Millennials have been hardest hit by cuts.
Antony Bennison
Young people are poorer than older people in England and the wealth gap between the young and the old is on the rise.
Letitia Wright as Shuri in Black Panther (2018).
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This is what happens when we stop assuming audiences can’t handle female-led sci-fi films.
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The apparent success of grammar schools is simply due to pupils coming from more advantaged social backgrounds and already having higher academic attainment at age 11.
Asperitas cloud over Newtonia, Missouri, US.
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Clouds can reveal a great deal about the world we live in. Here’s what happens when scientists find a whole new type.
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A branch of AI research promises to deliver computers that evolve their own software but the tech industry has yet to catch on.
Christ as depicted in the film Jesus of Montreal.
Artificial Eye
Christ can’t simply be seen as a religious figure when his life and teaching were so political.
A car drives past a poster depicting Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Houla village, southern Lebanon.
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Closing the loophole: why the UK government must clip Hezbollah’s ‘wings’.
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An increasing list of rare diseases can now be treated with gene therapy. But we need to figure out a way to make them affordable.
Working together.
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We are already collaborating – the question is, how can we do it better?
Hellraiser: John Bolton at the UN, 2006.
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Reportedly passed over for secretary of state because of his moustache, John Bolton has made it into Donald Trump’s administration at last.
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Thousands of animals are used for heart drug tests each year – but research shows that in silico developments are more accurate.
Protester mocking President al-Sisi.
Alisdare Hickson
Public disaffection in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries betrays deep-seated tensions beneath the surface.
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As Hitler showed in 1936, there’s nothing like a massive sporting spectacle to promote your regime.
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America’s gun violence debate is at a fever pitch – but it’s part of a much deeper cultural reckoning.
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China has made numerous signals that it does not want to start a trade war with the US.
A mural outside a school for Palestinian refugees.
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Thousands of staff are employed by the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. Their futures remain uncertain.
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Multiple reports have convincingly demonstrated that agroecology is the most promising pathway to sustainable food systems on all continents. But governments aren’t doing enough to support it.
Not creepy at all.
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Slacktivism won’t cut it in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Making waves.
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Plastics and microplastics in the marine environment are one of the great cause célèbre of our era. Here’s what we know and don’t know.
Joanne Libby.
Three Oscar-nominated films prominently featured characters using sign languages. It’s an important contribution to recognising Deaf culture and identity.
United, for now.
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The EU faces three key challenges over Brexit: avoiding a no-deal scenario, managing the ticking negotiation clock and ensuring its own unity.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN Security Council.
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Despite its reputation, Russia has contributed much more to international law than it’s sometimes given credit for.
Esref Armagan.
Turkish painter Esref Armagan uses colour and perspective that he has never seen.
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Noise around extreme practices drowns out how data analytics is being used in everyday ways. To really consider control of our data we must look beyond Cambridge Analytica.
Students take part in protests in support of the university pensions strikes.
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A strike around a specific employment issue can easily develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.