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• The Economist's cost-of-loving index
• The Middle East has a militia problem
• How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine?
• A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
• The New Era of Clean Energy: Transcontinental Power Lines
• Why this isn't Britain's TikTok election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Online dating spells the end of Britain's lonely-hearts ads
• Russia-Ukraine war live: Kremlin refuses to comment on Trump's claims he would settle war
• How Julian Assange Lit the Fuse on the Digital World
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• Bolivia's left wing is at war with itself
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• Politics
• Snag Amazon Prime Day Deals From Other Retailers With 'Buy With Prime'
• Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Time is running out to fix America's student-aid mess
• China's youth are rebelling against long hours
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• We're hiring a senior India correspondent
• Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Memorable images make time pass more slowly
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• 'We cannot deny history again': Brazil floods show how German migration silenced Black and Indigenous stories
• Music Labels Take On AI Startups With New Lawsuits
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• America could face its most active hurricane season ever
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• Ars0N-Framework - A Modern Framework For Bug Bounty Hunting
• New research exposes the role of women in America's slave trade
• The best wireless chargers for 2024
• Disney Made It More Difficult to Ride What You Want, Just in Time for Tiana's Bayou Adventure
• What The Economist thought about solar power
• Taiwan, the world's chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
• Keir Starmer the lawyer: rational, diligent, ruthless
• Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?
• The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• KAL's cartoon
• News Quiz for June 28, 2024
• Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• Millions Have Rosacea, So Why Is It Still So Mysterious?
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• The Awful Ferocity of Midlife Desire
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• At Euro 2024, a Very England Fight Misses the Point
• US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
• A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
• Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt
• Trump Media Stock Price Surges Following Disastrous Biden Debate
• We're Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election
• Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
• Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
• Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung
• Life is Strange spiritual successor delayed to avoid Life is Strange sequel
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
• KAL's cartoon
• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
• Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
• Can Lula fix Brazil's fiscal mess?
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• Xbox Gaming coming to select Amazon Fire TV devices in July
• In today's China, to get rich is perilous
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• How to fix Britain's barmy VAT regime
• This week's cover
• Will Joe Biden's new plan bring relief to Gaza?
• The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
• Corruption is surging across Latin America
• The Morning After: What to expect at Samsung's Unpacked 2024 event
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
• The failing ANC is rejected by over half of South Africa
• Grindr to Delve Into Dating as More Users Seek Long-Term Relationships
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls
• China and America trade blame for a world on fire
• Lego made bricks out of meteorite dust and they're on display at select stores
• Are we experiencing Gamergate 2.0? - podcast
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers
• Tell us about your best friend and your favorite things about them
• Iran heads to a runoff election between reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• Emmanuel Macron in his own words (French)
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Politics
• Latin America's new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• This week's cover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• The prospect of a Trump presidency looms over Mexico's elections
• Canadians are taking dramatic steps to avoid more ruinous firestorms
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• Africa's coups are part of a far bigger crisis
• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Our epic family adventure hiking through Greece's Vikos gorge
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• What are America's Libertarians for?
• Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry
• What it takes to prove genocide – video
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe, not America, is now Ukraine's largest backer
• Amazon Shares Jump, Pushing Nasdaq Higher
• Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
• S&P 500, Nasdaq Extend Run of Gains
• Marijuana is already legal for a majority of Americans
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• Madame Tussauds reflects the fragmentation of fame in Britain
• Boeing's Starliner Leaves Astronauts Stuck but Safe in Space
• A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
• Chinese weapons are taking over in Africa
• The best tablets for 2024
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes
• Calls for Biden's Withdrawal Are a Sign of a Healthy Democratic Party
• American pupils have missed too much school since the pandemic
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
• How not to name a new car
• It Wasn't Just the Debate
• Will FTX's customers be repaid?
• Scientists Make 'Living' Skin for Smiling Robots in Horrifying Vision of the Future
• Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29
• Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the war split the mafia
• Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI
• China is talking to Taiwan's next leader, just not directly
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
• Paramount's strategy of purposeful digital rot doesn't even make sense
• Say Hello to Creator-Built AI Chatbots on Instagram
• The new economy net zero needs
• Sources and acknowledgments
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Can Alibaba get the magic back?
• Welcome to WIRED Travel
• Satellite Mega Constellations Could Jeopardize Ozone-Hole Recovery
• Taiwan's new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
• You Can't Write Your Way Out of Grief
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That's good news for Putin
• Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
• The Gas Industry Is Gaslighting the Public about Climate Change
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• The bloodshed in Gaza is set to rage through Ramadan
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk: 'When trauma becomes your identity, that's a dangerous thing'
• What China's central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
• Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
• Blighty newsletter: the choice facing Scotland's next first minister
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• How Ecuador became Latin America's deadliest country
• Germany's government is barely holding together
• Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
• Euro 2024's full-throttle show beats elite clubs' self-obsessed circus
• KAL's cartoon
• Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
• Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment
• America's trust in its institutions has collapsed
• The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
• Wayve achieves Britain's largest-ever fundraising round
• EV Charging vs. Gas Prices: How Much Can You Really Save With an Electric Vehicle?
