A stretch and a run: Brazils ex-president returns

Published: April 12, 2022, 10:10 a.m.

Luiz In\xe1cio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from poverty\u2014but was then convicted of corruption. Now he wants his old job back. Forced labour in Uzbekistan\u2019s cotton fields, once widespread, is swiftly vanishing. And an old hypothesis confirmed: birds get more colourful the closer they live to the equator.

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