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Tsubasa Ito teaches his son Koya how to play baseball in Nagoya City, Japan

Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia

About time, too

A Saiga antelope walks on a prairie outside Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction

Even better, these peers of sabre-toothed tigers can help with carbon capture


An illustration of a man in a suit (Prabowo Subianto) with four speech bubbles of barying sizes that read: "SIR!".

Indonesia’s Prabowo is desperate to impress Trump and Xi

The new president’s first foreign tour was a shambles


Is India’s education system the root of its problems?

A recent comparison with China suggests that may be so

Meet the outspoken maverick who could lead India

Nitin Gadkari, India’s highways minister, talks to The Economist

The Adani scandal takes the shine off Modi’s electoral success

The tycoon’s indictment clouds the prime minister’s prospects