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49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old49 ways to have fun right now! Skydive in a wind tunnel, count dogs and run like a three-year-old

The world often feels dominated by sadness and doomscrolling. But fun is still possible – and necessary. Here are tried and tested ways to enjoy yourself Cartwheel. On the day we scattered my father’s ashes, we lightened the mood with some competitive gymnastics. I don’t know how it started, but ...

‘It’s a world heritage site, but it’s my home’: the last resident of Casa Milà on life in Gaudí’s masterwork‘It’s a world heritage site, but it’s my home’: the last resident of Casa Milà on life in Gaudí’s masterwork

Ana Viladomiu has been a ‘privileged’ resident of the once derided, now revered Barcelona apartment building for almost 40 years Imagine that you live in an enormous, beautiful apartment designed by one of the world’s most admired architects in the most expensive street in Spain and for which you pay ...

Next stop – infinity! My transcendental experience on Japan’s ‘art island’ guided by its master Lee UfanNext stop – infinity! My transcendental experience on Japan’s ‘art island’ guided by its master Lee Ufan

Is this the ultimate location for contemplative art? Our writer travels to the legendary island of Naoshima – and meets the great creator of its most spellbinding works. Will he step through the arch and find nirvana? The island of Naoshima used to be heavily polluted and dominated by a ...

Yes, the king’s US visit will go down in history: it marked the death throes of an old era | Nesrine MalikYes, the king’s US visit will go down in history: it marked the death throes of an old era | Nesrine Malik

Both nations are tarred by irreconcilable crises that could unravel democracy itself – sanity and stability have never felt further from reach A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts – things you expect to see ...

Security or justice? Syria faces post-Assad reckoning after string of arrestsSecurity or justice? Syria faces post-Assad reckoning after string of arrests

New government accused of ‘performative justice’ and making deals with suspects in 2013 Tadamon massacres Ahmad al-Homsi is a deep sleeper, but when he was woken last month and told that Amjad Youssef, a Syrian intelligence officer who killed civilians in the 2013 Tadamon massacres, had been arrested, he bolted ...