Child labor, sexual assault, birth defects, abject poverty, workers buried alive: A new exposé on artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo lifts the curtain on a nightmarish world in which billions of people are unwittingly complicit. Senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle reports

‘Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence’ looks at the case of Lawrence Ray, and the coercive control he deployed on his daughter’s friends. Clémence Michallon reports