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The Oscars: Well met by “Moonlight” History was made at the Academy Awards last night when “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture. The film is a portrait of a black gay youngster in Miami, made by a little-known director on a budget of $1.6m. One of its stars, Mahershala Ali, became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. The Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, had worked to diversify the voting body; the result rebutted last year’s #OscarsSoWhite hashtag

After Mugabe: The deluge Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president since 1980, hosted a lavish 93rd birthday party for himself this weekend. He plans to stand for another five-year term in 2018. Yet the struggle to succeed him has begun: his second wife, Grace, and his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, are seen as leading contenders. Absent a designated successor, Mr Mugabe’s departure will create a vacuum which could add to his country’s woes

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The Democratic Party: Donkey king Tom Perez was elected head of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday. He will head the party at one of the lowest points in its 189-year history. It is divided between the establishment, of which Mr Perez is a part, and a Bernie Sanders-led progressive wing. Mr Perez’s most important job is to unify his troops. Only then can the Democrats be the effective opposition party America needs, writes our Midwest correspondent

Schools and transgender pupils: Changing with the times The number of transgender children in Britain is growing fast. This puts schools at the front line of social change. They are adapting. Uniforms increasingly have a unisex option. New schools are built with cubicle changing rooms rather than communal ones split by gender. Where America argues about toilet usage, in Britain discontent rarely spreads beyond local parents, writes our Britain education correspondent

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