Controversial refereeing decisions dogged the later stages of the last couple of World Cups. Little wonder that teams are doing their homework on officials like never before.
The shoes of a street vendor who died mark the site of the Ankara attack.
Reuters/Umit Bektas
Turkey’s already illiberal democracy shows all the signs of slipping towards dictatorship. A civil war between its livid political factions could be next.
Tempers flare after the Ankara bomb attacks.
Reuters
As Glasgow’s most famous tower blocks are razed, we’re again being asked to celebrate destruction of old notions of housing provision. We should treat it as a different opportunity entirely.
New EU rules on GM attempt to unblock logjam that has hung over the technology in the region for most of this century. To work, anti-GM member states and Big Biotech will need to cooperate.
Is the government really helping people choose the right direction?
Steven Feather
Hundreds of people have been referred to a programme that is supposed to protect them from being drawn into terrorism. But its methods are deeply questionable.
The scene in Balakot, 2005.
Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
They’ve been persecuted for hundreds of years, and most recently by Islamic State – but the Yazidis now living in Iraq’s refugee camps are remarkably circumspect.