The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
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How to make your dreams take flight
Taking to the skies alone like birds has long been a human obsession - and we are still discovering so much about flight from nature, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
FLIGHT is one of our most coveted superpowers, vying with mind-reading, teleportation and invisibility in the fantasy of “if you could do anything…”
It’s a curiously mundane ambition: the power of flight is enjoyed by millions of species on Earth (mostly insects), including even ourselves in the form of flying vehicles.
Perhaps it’s not so strange — after all, it’s easiest to want pleasures we can most vividly imagine. We’re surrounded by birds and insects flying majestically around us, so it’s natural that we wish to join them.
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