KAL’s cartoon: this week, unrest.
Tomorrow’s cover today: American readers get their own cover this week. The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulation.
Tomorrow’s cover today: the euro may survive brinkmanship over Greece, but the road to recovery will be long and hard.
Educated models are in. This may sound improbable. In the film “Zoolander”, male models are portrayed as so dumb that they play-fight with petrol and then start smoking. But such stereotypes are so last year.
KAL’s cartoon: this week, hesitation.
In our Web 3.0 world, as we share our identities so publicly with everyone else, standing out from the crowd, raising one’s voice against collective conventionality, is becoming increasingly difficult.
Does society benefit when we share personal information online? Or do social networks prompt us to publish unhealthy amounts of personal data, while little enriching our lives? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the arguments in our debate.
Tomorrow’s cover today: getting rid of Bashar Assad requires a united opposition, the creation of a safe haven and Western resolve.
All seven countries that impose the death penalty for homosexuality are Muslim. A debate about homosexuality in Islam is beginning, but persecution—and hypocrisy—are still rife.
Daily chart: the world’s richest people, adjusted for age. Mark Zuckerberg is already the 52nd richest person in the world—if Facebook’s recently announced share offering values his company at $100bn he will jump to ninth in the list. Divide that worth by year of age, however, and Mr Zuckerberg shoots to the top.
Daily chart: Charles Dickens’ bestsellers. On the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth, our charts team have tried to establish which novel sold best during his life. Bleak House wins (but click through for caveats).
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