The recent opening of an immigration centre in El Paso, Texas, has reignited protests of the Trump administration’s tough immigration plans from Japanese Americans. The internment camp, which opened ...

South Africa plans to ban plastic microbead particles that wash into the ocean and end up in the fish we consume. The ban may take two years to come into effect.

In the recently released game Tiny Bookshop you are invited to “leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea”. Tiny Bookshop has been described as an ambient narrative management game, ...

Colm Murphy, Lecturer in British Politics, Queen Mary University of London In 1998, British prime minister Tony Blair was bullish about his government’s vision for local democracy in London. A ...

August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, ...

The health advice that keeps you from getting sick might actually harm you once you’re already ill. This counterintuitive medical reality has a new name: “Cuomo’s paradox”, coined by Professor Raphael ...

It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, or someone strolling so gently it barely seems like exercise at all. Yet ...

I’m still excited when somebody makes a movie out of something that I’ve done,” Stephen King recently told The Guardian. This openness to exhilaration on King’s part is remarkable, given that he is ...

When Luigi Mangione was arrested for the alleged murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in December 2024, public reaction shocked observers. Far from universal condemnation, many people expressed ...

All Australia’s education ministers met in Sydney to agree on a new package of measures to improve safety in childcare.

So your boss wants you in the office more? If this makes you anxious, you’re not alone. Return-to-work tensions aren’t simply resistance to change. They reflect deeper questions about how different ...

Democracy has been with us since it was founded in Athens in the 6th century BCE. Like some of today’s voters, the ancient Greeks were also divided over its merits.