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The Week Unwrapped: Why is toxic algae spreading?Podcast Plus, will the Albanian PM be the next to fall? And what does a cancelled biopic tell us about today’s movie industry?
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Quiz of The Week: 20 – 26 JuneQuiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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Audi RS5: an ‘unhingedly agile’ plug-in hybridThe Week Recommends Despite weighing 2,370kg, plug-in hybrid is ‘supple’ and ‘refined’
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Much Ado About Nothing: a Shakespearean ‘summer blockbuster’The Week Recommends With ‘simply gorgeous’ costumes, dance and music, the Globe’s ‘charming’ production is ‘eminently worth seeing’
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Jon Snow: A Last Big Story – a ‘deeply affecting’ documentaryThe Week Recommends The journalist comes to terms with his Alzheimer’s diagnosis and investigates a mining disaster
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Toy Story 5: ‘superb’ to look at but ‘feels a little generic’Talking Point Pixar’s latest instalment pits toys against technology
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Dad Brain: a ‘refreshing’ look at how fatherhood affects men’s bodies and mindsThe Week Recommends Darby Saxbe’s book combines academic data with ‘stories about the men in her own life’
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How heatwaves will see children miss out on schoolIn the Spotlight Modelling finds 12 days learning a year could be lost due to extreme temperatures
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Which side is winning the war: Russia or Ukraine?The Explainer Ukraine’s war effort ‘on the front foot’ as it awaits response to ceasefire offer
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The main players in an Andy Burnham governmentThe Explainer From well-known frontrunners to fresh-faced dark horses – who can expect big jobs under the next PM?
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Elon Musk: the making of a trillionaireIn the Spotlight The SpaceX founder has defied sceptics to post the largest flotation in history
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What’s the situation in Gaza now?The Explainer Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Gaza Strip has largely dropped out of the headlines, but suffering continues
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The Belfast riots: an anti-migrant ‘pogrom’In the Spotlight Disorder over migrant knife attack shines a light on new era of political violence fuelled by social media
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Will the under-16s social media ban work?Talking Point PM’s about-turn on Australia-style ban suggests a ‘dead-duck administration grasping for a legacy’
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Quiz of The Week: 13 – 19 JuneQuiz Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
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The Week Unwrapped: How does a tiny tick turn people vegan?Podcast Plus, how will Giorgia Meloni deal with a challenge from the right? And could AI make grief obsolete?
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France’s school monitors scandalUnder The Radar Allegations of widespread child abuse in after-school system has ‘shaken the French capital and undermined faith in its schools’
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Under the Shadow: ‘nerve-shredding’ production ‘could scarcely be timelier’The Week Recommends Carmen Nasr’s production set during the Iran-Iraq war is ‘intriguing and always watchable’
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The Alien Autopsy Scandal: ‘Spinal Tap territory – but real’The Week Recommends ‘Extraordinary’ documentary about an elaborate hoax that captivated the world
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Disclosure Day: Steven Spielberg’s ‘proper summer blockbuster’The Week Recommends Emily Blunt is ‘fantastic’ in alien drama – but the plotting is ‘woolly and lopsided’
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Stolen Revolution: a ‘blistering’ examination of modern IranThe Week Recommends Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati’s ‘meticulously researched’ book is ‘quietly devastating’
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The Wegovy weight-loss pill: what you need to knowThe Explainer ‘Game-changing’ oral drug has similar success rate to injections but also comes with potentially serious side-effects
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The UK’s new social media ban explainedThe Explainer UK will ‘go further than any other country’ in the world in limiting online access for under-16s
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Cruising eastern India’s mangrovesThe Week Recommends Plus an exciting French railway and a magical trip to the Scilly Isles
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