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‘Monks, Politicians, Drag Queens – All Life Is Here’: a Trip to Japan’s Kyotographie Festival ‘Cañahua Chose Me’: Can an Ancient Relative of Quinoa Revive Rural Bolivia’s Economy? Global Study on Covid Vaccine Safety Falls Victim to Trump Cuts Nepali-Speaking Bhutanese Refugees in Limbo After Deportation From US Grassroots Activists Who Took on Corruption and Corporate Power Share 2025 Goldman Prize Trump Is Jailing Immigrant Families Again. a Mother, Father and Teen Tell of ‘Anguish on a Daily Basis’ How Green Tech Is Fuelling a War in Africa – Video Please, Yell at My Kids! Five Lessons I’Ve Learned About Good Parenting From Around the World Refugee Girls in Kenya Find Strength in Taekwondo – in Pictures Anti-Trump Protesters in the US Might Look to the Czech Republic: ‘We Are an Example’ ‘Is There a Place for the Poor?’ Artists and Activists Try to Revive Johannesburg, Crumbling City of Gold Peri-Peri Patron: How Nando’s Amassed a Huge Collection of South African Art The Wholegrain Revolution! How Denmark Changed the Diet – and Health – of Their Entire Nation ‘Morally Repugnant’: Brazilian Workers Sue Coffee Supplier to Starbucks Over ‘Slavery-Like Conditions’ German Police Crack Down on Illegal Street Car Tuning As Season Begins Rice Crisis: Japan Imports Grain From South Korea for First Time in More Than 25 Years Big Ocean, the World’s First Deaf K-Pop Band, on the Stigma, the Songs and a Second Album Mine’s a Pint of Unesco… Brewers Chase Heritage Status for British Cask Ale Costa Rica Tells Trump Deportees They Can Stay and Integrate, or Leave Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis Strawberries Aren’t Ripe for Africa? His Farms Disprove That, Deliciously. Why Japan Counts 72 Microseasons Monsters Plague Japan. but What Do They Mean? Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust Overlooked Letter Rewrites History of Shakespeare’s Bad Marriage

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April 17, 2025

• UN Calls on Trump to Exempt Poorest Countries From ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs
• ‘We Feel Like We’Re Back in Senegal’: the Sufis Helping Migrants in the Canaries
• The Only Way Is Up: a Celebration of Bolivia’s Indigenous Female Climbers – in Pictures
• Court Denies Trump Administration’s Appeal Against Order to ‘Facilitate’ Return of Wrongly Deported US Man – Live
• Fifty Years On, New Zealand’s Tribunal Upholding Māori Rights Faces a Turning Point
• ‘Incompatible With the Symbolism’: Yorgos Lanthimos Denied Permission to Shoot New Film at the Acropolis
• ‘No Fish, No Money, No Food’: Colombia’s Stilt People Fight to Save Their Wetlands
• Schools in Spain Required to Serve Fruit, Vegetables and Fish in Fight Against Obesity
• Mine’s a Pint of Unesco… Brewers Chase Heritage Status for British Cask Ale
• Yayoi Kusama: Why This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Show Is the Most Popular in Australian History
• In Sweden, I Got Paid Time off to Settle My Child at School. Here’s Why I Want US Families to Have the Same Right
• The Glassworker: Studio Ghibli’s Legacy Lives in Pakistan’s First Hand-Drawn Feature
• Bibles, Bullets and Beef: Amazon Cowboy Culture at Odds With Brazil’s Climate Goals
• Con Artists Scamming London Tourists Meet Their Match: Batman and Robin
• The Dutch Love Their Bicycles. Helmets? Not so Much.
• How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs

April 10, 2025

• ‘Skyrocketing’ Demand for Matcha Raises Fears of Shortage in Japan
• ‘Barcelona or Death’: Mothers Watch and Wait As Senegal’s Men Risk All to Reach Europe
• Steppes and the City: How Smog Has Become Part of Mongolians’ Way of Life – in Pictures
• ‘There Are No Winners’: Global Companies Respond to Trump Tariffs
• As a White Afrikaner, I Can Now Claim Asylum in Trump’s America. What an Absurdity
• ‘Finally We Are Being Seen As Contenders’: Delight in India As Demand for South Asian Art Booms
• Trump’s Tariffs May Be Perilous for Small, Heavily Indebted Countries in Global South
• Revealed: Big Tech’s New Datacentres Will Take Water From the World’s Driest Areas
• Thousands in Spain Join Nationwide March to Protest Against Housing Crisis
• Will Pan-African Air Travel Ever Truly Take Off?
• As Trump Ignites Tariff War, a US City Is Embracing Canadians With All Its Heart
• Leading the Charge: How a Drive for Electric Vehicles Is Cleaning up Nepal
• ‘Some of These Diseases Are in the Bible’: Despair As Cuts Halt Progress on Age-Old Tropical Illnesses
• Big, Biodiverse and Beautiful: Can Romania’s Centuries-Old Giant Haystacks Survive Modern Farming?
• ‘We Made Everything Bear-Proof’: the Italian Village That Learned to Love Its Bears
• ‘Freak Pictures’: Ireland’s Art Revolutionaries Who Were Treated so Badly One Fled to a Nunnery
• ‘Half the Place Would Be Blown to Bits’: the Irish Villages Under Threat From Trump’s Tariffs
• New Generation of African Chocolatiers Would Be Hobbled by U.S. Tariffs

April 3, 2025

• How Does It Feel to Be an International Student in the U.S. Now?
• There Is No Such Thing As an ‘Illegal Immigrant’
• The World Is Missing Out on the Real Yemen: We Are Not Just War, We Are Culture, Beauty and Love
• Roman-Era Battlefield Mass Grave Discovered Under Vienna Football Pitch
• ‘We Can Talk Through Our Art’: the Malian Festival Uniting the Sahel’s People
• Renowned Dutch Tulip Garden Makes Space for Selfie Generation to Bloom
• Russia Bans Elton John Aids Foundation Over Its Support for LGBTQ+ Rights
• Us Tourist Arrested for Landing on Forbidden Indian Tribal Island
• Large Majority of Europeans Support Retaliatory Tariffs Against Us, Poll Finds
• ‘Is It “Woke” to Care About the Environment?’: How Trump’s Cuts Are Dismantling Global Conservation Work
• Trump tariffs could undermine Brexit deal in Northern Ireland
• Asian Countries Riven by War and Disaster Face Some of Steepest Trump Tariffs
• ‘There’s an US V Them Mentality’: Are Young Australian Men and Women Drifting Apart Politically?
• How Philanthropists Are Destroying African Farms – Video
• The Hindu Nation Was Fake. but Its Land Grab in Bolivia Was Real.
• After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home
• In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
• How a Small Violin Part Highlights Bigger Problems for the Global Economy
• Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
• A 600-Year-Old Masterpiece Gets Some Much-Needed Love
• Why Italy Made It Harder to Become Italian
• Finland Says It Can Teach Tourists to Be Happy. Challenge Accepted.