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This week: North Korea’s ruling party turns 70, Swaziland’s king goes on a lavish spending spree and a philosophical baseball player lays down his bat  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Countries pledge to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris and NASA discovers water on Mars reigniting hopes for life on the red planet  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From newspapers to music, the media world has been upended by the internet. Porn is no exception. How has the industry survived amid an endless torrent of free adult content?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week: Volkswagen makes a shocking confession, Generation XXX and Picasso's dazzling sculptures  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The former CEO of BP says great businesses should develop connections with society, but the difficulty of doing so means few manage it  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The rise in drone hobbyism raises questions about how best to control the skies, and scientists hope to catch sight of Einstein's gravitational wave  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Volkswagen confessed to cheating on emissions tests in America in the latest corporate blow-up. How do firms deal with costly disasters both accidental and self-induced?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Arkady Ostrovsky, The Economist's Russia and East European editor, on how oligarchs, ideologues and television rebuilt Russia  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week: speed-dating birds, successful slum clinics and the economics of deception  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Britons have long had a selective relationship with the grand European project. In the final episode of the series, we ask whether it might be about to lead to a final Brexit  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The hybrid and electric plane industry takes off and advanced artificial intelligence is used to diagnose disease  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Britain's Labour party has a new leader and possibly a new, radical economic agenda, Africa's farms aren't growing and the upside to tube strikes  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week: a new human ancestor, a rift in Japan's Yakuza and the enduring effects of bank heists  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the second of a three-part series, we explore Britain’s dealings with the European Union and ask if David Cameron can win his battle to renegotiate the terms of the membership  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Radar scans reveal an enormous site of underground stone monoliths near Stonehenge and subterranean plant seed banks could save harvests and lives in the face of climate change  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The commodities crash forces the mining and trading group behemoth, Glencore, to drastically adjust its balance sheet as global trade stalls and the copper market swoons  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week: the mystery of a Nazi gold train in Poland, the history of the much heralded herring and a new weapon in the war on malaria  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A referendum on Britain’s place in the European Union is likely to take place in September 2016. In the first of a three-part series, we ask assorted experts what is at stake  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Donald Trump has become the surprise Republican frontrunner early on in the 2016 US presidential cycle. His popularity – and fame – is reflected in the wide media coverage he has been enjoying. His policies, such as they are, have had less attention  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

New technology used by nuclear weapons inspectors and 3D printing buildings on Earth and in outer space  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.