Lane: Is there a chance that Spanish language music media will eventually rival English language media? Lane: I don't think it's going to knock English speaking culture off its top perch anytime soon. But the inexorable rise of Spanish language movies and TV and music is really giving Spanish a boost like never before, he says.
Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive growth and reforms in a notoriously corrupt country—but that same firm hand may now be limiting Bangladesh’s progress. Our correspondent visits the frontier of a potentially transformative technology for reducing atmospheric carbon: direct air capture. And a listen to the astonishing boom in Spanish-language music.
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