political capital on Gaza and Ukraine – but not on Sudan. Even now, the slaughter goes on, but where is the response?

Most politicians remain oblivious to the threat, especially on the left. But they must realise Putin could do to us what he’s done to Ukraine, without firing a shot

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

A turbulent 2025 unfolded in striking contrasts – from apocalyptic climate disasters and surging global protests to the ever-present threat of war

Terranera, a tiny mountaintop hamlet of 50 residents, doesn't organise its festivities by the Christian calendar or tradition

If you really want to understand this country and who we are, you need to come here in December

After the murder of Jewish Australians on Bondi beach, the instinct is to use grief as a way to bolster preconceived arguments. But certainty itself carries its own dangers

Politicians and activists must do better than using slaughter to justify their points of view

If you want to get near the US president, your face has to fit. And if it doesn’t, sorry - it’s time to go under the knife

The president said he had brokered a peace between the Thai and Cambodian governments. As ever, with the US president, the truth is very different

Young people got depressed, anxious and led astray long before social media arrived. So is the new ban in Australia really going to do any good? And if so, how will we be able to tell?

The latest edition of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait prize exhibition features subjects looking for a connection

On political funding and social media, Malinauskas has shown real leadership. Our government should take note

People around here think that if you drive an electric vehicle, you’re likely to end up either on fire, or in a nightmarish traffic accident. But attitudes are changing

Two years ago, it happened to the people of Grindavík in Iceland – and yet today, the lights flicker and the boats put out to sea

The Greek capital has experienced an influx of Israeli investment in property – but the graffiti around town suggests severe local antipathy

An attempt to remove the stories of Black GIs from a second world war cemetery in the Netherlands ran into stiff resistance

We live in a world shaped by banal, slogan-heavy politics, and leaders whose ideas are tilted against the interests of the young. They will leave behind nothing but catastrophe

Zelensky’s chief of staff has resigned amid the biggest corruption scandal Ukraine has seen. The president must act fast to restore trust - while not forgetting about the frontline

Huge numbers of Venezuelans have fled into Guyana to escape inflation and corruption. But if the US attacks, Caracas will not fold. Maduro has too much to lose

What they couldn’t take they tried the destroy, using statues for target practice - they even shot all the mummies