International

Down in the dumps
Covid-19 has posed new challenges to the world’s waste-pickers

Those who are better organised have prospered more

Floundered
Talks at the WTO to save the world’s fish fail to reach agreement

A missed deadline is terrible news for the oceans

Ratcheting up
Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short

Promises at the Climate Ambition summit do not mark a real turning-point

After the Keira Bell verdict
An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions

Worries grow over treatments that can leave children sterile

Questions of identity
Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities

MOSIP, an open-source platform developed in India, will be central to many of those efforts

Nuclear retreat
The pandemic may be encouraging people to live in larger groups

In lockdown people see the appeal of housemates

Humanitarian aid
The UN calls for a surge in aid to help 160m desperate people

Covid-19 means record numbers are in need of humanitarian assistance. But will a cash-strapped world respond?

Testing, testing
The pandemic has prompted questions about high-stakes exams

But other ways of assessing students create new problems

Far from equal
Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health

Unpicking the causes of gaps in health outcomes requires better data than most countries currently collect

Fantastic Four
Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China “Quad”

America, Australia, India and Japan are building a formidable diplomatic bloc

Predictability, for a start
What the world wants from Joe Biden

The president-elect will face a torrent of demands

Digital classrooms
Educational technology is coming of age during the pandemic

Nowhere more so than in India