No Cable extension.
Kerim Okten/EPA
The dismal science has had a dismal verdict from the UK electorate, and the new government isn’t coming to the rescue either.
The Iraqi army has not been on point.
EPA/Khider Abbas
Why the Iraqi army keeps losing ground to Islamic State, despite significantly outnumbering its forces.
Told you so!
Photo of Charles Darwin uploaded by Shehal Joseph/Flickr
Sperm banks and human cloning may not be the future. A study in beetles reveals that having two sexes boosts genetic quality.
Hey sup.
EPA/Alexei Nikolsky/Ria Novosti/Kremlin
As the West and Russia go about rooting out each other’s spies, they also lose the ability to keep tabs on each other. Time to get back in touch.
Someone’s pulling the strings.
William Sun
Whether you cheered the election result or were cast into a depression, it doesn’t really matter. The real power lies outside of Westminster, and outside of our control.
Is your smartwatch spying on you?
wearables by Alexey Boldin/shutterstock.com
As wearables record more personal and physical activity data about us, we risk giving away more than we’d imagine.
Cost of food predicted to rise.
Donation by Shutterstock
Division between the have and have nots is likely to widen – and food is one area where many will go without.
Len’s got a plan for Labour.
'Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA'
Len McCluskey needs to snap back to reality, if he wants to see Labour in government.
Dying with dignity.
Shutterstock
Systemic change is need to ensure that patients’ voices are heard when doctors make decisions about end-of-life care.
Sarah Lucas, I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion 2015.
Photo by Cristiano Corte © British Council
Sarah Lucas’s show is a (resolutely cheerful) cry of frustration at the overwhelmingly male exhibition history of the British Pavilion.
The man behind the communities.
Sharon Mollerus
French thinker Jean Vanier has been awarded one of the top accolades in the world of religion for setting up a movement to care for people with intellectual disabilities.
Dawn of a new era?
Angelo Carconi/EPA
With US-Israel relations at an all time low, the pope’s recognition of Palestine could boost its cause on the international stage.
Kudankulam is one of seven new nuclear plants being built in India.
IAEA
Asia and Eastern Europe are leading the way, but construction times for new projects are getting longer, and Europe’s dominant energy player, Germany, is turning its back on nuclear.
In search of the Maloja Snake.
© Carole Bethuel
The film is a brilliant and nuanced study of the relationship between a younger and older woman.
Will Plaid touch down at the 2016 elections?
Leanne Wood/Facebook
Plaid did not fare as well as its Scottish cousin in the general election - and history can tell us why.
Morsi in court.
EPA/Namir Galal/Almasry Alyoum
Two years after the ousting of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, military rule is now firmly entrenched.
Making sense of it.
Smartphone by Shutterstock
Apps can help us make sense of all the health messages out there.
Friends for the benefits.
EPA/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool
Despite the emphasis on a mutually beneficial economic relationship, political and security concerns have the power to undermine cooperation between China and India.
Prayers at school in Kashmir. Education quality around the world is now under the spotlight.
Jaipal Singh/EPA
Discussions at the World Education Forum in South Korea will shape the future of millions of young people.
Displaced Iraqis flee Ramadi as Islamic State forces advance.
EPA/Ahmed Jalil
With the war in Iraq and Syria going nowhere, the US has tried to spin a botched attempt to capture an IS leader as a success.
Modern hunter-gather cultures, like the Agta of the Philippines, show how equal our ancestors were.
Rodolph Schlaepfer
Research suggests that hunter gatherers were more egalitarian than us, partly because they had fewer relatives around.
Day of the tentacle.
Shutterstock
A new robotic tentacle has the potential to revolutionise keyhole surgery.
‘And was Jerusalem builded here…“
Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA
For all the harm that austerity may have done, it looks to have galvanised music from the margins
A simpler time. Martin Lev plays Dandy Dan in Bugsy Malone with ammunition at the ready.
alanparker.com/National Films Trustee Corp/David Appleby
Gangs of career criminals in Britain look very different to the stories told by Scorcese or Coppola. They are fluid, multi-cultural and recent research sheds new light on how they use the dirty money.
Weaker than he seems.
EPA/Yuri Kochetkov
Putin is superficially more popular than ever, but his extravagantly militaristic policy and Russia’s economic isolation mean he’s walking a tightrope.