投稿者: Guardian Staff
After a couple of years of subdued celebrations, the Mumbai crowds are back out in force bringing more and bigger idols – but with a greater awareness of their environmental impact Text and photographs by Catherine DavisonThe orange shirts of hundreds …
The birthday ‘cake’ given to New Zealand MP Chris Hipkins raised many questions. We attempt to answer themWhat am I looking at? Is that a cake in the shape of a sausage roll, or a sausage roll in the shape of a cake?Would either one of those answers be…
From music to movies, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Ahead of a big London exhibition, Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu – the Korean waveOur critics on where to start with Korean …
Workers have put the finishing touches to towering statues of the elephant god Ganesha in time for one of India’s biggest religious festivals, under way again after Covid lockdowns. The 11-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which draws tens of thousands of…
PM office says journalists cannot operate in the Pacific as they do in other countries, accusing Australia’s ABC of ‘racial profiling’ in China coverage The Solomon Islands government has reportedly threatened to ban foreign journalists from entering t…
Seven members reached the summit with the hope of inspiring the next generation of Black outdoor enthusiastsThe first all-Black climbing group to reach the summit of Mount Everest was recovering back at the bottom of the mountain on Thursday and celebr…
‘Shortcut’ tunnel at Punggye-ri nuclear testing centre could see it operational within a month, sources tell South Korean news agencyNorth Korea may be making rapid preparations to carry out a nuclear weapons test for the first time in more than four y…
As the UK Treasury pushes for free tests to be scrapped, here’s how charges look in other countriesUK Treasury pushes to end most free Covid testing despite experts’ warningsIn Australia, a federal scheme introduced at the end of January allows pension…
Here are 20 articles that may have helped convince people to support the Guardian’s journalismThe Guardian benefited from hundreds of thousands of acts of support from digital readers in 2021 – almost one for every minute of the year. Here we look at t…
The New Zealand prime minister was trying to explain changing Covid rules when her three-year-old daughter appeared off-screenThe New Zealand prime minister has been interrupted by a persistent heckler: her three-year-old daughter, who had “escaped” an…
Online censors blocked Peng Shuai’s post on Weibo of Zhang Gaoli’s alleged assault over several yearsThe Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has apparently accused a former vice-premier of sexual assault, engulfing the highest echelons of Beijing’s ruling C…
Photographer Mario Heller spent three weeks crossing the steppe by train. Here is his journey through the stories of the passengers, the history of the country and the romance of the railwayThe monotonous rattling of the train accompanies us through th…
Discovery made by a local girl comes decades after the bottle was put into the sea by schoolchildren as part of an experiment to monitor ocean currentsA glass bottle that was released into the sea 37 years ago by high school students in Japan has been …
Hundreds of millions of children fell behind around the world as schools closed during the pandemic. We look at four countries as pupils try to resume their education‘Lost generation’: education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warnsC…
With our international reputation in tatters, we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves and our place in the world“ ‘Very well, alone’ did good service for Winston Churchill as a wartime rallying cry in 1940,” says Andrew Rawnsley (“Boris Johnson’…