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A new study unpicks the reasons men and women call time on a relationship and finds that micro-grievances really do matter
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women,” observed the late, great Nora Ephron.
North Korea’s leader has increased his displays of military aggression but analysts are split on whether it’s a sign of electoral interference or a war footing
Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies
When a highly militarised dictatorship fires artillery shells in the direction of its neighbour, which it has just denounced as its “greatest enemy”, then tests cruise missiles and underwater nuclear attack drones, it is reasonable to believe that armed conflict could follow.… Read the rest
Ex-president’s family retreat targeted early on Monday as nine search warrants executed in other parts of the country
Brazilian police have raided the holiday home of former president Jair Bolsonaro as part of an expanding investigation into an illegal spying racket that allegedly existed during his far-right government.
Amid continuing heavy fighting in Gaza on Tuesday morning, including reported attacks on hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians expressed deep concern for patients and others seeking treatment who had “no way in and out”.
n Geneva, Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the UN World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed that Al-Kheir Hospital was “one of the two hospitals that is now being raided”, while Nasser Hospital was “now basically besieged around the hospital and has no way in and out”.
Shingle beach, drained farmland or a bare plain under huge skies; flat spaces distort distance and make me want to run and yell
Noreen Masud
f you visit the flat fenlands of Cambridgeshire on a clear day, and walk along the ruler-lined channels and droves, you might – if you’re lucky – see a freight train pulling itself out of the horizon like a conjuror’s endless scarf.