Arctic migrants such as this Sanderling face an uncertain future.
Erik Thomsen
For birds migrating to the top of the world, the warming climate could severely contract the available space they have to breed.
Kenyan athletes exercise in the early morning near a high-altitude training camp.
Reuters/Siegfried Modola
With weeks to go before the Olympics, it’s unlikely Kenya will be sanctioned over fresh doping claims. No matter what happens, a shadow will be cast over the integrity of the country’s athletes.
Tshwane Executive Mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, surrounded by school pupils and officials, samples the metropole’s free internet service.
Pretoria News/Masi Losi
That South Africa has voted against rights enshrined in its globally celebrated, progressive constitution suggests a troubling indifference to its human rights commitments.
Rumpled.
Sergeant Paul Shaw LBIPP (Army)/MOD
The second organisational pillar of the European order isn’t as threatened as the EU – but there’s trouble ahead.
Using our heads. New ways to battle doping in Olympic year.
Duncan Rawlinson/Flickr
The ban on Russian athletes at the Rio Olympics feels like a victory, but it masks an insular system which is spread too thin.
MRI scanners need liquid helium to cool their magnets.
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Vast reserves of crucial helium have been found in Tanzania. Here’s how the scientists did it.
Wait … they voted to leave?!
EPA/Adam Warzawa
Forecasts that Britain’s withdrawal from the EU will send the world into a state of war are wildly overblown.
Relatives mourn a victim of the Istanbul airport attack.
REUTERS/Osman Orsal
Three suicide bombers killed 42 at Turkey’s busiest airport June 28. A scholar explains how Turkey’s foreign policy blunders have made the country such a target for terrorist attacks.
Uh-oh.
Phoenixman
If Brexiters thought that making new international tariff deals and joining the WTO would be a cakewalk, they’re in for a shock.
Sebastian Coe, president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, which has upheld its ban on Russian athletes competing internationally.
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
The International Association of Athletics Federations has upheld its ban on the Russian Athletic Federation from competing in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Who, me?
Maxim Shemetov/EPA
The remain camp argue that Russia is one of only a few countries that favour the UK leaving the EU. We asked two academics.
General Sir Richard Shirreff when serving as commander of the British forces in Kosovo in 2000.
Phil Noble / PA Archive/Press Association Images
We should welcome the latest intervention from General Sir Richard Shirreff – he knows what he is talking about.
BRICS leaders at a meeting ahead of the G20 summit in Turkey in 2015.
REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin
The BRICS bank is positioning itself to play a significant role in those areas in which the international financial institutions are seen to have failed.
A call to arms…
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A new book warns that a lack of Western resolve could lead to World War III.
Russian troops march through Moscow to mark Victory Day.
PA/Alexander Zemlianichenko
A number of tripwires could set off a chain of events leading to war.
EPA/SANA
By striking deep in Bashar-al Assad’s heartland, Islamic State issued a reminder that his regime will never control all of Syria.
On their knees. Scrutiny and stigma for athletes has ramped up.
Phil Roeder/Flickr
The history of the fight against drug taking in sport shows us why we’re in such a mess right now.
Blockade of Toulon by Thomas Luny.
Wikimedia Commons
The British blockade of France wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for an ingenious experiment conducted half a century earlier.
The Saami have a history of colonisation and discrimination, and tend not to have easy relationships with the four modern states they inhabit.
Reuters/William Webster
Although the Saami have made political and legal gains in the past decades, progress is precarious. And recognition of their rights cannot be taken for granted.
STUDIOCANAL
We were intrigued to see what Hollywood would make of John le Carré’s tale of Russian money laundering.