The mental health benefits of biodiversity can be experienced by everyone – not just those who live in green, rural areas.
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Protect wildlife to promote better mental health.
A Lion’s Watermelon by Adam Rouhana (2024).
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This year, much of the art addresses exile, diaspora, migration and colonial violence.
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The first minister’s decision to abruptly end his coalition deal with the Greens has backfired in spectacular fashion, leaving the SNP in crisis once more.
A.J. Odudu and Will Best present Big Brother on ITV.
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Once huge ratings draws, reality TV shows are facing dwindling audiences in the UK and elsewhere. Is this the end of the genre, or can it adapt to survive?
Beyoncé photographed by Mason Poole.
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Beyoncé playfully mixes aural identifiers of both ‘blackness’ and ‘whiteness’ to create something new
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New ideas will be key to making the mission happen after a report criticised its timescale and cost.
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What the brevity and humble tone tell us about the resigning first ministe'rs hopes for the future.
Cars are gathered at a port in in Yantai, Shandong province, China, for export.
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Chinese car makers are finding the road to succeeding in the EU slow and bumpy.
People parading a Russian flag around the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Niger’s military government sides with Russia in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing influence in Africa.
Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent, 1889.
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McDermid artfully weaves Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth with Scotland’s Queen Gruoch, the real woman who inspired her.
Keir Starmer shows Poulter his new digs, following his defection from the Tories.
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It’s a rare event for an MP to leave government to join the opposition. But the timing here may mean voters will hardly notice.
France and the UK are leading European military support for Ukraine, and putting pressure on Germany to follow.
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Britain and France are working together to create coalitions to support Ukraine, with some success.
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Mayoral votes, a by-election triggered by a scandal and a prime minister under threat. It’s a big week.
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Maps can shape how we see conflict.
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Her stories and essays unpicked the complexities and after-effects of colonialism in searing and incisive ways.
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Catherine Colonna’s report has been angrily rejected by the Israeli government.
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Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has suddenly terminated the Bute House agreement, the pact between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens, which ensured a majority for the Scottish…
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The Labour MP was friends with Margaret Thatcher, but certainly didn’t agree that there’s ‘no such thing as society’.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken and China’s foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing on April 26.
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China’s need for allies is driven by its worry about neighbouring North Korea and concern about western dominance.
The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge has been the site of a legionella outbreak and other unsafe living conditions.
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Each year the UK incarcerates thousands of asylum seekers in prison-like immigration detention centres.