World
President Xi never wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip | Simon Tisdall
[ad_1] Imagine what would happen if a British prime minister in London told the Scots they could not have their own parliament, national football team or fly the saltire. Or...
The Bond effect? How MI6 fascinates spy watchers around the world
[ad_1] MI6 has the swagger of James Bond; its French equivalent, DGSE, the complexities of the television drama Le Bureau. The film and TV shows may be fictional, but a...
Infantino’s World Cup sell-off debacle has rocked football but Fifa’s crisis has deep and rotten roots
[ad_1] There are decades in which nothing happens, and weeks in which decades happen, and those weeks tend to result in leaders being toppled. Not even a fortnight ago, Gianni...
The week around the world in 20 pictures
[ad_1] Wildfires in the US and Europe, Russian strikes in Kyiv, beekeepers in Gaza and the European Aquatics Championships – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading...
Messy is chic again. But is the world ready for my kind of crumpled grubbiness? | Emma Beddington
[ad_1] Stand down Stacey Solomon; hush, quiet luxury: mess is back, though in this household, and I suspect many others, it never went away. “Messiness in all its aesthetic glory...
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
[ad_1] Butterflies, often considered a “sentinel of change”, are on the move across every continent they inhabit, shifting to survive as global heating reshapes their environment.About one in 10 species...
Gianni Infantino ‘has lost Uefa’s confidence’ after Fifa chief scraps World Cup sell-off plan
[ad_1] Gianni Infantino “has lost the confidence” of Uefa following his aborted project to sell off the World Cup to private investors, European football’s governing body has said.Uefa castigated “secret...
Exploring Rabat, Morocco – this year’s Unesco World Book Capital
[ad_1] The first book I read willingly was Bridget Jones’s Diary. I was 19. Up to that point, I hadn’t been much of a reader. I’d been more into football,...
