Month: April 2019

Our weeklong series Shades of Black explored the strain colorism puts on darker-skinned black American women. The goal of the series was not just to “Shades of Black: how readers responded to our series on the colorism taboo”

Three world-class mountaineers were presumed dead on Thursday after an avalanche in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Renowned Austrian climbers David Lama and Hansjörg Auer, and “Three mountaineers presumed dead after avalanche in Canada”

When Ilhan Omar became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress in November, the American Muslim community saw her victory as a “Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar aim to stoke fears ahead of the 2020 election”

Late-night hosts took aim at Donald Trump’s anger at Fox News as well as the president’s refusal to come down hard on big corporations. Stephen “Stephen Colbert: Trump needs Mueller report translated to ‘finger puppet show’”

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will visit Russia in late April for his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, Moscow has said. “Following an invitation “Kim Jong-un to visit Russia to meet Putin for first time”

Alan García, who has taken his own life aged 69, was a dominant, if divisive, figure in Peruvian politics for more than 30 years, during “Alan García obituary”

Pinterest, the digital pin board company, made a spectacular debut on the New York stock exchange on Thursday when its shares leapt 25% in its “Pinterest shares leap 25% in spectacular New York stock exchange debut”

The author Irvine Welsh has led tributes to the Trainspotting 2 actor Bradley Welsh, who was shot dead on his doorstep in Edinburgh while his “Trainspotting 2 actor Bradley Welsh was shot dead on his doorstep”

The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, has announced he has won re-election after receiving an estimated 54% of the vote, backtracking on his promise to wait “Indonesian elections: Joko Widodo claims re-election victory”

It is a tradition perhaps as old as the British monarchy itself. Oh no, hang on – it’s a tradition as old as one generation “Why have the papers become such crybabies about the royal baby?”