After Havana shut down online access for 72 hours, the battle is on to keep the country connectedCubans used to joke about Napoleon Bonaparte chatting to Mikhail Gorbachev, George W Bush and Fidel Castro in the afterlife. “If I’d have had your prudence…
‘Still going through hell’: the search for Yazidi women seven years on
As two women are rescued in Syria after being kidnapped by Isis years earlier, Yazidis renew calls for international help to find the thousands still unaccounted forFor seven years, their families waited and hoped for news. In July, they finally receiv…
The Fever review – dreamy film about an indigenous Brazilian’s alienation
Maya Da-Rin’s subtle, poetic debut about a man with a mysterious fever engages with the hidden lives of the Desana people of BrazilHere is a mysterious and opaque movie, a feature debut from 42-year-old Brazilian artist and film-maker Maya Da-Rin. It d…
‘Now it’s continuous noise’: Italy’s Crusoe adjusts to life off his island
It is more than three months since Mauro Morandi left Budelli after living alone there for 32 yearsEvery morning, Mauro Morandi woke up to the uninterrupted sea view that only he was privy to. Immersed in nature, he was intimately in tune with the dawn…
BP to buy back $1.4bn of shares as rising oil price bolsters profits
Energy company raises oil price forecasts for rest of decade, but lowers them for longer termBP will hand shareholders a windfall of $1.4bn (£1bn) through share buybacks and has promised to increase its dividend by 4% a year up to 2025 after predicting…
Belarus exile group leader Vitaly Shishov found dead in Kyiv, police say
Police open murder investigation after activist discovered in park after failing to return from a run The head of a Kyiv-based non-profit organisation that helps Belarusians fleeing persecution has been found dead in a park in the Ukrainian capital, po…
If education is such a great investment, it deserves serious international backing
The World Bank and IMF should step in to finance a recovery of children’s learning chances devastated by the pandemic“Education,” wrote Nelson Mandela, “is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” One wonders what he would have made o…
Macaques at Japan reserve get first alpha female in 70-year history
Yakei took top spot after roughing up Sanchu, the alpha male who had been leader of ‘troop B’ on the island of Kyushu for five yearsIn a rarely seen phenomenon in the simian world, a nine-year-old female known as Yakei has become the boss of a 677-stro…
Savings bonds, lotteries and cheap food: do vaccine incentives work?
The Australian Labor party has suggested using money to encourage Covid vaccinations, a strategy that is popular around the wordSee all our coronavirus coverageLabor’s call for Australians who get vaccinated by Christmas to be offered a $300 cash incen…
‘Collective strength’: the LRA captive restoring dignity to survivors in Uganda
Kidnapped by Lord’s Resistance Army rebels as a girl, Victoria Nyanjura has pushed through major reforms for victims of abduction and rapeWhen Victoria Nyanjura was abducted from her Catholic boarding school in northern Uganda by members of the Lord’s …