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Split-second loss: Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs (right) crosses the finish line to win ahead of the US’s Fred Kerley (left), who came second, while Akani Simbine ended fourth in the men’s 100m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Jewel Samad/AFP)
100M

Bliss and brutality on the Tokyo track

South African sprinters are exciting prospects in an exhilarating new era, and they are young enough to be hitting their strides now

  • Luke Feltham
5 min read
Members of Brazil’s Pataxo people claim nothing is being done about the theft of their land by farmers and the loss of their water through the damming of rivers upstream.
BRAZIL

Big ideas at sideshow to Rio+20

Only one thing unites those at the People’s Summit — unhappiness over the status quo, writes Jonathan Watts.

  • Jonathan Watts
6 min read
In recent years Bolivia has changed its Constitution to grant nature equal rights to humans
ENVIRONMENT

African drive to embrace all life

A local group is drafting a legal framework for nature’s protection, writes Fiona Macleod.

  • Fiona Macleod
5 min read
ALCAN

Rio seen unlikely to counter bid for BHP

Rio Tinto is reportedly considering a counter-bid for BHP Billiton as a defence against a Aus-billion takeover proposal from its bigger mining rival, but analysts said such a…

  • Sonali Paul
  • James Regan
3 min read