Breakdown in Global Order Causing Progress to Stall in Africa – Report Bring on the Vegas Glitz! How Roma Families Are Defying Their Persecutors With Bling Palaces Grand Egyptian Museum to Open Main Galleries for Trial Run to 4,000 Visitors Uk ‘Open to Discussing Non-Cash Forms of Reparatory Justice’ for Former Colonies Afro-Brazilian Artist Rosana Paulino Is Suturing the Past to the Present Schools in Mexico Have Six Months to Ban Junk Food Sales or Face Heavy Fines Danish Family Seek to Return Etruscan Objects Bought From Boot of Car in Italy Funding Cuts Could Mean Death of Sámi Languages, Say Indigenous Parliaments How the Banana Industry Funded Violence – Video Prague Bans Night-Time Pub Crawls in Bid to Attract ‘More Cultured, Wealthier’ Tourists Norway to Increase Minimum Age Limit on Social Media to 15 to Protect Children Unguarded Moments: Small-Town Life in New Zealand and Australia in the 80S and 90S – in Pictures New Zealand Airport Causes Stir With Sign Capping Goodbye Cuddles to 3 Minutes University in Lisbon Suspends Plans for Course on Racism Taught by All-White Staff ‘They Refused to Let Me Go’: Japanese Workers Turn to Resignation Agencies to Quit Jobs The Wild Boars of the Costa Del Sol: Do These Sun-Loving Pigs Really Need to Be Culled? Italy Passes Law Clamping Down on Surrogacy Tourism How a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Having Too Many Babies 4 Can’t-Miss Towns in an Often Overlooked Corner of Japan The Quest to Save the ‘King’ of Japanese Rice From Rising Temperatures Canada Tightens Immigration After Years of Expansion

October 17, 2024

• Grand Egyptian Museum to Open Main Galleries for Trial Run to 4,000 Visitors
• Anger Mounts Over Environmental Cost of Google Datacentre in Uruguay
• After Marie Kondo: the Return of Japan’s Joyful Clutter
• Is Circular Migration a Solution to the Crisis at the US border? Guatemala Provides a Clue
• The World Twins Festival in Nigeria – in Pictures
• Country Diary: Looking Out to Where Farming Began 8,000 Years Ago
• Ireland’s Big School Secret: How a Year Off-Curriculum Changes Teenage Lives
• ‘I Think, Boy, I’m a Part of All This’: How Local Heroes Reforested Rio’s Green Heart
• Hunters Wearing Dead Herons As Hats: Randy Olson’s Best Photograph
• ‘He Saw How Architecture and Sculpture Could Coexist’: Why Greece Fell in Love With Henry Moore
• Families Seek to Clear Names of Men Who Refused to Fight for Former Dutch Colony
• Prague bans night-time pub crawls in bid to attract ‘more cultured, wealthier’ tourists
• 36 Hours, Hanoi
• Can the Government Get People to Have More Babies?
• One of the Loneliest Countries Finds Companionship in Dogs
• Grand Rooms Found in Peru Show an Ancient Culture and a Powerful Woman
• These Americans Are Going Back to Mexico as Its Citizens
• Overlooked No More: Mariama Bâ, Voice of African Feminism

October 10, 2024

• Swedish Government Accused of Trying to ‘Outlaw Poverty’ Over Begging Ban Plans
• Dutch Feminists Campaign for National Monument to ‘Witches’
• Squeezed Out: Last Accordion Maker in France to Close Shop After 105 Years
• Synthesisers Can Convey Emotion Too’: Zaho De Sagazan Reinvents the French Love Song Despite Never Falling in Love
• Bunting, Bobbies and Doctor Who Phone Boxes: Dinard, the French Film Festival That’s Mad for Britain
• Portugal Proposes Decade of Tax Breaks for Young People to Stem Brain Drain
• This Is Getting Silly Now! Why Won’t Politicians Stop Ripping off the West Wing?
• Germans Decry Influence of English As ‘Idiot’s Apostrophe’ Gets Official Approval
• 18 Treated for Severe Nausea in Stuttgart After Opera of Live Sex and Piercing
• The Silk Road Still Casts a Spell, but Was the Ancient Trading Route Just a Western Invention?
• UK Auction House Cancels ‘Disrespectful’ Sale of Shrunken Heads and Skulls
• ‘Torn Down for Hotel Rooms’: Iceland’s Famous Music Venues Swallowed by Tourism
• ‘You Build a Sisterhood’: Training for the Mexican Equestrian Sport of Escaramuza – Photo Essay
• When Work Becomes a Party: Capturing the Joy of Collective Effort in an Indigenous Community in Ecuador
• The Human Towers of Tarragona – in Pictures
• Country Diary: Looking Out to Where Farming Began 8,000 Years Ago
• Supreme Court to Decide Whether Mexico Can Sue U.S. Gun Makers
• So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies.
• A Ravishing Show of Aboriginal Art, Some in the U.S. for the First Time

October 3, 2024

• ‘We Need ’Em Worse Than They Need Us’: How Haitian Workers Feed the US
• Africa’s Small-Scale Revolution Against Big Agriculture: Five Farmers Talk Greener, Better Food
• ‘It Used to Be a Farm – Now It’s a Mall’: How El Salvador’s Crisis-Hit Coffee Producers Are Trying to Adapt
• How the ‘Frida Kahlo of Environmental Geopolitics’ Is Lighting a Fire Under Big Oil
• Christmas Caracas: Early Festivities Are No Joke As Maduro Tightens Grip
• Growing a ‘Word Forest’: the Kenyan Teacher Trying to Save Her Language From Extinction
• Tiktok Videos Spread Misinformation to New Migrant Community in New York City
• Vatican Bank Fires Man and Woman Who Flouted Staff Marriage Ban
• The Indigenous Female Mountain Guide Breaking Barriers in Bolivia – Video
• ‘Because Secondhand Is Feckin’ Grand’: How Clothes Swapping Became Huge in Ireland
• Pushing Buttons: at Tokyo Game Show, I Saw the Japanese Games Scene I Grew up With Is Still Live and Kicking
• 36 Hours in Edinburgh
• Where Literary Ghosts Linger: a Book Critic Goes to Dublin
• A Fancy New Restaurant in London, Staffed by the Recently Homeless
• In Japan’s Countryside, Century-Old Firms Learn to Embrace Foreign Workers
• Studying at an English-Speaking University? in Quebec, That May Cost Extra
• Using Dance to Provoke, Delight and Tell South Africa’s Stories