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Indian women pick golden marguerite, or yellow chamomile, flowers in a field on the outskirts of Amritsar on April 6th 2017.
 Labourers earn around 200 INR per day for eight hours of picking flowers. Credit: AFP/Narinder Nanu #yellow #Anthemistinctoria #Amritsar #field #India #work #flowers
The planet Jupiter photographed from the Hubble Space Telescope on April 3rd 2017, when it was at a distance of about 668 million kilometres (415 million miles) from Earth. Credit: AP/NASA/ESA #Jupiter #planet #space #HubbleSpaceTelescope #NASA #ESA
Displaced Somali children wait for food aid at a distribution centre outside Mogadishu on April 6th 2017. Hundreds of new arrivals, mostly from the hardest hit drought regions in the south, are pouring into Mogadishu in search of food according to the United Nations. Credit AFP/Mohamed Abdiwahab #drought #Mogadishu #Somalia #food #hunger #UnitedNations
Populism is driven by claims of ordinary people being left behind while elites get richer. But who, or rather what, is really the unseen driver of this global trend? #populism #politics #economy #automation
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KAL's cartoon this week #KALcartoon #theeconomist
Chinese students and their parents take part in a chess contest during an Open Day at a primary school in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China on April 6th 2017. Credit: AFP/Getty Images #chess #contest #school #China #games #Shenyang
Our cover this week is on cyber-security. Computer code is so complex that the search for impregnable safeguards against hacking and digital theft is doomed to fail. But that is not a counsel of despair. The lesson from other fields is that protection comes from regulations, legal liability and insurance #TheEconomist
People commemorate the victims of the April 3rd metro train bomb at The Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 5th 2017. Credit: AFP/Olga Maltseva #SaintPetersburg #Russia #FieldofMars #MarsovoPole #candles #remembrance
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Bready, set, go!: Chefs prepare a giant Bhatura, a fluffy deep fried Indian bread, in New Delhi, India on April 6th 2017. The event was sponsored by Leonardo Olive Oil as their chefs attempted to fry the largest Bhatura in India to enter the Limca Book of Records. The Bhatura they made measured 4 feet 2 inches in diameter. Credit: EPA/Harish Tyagi #picoftheday #NewDelhi #India #Bhatura #LimcaBookofRecords #bread
There's a new idea on how to re-use materials—it's called the circular economy, and it might save the planet #economy #circulareconomy #recycling
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Visitors walk through a 200-metre-long arcade of wisteria in a park in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China on April 4th 2017. Credit: EPA #wisteria #lavender #flowers #China #Shenyang #LiaoningProvince
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