The Art Market Is Back. Mind the gap.

Born and raised in Edmonton, our writer moved to London just as Britain was leaving the EU. Now her home province is voting on whether to take the first step out of Canada. Cue the déjà vu.

Houthi strikes on Riyadh have pushed oil above $100 a barrel. Months ago, Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman warned that lasting peace in Yemen starts with its people. No one listened.

Germany's parliament is rarely dramatic. This week it was. Merz accused the AfD of ethnic cleansing. Weidel, after a 43.8% win in Saxony-Anhalt, said his time was up. 'Never again' is being tested.

Days before Ukraine's drones hit Wildberries, Tatyana Kim wrote her sellers out of compensation for war. More than twenty warehouses later, Russia's richest woman says the loss isn't hers to cover.

Half a million wait under siege in Sudan while the world watches a peace deal die with a tanker crew, in a strait carrying a fifth of its oil. Kyiv's run out of interceptors. 15 days, 3 chokepoints.

The US and Iran signed a memorandum ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as Sudan's RSF besieged El Obeid and Ukraine launched a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's oil economy.

The Gulf ceasefire is now a fiction both sides maintain for cover, with global energy the hostage. Plus Ukraine's deep strikes into Russia, the Chornobyl hit, Sudan, and the week's WPS read.

Latvia’s PM Evika Siliņa resigns, In Britain, Keir Starmer is still in Downing Street. Just about.

P&G had promised a woman would run it someday. This year the company that banks on women made sure someday got further away, handing beauty, babies and tampons to men and a razor to a woman.

Days before Ukraine's drones hit Wildberries, Tatyana Kim wrote her sellers out of compensation for war. More than twenty warehouses later, Russia's richest woman says the loss isn't hers to cover.

A record $645m payout, a president's daughter, a love child and a slush fund. Yet the AI boom that catapulted South Korea's SK Group still left her on the wrong side of the balance sheet.

ITV sells its channels and ITVX to Comcast's Sky for £1.6 billion, creating a broadcaster built to rival Netflix. McCall, Strong, Nandy and Dinenage now decide if the deal survives regulators.

Mexican-American Maria Montserrat Alvarado, has been named as Head of Vatican Communications. It makes her the first woman to hold the role in the institution's history.

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Davos 2026

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Houthi strikes on Riyadh have pushed oil above $100 a barrel. Months ago, Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman warned that lasting peace in Yemen starts with its people. No one listened.

Anne Carson, Canadian poet, classicist and translator of Sappho and Sophocles, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 19th woman among 123 laureates since the prize was first awarded in 1901.

Morocco first sent women to parliament in 1993. Thirty-three years on, Marrakech's mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has been asked to run its government. First, she has to build one.

Emma Delaney left BP to become OMV's first woman CEO. Her in-tray from day 1? War in the Middle East and Ukraine, a delayed Gulf chemicals deal and Central Europe's search for gas beyond Russia.

Lindy Cameron, Britain's High Commissioner to India, becomes the first woman appointed Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Washington renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool twice. The algae came back both times. What I told the 70th Commonwealth Leaders Forum why that is a leadership problem, not a plumbing one.

Meet Anita Orbán: The diplomat who predicted Russia's playbook and is now being asked to dismantle it.

A Rorschach blot test

The art market is back in the room, literally. Collectors are buying in person again and paying big at the top. It's the dealers in the middle who are left minding the gap.

Anne Carson, Canadian poet, classicist and translator of Sappho and Sophocles, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 19th woman among 123 laureates since the prize was first awarded in 1901.

India's youth were called cockroaches. They made the slur a movement, the movement memes, women at the frontline. Now the state and traditionalists fear what they can't police: women who won't behave.

A record $645m payout, a president's daughter, a love child and a slush fund. Yet the AI boom that catapulted South Korea's SK Group still left her on the wrong side of the balance sheet.

Linda Nosková wobbled, and squandered five championship points before regaining her nerve and beating fellow Czech Karolína Muchová to become the youngest Wimbledon champion since 2011.

57 countries met in Colombia to agree on how to phase out oil, gas, and coal. The US, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia were not among them.

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The art market is back in the room, literally. Collectors are buying in person again and paying big at the top. It's the dealers in the middle who are left minding the gap.

Born and raised in Edmonton, our writer moved to London just as Britain was leaving the EU. Now her home province is voting on whether to take the first step out of Canada. Cue the déjà vu.

P&G had promised a woman would run it someday. This year the company that banks on women made sure someday got further away, handing beauty, babies and tampons to men and a razor to a woman.

India's youth were called cockroaches. They made the slur a movement, the movement memes, women at the frontline. Now the state and traditionalists fear what they can't police: women who won't behave.

Washington renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool twice. The algae came back both times. What I told the 70th Commonwealth Leaders Forum why that is a leadership problem, not a plumbing one.

From Budapest to Rome to Beijing: How Europe’s Political Certainties Collapsed in One Week

Clash of the Headlines: UNGA Drama Meets Keep Calm & Carry On

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