France has made an effort to try not to stigmatize those who do have a problem with obesity. There is quite a lot of pushback these days against what the French called chrosophobe, which means fat phobia. The government will be looking at how to both combat obesity and change the culture around it in the country.
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it highlights the relationship of a great-power rivalry with inadequate guardrails. Our correspondent visits a market in Mumbai to see what might be lost as India’s economy formalises. And some surprising—and worrying—data puncturing the myth about the skinny French.
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