Ulf Kristersson will be prime minister, but with a tiny majority he will be heavily dependent on the nationalist right in government.
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The Sweden Democrats are likely to influence decisions in key areas in the wake of a dramatically close election result.
A fracking site in Lancashire, England, in 2018.
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Britain was once sat on huge gas reserves, but most of it leaked away long ago.
Habiba Hassan Leesow, who had to leave her home due to drought, sits outside her tent with her daughter Najima Barre in a displacement camp.
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Millions of Somalis are in urgent need of aid. But not enough is being done to reach marginalised groups.
Blythe Pepino, founder of BirthStrike, on the Tucker Carlson show.
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BirthStrike offers a salutary lesson about how core messages can be misconstrued and misunderstood when put through a high-profile media lens.
Hailey Bieber experienced a ‘mini-stroke’, aged 25.
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Kid Cudi and Hailey Bieber are among the growing proportion of stroke victims who are under 45.
Phrenology has long since been overturned, but it was once very popular among scientists.
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Two simple rules can help us identify future-proof science.
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A malaria vaccine called R21 has shown up to 80% efficacy following a booster dose in young children.
Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss.
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Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
With the rise of quiet quitting, could the days (and nights) of staying late at the office be over?
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Doing just the duties that your job requires has a long history in the labour movement.
A copy of the VOC’s registers for April 1789. These daily registers contained rich detail - including about the weather.
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A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
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As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
Discovering passions and sharing time with loved ones are two things retirees say they wish they did more when they were younger.
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Balancing wellbeing and money is a matter of how you spend your time.
‘Reeducation’: what is known as a ‘vocational skills education centre’ in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, 2018.
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The report shies away from the issue of ‘genocide’, but is still a landmark document with evidence of widespread abuse of Uyghur people.
Definitely no poison in this chalice.
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With the keys to Number 10 now in her handbag, will the new PM really give the UK a dose of supply-side economics?
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
Flying is responsible for around 5% of human-induced climate change.
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Aviation has long been shamed for its carbon footprint. But cutting non-CO2 emissions may hold the key to rapid change.
Mikhail Gorbachev in 2007 with the editor of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, holding a book about the murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
Things are going in one direction.
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Everyone is talking about how to alleviate energy prices this winter, but no one acknowledges that the average household has been getting poorer for more than a decade.
Sinking ships: Russia’s Black Sea fleet has largely been neutralised.
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Ukraine has been able to challenge Russia’s dominance of the Black Sea, and this will be key to success in its counteroffensive.
Spiral galaxies like M100, pictured here, may hold answers about the nature of dark matter.
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A comparison of star-forming galaxies suggests, surprisingly, that dark matter and visible matter do interact – taking us closer to understanding what keeps the galaxies together.