Travelling doctor takes healthcare to Argentina’s remote areas | Health
A rural doctor travels miles of unforgiving terrain by donkey, enduring cold, rain, wind and exhaustion, to visit several dozen families scattered across the highest…
Luxury brands are betting big on India, and so are counterfeiters | Fashion Industry
New Delhi/Kolkata, India – A pair of black Dandy Pik Pik loafers covered in sharp, uneven spikes and shiny studs was part of the evidence…
Private contractors in US eye windfall from Trump’s push to deport migrants | Migration News
As a central part of its agenda, the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to round up, detain and deport millions of people…
Russia woos Namibia to mine uranium, sparking water safety fears | Mining
Windhoek and Leonardville, Namibia – Impo Gift Kapamba Musasa holds a hose pipe in one hand and gestures to a garden of cabbages, onions and…
‘A seismic shift’: How US President Joe Biden altered perceptions of age | Joe Biden News
Rumblings about Biden’s age began well before he was elected in 2020. When Biden, a former vice president, started to mull his candidacy for the…
Lost homes and rising seas: A Nigerian coastal community fears extinction | Climate Crisis News
Lagos, Nigeria – As a child growing up in Akodo-Ise, Kadiri Malik would pass a boulevard of coconut trees on his way down to the shore…
How India’s Chennai mints world-beating chess champions, one move at a time | Arts and Culture
Chennai, India — Giant banners of a smiling teen beamed down on hundreds of students gathered at the school campus of Velammal Nexus to receive…
Facing the fear of water: Refugees learn to swim in Lesbos | Refugees
YSR has its roots in swimming, explains Estelle Jean, the organisation’s founder and executive director. “In 2016, thousands of people were coming by the sea,…
‘Genocide-free’ cola makes a splash in the United Kingdom | Israel-Palestine conflict
London, UK – On a sunny autumn day, the Hiba Express – a fast food chain in Holborn, a bustling central London neighbourhood packed with…
Soldier students: Job training gives hope to Myanmar’s military defectors | Conflict
Myanmar-Thailand border – At a secret gathering above a cafe in a town on the Myanmar-Thailand border, Ko Aye examined the inside of an Android…
Romania sanctuary seeks to save bears as hunting resumes | Environment
At a bear sanctuary in the heart of Romania’s Carpathians, several cubs believed to have been orphaned have just arrived. There are fears that more will…
Fact check: Is the US government spending millions on transgender monkeys? | Donald Trump News
As Elon Musk launches the Department of Government Efficiency to recommend spending cuts, he has highlighted examples of what he considers waste. Musk, the world’s…
Lebanese Australians reminded of past wars as Israel attacks Lebanon again | Israel attacks Lebanon
Melbourne, Australia – Israel’s devastating bombing of Lebanon has reverberated around the world, reaching as far as the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney’s…
I tried all the supermarket rice puddings – the winner was super creamy, thick and satisfying and cost just 79p
WHEN it comes to flavours that remind us of our childhood, a bowl of rice pudding comes top of the list.But even if you haven’t…
The UK’s NHS to roll out free antismoking pill. Will it work? | Health News
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is rolling out a free antismoking pill called varenicline for British smokers. Research has shown that varenicline is more…
A day in the life of a New Delhi roadside barber | Arts and Culture
Rajesh Kumar moved to Delhi from Bihar in 1999 at the age of 18 to help his father run a barber’s stall on the roadside…
‘The atmosphere was electric’ – the fall and rise of Morocco’s cinemas | Cinema
“You used to be able to smoke inside,” Omar Edressi recalls about Cinema Rif, the 86-year-old movie theatre that still stands on Tangier’s Grand Socco.…
TikTok gangsters armed with homemade ‘slam guns’ turn UK city into warzone where even funerals descend into bloodbaths
YOUNG teens brag of spilling blood “like vimto”, while criminals spray a funeral wake with bullets and cops discover a loaded weapon hanging from a…
Forgotten boyband hunks who quit fame for normal jobs – 90s icon who became ambulance driver to pin-up now pulling pints
THEY were the 90s heart-throbs that set teenage girls’ pulses racing across the globe thanks to their strong vocals, smooth moves... and toned bodies. And…
‘Stripped of our human dignity’: What it means to be hungry in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
Khan Younis, Gaza – What does it mean to be hungry for months? In Gaza, where more than 43,000 of us have been killed by…