Everything old is new again: ZX Spectrum Vega.
Retro Computers
If early videogames are really that good, they’ll still hold up today – right?
Time to wave them off.
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In some significant ways, Americans have fewer avenues for advancement than the characters of Mad Men do.
Quality control: in Liberia in 2014, all students failed their university entrance exams.
Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA
Countries have a lot to gain by making sure all people leave school with functional literacy.
Beer goggles.
SuWatch
What happens to your brain when you drink?
Just ask a cab driver - they’ve got that map in their head.
Beverley Goodwin/Flickr
When we figure out how places connect geographically, local maps in the brain join into a single, overarching map.
Murphy’s law has finally asserted itself.
Jane Barlow/PA
The Scottish Labour leader’s resignation was inevitable. You can’t lose your seat and your entire Scottish beach head and seriously argue to the contrary.
How blue can you get?
Yui Mok/PA Archive
There are those who believed that BB King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar player, including the man himself.
Gone, gone … going?
Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
In this media landscape, who can blame the 35-year-old for stepping aside?
Changing views on depression.
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New ideas about what depression is and how to treat it are being held back by a lack of commercial interest.
‘We both knew that wouldn’t fly, Dave.’
Robert Perry/EPA
It’s obvious why the Smith Commission would never work.
Norway: a flag bearer for ethical investment?
Butz.2013
Sovereign Wealth Funds have about $7 trillion to invest in the companies we work for – and new research shows that the biggest of them brings some extra benefits.
A Thai vessel provides supplies to Rohingya migrants on an abandoned boat.
EPA/STR
Why have South-East Asian countries abandoned scores of migrants to drift in the sea?
It may feel strange shaking a robot hand, but it has the same effect.
Chris Bevan/University of Bath
Shaking hands builds trust, and the same applies whether it’s a human or robot hand you’re shaking.
Umunna has said the media scrutiny was too much.
Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
Chuka Umunna was not the person for the job, but neither is anyone else in contention.
Piling up new treatments.
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Proposals for a new way to fund antibiotic research and development are just one piece of the puzzle in the fight against drug-resistance.
Pulling out all the stops.
Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA
Cannes manages to project a level of gravitas and glitter that is the envy of its rivals the world over.
Migrants reaching out for help.
MOAS.EU/EPA
The UK’s response to the migrant crisis is legal, but it’s also immoral.
Mindfulness: finding a moment to focus.
Erich Ferdinand
Demand for mental healthcare continues to rise, and so should our demands to make provision for it.
Stage-managed diplomacy in Haiti.
EPA/Alain Jocard
François Hollande can’t avoid the issue of reparations for slavery, but nor can he take control of it.
Burundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza – the only candidate in the 2010 election.
EPA/Yannick Tylle
An attempt by the incumbent president to change the constitution and run for a third term has exposed deep and dangerous divisions.
Aflame with controversy.
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UKIP will rise (and possibly fall) on Farage’s “personality cult”.
Northern uproot?
Art Crimes
Tens of thousands have signed a petition for the north of England to join Scotland. But deeper cooperation rather than secession is the answer.
Which religion fits you?
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Choosing your religion – it’s not as simple as picking a career path.
Let’s get political.
Andy Rain/EPA
Good news: young people are politically active. Bad news: they’re not all turning up to elections.
Unlocking the sequence.
NIAID
The compact system that can cut the process of sequencing the Ebola virus from weeks to days.