The president says a missile shield stretching from Earth into space can be built for $185bn. But formidable engineering, financial and political obstacles stand in the way

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London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can

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How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration