37 h. ago ‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rifeAs a familiar smoky evening haze gathered over Delhi, the crowd began to assemble in their hundreds. Mothers and children, students, retirees and environmentalists were all united by a basic but desperate demand: the right to breathe safely in India’s capital.“Delhi is not a liveable city any more, it’s a death trap,” said Radhika Aggarwal, 33, an engineer who joined the protest on Sunday. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Car explodes near historic fort in India's capital, killing at least 8 people, police say

Police in India's capital say a car exploded near the city's historic Red Fort , killing at least eight people and triggering a fire that damaged several vehicles parked nearby

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56 h. ago 'I spent day in European capital city for cost of my commute'

Luke Simmonds, 36, has been going on extreme day trips since 2023 and has completed 30 in two years

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58 h. ago My search for the perfect steak frites in Paris, the staple of French brasserie cuisine

It’s on every prix fixe menu in France, but which restaurant serves up the best incarnation in the capital? I stomped and chomped my way across the city to find outI once ate seven bowls of ragù bolognese over the course of a single weekend. I was in Bologna, to be fair, and on a mission – to get to the bottom of spag bol (yes, I know it should be served with tagliatelle). A few years earlier, I did something similar with a Polish stew called bigos (a sort of hunter’s stew). I wanted to learn about its variations, its nuances, and I wondered what you could find out about a place if you dived into one dish in particular. In the case of bigos, I gleaned that the Polish are prepared to wait a long time for things to be done.My friend Tom suffers from a similar obsession (just last month he dropped a dozen scotch eggs on a bank holiday Monday) and so when he said he was heading to Paris to eat multiple steak frites, I wasn’t exactly surprised. He wasn’t just goi...

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4 d. ago This Historic City Less Than 60 Minutes From London Was Once The Ancient Capital Of England

This Historic City Less Than 60 Minutes From London Was Once The Ancient Capital Of England - And Is England’s Best-Kept Secret For A Winter Weekend Away  Secret London

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4 d. ago The president is groped in broad daylight, and Mexican women cry: MeToo, MeToo, MeToo | Mona Eltahawy

After Claudia Sheinbaum was assaulted this week, her opponents claimed she staged it. From their own experiences, the women I met know she didn’t have to“Machismo in Mexico is so fucked up not even the president is safe,” said Caterina Camastra, a professor and feminist, when I talked to her in Morelia, a city west of the Mexican capital this week. Succinct and to the point, it is a sentiment shared by many women in Mexico after watching the now viral video of a drunk man groping the country’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, as she walked from the National Palace to the education ministry on Monday. Sheinbaum, who has pressed charges against the man, said much the same at her daily press briefing on Wednesday: “If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?”Sheinbaum’s unprecedented position has made this a teaching moment in a country where women have long complained that sexual harassment and assault on streets and public transport...

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7 d. ago ‘A historic victory’: our panel reacts to Zohran Mamdani’s triumph | Panel

Our panelists discuss what Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the mayoral race means for New York and beyondSet aside for a moment the interminable back and forth over whether Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party. This much is beyond dispute: Zohran Mamdani represents the immediate future of New York City, America’s largest town and the financial capital of the world.Osita Nwanevu is a columnist at Guardian US and the author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American FoundingJudith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in FascismMalaika Jabali is a columnist at Guardian USBhaskar Sunkara is the president of the Nation, the founding editor of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in An Era of Extreme Inequalities Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Inside 'cocaine' capital where drugs are 'legal' and sold on street corners

An ex-con-turned-influencer was stunned to see how easy it is was to score drugs in a city dubbed the "cocaine capital" due to lax laws which allows people to possess small amounts without prosecution

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8 d. ago Manchester crowned UK's 'second best city' above London in new 2025 list

Our northern city has jumped from eighth to second place, whilst the capital has fallen to third place from last year's no.1 spot

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8 d. ago ‘We don’t have enough to eat, to live’: how Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ cuts are driving homelessness in Argentina

