Almost every presidential election since 1980 has had a double-digit gender gap. What do the polls suggest about next week’s?

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We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant political parties a few months before September’s presidential election.

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The fascinating story of how two new books — Sandhill Girl and Enlightened Aboriginal Futures — came into being centres on three people: the Lutheran missionary F.W. Albrecht, his former student Lorna ...

Between 1978 and 2012 China achieved the longest period of sustained rapid economic growth in recorded history. Growing at an average annual rate of 10.0 per cent (as measured by real GDP) it went ...

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