Exclusive: Documents obtained by consortium of journalists show role of Moscow university in training operatives in military intelligence Last April, Vladimir Putin visited the campus of Bauman Moscow state technical university, set on the banks of the Yauza River in the east of the city and home to some of ...
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‘Somehow you become the chicken’: inside the film about people-smuggling told through the eyes of a hen‘Somehow you become the chicken’: inside the film about people-smuggling told through the eyes of a hen
Eight birds play the lead in Hen – one for running scenes, one for pecking, one for staying still. And there’s even a cockerel love interest. Director György Pálfi explains why it’s his most normal movie yet If oppressive regimes inadvertently give rise to striking artistic works of resistance, then ...
Do women need to exercise differently from men – and ease up on cardio after 40?Do women need to exercise differently from men – and ease up on cardio after 40?
A lot of fitness advice is based on research into people who don’t have periods, give birth or go through menopause. How much of it should be modified – or even thrown out? I can’t remember when I first became aware of the phrase: “Women are not small men.” But ...
Rewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuaryRewilding giants: captive elephants rehomed in Europe’s first sanctuary
Julie, once a circus elephant, and Kariba, from a Belgian zoo, are to be moved to a former ranch in Portugal Europe’s first large-scale elephant sanctuary, which is opening to offer a more natural environment for some of the 600 animals still held in captivity across the continent, is to ...
Tame the water or let it flow? New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided riversTame the water or let it flow? New Zealand grapples with how to protect its braided rivers
Intervention for farming and flood risk changes the unique systems as communities grapple with how to live alongside the vital waterways When British settlers started building Christchurch city 170 years ago, they largely ignored the nearby Waimakariri River, which twists from the South Island’s alps towards the eastern shore. But ...
UAE’s ruling royal family benefits from more than €71m in EU farming subsidiesUAE’s ruling royal family benefits from more than €71m in EU farming subsidies
Al Nahyans’ control over farmland in Europe has meant they receive proportion of payments to farms The United Arab Emirates’ ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A cross-border investigation by DeSmog and shared ...
JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’
Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that’ Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has declined to attend an upcoming literature festival in Israel, writing a excoriating letter to organisers citing the country’s “genocidal campaign” in Gaza, stating: ...
Australian director Phillip Noyce shoots feature film for Saudi Arabia celebrating ‘heroism of security men in combating drugs’Australian director Phillip Noyce shoots feature film for Saudi Arabia celebrating ‘heroism of security men in combating drugs’
Exclusive: Regime, which executed 243 people last year for drug offences, accused of investing in entertainment to whitewash its human rights record The acclaimed Australian film-maker Phillip Noyce is being paid by the Saudi regime to make a feature film portraying the repressive state’s narcotics officers as heroes. The Watchful ...
Bayern Munich v Paris Saint-Germain: Champions League semi-final, second leg – liveBayern Munich v Paris Saint-Germain: Champions League semi-final, second leg – live
⚽ Champions League news, 8pm BST kick-off (first leg: 4-5)⚽ Read today’s Football Daily | And follow us on Bluesky “I’m a little bored with the hyperbole over the first leg,” writes Jose Mou– Tim Smith. “It’s like regular football folk have lost the run of themselves. So, I predict ...
How car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transitHow car-loving American cities fell so far behind their global peers on public transit
With most major European cities well-served by trains and buses, bringing US transit up to par would cost $4.6tn The only train station in Houston, the US’s fourth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing conurbations in the country, is a diminished, morose sight. Intercity trains arrive at this squat, shed-like ...