Ali Abdullah Saleh obituary [2017] ~humanities.history Article 1193 words, published Dec 4 2017 5 votes
New York Times faces backlash for [5,000 word] essay speculating on Taylor Swift’s sexuality ~music Article 753 words 50 votes
Scientist cited [by Christopher Rufo to make allegations of plagiarism] in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists ~life education.higher Article 1794 words 10 votes
‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region [the Somaliland deal with Ethiopia] ~society politics Article 828 words 9 votes
Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan ~enviro pollution.water Article 550 words 29 votes
Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries ~humanities.history Article 578 words, published Jan 7 2024 4 votes
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’ ~society politics Article 833 words 36 votes
Politicians from Germany’s AfD met extremist group to discuss deportation ‘masterplan’ ~society politics Article 1122 words 13 votes
Israel is murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza – The pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European? ~misc Article 1053 words 35 votes
‘Andrew Tate greeted us by his pool bare-chested’: Dan Reed on his pursuit of the misogynist ~tv Article 1756 words 19 votes
Why do hardly any straight men write about sex and dating? ~life.men Article 883 words, published Jan 29 2023 64 votes
French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than twenty to thirty years ago, study shows ~enviro Article 807 words, published Dec 20 2023 25 votes
ABBA stars Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have shared in a dividend of nearly £1m after a surge in profits at their production company Littlestar Services ~music Article 617 words 6 votes
Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex trafficker unsealed ~news usa crime Article 519 words 28 votes
Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan Finnish pop duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in director Aki Kaurismäki ~music pop.schlager Article 1042 words 9 votes
Scientists hail new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant bacteria ~health medicine Article 631 words 13 votes
Morning sickness breakthrough raises hopes of possible cure ~health Article 646 words, published Dec 13 2023 20 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
Sweden's Aira, which offers subscription service at no upfront cost, has sights set on UK's growing heat pump market ~enviro energy Article 768 words 14 votes
Sudanese war continues as the world ignores it in favor of wars in Ukraine and Gaza ~society politics Article 1563 words, published Dec 24 2023 30 votes
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion. ~humanities.history Article 776 words 26 votes
Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc ~design Article 1074 words 6 votes
Reindeer combine sleeping and digesting, Norwegian researchers found after extracting reindeer brain data ~science biology Article 484 words 9 votes
Anthony Joshua admits “there is no future” if he fails to beat Otto Wallin on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ in Saudi Arabia on Saturday ~sports.combat Article 597 words 4 votes
Paris is saying 'non' to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe ~transport Article 902 words 82 votes
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today ~society politics Article 1935 words 27 votes
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car ~design urban planning Article 1551 words 17 votes
Reindeer noir, the Finnish crime sub-genre influenced by Santa's home town of Rovaniemi ~tv Article 747 words 5 votes
In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn. ~news canada.on Article 2222 words 12 votes
Wrongfully jailed for twenty years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation ~news australia crime Article 1139 words 18 votes
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study show ~finance business Article 706 words 87 votes
Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden ~humanities religion Article 448 words 26 votes
Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds ~news israel palestine Article 902 words 47 votes
When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice ~life work Article 7479 words 19 votes
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels ~enviro climate change Article 1527 words 45 votes
Denmark's largest trade union has joined strike action by Swedish Tesla workers, piling pressure on the US electric car company to agree to collective bargaining rights ~transport Article 397 words 21 votes
Shane MacGowan obituary - lead singer and masterful songwriter for the Pogues who brought punk style and attitude to Irish folk music ~music Article 2013 words 29 votes
World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan ~engineering Article 439 words 21 votes
Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge ~humanities.history Article 520 words 12 votes
‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network ~transport Article 806 words 8 votes
A tourism boom to the Faroe Islands, fuelled by social media, has resulted in some landowners taking measures to get a share of the revenues ~travel Article 1133 words 8 votes
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege ~tech social media facebook Article 558 words 24 votes
Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history ~design architecture Article 738 words 9 votes