The dear leader, c'est moi.
EPA/Sedat Suna
Turkey is sliding into autocracy – and the man at the helm seems keen to speed things up.
EPA/Abgelo Carconi
What should have been a debate about constitutional reform has turned into a battle for the premiership, thanks to a schoolboy error by the incumbent.
Ass what you can do for your country.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
It’s always tempting to chalk political disagreements up to intelligence – but we have to resist.
SOEREN STACHE/EPA
Former chancellor Osborne’s plans were too limited to be useful. Here’s how devolution should be done.
Muslims across France and Italy attended mass in the wake of the attack on a priest in Rouen.
Massimo Percossi/EPA
Local collaborations between the fiercely secular state and religious groups have a long history.
EPA/Divyakant Solanki
India’s prime minister won a landslide victory promising to improve his people’s lives. There’s a very long way to go.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing.
Anders Adermark
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has baffled many in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania, where nostalgia for life before the EU is virtually non-existent.
Shahram Amiri in 2010 after returning to Iran from the US.
Vahid Salemi / AP/Press Association Images
Shahram Amiri is one of 250 people executed this year despite President Rouhani’s efforts to improve his country’s human right’s record.
Xi Jinping is no fan of an unregulated internet.
EPA/Larry Leung
China is used to media being kept on a tight leash, but the party’s latest swoop has an ominous new zeal about it.
Patrick B Kraemer/EPA
Women’s football was introduced in the Olympics a staggering 96 years after the men’s event – and some sports still struggle with gender inequalities.
Organisers get ready for a rally in Lima on August 13.
‘Ni Una Menos, Villa El Salvador, Lima
Peru is the latest country in Latin America where women are mobilising against violence.
EPA/Christopher Jue
Japan is already in the midst of one delicate constitutional debate – and now it’s been confronted with another.
EPA/Mariscal
With two votes failing to produce a government, caretaker PM Mariano Rajoy is running out of options.
Here they come.
EPA/Lynn Bo Bo
American presidents of all stripes have long prided themselves on promoting democracy abroad – but in the 21st century, security comes first.
Ronan Shenhav
A spate of low-level terrorist incidents has the authorities arguing, instead of tackling the problem.
Jabat Al-Nusra goes its own way.
Orient News TV/EPA
When it comes to the Syrian opposition, it’s practically impossible to separate ‘moderates’ from ‘extremists’.
Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
Sensationalist warnings of further riots abound. But while many social inequalities remain, we can’t say whether more widespread violence will follow.
Check your grammar.
Stephen Bowler
The right is celebrating the potential return of selective schools, but there are major political obstacles to overcome first.
At least it’s not a bacon sandwich.
Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/Press Association Images
The Labour Party leader faces a hostile press, but needs a better media strategy.
Diego Azubel/EPA
Against the odds, Rio scores soft-power points with memorable show at Maracanã stadium.
Community journalists are putting local news back on the agenda.
Volunteers are picking up where local media has abandoned UK towns.
Not there yet: Mmusi Maimane campaigns in Johannesburg.
EPA/Kevin Sutherland
The ruling ANC has been seriously challenged by the Democratic Alliance, but South African politics is still about white privilege and black exclusion.
e d o.
The Weekly Bull
Morale may be low among parliamentarians, but newly released accounts offer reasons to be cheerful.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
Has the US’s apparently invincible populist demagogue finally hit an iceberg?
Michael Reynolds/EPA
Countering the Republican nominee’s favourite movies, here are five that he might learn something from.