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I was so keen for my post-lockdown trim last Saturday that I arrived at George Northwood’s salon just off London’s Oxford Street 20 minutes early. At the check-in point, instead of offering me a coffee, they took my temperature. I felt a brief jolt of greedy disappointment, because in the old days you used to […]

Jim Pia is awake at five each morning to catch the first bus into the city. Daily, the 20-year-old fights for a space on the bus from the Bushwara settlement, on the outskirts of Port Moresby, to ensure he is on time to secure a place within the capital’s Gordons Market. From 8am, when the […]

When I lie down on the floor – which is frequently at the moment because I’ve spent exactly 116 days in lockdown with a three-year-old and her baby brother and I’m never not utterly exhausted – my daughter takes advantage. She clambers up my shins, hooks her tiny rib cage over my bent knees and […]

As a lucrative deal with the EU looms the country is rushing to repair its reputation on human rights, which has been plagued by reports of forced labour Global development is supported byAbout this contentChris Humphrey and Bac Pham in Hanoi Wed 15 Jul 2020 07.00 BSTLast modified on Wed 15 Jul 2020 17.16 BSTShares68Inmates […]

The four-minute mile and the two-hour marathon were once believed impossible: now a new gauntlet has been thrown down for the world of elite competition. A scientific analysis suggests competitive eaters have come within nine hotdogs of the limits of human performance. The theoretical ceiling has been set at 84 hotdogs in 10 minutes. The […]

North Macedonia is going to the polls in an election viewed as crucial for the Balkan state’s future after months of political drift exacerbated by voting being postponed by the coronavirus pandemic. The vote, originally due to be held in April, is the first since the country changed its name from Macedonia in a landmark […]

The US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been admitted to hospital for treatment for a possible infection. She is likely to be there for “a few days”, the court announced. According to a statement, she is resting comfortably and will stay in hospital for a few days for antibiotic treatment. She was admitted […]