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James Hookway

ARTICLES BY JAMES HOOKWAY

The Greenlandic flag flies over a building in Nuuk, Greenland.

Why Denmark controls Greenland

3 min read . 21 Jan 2026

Velik and Seljom pose with Alice Buttress’s 6-foot-long golden spurtle.

There are thousands of Michelin Stars, but only one world porridge champion

4 min read . 20 Oct 2025

Howard X, an Australian who lives off his striking resemblance to Kim Jong Un, and Donald Trump impersonator Dennis Alan pose during a walkabout ahead of a G20 leaders’ summit.

Lookalikes and impersonators try to hang on in the age of AI

4 min read . 08 Sept 2025

The British have long taken pride in delightful digs and turns of phrase like ‘the dog’s bollocks.’ (Getty Images)

British slang might not be the dog’s bollocks much longer

5 min read . 28 Jul 2024

A Houthi fighter stands guard in front of Sanaa's Al-Saleh Grand Mosque, which the Iran-backed movement renamed the People's Mosque, during a protest in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Huthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on January 5, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group in Gaza. Heavy air strikes pounded rebel-held cities in Yemen early on January 12, 2024, the Huthi rebels' official media and AFP correspondents said. The capital Sanaa, Hodeida and Saada were all targeted, the Huthis' official media said, blaming 'American aggression with British participation' (AFP)

Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. Attacking Them?

5 min read . 12 Jan 2024

What Is Hamas? What to Know About the Militant Group Fighting Israel

What Is Hamas? What to Know About the Militant Group Fighting Israel

7 min read . 11 Oct 2023

England Has a North-South Divide, Too. But Where Exactly Is It?

England Has a North-South Divide, Too. But Where Exactly Is It?

4 min read . 06 Sept 2023

Traffic comes to a halt behind Just Stop Oil climate activists marching slowly in London on July 20, 2023. Human-made climate change is supercharging natural weather phenomena to drive heatwaves roasting Asia, Europe and North America that could make 2023 the hottest year since records began, scientists say. (Photo: AFP)

As Heat Waves Spread, So Too Do Unruly Climate Protests

5 min read . 22 Jul 2023

An artist creates hyper-realistic pictures of African elderly people, using artificial intelligence (Photo: Reuters)

AI generated art for a comic book. Human artists are having a fit

4 min read . 30 Jan 2023

A file photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Photo: AP)

Who is Volodymyr Zelensky? Ukraine’s wartime president is a former TV star

7 min read . 12 Mar 2022

Much of Europe had succumbed to a mania about witchcraft, just over a hundred years before a similar frenzy swept over the town of Salem, Mass

Scotland moves to pardon thousands executed as witches—400 years later

5 min read . 02 Jan 2022

World Health Organization (WHO) (Photo: Reuters)

WHO warns that sorter quarantines are trade-off as Omicron surges

3 min read . 30 Dec 2021

With omicron case rates surging, policy makers focus on hospitalizations instead

5 min read . 29 Dec 2021

Countries consider further post-christmas omicron curbs

4 min read . 26 Dec 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Russia-Ukraine tension: Could what’s happening on the border lead to war?

4 min read . 13 Dec 2021

A file photo of Sarah Everard. (AFP)

What happened to Sarah Everard? The London woman whose death prompted a safety debate in the UK

3 min read . 30 Sept 2021

Anton Hicks is vying to have his song, ‘With Earth’s Grace,’ adopted as the meeting’s official song by organizers of the 26th annual UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Glasgow

You think addressing climate change is hard, try pitching an anthem about it

3 min read . 27 Sept 2021

The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan after a lightning offensive and are consolidating power. (Photo: AP)

Afghanistan under the Taliban—what’s next?

4 min read . 21 Aug 2021

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace (Photo: AP)

What’s happening in Afghanistan?

5 min read . 17 Aug 2021

Ever Given container ship is pictured in Suez Canal in this Maxar Technologies satellite image taken on March 26, 2021. (VIA REUTERS)

Suez Canal: How the Ever Given cargo ship got stuck and what we know

3 min read . 27 Mar 2021