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Homeboy is already “the largest gang intervention rehab reentry program on the planet,” Boyle said, with 500 trainees at a time working with 300 staff members, most of whom have completed the rehabilitation program themselves.

Smaller than a grain of dust and shaped like minute discs, coccolithophores are microscopic ocean dwellers with an outsized influence on the planet’s climate.

For years, the fastest athletes on the planet would race in New York City’s Fifth Avenue Mile, a 20-block dash down the famous Manhattan thoroughfare.

Never before had an African country hosted this weeklong series of competitions, in which the planet’s best cyclists assemble to determine the year’s fittest and the fastest.

A trade deal with India – "the fastest growing economy on the planet, 1.4 billion potential consumers," Mr Atteslander points out – came into force on 1 October.