Kim Jong-un orders lockdowns as North Korea confirms first Covid cases
State news agency says number of people in Pyongyang have contracted Omicron variant
South Korea misses Trump’s focus as efforts to engage Pyongyang stall
Nostalgia in Seoul for former US president amid Biden’s ‘benign neglect’ on North Korea issue
Kim Jong-un warns of food shortages in North Korea
Dictator says ‘food situation is getting tense’ in latest sign of state’s struggling economy
Xi Jinping on course to resurrect Mao’s ‘chairman’ role
Long-serving president already general secretary of the party and head of the military
‘The silent scream’: why do we yawn?
Theories have included brain oxygenation or cooling, and even to act as latent sexual signals
No washing our hands of the Austro-Hungarian legacy
The Hapsburg empire was a powerhouse of industry, science and technology, third in the world at the time only to the US and Germany
Hopes for nothing lost in Flannslation as ‘Flannoraks’ gather in Salzburg
Biennial academic conference on Flann O’Brien in Austria shows his global appeal
When science becomes a laughing matter
Scientific endeavour is full of bizarre, wacky and hilarious experiments on such topics as banana skins, road-crossing chickens and laughing rodents
Teen sharing of explicit images may lead to stress disorder
Bullies, Bullied and Bystanders Conference 2016 told of potential consequences of photos
Ravens will move food if spying is possibility, study shows
Birds share human capacity to predict others’ behaviour even if competitor is hidden
Cut the cost of children’s birthday parties and get your life back
Parents are coming up with ingenious methods of escaping the tyranny and expense of the behemoth birthday party
Monkeys and bird brains prove power of animal learning curve
Brazilian marmosets follow virtual teacher to unlock artificial fruit
Austrian coalition set to hold on to power
Three Eurosceptic populist parties command support of a third of electorate
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