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Having decided to sell off my daughter’s baby clothes, I set up a shop on Ebay. And that’s when the messages started

One museum in Washington DC makes clear that when it comes to its own military history, the US has a serious short-term memory problem

In Uzbekistan, life is lived in the shadow of Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine, that shadow has become much darker and more threatening

In a multi-polar world, the big powerful states get to carve up the world as they see fit. In that scenario, it’s countries like mine that will end up on the chopping block

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Trump thinks he can simply take Greenland? If he tries, he’s got a fight on his hands.

A massive Russian attack on power infrastructure has left 6,000 buildings in the capital without electricity and heat, leaving Kyivians freezing in temperatures that can drop to minus 24

My secret plan once wrecked a Tory conference, but this turncoat has only wrecked himself

In 1956, Eisenhower humbled Britain. In 2026, Trump wants to humiliate the entire Western alliance

A peaceful nation now has planes full of soldiers landing at its main airport. As Greenlanders look out into the world, we ask: who will stand up for us now?

First Musk embraced the global hard right and now, by failing to limit images of child sexual abuse on X, he has added child abusers to his list of fellow travellers

I had a large wound with a machine attached to it, but for some reason the doctors couldn’t help. I was assertive and received help – but it shouldn’t have to be that way

Trump and co like to imagine the Arctic as empty, silent and ripe for the taking. In fact it is noisy, political and increasingly angry

Is it any wonder the EU is so hesitant when dealing with the PM, especially as his successor is likely to take such a different view on Europe?

He’s doing well in the polls, but most people in Britain disagree with almost everything that the Reform leader actually thinks

This opportunistic ‘saviour’ could kill off the Tories completely

A year after his death, the Twin Peaks director is universally loved. Would this Don of darkness really be happy about that?

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I thought I’d have to explain why I wanted it printed - instead, the shop owner gave me a discount

The high street temple of face gems and bad decisions gave us something TikTok never could: the freedom to get it wrong

X has been terminally polluted by Elon Musk to the point of making us nauseous

Some familiar words we use in everyday English carry surprising traces of Malay, a language spoken widely across south-east Asia

In 1961, before the first human reached space, a chimpanzee was strapped into a rocket and sent into the unknown

An unusually early flu season was mistaken for an unusually severe one – raising questions about how risk is communicated and how unprepared the NHS remains

Being constantly reachable fuels our self-importance. But there is a better way

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

Maduro may be in a US prison, but a mob of intelligence officers and paramilitaries are setting up roadblocks and dragging victims off the streets to make sure people understand – his political project still holds power

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

Rugby internationals in England sell tens of thousands of tickets, but almost no one follows the game at club level. What’s going on?

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A Croatian rock singer is using Nazi salutes to gee up his crowd. Even worse, the prime minister is apparently a fan