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Rice is a global staple and keeping the price low means “less people go to bed hungry”, said Al Jazeera. However, a controversial decision by the Indian government could upend this notion, and create chaos across the world. 

Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday, said the Westboro Baptist Church. The controversial church, based in Kansas, said that “the churches of Hawaii have doomed the inhabitants with lies about the eternal God”, adding that “the watchers must (and will) publicly pronounce the warning on Sunday”. It “was not…

Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Guy Anker, Suchandrika Chakrabarti and Arion McNicoll.

His restaurant in Lima, Central, took top spot in this year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list – but the Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez’s outpost in the Andes, Mil, makes for a yet more remarkable “foodie pilgrimage”, said Paul Richardson in the FT.

James Layton, lecturer in performance at the University of the West of Scotland, explains how to get the best from a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

This is my ultimate quick and easy brunch, lunch or hangover cure, said Conor Spacey. I haven’t reinvented the wheel here – this recipe is based on the classic Welsh rarebit. As for the mayo, it has no vodka in it, but it does have the same spicy kick as…

“What finally got me was the selfie,” said Michael Oren in The Times of Israel (Jerusalem).

The cynicism of Vladimir Putin knows no bounds, said The Sunday Times. Having abandoned the UN-brokered grain deal that ensured safe passage for Ukraine’s crops to markets, despite warnings that it could cause “hunger or worse” in low-income African nations, the Russian president last week had the nerve to pose…

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More than 600 children have fallen ill with heat exhaustion at the 25th World Scout Jamboree in Saemangeum, South Korea, as youngsters struggle to cope with the conditions.

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…