Visits To Japan’s Only Shinto Weather Shrine Surge As Climate Crisis Bites North Korea Is Reopening To Tourists After Almost Five Years, But Will Anyone Go? ‘There’s Never Been A Greater Time To Be A Nigerian Artist’: But Is There Room For The Next Burna Boy? One Price For Locals, Another For Tourists: Lisbon Restaurants’ Secret Tax On Out-Of-Towners Mind The Carvings! The Tiktokers Recreating The Temple Run Video Game – In An Actual Temple ‘It’s Like Game Of Thrones!’ The Return Of India’s Ancient Superhero Fantasy Epic Historian Hails Trinidad Plan To Remove Columbus Ships From Coat Of Arms Poorer People Bear Brunt of Extreme Heat In Europe, Say Spanish Researchers Dutch Beach Restaurants Add Sunscreen ‘Shots’ To Menu In Fight Against Cancer ‘As Long As We’re Here, It’s Ours’: The Island Fishing Community On The Frontline Of South China Sea Tensions ‘Even In The Teeth Of A Gale, She Has Time For A Hula’: The Sailor Breaking Barriers On The Pacific Ocean Could A £2-A-Day Basic Income Be The Key To Protecting Rainforests? Africa’s Debt Crisis Has ‘Catastrophic Implications’ for the World What’s the Best Way to Explore Kenya? Join a Local Hiking Club. In Quebec’s Casse-Croûtes, Fast Food for a Short but Sweet Summer Guggenheim Curator Will Stage Exhibition of Caribbean Diaspora ‘Twilight Love’: Shanghai’s Lonely and Retired Are Looking for Love Fighting Sexual Temptation? Play Badminton, Hong Kong Tells Teenagers. Why 7-Eleven Is a National Treasure in Japan A History Museum Shows How China Wants to Remake Hong Kong Italians Fight for the Right to Feast on the Beach Want a Rich, Rustic Taste of Spain? Head for the Hills of La Rioja. A French Museum Has Global Needs (but It Can’t Have New Jersey)

August 22, 2024

• The Good Tourist: Can We Learn to Travel Without Absolutely Infuriating the Locals?
• Rapidly urbanising Africa to have six cities with populations above 10m by 2035
• Thousands of Serbians Protest in Belgrade Against Lithium Mine
• ‘Now You Can Have Rest in Your Home’: the Mirror Roofs Cooling Homes in Freetown
• Drunk Visitors, Rocketing Rents and Homogenised Cafes: Living in Europe’s Tourist Hotspots
• From ‘Open Hearts’ to Closed Borders: Behind Sweden’s Negative Net Immigration Figures
• Summer Sun in Finland? Åland Isles Aim to Lure Tourists to Cooler Climate
• From Scotland to Malawi: Climate Survivors Are Rebuilding With World First Loss and Damage Fund
• The Problem With People: How More Tourists and a Growing Population Are Taking Their Toll on the Galápagos Islands
• Archaeologists to Dig in Search of Skeletons at Waterloo Battlefield
• Unseen Wonders: 70 Years of Japanese Female Photographers – in Pictures
• Afghan Women Arrive in Edinburgh to Finish Medical Degrees Denied Under Taliban
• ‘We All Read Like Hell!’ How Ireland Became the World’s Literary Powerhouse
• Televisions, Fridges and Water Pumps: Why Solar Power Means a Brighter Future for Gujarat’s Salt Farmers
• What to Know About Mpox
• A New National Park That Rests on Indigenous and Industrial History
• Hit Chinese Video Game Seeks to Curb ‘Negative Discourse’
• A TikTok Cucumber Craze Has Iceland in a Pickle
• A Film Festival Founded in a War Zone, Still Going Strong
• I Kept Failing to Learn French. This Is What Finally Worked.
• ‘The Demand Is Unstoppable’: Can Barcelona Survive Mass Tourism?
• War Is Draining Ukraine’s Male-Dominated Work Force. Enter the Women.
• Sparing the Horse, Brussels Warms Up to the Electric Carriage

