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At This Ambitious Circus, Everyone Does Everything – From Aerial Acrobatics to Building the Stage Itself ‘This is Seriously Bold’: How China Turned Taiwan Tensions Into a Top-rating TV Spy Drama Haitian Youths Transformed Life in an Ageing Ohio City. Then Trump Made Them Targets The Aunts, the ‘Red Peer’ and the Basque Refugees The Rapid Houthi Advance in Yemen: Why It Matters and What’s at Stake Fifty Billion Trees by 2030: How Ethiopia is Recruiting Citizens Across the Country to Plant, Plant, Plant Turkey Detains Dozens in Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Activists and Journalists A Spoonful of Sugar: How South Africa’s Weigh-and-pay Shops Are Tackling ‘Poverty Tax’ Head on It’s a Superfood but Natto as we Know It. Japan’s Slimy Fermented Beans Are Coming Your Way The Women Saving Borneo: Battling Fire, Patriarchy and Super El Niño on Indonesia’s Peatland Frontlines People Protecting Nature and Land Set up Self-defence Units Amid Threat of Murder Curse of the Nile’s Gold: How Sudan is Losing Its Fertile Fields and Ability to Produce Food Singapore Pays People to Pick up a Book in Battle Against Doomscrolling ‘Carbon Fever’ Threatens Hard-won Indigenous Rights in Bolivian Amazon How a Month-long Competitive Food Tour is Rewriting the Story of Rio’s Favelas A New Play in Budapest Signals a Cultural Reawakening for Hungary It’s a Rap-Wrestling Mash-Up, Irish Style Canada is so Much More Than America’s Polite Neighbor An Indigenous Painter Sees a Vermeer, and the Sparks Fly

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September 10, 2026

• The Rise of South-east Asia’s Girl Bands: ‘the Talent and Popularity Were Always Here’
• Russia is Raining Death on Ukraine’s Women and Children. Our Hands Shake, but we Keep Going for Love
• ‘One Day the Taliban Will Need Women to Be Educated’: Three Sisters on Being Forced Back to Afghanistan
• ‘In Parks You Only See Dogs, Never Children’: Can Bogotá Adapt to Its Ageing Population?
• ‘Girl’s Day’ Controversy Reignites Debate Over How Women Are Treated in South Korean Football
• Does Your Life Feel Out of Control? Maybe You Need Some ‘Pyt’
• Memory of Water: the Women Reshaping Venice – in Pictures
• Witi Ihimaera: ‘Whenever Things Get Hairy I Think to Myself, They’re Only Angry Because we Māori Survived’
• ‘An Embodiment of White Fears’: How Zombies Went From Haitian Spiritual Tradition to Hollywood Monsters
• Seeds of Hope: How a Local Farming Project is Offering a Lifeline to Gaza
• ‘Our Forefathers Are Coming Back’: Naga People Celebrate After Oxford Museum Agrees to Return Remains
• How Gloria Steinem’s Lifechanging Stay in India Shaped Her Approach to Feminism
• As Azerbaijan and Armenia Work Towards Peace, This Film Paints a Misleading Picture
• How Ancient Farmers Used Floral Designs to Track Goods
• Why This Small Dutch Town is Teaching ‘Adolescence’ in School
• The Theme Park at the Heart of France’s Culture War
• At This Canadian Theater Festival, Forgiveness is a Power Move
• The Death of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Child Changed Her View of Nigeria
• Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.

September 3, 2026

• Chasing Freedom: a Poignant Reflection on Empire, Education and Parental Expectations
• ‘We Want to Find a Better Future’: Teenage Girls on Why They Risked Their Lives to Reach Spain
• No Eggs, No Potatoes but ‘a Lot of Imagination’: How Spain Cooked in War’s Hunger Years
• Meet the Magical Creatures Inspired by Shamanism, Folklore … and an Old Ikea Bag
• A Sun Goddess, Hundreds of Devotees – and Polluted Water: the Nigerian Festival Threatened by Gold Mining
• It’s Not Easy to Show My Scars. but I Am Proud to Break the Deadly Silence Around Breast Cancer in Nigeria
• The Film Project Combating Child Marriage in South Asia
• ‘We Need a Touch of Humanity’: Swedish Opposition Pledges to Help Britons Facing Deportation
• Performance and Belonging: Rio De Janeiro’s Ballroom Scene – Photo Essay
• Overcoming War’s Legacy: Learning to Walk Again at a South Sudan Clinic – in Pictures
• Through the Hands of Strangers, Missing Iranian Artists Put on a Show in L.A.
• The 10 P.M. Dinner is a Spanish Tradition. Are People Giving It Up?
• You Can Photograph This Pretty Irish Castle. You Just Can’t Go In.
• Cubism Gets Its First Ever Exhibition in South Korea
• A City Unites Around a Common Goal: Moving a Castle by Hand