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Papua New Guinea is boycotting this week’s Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan in protest against the “empty promises and inaction” from richer countries. The Pacific island’s foreign minister Justin Tkatchenko called the UN’s flagship climate event a “total waste of […]

The term “Zeitenwende”, meaning “a changing of the times”, is being heard rather frequently in Germany at the moment, said Dirk Kaufmann and Nadine Mena Michollek in Deutsche Welle (Bonn). Coined by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in relation to shifting foreign

Donald Trump swept to an emphatic victory over Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, to seal a historic return to the White House as America’s 47th president. With some results still to be declared, Trump looked on course to

“What are the chances, eh?” said Ryan Gilbey in The Guardian. “First you get picked for jury duty even though your pregnant wife might deliver your child before you can deliver a verdict.” Then, you realise that you alone know

Spain’s paradors – state-run, reasonably priced hotels occupying magnificent historic buildings – are a marvel, says Oliver Smith in the Financial Times. On a cycling tour through La Mancha and Extremadura arranged by the tour operator Macs Adventure, I travelled

Celebrity chat shows are a pretty tedious spectacle these days, said Finn McRedmond in The Irish Times. But occasionally something enlivens these contrived occasions by breaking through the “forced anecdotes and PR gambits”. It happened the other day on Graham

Northumberland: Dalton Farmhouse, Ponteland (Image credit: Savills) A charming Victorian sandstone house set in mature gardens and surrounded by open countryside. Main suite, 3 further beds, family bath, kitchen/breakfast room, 2 receps, garden, garage/workshop/store, parking. £875,000; Finest Properties Hertfordshire: Gubblecote

For over 60 years Antarctica has been a “veritable Shangri-La”, said The Economist, “untouched by war, unspoilt by humans, where all nationalities are welcome”. While Britain, Argentina, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand and Chile have long held territorial claims over

A Chinese company has successfully tested a prototype plane which could one day travel at hypersonic speeds, whisking passengers from London to Sydney in just four hours. South China Morning Post reported that Space Transportation, headquartered in Beijing, has tested

Western security officials believe a series of incendiary devices that started fires in British and German warehouses over the summer were “dress rehearsals” for a potential Russian attack on transatlantic flights. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that devices –