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The small town of Dandaji, Niger, sits on the edge of the Sahara Desert. It is a place where temperatures routinely top 45°C, blanketing residents in a suffocating, oven-like heat. Unless they’re in the town’s mosque.
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One of the most striking features of the Iran war has been the resilience of the global oil market, despite the disruption of flows through the Strait of Hormuz, prices have generally hovered around US$100 per barrel . . .
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Manchester embodies reinvention like few other places. It built the world’s first industrial economy, watched it rust, and recast itself as the capital of England’s north.
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