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Britain’s lighthouses are being transformedWatch the sweep of history along the coastlineThis week our cover leader explores the fallout of the Wagner Group’s extraordinary march on Moscow. To discover why we chose to portray Putin as a cracked façade, rather than atop a skeletal horse, watch the inside story of The Economist cover.

SAME-SEX ATTRACTION is found in many animals—but, like all animal behaviours, it can be complicated and difficult to study. The underlying biological mechanisms, however, are of great interest for understanding human health, genetics and evolution. Researchers know there is no such thing as a “gay gene”; in fact genetics can explain less than a third of the variation in people’s self-reported same-sex behaviour. Non-genetic factors, therefore, play an enormous role. Scientists can’t agree on exactly what those factors are, though.Abby Bertics, The Economist’s science correspondent, visits a Royal Society conference in Cookham on the genetics and evolution of same-sex attraction, to meet some of the researchers applying scientific rigour to these intriguing questions. Lisa Diamond, a psychologist at the University of Utah, explores some of the theories related to brain development in babies. Robbee Wedow, a sociologist at Purdue University, and Andrea Ganna, a data scientist at the Univ

Walt Nauta, aide to former president Donald Trump, disembarks Trump's airplane, known as Trump Force One, in Bedminster, New Jersey, following a court appearance at Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami, June 13, 2023.Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesWalt Nauta, former President Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the classified documents case, pleaded not guilty to six criminal charges Thursday at his arraignment in federal court.Nauta said little during the brief hearing before a federal magistrate judge in Miami. When asked if he had read the charges against him and if he was able to speak with a lawyer, Nauta replied, "Yes, your honor," NBC News reported.The arraignment lasted about five minutes.Nauta entered his plea more than three weeks after Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal counts related to his alleged efforts to hold onto top secret documents after leaving the White House in 2021.The Navy veteran and aide to the former president appeare

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama on the same day that a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in revealing new details about the case.Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven cross-country and had been living in, according to a Justice Department motion that seeks to keep him behind bars.On the day of his June 29 arrest, prosecutors said, Taranto reposted a Truth Social post from Trump containing what Trump claimed was Obama’s home address. In a post on Telegram, Taranto wrote: “We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.” That’s a reference to John Podesta, the former chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Democratic presidential campaign.Taranto also tol

image: Getty ImagesTHE CARCASS of a torched car lies upside down on the pavement, its tyres burned to ashes. Opposite, a warm breeze flows through the shattered glass sides of a bus shelter. The desolation on the streets of the Pablo Picasso housing project in Nanterre, on the outskirts of Paris, follows a second night of rioting after a policeman shot dead a 17-year-old boy who lived on this estate. The killing, which took place on June 27th, has touched a nerve for many in France, and prompted an outpouring of distress as well as violence.The teenager, identified as Nahel, failed to stop when ordered to by two traffic policemen while he was driving at high speed down a bus lane in Nanterre, said Pascal Prache, the public prosecutor, on June 29th. When the police officers caught up with the car in a traffic jam, and asked the driver to switch off the engine, the car accelerated; one of the policemen shot the driver, Nahel, in the chest. He died less than an hour later. On June 29th Mr