Those hit hard by far-right leader’s zero-deficit policies fear worse to come after his election winArgentinians and tourists walking the streets of Buenos Aires are used to the large rubbish containers placed beneath the neoclassical and art nouveau buildings of the country’s capital and wealthiest city.A more observant passerby, however, might notice a recent addition: a red warning placed by the city government reading “Danger, do not enter”, accompanied by a pictogram showing a person halfway inside. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Outrage in Paris as Shein prepares to open its first permanent store

Fast-fashion retailer faces political anger, fury from workers and warnings it will damage city’s progressive imageThe online fast-fashion retailer Shein will open its first permanent bricks-and-mortar store in the world in Paris this week amid political outrage, fury from workers and warnings from city hall that it will damage the French capital’s progressive image.The Singapore-based clothing company, which was founded in China, has built a massive online business despite criticism over its factory working conditions and the environmental impact of low-cost, throwaway fashion. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Orphans of history: the forgotten republic of Transnistria – photo essay

Photographer Didier Bizet has spent time documenting life in the self-proclaimed autonomous republic, which is not recognised by the international community. Its status raises complex questions about the identity of its inhabitants – Ukrainians, Russians, Moldovans and Bulgarians – in a land searching for direction and lacking a clearly defined national identityAmid the ongoing war in Ukraine and between the fragile borders that crisscross the former Soviet Union, the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria, which broke away from Moldova more than 30 years ago after a brief but bloody conflict, remains locked in deep political and diplomatic isolation.Home to about 450,000 people, Transnistria is a narrow strip of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, along the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Its de facto capital, Tiraspol, lies less than 60 miles from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. Though small in size – about 125 miles long – the region holds outsized strategic importan...

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1 week ago The best luxury hotels in London, from prestigious addresses to world

Sharing insights from years spent testing out hotel beds across the city, Gina Jackson highlights her favourite luxury hotels in the capital

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2 w. ago The perfect European city Christmas market break – with a hidden spa twist

Keen to see more of the Czech Republic than just its romantic capital, Chris Wilson makes his way out to an ancient spa city to combine excitement with relaxation on a dual-destination break

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2 w. ago Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara, in danger of becoming a ‘ghost city’

State funding for the project has plunged, while construction has slowed and few civil servants have been eager to move away from Jakarta Indonesia’s utopian new capital Nusantara seems to appear out of nowhere. Deep in the forest, a multilane highway abruptly opens up through the trees, leading to a palace topped by a winged eagle that glows under the equatorial sun.But along the rows of futuristic new buildings, Nusantara’s boulevards are largely empty save for a few gardeners and curious tourists. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Record 9.4 million fines slapped on London motorists as councils and TfL accused of 'money

The total number of penalties handed out by the capital's 32 boroughs, the City of London and TfL has increased by about 13.5 per cent since last year and 70 per cent since 2010

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2 w. ago Outrage as Sarah Ferguson sold £4.2m property months before 'demanding new royal home'

Sarah Ferguson recently sold a lavish London property that she owned in one of the capital city's most affluent neighbourhoods, but she reportedly let it go for a whopping £400,000 loss

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2 w. ago 'I visited Rome for the first time and this is one thing you must pack'

This Italian capital city has so much to offer, as our writer Abby Wells discovered on a long weekend, exploring amazing architecture and fascinating history

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2 w. ago Senegalese artist transforms Conakry's walls with captivating street art, in photos

Street art graffiti is spreading in West Africa. In Guinea’s capital, an artist from Senegal is transforming city walls and public perceptions. Omar Diaw says graffiti was seen as vandalism in Conakry not even a decade ago. He decided to change minds by starting with public awareness murals.

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2 w. ago Travel influencer shamed for urging Brits to swap boozy holidays for 'lads tours of Afghanistan'

Kieran Brown, 30, from Kent, claims the war-torn nation boasts kebabs better than Turkey's, a 'developed' capital city with shopping malls, and a landscape to rival the Swiss Alps.

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