Cheating death: The science that can extend your lifespan

The world this week

Leaders

Ageing

Cheating death

Science is getting to grips with ways to slow ageing. Rejoice, as long as the side-effects can be managed

War against crime in the Philippines

A harvest of lead

Rodrigo Duterte is living up to his promise to fight crime by shooting first and asking questions later

Trump’s plan for the economy

Scrimping on sense

The Republican nominee’s ideas on the economy are thoughtless and dangerous

South Africa

Time to govern

There is now a genuine alternative to the ANC

Preventing child-abuse

First, save the children

Punitive laws intended to protect children from sexual assault too often make them less safe

Letters

On Britain, globalisation, Hinkley Point, laws, landmines, Donald Trump, Brexit

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Longevity

Adding ages

The fight to cheat death is hotting up

Europe

Migration within the EU

Europe’s scapegoat

Tensions in Crimea

The cruellest month

The time in Spain

Out of sync with the sun...

Britain

The Labour Party

The metamorphosis

Football geography

A country of two halves

The “term funding scheme”

When cuts are not enough

Fatter people

Counting calories

Thinner pets

Subwoofers

Middle East & Africa

New rivalries on a contested continent

Asia’s scramble for Africa

Ethiopia’s football follies

Full time?

Zambia’s elections

A test case for democracy

Iraq’s Yazidis

Freedom on hold

Libya and the West

Piling in

United States

Hillary Clinton

Inevitable once more

Purchasing power

More bang for your buck

Merit scholarships

TOPSy-turvy

Dietary inequality

Bitter fruits

America’s foreign bases

Go home, Yankee

The Americas

Argentina’s economy

It’s cold outside

Rio’s Olympics

More with less

Canada’s Senate and Supreme Court

Look to the rainbow

Asia

Philippine politics

From plan to execution

Gay rights in Indonesia

Under pressure

Women’s education in Afghanistan

Liberation through segregation

China

The judicial system

Suppress and support

Youthful nationalists

The East is pink

International

Business

The other side of Warren Buffett

Don’t Buff it up

Airlines and technology

All systems stop

Walmart buys Jet.com

Boxed-in unicorn

PSA Group

Peugeot rallies

Live-streaming

Amateur’s hour

The Berlusconis’ shrinking empire

Things fall apart

The tourism industry

Nothing to see here

Finance & economics

Europe’s disappearing cash

Emptying the tills

Buttonwood

Back in fashion

The leisure economy

Surfing to success

Recruitment and inequality

Pandora’s box

Financial crime

The final bill

Schools brief

Fiscal multipliers

Where does the buck stop?

Science & technology

Anthropology

No hard feelings

Graphene-based electronics

Bugs in the system

Culture

American memoirs

Promises, promises

America in the 1970s

That’s rich

New fiction

Irish charm