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Five books that take you all over the world
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Five books that take you all over the world

Canada co-hosting the World Cup and its national team’s success is an opportunity to explore how people living in multicultural regions decide who to support.

Rising population growth should slow in the coming decades and see a decline in the second half of the century.

Music created the networks, identities and spaces of trust that made collective political action possible in Sudan’s 2019 revolution.

Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.

Climate expert Ioana Colfescu talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about predicting the impact of El Niño.

In a religious culture rooted in shame, up to half a million children in the UK and Ireland were put up for adoption without their mothers’ consent.

I wanted to make a film about solo parenting in all its messiness, the highs, but also the lows. I shot with my smartphone, almost daily, for nearly two decades.

If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted in five parliamentary sessions.

Crimea has been the symbol of the success of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now the peninsula is becoming isolated as Kyiv intensifies its attacks.

There are many more female artists in the 2020s than the early 1980s, but none is as iconoclastic as Madonna, more than 40 years on from her debut.