What the controversial new “Snow White” can teach Hollywood

“Snow White”, Disney’s live-action remake of a beloved animated film, had an icy reception before its release in cinemas on M...

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Catch up:Heathrow closes after fire; EU discusses Ukraine aid

London’s Heathrow airport has been closed until midnight on Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused powe...

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Catch up:Heathrow to reopen after fire; Germany passes funding bill

London’s Heathrow airport said it would reopen after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused it to close for most of ...

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Why don’t seals drown?

FREE-DIVING IS a perilous sport. Divers, swimming underwater without oxygen tanks, frequently black out from low oxygen and p...

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Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies

On March 5th China’s prime minister, Li Qiang, in his annual speech at the National People’s Congress (npc), China’s rubber-s...

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America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest

America and its allies have repeatedly gone after the Houthis, Yemeni rebels backed by Iran, since they started attacking shi...

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A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for Ukraine

Belfast used to be known as a place where weapons were fired rather than made. But a nondescript factory in a suburb of North...

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A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn

For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March ...

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Cambridge yimbies

RESTORED QUEEN ANNE houses sell for more than $10m in Cambridge, a small city across the Charles River from Boston. Victorian...

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China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to seize Taiwan

Is it a barge? Is it a bridge? It is both. Last summer China began building several unusual vessels at its Guangzhou shipyard...

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