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A 4,500-star experience: UK’s best stargazing and dark sky places

When you “gaze up at the night sky”, you “can’t help but feel small” before the “grand abyss of the universe that lies beyond”, said Ethan Siegel on Big Think. While nearly all of them are “invisible to our eyes”, our “observable” universe, extending “tens of billions of light years…

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Electric flying taxis: pie in the sky or climate panacea?

They may look like something straight out of a science-fiction film, but flying taxis could soon be a common sight in the skies over cities around the world.

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Julius Malema: South Africa’s next kingmaker?

The leader of South Africa’s second-largest opposition party is waging a war of words with the world’s richest person after being accused of “pushing for genocide of white people”.

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Traveller returns home after 10-year journey to every country in the world without flying

A Danish man has become the first person to visit every country on Earth without flying in an epic 10-year adventure.

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Niger coup: is this the end of French influence in Africa?

France’s historic influence in West Africa could finally be coming to an end after a succession of coups culminating in last week’s military takeover in Niger.

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LK-99: the room-temperature superconductor discovery causing a stir

The scientific community remains “deeply sceptical” over claims of a discovery of the world’s first superconductor able to operate at room temperature and under normal pressure.

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Early retirement: what is the ‘FIRE’ movement?

While millions of the UK’s workers are hoping to retire at state pension age, some are aiming to get off the employment treadmill much sooner.

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‘Irony’ as Zoom calls staff back to office

The company that epitomised the trend of working from home during the Covid pandemic is telling its employees to come back to the office. Zoom said it’s now enforcing a “structured hybrid approach”, meaning that employees who live near an office “need to be onsite two days a week” because…

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Ascension island: UK could send small boats arrivals to remote Atlantic territory

Ministers are considering sending asylum seekers to Ascension Island while their claims are processed in a “radical Plan B” should the Rwanda scheme be blocked again or scrapped altogether.

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Dog attacks: should the Bully XL be banned in the UK?

The government is facing a backlash after refusing to ban a breed of dog accused of killing at least nine people including three children since 2021.

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Did Saudi summit move the dial on Ukraine-Russia peace deal?

The involvement of China in talks aimed at securing a lasting peace in Ukraine have been hailed as a major diplomatic coup for hosts Saudi Arabia, and potentially significant in bringing Russia to the negotiating table.

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Lionesses dig deep after Lauren James’s ‘Beckham-esque’ red card

BBC commentator Robyn Cowen summed it up as “daylight robbery” as ten-woman England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach the quarter-finals of the Fifa Women’s World Cup. After Lauren James saw red late on in normal time, the last-16 clash in Brisbane finished 0-0 after 120 minutes with the Lionesses…

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The judges deciding Donald Trump’s future

Donald Trump has demanded the removal of the judge overseeing his election fraud case, claiming that “there is no way I can get a fair trial”.

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The new Covid variant Eris behind a rise in cases this summer

There has been a slight rise in the number of Covid cases in the UK, with more people being admitted to hospital including those requiring intensive care.

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The spiralling global rice crisis

Rice is a global staple and keeping the price low means “less people go to bed hungry”, said Al Jazeera. However, a controversial decision by the Indian government could upend this notion, and create chaos across the world.

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Controversial church says Hawaii will be ‘destroyed’

Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday, said the Westboro Baptist Church. The controversial church, based in Kansas, said that “the churches of Hawaii have doomed the inhabitants with lies about the eternal God”, adding that “the watchers must (and will) publicly pronounce the warning on Sunday”. It “was not…

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The Week Unwrapped: Bank warning, allergies and talking to strangers

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Guy Anker, Suchandrika Chakrabarti and Arion McNicoll.

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Fabulous foodie adventures in Peru, Japan and Australia

His restaurant in Lima, Central, took top spot in this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – but the Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s outpost in the Andes, Mil, makes for a yet more remarkable “foodie pilgrimage”, said Paul Richardson in the FT.

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How to immerse yourself in the Edinburgh Fringe 2023

James Layton, lecturer in performance at the University of the West of Scotland, explains how to get the best from a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe.

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Recipe: cheesy kimchi toastie with bloody mary mayo

This is my ultimate quick and easy brunch, lunch or hangover cure, said Conor Spacey. I haven’t reinvented the wheel here – this recipe is based on the classic Welsh rarebit. As for the mayo, it has no vodka in it, but it does have the same spicy kick as…

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Netanyahu’s reforms: an existential threat to Israel?

“What finally got me was the selfie,” said Michael Oren in The Times of Israel (Jerusalem).

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Why Putin is weaponising grain in the war with Ukraine

The cynicism of Vladimir Putin knows no bounds, said The Sunday Times. Having abandoned the UN-brokered grain deal that ensured safe passage for Ukraine’s crops to markets, despite warnings that it could cause “hunger or worse” in low-income African nations, the Russian president last week had the nerve to pose…

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The Geneva Conventions explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

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Hundreds of children hit with heat exhaustion at World Scout Jamboree in South Korea

More than 600 children have fallen ill with heat exhaustion at the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum, South Korea, as youngsters struggle to cope with the conditions.

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A weekend in Venice: travel guide, things to do, food and drink

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…

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