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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Nick Evershed and Josh Nicholas

The Crunch: who controls the Murdoch family trust, good pie charts and the baby boom

Composite image showing Rupert Murdoch, a ping pong set and a polar bear overlaid on graph paper
This week: Rupert Murdoch, melting glaciers, and pong. Now with good pie charts! Composite: AP / Alamy

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Crunch!

In this week’s newsletter we have charts on the melting of glaciers around the world, how the baby boom reshaped populations in many different countries, who controls the Murdoch family trust, how Germany’s economic strength became a weakness and what it looks like to run the game Pong on hundreds of browser tabs.

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