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While migrants and refugees drown in the Mediterranean, 630,000 more remain stranded in wartorn Libya. How should Libya deal with this tragedy on its shores.

Bilbao: Business City - a look at how new talent is incubated.

Patient Innovation platform showcases extraordinary technology as well as simple solutions from patients incentivised to heal themselves.

Catalan Oscar Camps who with foundation Proactiva Open Arms has battled waves, ignorance and politics in the high seas to rescue migrants and refugees from drowning.

Making cities smarter than even the people who live in them.

Fifty years ago a manager knew when his team clocked on and off. Now employers are using hidden cameras, GPS and RFID tags, keystroke logging and emergent technology to monitor productivity, phone calls, emails, online browsing, instant messaging, blogging, where you go for lunch and what you eat. Well, possibly not what you eat. Yet.

The Law: Or rather the laws. Illustration: Medium.com

Half of Spain has advanced to phase one of a four-phase plan to ease lockdown restrictions by July. Hoteliers can open their properties – though none of the common areas – and bars and restaurants can open a limited amount of outdoor seating. Although Madrid, Málaga, Granada, Barcelona and parts of Valencia are among the provinces and municipalities not yet cleared to advance.

Tourism is Spain’s third largest contributor to the economy, making up 12.3% of its GDP, and there is pressure to get...

Minimalism.

USA, Spain, Costa Rica including iPhone footage.

Seville city guide: what to do plus the best hotels...

Young and upwardly mobile, Malaysia's capital is a Southeast Asian powerhouse with big ambitions for the 21st century.
The lowdown
Kuala Lumpur is a vibrant manifestation of Malaysia's recent growth, its glassy skyscrapers rising up all around, with more on the way. As a city with a stable economy, a lower cost of living than neighbouring Singapore, good business infrastructure and a welcoming twinkle, KL is attracting blue chip investors from both east (and Middle East) and west. And its lar...

It’s just over 40 years ago that Spain emerged from itsgrim-faced isolation under the one-party state of General Franco. What followed was… a big party, which even the economic buffeting of the past decade still hasn’t quite managed to dampen down.

It’s peak holiday week, 28C on the coast of Almería, but I am one of only six people on the beach. Why? Because I am unfashionably – freakishly – early.

A veteran of the London to Yorkshire rail commute, George was blasé at the prospect of the 19-day journey through Russia, Mongolia and China on the Trans-Siberian Express. The assurance there would be snow (plenty, with temperatures around -30) evoked enthusiasm, but it was the idea of sleeping on the train and what’s more, in bunks that brought him round. And so in the depths of a Moscow winter, fat in polar clothing, we board Train #10, the 23.24 to Irkutsk, Siberia.