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What does a conductor actually do? A surprising amount
At the age of three, I remember jumping on my parent’s sofa, waving my arms in the...
Qatar recycled 80% of waste from FIFA World Cup stadiums
Qatar announced yesterday that it had recycled about 80 per cent of the waste from...
Mauna Loa eruption in Hawaii: How to stay safe while visiting volcanoes
On Nov. 27, the Big Island of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano — the largest active volcano...
Yusra Mardini: The Syrian Olympic athlete who swam for three hours to save lives
The Swimmers is a new film based on the story of two Syrian sisters that literally...
Mediterranean marine heat waves threaten coastal livelihoods
A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman, Ahmed Chelli's nets bulged with fish and octopus...
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The Ukraine conflict is a war of narratives – and Putin’s is crumbling
People understand the world – that is, where we came from, how we got here and where...
Animal friendships are surprisingly like our own
When you think of friendship, what comes to mind? Is it a phone conversation that...
Fake knafeh recipe
Serve this with a cup of mint tea or coffee and prepare to fall in love with this...
Salata mashwiya recipe
Serve this on its own with bread or as a side with grilled meat or fish and prolong...
We were on a global panel looking at the staggering costs of COVID
17.7m deaths and counting. Here are 11 ways to stop history repeating itself
Queen Elizabeth II: a moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century
When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues...
Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read their book
Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist...
The inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine
In the early 1990s, Senator Patrick Moynihan campaigned for the abolition of the...
Outer space is not the “Wild West”: There are clear rules for peace and war
The release of the first images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will...
Procrastinating is linked to health and career problems – but there are things you can do to stop
Do you ever beat yourself up for procrastinating? You might be composing that message...
Chicken and preserved lemon tagine
This chicken tagine is very simple to make and the ingredients are mostly familiar,...