August 15, 2024

• No Jobs, No Trust: Young Africans’ Economic Struggles Fuel Protests
• The Guardian View on Sudan’s Vicious War: Civilians Suffer As Outsiders Jostle for Advantage
• ‘The Wells Are Salty’: How the Invading Ocean Is Contaminating Vanuatu’s Water
• The Other K-Pop: Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and the Kosovan Chart Takeover
• More Than 500 Mexicans Flee to Guatemala to Escape Cartel Violence in Chiapas
• Cherries, Charms and Pyjamas: Unexpected Trends From Copenhagen Fashion Week
• ‘Walls Are Where We Communicate’: How Murals Paint Chile’s Politics
• Tourists Engulf Montenegro’s Adriatic Gem – in Pictures
• Draft Iraqi Law Allowing 9-Year-Olds to Marry Would ‘Legalise Child Rape’, Say Activists
• Drunk Visitors, Rocketing Rents and Homogenised Cafes: Living in Europe’s Tourist Hotspots
• ‘It’s in Our Dna’: Iceland’s President on the Quest for Gender Equality
• Why Tyla’s Racial Identity Has Rallied South Africans Behind Coloured Communities
• What Will a Single-Dose Malaria Drug Mean for People in Rural Brazil?
• Cabbage and Potatoes Are Not the Only Vegetables: Can These Female Farmers Persuade Mongolia to Change Its Diet?
• Gondoliers Wanted: Venice Seeks to Fill Vacancies for City’s Defining Profession
• Facing Turmoil at Home, Young Artists Find a Musical Haven in New York
• For Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, an Improbably Long Ancient Journey
• Roam With Cowboys and Flamingos in France’s Wild, Wild South
• In South Korea, Documenting a Divide Over Work-Life Balance
• Ancient Calendar, Recently Discovered, May Document a Long-Ago Disaster

August 8, 2024

• Meet the Nations That Have Never Won an Olympic Medal (and Two That Just Did)
• Anger Mounts Over Environmental Cost of Google Datacentre in Uruguay
• Summer Sun in Finland? Åland Isles Aim to Lure Tourists to Cooler Climate
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘The Colour, the Light, the Happy Goat – the Scene Looked Like a Painting’
• Thailand’s Lese Majesty Laws Explained in 30 Seconds
• Egyptian Mummy With Screaming Expression ‘May Have Died in Agony’, Say Researchers
• No Jobs, No Trust: Young Africans’ Economic Struggles Fuel Protests
• Sobering Times for Uk Alcohol-Free Bars As Many Struggle to Survive
• The Big Picture: Paula Bronstein on the Plight of Rohingya Refugees
• Sea, Sand and Sky-High Fees: Italians Tussle Over Their Right to Lie on the Beach
• Mac and Cheese for Life! Philippines’ Heartfelt Gifts to Carlos Yulo After Double Olympic Gold
• Sheep and Goat Plague Won’t Halt Production of Feta, Say Greek Farmers
• ‘It Shouldn’t Be a Bucket List Place’: These People Went to Antarctica. They Hope You Don’t
• Dreams and Deities: Black Bodies Reimagined – in Pictures
• The Icelandic Love Secret: Should We All Try ‘Sex Before Coffee’?
• ‘Hobbit’ Bone From Tiny Species of Ancient Humans Found on Indonesian Island
• A Chinese Woman Sued to Freeze Her Eggs. She Lost.
• To Save His Shrinking City, a Mayor Turns to Koreans Uprooted by Stalin
• Japan Needs Foreign Workers. It’s Just Not Sure It Wants Them to Stay.
• Why Some Young People in China Pretend to Be Birds
• Archaeologists Find a 2,400-Year-Old ‘Pot of Gold’ in Turkey
• The Thai Women Punching Their Way Out of Poverty
• 36 Hours in Helsinki
• No Hands, Please: We’re Dutch

August 1, 2024

• Cheesy Pictures: Gymnast’s Parmesan Photos Take Olympics by Storm
• Botched Spanish Church Makeover Leaves Cherubim Looking Startled
• Ancient Roman Appian Way Becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco World Heritage Site
• ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Retrograde’: Māori Leaders Sound Alarm Over Policy Shifts in New Zealand
• Children ‘At Death’s Door’ As Famine Declared in Sudanese Refugee Camp
• Indonesia President Begins Working From New Capital Despite Construction Delays
• Japan’s Rice Stocks Drop to Lowest Level in Decades Amid Tourist Boom and Poor Crop Yields
• Canada Owes First Nations Billions After Making ‘Mockery’ of Treaty Deal, Top Court Rules
• ‘A Journey Bigger Than Basketball’: South Sudan​ Dreams of Olympic Glory
• Ceramics, Miniatures and Mosaics: the London School Reviving the World’s Endangered Sacred Arts
• Paris Exhibition Celebrates Global Spread of Surrealism
• ‘They Can Stone US and Flog US – I Will Keep Using Makeup’: Why Women Risk Everything in Afghanistan’s Secret Salons
• 36 Hours in Salzburg, Austria
• Can Gouda’s Cheesemakers Stall a Sinking Future?
• In an Italian Village, a Mayor Walks off the Wine and Everyone Joins In
• These Irish Rappers Know Their Movie Will Make People Angry
• Will Free Beer Make Travelers More Responsible?
• When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation?
• In Japan, Turning the Tables on Rude Customers
• Turkey Aims to Cull Its Stray Dogs. Critics Say It’s About Politics.
• Riding With a Trucker, Witnessing India’s Past and Potential
• Hong Kong Taunts Italy With Pineapple Pizza After Olympics Fencing Win
• As Botanists Drop a Racist Plant Name, Some Fear Scientific Confusion