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Dire straits

Richard Davies's book is divided into three parts - survival, failure, future - each of which subdivides into three case studies about specific places

Meet Celia Kener, the woman who survived the Holocaust

Celia Kener told her story to Jake Nevins, the New York Times Magazine's editorial fellow

Gaultier's great goodbye

After 50 years, the designer held his last show, and it was a doozy

English's pronoun problem is centuries old

Language works as a dynamic democracy, not as rule by experts.

Climate change could cause the next financial meltdown, suggests report

The ECB is among central banks trying to prepare for what a report warns could be a "coming economic upheaval"

Finishing a marathon can spruce up arteries, make them flexible: Study

The study finds that training for and finishing a marathon can spruce up arteries, leaving them more flexible, healthy and biologically younger than before, even if runners are older or slow

Disney drops Fox from names of studios it bought from Rupert Murdoch

The name change means consumers won't mistakenly connect the Disney-owned studio with Rupert Murdoch's polarising Fox News

To correct Facebook's errors, this guy wants to take away Instagram 'likes'

But making likes private will be a major shift for Instagram's more than 1 billion users, for whom daily assessment of one another's popularity has become like breathing

How big tech is turning New York into a city that rivals Silicon Valley

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in the city, many in a cluster of offices on the West Side

What's the price of getting your data? More data

A new California privacy law gives consumers the right to see and delete their data. But getting access often requires giving up more personal details

In the Premier League, VAR has exposed the limits of the laws

VAR has been the talk of the Premier League with many games so far being decided by the smallest of margins

How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia's bushfire debate

Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change

Prince Harry and Meghan: The couple who quit being 'senior' royals

The last couple to reject senior royal life was Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

Iranian missile likely shot down Boeing jet, evidence suggests: Officials

Western intelligence showed that Iran was responsible for the plane crash, suggesting that the deaths of those aboard were a consequence of the heightened tensions between Washington and Iran

Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads

In this presidential election year, no big changes are planned in policies governing political advertising

India's 'pickle queen' preserves everything, including the past

Usha Prabakaran's 20-year-old cookbook, crammed with recipes from home cooks, has become a cult classic in India

Language and power

The scope of Don't Believe a Word is impressive. It pauses to consider what modes of communication can tell us about the working of the brain, its role in communal violence in India

Ghanem al-Masarir mocks Saudi Arabia on YouTube and fears for his safety

One of his favourite targets is Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, whom he long ago tagged with a nickname, now widely used by detractors, that translates to "the bear that has gone astray"

Reading 'Us' through its t-shirts

The movie, ostensibly about a family, the Wilsons, hunted by its doppelgängers, is something of an awards contender

Remembering Sonny Mehta: A champion editor with quiet humour and grace

Authors who worked with him recall Sonny Mehta's elegance, his wit and, above all, his fierce devotion to books and their writers