• Why Are My Gigabit Speeds So Slow? Here's How I Fixed It at Home
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• The best projector for 2024
• All VCs say they are founder friendly; Detroit's Ludlow Ventures takes that to another level
• Why the stockmarket is disappearing
• Javier Milei will be Argentina's first libertarian president
• 'Sex in an LA spa was strangely wholesome, like an extension of the wellness experience': This is how we do it in America
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
• Business
• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
• The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• Denis Villeneuve Knows Deadpool & Wolverine's Popcorn Bucket Can't Compare to Shai-Hulussy
• Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Changes to China's gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
• As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• The Supreme Court Won't Stop Dismantling the Government's Power
• On Day of Fatal BP Refinery Blast, 3,712 Safety Alarms and One Unsent Email
• A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
• Russia's explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
• Hong Kong is becoming less of an international city
• Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
• Generative AI has a clean-energy problem
• Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
• AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
• At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'I am not made for war': the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• When to sell your stocks
• Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
• Why some whales can smell in stereo
• Ask Shrimsley: should I charge my children rent?
• European banks are making heady profits in Russia
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• Ukraine's desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
• How NASA Is Using Machine Learning to Predict and Fight Wildfires
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's electronics industry is surging
• The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'Terrifying and dystopian': the dark realities of the supreme court's homelessness decision
• Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures
• The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
• Shein keeps option of Hong Kong IPO as back-up plan
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
• The Remarkable Life of Chemistry Professor and Crime Buster Mary Louisa Willard
• How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty
• I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn't Pretty
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• Quora's Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
• Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
• Who are the swing voters in America?
• How many people have died in Gaza?
• Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose
• Nike's Slow Recovery Is Testing Investors' Patience
• The 5 Best Kitchen Scales Rated by a Former Chocolatier (2024)
• Seaport Tower shows New York's fight between housing and heritage
• How race and politics interact in modern South Africa
• Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico's embassy
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• A water dress, a Dune-inspired gown and haute couture for Beyoncé: the avant-garde world of Iris van Herpen — in pictures
• How to Stay Cool in the Summer Heat
• General election live: Farage says he is boycotting BBC amid reports more Reform candidates dropped over past comments
• The secret to taking better penalties
• Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
• Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video
• Surprise! The Latest 'Comprehensive' US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• 'Nowhere to go': people trapped in eastern DRC as rebel militia seize key town
• Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore's history
• How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave
• Ian Hamilton masterminded one of the most daring heists of the last century
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Geopolitics helps reignite New Caledonia's anti-colonial unrest
• Motorcycles and Mayhem in Ukraine's East
• How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer
• The Morning After: Microsoft's Surface Pro Copilot+ is the best Surface tablet yet
• Doug Emhoff, First Jazz Fan
• A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler
• The economics of American lotteries
• The temptations of deferred removals
• China wants to export education, too
• Worlds apart
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• America's university graduates live much longer than non-graduates
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
• An Undercover Operation, a Raid and the Fight Over What Makes a True Tequila
• New Jersey's electoral process just got upended
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• China's state is eating the private property market
• Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe
• The Studio Executive Who Wants Hollywood to Get Real About Bad Storytelling
• The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
• Child poverty will be a test of Labour's fiscal prudence
• Blighty newsletter: How Labour plans to fix the Foreign Office
• A surprising Japanese presence in a traditional American craft
• People in the US: how do you stay cool in extreme heat?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Will the class of '24 turn out like the boomers?
• China Returns First-Ever Samples from the Moon's Far Side
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists in Asia
• How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• Denis Villeneuve's Next Mystery Movie Will Compete With Star Wars
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• PIP-INTEL - OSINT and Cyber Intelligence Tool
• Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent
• No wonder Macron's gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
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• Dazzling New Milky Way Map Shows How Magnetism Shapes Our Galaxy
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• The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia
• Nostalgia for China's boom years drives a TV hit
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• The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling
• European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
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• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
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• How the last mammoths went extinct
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
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• Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
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• A tornado destroys a barn—an Economist favourite—in Wisconsin
• Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business
• Anita Desai: 'After I left India, I had to train myself to express my opinions'
• Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia's next president
• Germany's Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers
• To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
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• KAL's cartoon
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
• Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
• The property firm that could break China's back
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• Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: 'I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don't offer much'
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• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• A new breed of protest has left Kenya's president tottering
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
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• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• KAL's cartoon
• Radio Modi: How India's prime minister sweet-talks the nation
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• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
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• Hunter Biden's criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
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• America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse
• How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
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• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
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