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Astronomy, our window into the rest of the universe, happens in the dark. Planets, stars and galaxies - all the mysteries of the cosmos - only reveal themselves at night. But the night sky may be getting much brighter, thanks to an American company with a

A ride from Tangier, the largest city in northern Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta takes less than two hours. The border crossing has its own, sleepier rhythm, quite different from the tourist-driven bustle of Tangier. In Ceuta, traders run their e

We're inching forwards through the thick smog that has cloaked Tbilisi for days. At first, I thought it was a kind of blueish, pink winter mist that makes the city feel like it's in an ongoing sunset, until a friend who smokes told me they'd been having t

A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it's about trust and how healthy societies can't exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when trust breaks down. The decision to allow U.S. striker Folarin Balogun to play in the Worl

After kilometers of flat, orange desert, the bus dives down through an increasingly lunar landscape as it reaches San Pedro de Atacama. Amidst the sea of red rocks, patchy vegetation and distant high plains known as altiplanos, a small sign appears on the

The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling money laundering, and seems determined to keep calm and carry on despite the gigantic Donald Trump-sized hole being blasted in ever

I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S. foreign policy might look like, and it was a pretty striking demonstration of Europe's irrelevance right now that the only Wester

I've been writing this newsletter since 2020, and in my first edition I marvelled at the concept of the centi-billionaire, and the fact there were at the time three people with 11 zeros in their net worth. What a six years it's been. When I started writin

Four stories of reporters in exile from Venezuela to Russia, Cuba to Afghanistan

The UK's age-verification rules are hitting small porn producers, cutting traffic, raising costs, and limiting content available online