America’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has been deployed to the Red Sea to counter the Houthi threat to shipping there.
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Successful empires have always depended on maritime power. Now there are signs that this power is shifting eastwards.
Vladimir Putin lays flowers at a monument to Peter the Great in Baltiisk, western Russia.
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The forthcoming March election in Russia is likely to mean another victory for Vladimir Putin, who remains popular, for now.
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The airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen has been justified by the US and UK as being in ‘self defence’.
Rishi Sunak visited Border Force in Dover in June 2023.
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Expert analysis shows most stories about the migration bill have been about party politics, not the substance of the policy.
Shaming women for enjoying anal sex is damaging to their health, wellbeing and sexual autonomy.
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The stigma around anal sex is damaging for women – and diminishes their sexual autonomy
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While these shows all try to claim part of the noughties nostalgia trend, they feel politically and contextually vacant.
Widespread damage to buildings near the Palestine Tower in Gaza City after bombing by Israeli forces.
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Viral bots are ‘tricking’ social media algorithms to get more coverage for disinformation.
The 19th-century starry ceiling of Carlisle Cathedral, last painted in 1970.
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Religious heritage in the UK faces a funding crisis. Both the buildings and those who worship in them need to be considered.
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The complex task of tackling online terror needs human eyes as well as artificial intelligence.
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Being rightwing involves specific beliefs about the world but is also linked to our genes and environment.
A human bone fragment from the new excavations at Ranis in Germany.
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A new discovery is shedding more light on the overlap between the two species of human, despite the challenges of exploring this distant time
Adriana La Cerva, Connie Corleone and Carmela Soprano are the inspiration for the ‘mob wife’ aesthetic.
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Real ‘mob wives’ either avoid drawing attention to themselves or present a superficial illusion of what their lives are really like.
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The Arch of Reunification has been destroyed – reversing decades of government policy targeting eventual reunification with the South.
People receive crates of water in the aftermath of earthquakes in the Samandag district of Hatay, Turkey.
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Social workers encountered challenges in providing their services in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquakes, facing obstacles outside of their control.
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Different management styles are available.
Research has found that hills and rainy weather are not posing barriers for people wanting to explore rural tourist areas using e-bikes.
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Research shows that rain and hilly terrain doesn’t put people off e-bikes.
Michelle O'Neill, first minister of Northern Ireland, pictured in front of Stormont.
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O'Neill has pledged to represent ‘Catholics, Protestants and dissenters’ but has made plain that she sees that as compatible with a referendum on Irish unity within a decade.
An installation in the Cute exhibition at Somerset House.
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The show is divided into sections which all valiantly attempt to define “cute”. But the word is resistant to definition.
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Just as the UK looks set to return to grown up politics, everyone else is installing radicals.
Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital.
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In Iceland’s few open prisons, prisoners benefit from benign conditions, rural settings and internet access. This makes being imprisoned as a foreigner much easier than in other western Europen countries.