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<\/span> Illustration: Nicol\u00e1s Ortega\/The Guardian<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael\u2019s war in Gaza,\u201d wrote Moustafa Bayoumi for Guardian US\u2019s weekend featured essay, \u201cis chipping away at so much of what we \u2013 in the United States but also internationally \u2013 had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict. It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n <\/span> Illustration: Carl Godfrey\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents \u2013 from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway \u2013 have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why, asked S\u00f6nke Iwersen and Michael Verf\u00fcrden, won\u2019t Tesla give any answers?<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n <\/span>Foreign visitors eye a potential bargain in Sambuca di Sicilia.<\/span> Photograph: Alessio Mamo\/The Guardian<\/p>\n If you could move anywhere, where would it be? It\u2019s a question that gestures toward a life in some stage of calcification \u2013 the could implying constraint, limitations, the presumption that one simply cannot, in fact, up and move. The \u20ac1 house programme serves as the doorway for just this sort of yearning for something new. Hate your job? Want to move but can\u2019t afford a house? Worried about where you\u2019ll retire, or how you\u2019ll even manage to retire at all? If you have the right passport and enough money, you can find somewhere else to live. Why not make that place Italy?<\/p>\n Last summer, Lauren Markham and her husband stuffed an inordinate amount of belongings into a preposterous number of bags and flew with their 11-month-old to Italy for an adventure in pursuit of the possibility of a new life. Did they find one?<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n <\/span>Judith Loffhagen, who was taught to read using the ITA alphabet.<\/span> Photograph: Thomas Duffield\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Decades ago, a generation of UK schoolchildren unwittingly took part in an initiative aimed at boosting reading skills \u2013 with lasting consequences. Emma Loffhagen\u2019s mum was one of them. \u201cThroughout my life,\u201d she wrote, \u201cmy mum has always been a big reader. She was in three or four book clubs at the same time. She\u2019d devour whatever texts my siblings and I were studying in school, handwrite notes for our lunchboxes and write in her diary every night. Our fridge door was a revolving display of word-of-the-day flashcards. Despite this, she also was and remains, by some margin, the worst speller I have met.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n <\/span>Michael Briggs.<\/span> Photograph: Courtesy of Joanne Briggs<\/p>\n Growing up in the 1960s, Joanne Briggs knew that her father, Michael, wasn\u2019t like other dads. Once a Nasa scientist, now a big pharma research director, he would regale her and her brother with the extraordinary highlights of his working life. But, wrote Anita Chaudhuri, the well-known scientist was also a fantasist. When his daughter Joanne began digging into his past for a memoir, new lies kept emerging …<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n <\/span> Composite: Guardian Design; Klaus Vedfelt\/Getty Images (posed by models)<\/p>\n The cliche about small talk is that everybody hates it. The misapprehension is that it has to be small. In fact, conversational interactions are objectively good, wrote Zoe Williams, in this handy guide to ice-breaking, which includes pointers for chatting at weddings, when you\u2019re on your own at a party and when you\u2019re a plus-one.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world Illustration: Nicol\u00e1s Ortega\/The Guardian \u201cIsrael\u2019s war in Gaza,\u201d wrote Moustafa Bayoumi for Guardian US\u2019s weekend featured essay, \u201cis chipping away at so much of what we \u2013 in the United States but also internationally \u2013 had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1233,118,3701,2596,3700,98,213,1381,1104],"class_list":{"0":"post-10648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-great","10":"tag-houses","11":"tag-italian","12":"tag-reads","13":"tag-small","14":"tag-talk","15":"tag-tesla","16":"tag-truth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. <\/span>\u2018The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it\u2019: the terrifying truth about why Tesla\u2019s cars keep crashing<\/h2>\n
3. <\/span>The life swap dream \u2013 or a marketing gimmick? The Italian towns selling houses for \u20ac1<\/h2>\n
4. <\/span>The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet \u2013 and left thousands of children unable to spell<\/h2>\n
5. <\/span>My father, the fake: was anything he told me actually true?<\/h2>\n
6. <\/span>The new rules of small talk: how to nail every conversation, from first dates to weddings, parties and funerals<\/h2>\n