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Obama’s chance to rekindle an affair

US Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, makes a speech in front of the Victory Column in Berlin on July 24, 2008 ©AFP

The US president’s Berlin speech will need substance as well as symbolism, says Quentin Peel

Jun 13, 2013

Interns, Hollywood and Sunderland

Unpaid workers win their day in court to prove they’re worth the money, says Matthew Garrahan

The Beauty of Xiaohe, a 3,800-year-old mummy discovered in the Tarim Basin in far western China, is shown at the "Secrets of the Silk Road: Mystery Mummies from China," exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ©AP Jun 11, 2013

Ms Beauty escapes the trinket trash

Tourism in China is no solitary experience. Climb the highest mountain and you will have company

Protesters prepare to roll a police car over in Taksim Square. ©Reuters Jun 4, 2013

Inside the People’s Republic of Taksim

The protesters will have to go but until then the square is theirs, says Daniel Dombey

Newly graduated Chinese students gather for a convocation ceremony at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei in east China's Anhui province ©AFP May 28, 2013

When blue becomes the new white

Unemployment means that Chinese graduates are taking manual jobs, writes Patti Waldmeir

N. Srinivasan, President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India ©AFP May 27, 2013

IPL dramas leave cricket stumped

The sport resembles other scandal-hit sections of India’s economy, writes James Crabtree

May 21, 2013

How more money can be bad for you

The richer ‘Santeguinos’ get, the more time they spend in traffic, writes Martin Sandbu

Nigel Farage ©Reuters May 20, 2013

An inquisitor for our times

Veteran MP Margaret Hodge is striking fear in the hearts of business executives, writes Brian Groom

A Brazilian supporter of the national football team uses his mobile phone ©Getty May 20, 2013

The cup of sarcasm is overflowing

Not everyone is feeling football fever in Brazil, writes Joe Leahy

Laborers work on a construction site in Beijing, China ©Bloomberg May 14, 2013

Chinese lessons for Yahoo’s boss

Telecommuting in China is blurring the boundaries between home and work

May 13, 2013

Graft gets your goat in India

In election time, unscrupulous politicians start looking to animal spirits, writes James Crabtree

May 7, 2013

A game of big cats and cricket bats

What could be sadder than the lack of communication between the two halves of Punjab, writes Victor Mallet

May 1, 2013

Lebanon squanders its finest assets

The country’s most valuable asset now is its diaspora,writes David Gardner

Apr 30, 2013

Puffer-fish protests and Xi’s China dream

Until the link between corruption and development can be severed, no official can savour his swordfish

Apr 29, 2013

Ukip ‘fruitcakes’ make parties nervy

The party’s impact on local elections could be repeated at national level

Apr 23, 2013

On Boston and the right to bear arms

The bombing should give senators opposing gun control pause for thought, says Matthew Garrahan

Apr 18, 2013

Peace based on a wing and a prayer

The Afghan fascination with birds continues despite continuing violence, writes Victor Mallet

Apr 17, 2013

An attack on much more than a race

Lives ended with memories in the warmth of a spring day, writes Tom Mitchell

Apr 16, 2013

Tears, reality TV and the Chinese dream

Xi Jinping is cooking up the China of the future, writes Patti Waldmeir

Apr 10, 2013

The importance of not being Ernest

I feel the one thing you’re not supposed to about Thatcher: ambivalence, writes John McDermott