Somalia faces its worst drought ever, as the world looks away

Inside an unassuming building, behind a damp car park in Antwerp, Belgium, scientists are teaching two spacecraft to be dance partners for a performance that will take place in front of the Sun. It’s

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As we sat at a well-worn wooden kitchen table in the leafy Moseley suburb of Birmingham, Judith Yates pointed at a spreadsheet on her MacBook. Each row told a clear story, painstakingly collected by t

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It is now widely acknowledged that the UK stockmarket is suffering an existential crisis. UK equity funds have seen 36 months of consecutive outflows that show no sign of slowing. A record £2.7bn fled