To calm its property market, China’s government wants state-owned enterprises to step in to buy unsold property and turn it into affordable housing. Will this policy solve the crisis? econ.st/3UQZJ41 👇

Jens Stoltenberg, the head of NATO, discusses the war in Ukraine with Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief: econ.st/4ayG7aD

The International Court of Justice is ordering Israel to limit its military offensive in Rafah. There is no chance Israel will heed the court’s order econ.st/3WY1ezU 👇

Music purists may sniff, but Bridgerton is demystifying a rarefied art form: classical music econ.st/3UNzRG1 👇

The avian influenza virus has pandemic potential. Health officials in America are on high alert after a second human case of the bird flu was identified econ.st/44UTe4G

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Sorry, North America econ.st/4dPWnH2 👇

The world’s phones are at risk of being hacked. Fixing the problem will not be a matter of countermeasures—but collective action econ.st/3WUIgdE 👇

What do shrinking populations mean for the world’s big economies? The bill from pensions and hospitals will pile on fiscal pressure. Sapped of workers and ideas, economic growth could collapse while public debt balloons econ.st/4btsFGo 👇

Vietnam’s ruling party is rushing to restore calm where there appears to have been corruption. But this brings with it a period of uncertainty econ.st/3UTRR1I 👇

Matteo Salvini looks like being Italy’s big loser in an election that will hint at the future direction of Europe’s nationalist right econ.st/3USEjU5 👇

Taiwan’s new president called on China to stop intimidating his country. But the biggest short-term challenge to William Lai Ching-te may come from within econ.st/3ytzXLC 👇

“I am the only presidential candidate in the 2024 election with experience and tangible results when it comes to enhancing public safety on a large scale,” argues Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico’s ruling Morena party, in a guest essay econ.st/3QR14GK

Phone signalling systems can be—and have been—used to locate users, intercept text and voice data, or send texts or spyware to a device. Not just by hackers—but by thousands of telecoms firms econ.st/4azkDKT 👇

A new decree in France is banning all meaty terms from meat-free meats. But the debate is about more than just names econ.st/4dQ0WB7 👇

Why did Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner, two Oscar-winning directors, have to self-finance their films? econ.st/4bznEfw 🎥

Little by little, worms have transformed the environment around them. But little by little, they are disappearing. What is causing their decline is not clear econ.st/44PZVoL 👇

So far none of the startups developing specialised AI chips has made even a small dent in Nvidia’s dominant market position. But there are plenty of people hoping that one of them will econ.st/3wJC39K 👇

Even with 400 news channels and 20,000 daily news publications in over 20 languages, India’s press is becoming less free. But on YouTube criticism of Narendra Modi's government can be harsh econ.st/3yuZlAt 👇

If extradited, he will face 18 charges of espionage and computer hacking. His supporters call him a “political prisoner” and say (without evidence) that the case against him is “rigged” econ.st/3UNeUuP 👇

“My host is already part of my everyday life…If I get a normal job, I probably won’t be able to see him any more. That scares me.”

Why women in Japan pay men in make-up to flatter them econ.st/3WR60Pz 👇