A — Heavy black rule + cream gutter gap (strongest full-stop, page literally breaks)
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Aaliyah Abid's UAE placement story runs here, ending cleanly...
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO
New section begins only after a real visual gap — the cream shows through, like the page itself paused.
B — Double rule (borrows the masthead's own device, ties sections back to the paper's front-page identity)
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Aaliyah Abid's UAE placement story runs here, ending cleanly...
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO
New section begins directly under a doubled rule — same device as the masthead's gold double-line, so it reads as "official" section architecture rather than a random divider.
C — End-of-story mark (§) + gutter + thin rule (classic broadsheet convention: a small mark signals "this story is finished," not just "next block starts")
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Aaliyah Abid's UAE placement story runs here, ending cleanly...
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO
New section begins after an explicit "story complete" mark — the small black square is a real print convention (used by The Economist, NYT features, etc.) signalling closure before the reader even reaches the next kicker.